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I WANT tickets for the Indy DeerCreek Show! Re: 04/13/92 - The National Midnight Star #464 Various ramblings from the NMS Classical composers .VOC for soundblaster I can't believe it! FoL Rush Oldies Concerts been to. Sonlength program May 24th May 24th = Victoria Day Re: Interview with Neal/Rumors Buddy Rich concert tapes, etc. Rush & Mozart (none) need info on Dayton, Merriweather tix Wembley concertgoers? ---------------------------------------------------------- From: narpet@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Greg WARD) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 16:35:43 EDT Subject: Unsubscribe Please remove my name from the NMS list. Thanks... Greg Ward (narpet@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca) ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: 13 Apr 1992 14:41:58 -0600 (MDT) From: Roo-Dog Rip Subject: Ticket Experiences I sent a message earlier which asked for advice about getting Denver-area tickets from TicketBastards in Boulder. Don't bother to reply. Tickets went on sale this morning, and certainly all the good seats are gone. However, I thought I would share my experiences with you, since people have commented so much on TB's outlets elsewhere. My wife and I headed for the Sound Warehouse outlet at 11:00pm, immediately after the Ice-T/Bodycount show(which was, to quote my wife, intense). We met a friend there, who was to buy the tickets, and learned we were 19th in line, at SW, but that they had scouted things out and learned that May D&F had a much shorter line. We were 4th. We packed and moved. May D&F only recently took over TicketBastard here, and I don't know if they were really prepared for us. In any case we were escorted in a line to the customer service counter where the supervisor fretted that the line was in the way of things. Tickets were pulled promptly at 10:00, and they were pulled rapidly, so, all in all this was a pleasant experience, but May D&F may not last long as an outlet if people regularly camp outside their store. Our seats are on Alex's side, about 30 rows back, but if we had stayed at SW, my guess is that we would be on the lawn if anywhere... Roo-Dog Rip ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ \Roo-Dog Rip is: <> "O! What a rogue and peasant slave am I!"/ \Derrell Durrett <> --- _Hamlet_ II, ii, 584 / \D_DURRETT%KAOS@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU <> High Energy Physics: The New Religion! / \Vox:(303)492-4821|Fax:492-5119 <> Get Some Today! / vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv ---------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 5th row in Denver Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 15:32:48 MDT From: Guy Kendall Have you ever had something so awesome happen to you that you just want to tell everyone, no matter whether they want to hear or not? Well, I just got back from the ticket sales for the May 27th show at Fiddler's Green in Denver and I got 5th row seats, I was 2nd in line. Didn't find out what seats the guy that was first got. This is going to be so cool! Damn...my major caffiene high is wearing off, hope I make it through the last hour of work...but it was sure as hell worth it. -- Guy W. Kendall - Applications Engineer Guy.Kendall@ColoSpgs.NCR.COM NCR Microelectronic Products Division Voice: 719-596-5795 x465 1635 Aeroplaza Drive Fax: 719-570-6045 Colorado Springs, CO 80916 BBS: 719-596-1649 ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 16:16:45 PDT From: pevans@sanjuan.UVic.CA (Patricia Evans) Subject: women in songs and May 24th So what if Neil doesn't mention women much in his lyrics? Most of his songs are about people in general, especially (IMHO) his more recent lyrics. Besides, mentioning women x number of times is no measure of political correctness. The context of those x words is very important. And I, like many of you, don't care what the current fad of politically correct people think of Neil's lyrics anyway. To clarify about May 24th (in Lakeside Park): May 24th is not Canada's national day. That day is called Canada Day and is celebrated July 1st. May 24th is (or was) Queen Victoria's birthday. The nearest Monday on or before that day is a holiday in Canada, although I don't know why. It's a good excuse for a holiday, anyway. It falls on May 18 this year. But whatever day the actual holiday is, many still call it "May 24th weekend". Strange but true.... Patricia Evans pevans@sanjuan.uvic.ca ORQ: "Experience to extremes...." ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:04:25 -0400 From: Glen E Reed Subject: May 24th Y'know, as hard as I searched (which admittedly wasn't that hard), I could not find Canadian Independance Day anywhere.... I did find that May 24th is NOT Bastille Day, as someone guessed (Bastille Day is July 14...) The only Canadian holiday I could find close to May 24 was Victoria Day on May 18 (no idea what that is...) Now there must be SOMEONE who knows for sure what May 24th is.... Also... I know polls get annoying as hell on here, but since I got a few responses to my question of Rush's best instrumental, I thought I'd give the option.... If enough ppl are interested enough to email me with their opinions, I'll compile/post the results... the question, of course, is what do you think Rush's best instrumental song is? Glen "Trroy" Reed [greed@chopin.udel.edu] ORQ... "It's hard to recognize the real thing. It comes along once in a while" ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 20:24:45 EDT From: jalhart@skidmore.EDU (Lerxst) Subject: Midwest Dates A couple questions for the midwesterners in the audience.... First, I heard that the Pine KNob schedule was announced in this past Sunday's Detroit Free Press, is this true?? Did they mention Rush?? Second, has the Poplar Creek schedule been announced to the Chicago area?? Third, what is up with Alpine Valley. Are there shows there this summer or not?? I heard the following rumour: June 27th Rush at Alpine Valley - can anybody confirm or deny this??? Just wondering. Ken F. P.S. JUST GOT ONE MOUR CONFIRMED DATE - JUNE 17 Mansfield, MA Great Woods Performing Arts Center. (More, sorry). ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 18:31:41 MDT Subject: RUSH in Albuquerque! From: sraby@NMSU.Edu! So when do tix go on sale?? MAn, I just bought tix for Denver, but looks like I can get rid of them if they are going to Alb. ANyone want them?? I will sell them for 22 bucks (same as I payed). They are on the grass, but ok seats I suppose. There are 3 of them. Hasta Scott ---------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 24th of May Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 20:36:29 EDT From: hearn1@husc.harvard.edu! The 24th of May is the Queen's Birthday (Victoria that is). It's a left over holiday from when Canada was a colony. We still get it off. Taryn ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 20:36:46 EDT From: kkhalich@vtssi.vt.edu (Keivan Khalichi) Subject: To Be Heard or not to Be Heard?! Hello. A note on Rush fame. I think everyone here has gotten the wrong impression. I didn't mean to bring out Rush to such fame as they do with the other Pop-Metal, Rap, and R&B groups and persons. No, not at all. Yes, you are right, such fame would ruin Rush's image. But I was looking at how such bands such as R.E.M. come up to the stage after winning a grammy and say such a thing as: We don't make music to win awards, but we really appreciate your simpathy and choice. I'm not a fan of R.E.M at all, but I respect their point of view. I respect them much more than I would, King's X, or Trixter, or Firehouse or etc. Being famouse doesn't mean having women all over and living a fun life. I look at it as being heard. The stuff I said about learning their ways and a better listening enviornment is just joking around. I should have put something like (sarcasm intended) or such messages. Well, I'm trying to clarify that point now. You can do whatever you want to Rush or with Rush. But being heard is different. Why should Hammer or Madona or Paula Abdul be heard more than Rush. Every time I see a video by such,I just get sad, angry and forced to change channels. And I don't think that Mr. Lee and Mr. Lifeson would mind this at all. I just think that some people have made these three guys into immortal beings. They are humans like us and they wouldn't mind to be heard. I'm really sure of that, which is why I said it. And in regards to the message by Nicholas on #463, I don't have any friends that like Rush. As the matter of fact, they like everything but Rush. And that is probably why I'm for this. Cleveland radio stations aren't being brodcasted nationaly, so I'm unfortunate to not be able to listen to Rush on a radio station here in Blacksburg, VA.; maybe only once in a blue moon. Also as a counter-flame, I don't want to make other people like the same music that I listen to. I just want them to decide for their own. But if the choice is not presented, then how are people supposed to know that Rush exists. So you see, there is no choice for people that I don't know. If you listen to 2112 deeply, you'll understand my point of view. Especially the Presentation. My friends have decided to not like Rush, only because they don't see them anywhere. This is exactly what they told me. But again, who cares about me, my friends, my oppinions, values, principals, or my life. Right? ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 17:42:35 -0700 From: maupin@cs.washington.edu (Ken Maupin) Subject: A tidbit from Alex in GFTPM... I just pulled the May issue of Guitar out of my mailbox and found this quote from Alex (in his own handwriting) on page 9... "To describe one of my highpoints, you have to imagine my studio. It's a small room, dark, the console's all lit up and I'm sitting at it in a big black high backed chair. I'm playing my 62 Strat. It's clean, loud, and has lots of reverb on it. I open my eyes from time to time to peek at the fingers of my left hand. After a couple of hours I notice I've been crying. It's the best feeling in the world. Alex Lifeson, 7.17.91" Talk about an emotional guitarist! \-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-/ | Kenneth Maupin +===+ o +===+ "In 1980, `Garfield' was | | maupin@lynx.cs.washington.edu | | /|\ | | pushing the envelope." | | University of Washington |~~~| Co--= |~~~| -- Berke Breathed | | Computer Science Department |___| / \ |___| |