By Jenny Case and Lola Ulvog Respectively
In my opinion Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson, and Geddy Lee are gods. Luminaries. Men of wax. In fact, I bet they can all walk on water and turn their blood into wine. They are so cool. If they died they would probably rise from the dead and push the boulder away from the entrance of the cave so they could play their music for us.
Oh yes, in the same sentence as Rush, we once again see Primus, so we scream really loud. Some trendy new atrocity has brought you to your knees, come with us we’ll sail the seas of cheeeeeeeez. In ‘92 (I think) when the two bands hatched their eggs together in Mpls., I was not there. I do not remember why.
Rush and Primus are two unusually different bands, yet a great clash of whatever. Neither of the groups find it imperative to constantly be moaning about women and how they haven’t gotten any in a week. That is so cool.
So the big event was April 8th at the Target Center. Primus started at 8:00. We had good seats so Larry LaLonde was ten feet in front of us. When they played “My Name is Mud” I wanted to stagedive really bad but there were too many security guards and no mosh pit (where were we?). That was the only part that sucked. Primus just kept going and going, I think “Herb” the drummer outplayed the Energizer Bunny.
Then Rush came on and they were so good. The lights and the movies were cool. I like the way Geddy Lee Pings across the stage like a duck. Neil did a drum solo but of course that was expected. He just sits there and plays his drums, he hardly even smiled. I have often wondered if he feels like that’s his job and he’s gotta do it. I wonder if playing as much as they do turns into a drag after a while. Anyway, I thought Rush kicked “butt”, so there.
On April 8th I attended the Rush concert which Primus opened for. I got there about half an hour early. My seat was so far up- I’d call it the nosebleed section. I had never been to a concert at the Target Center and I could not decide whether I thought it would be good or not.
When Primus played, there were still lots of empty seats that I was more than willing to move in to. But as soon as Primus finished the seats were all filled with expectant Rush fans. I found Primus disappointing personally. I was totally stoked to see them and they only played about five songs. They didn’t even play “Jerry was a Racecar Driver’. It was also difficult to hear vocals because of the distortion. It was almost like Rush used Primus for their soundcheck. They did however play “Blue Collar Tweekers”, which sounded good.
Anyway, about Rush… they were great. Seriously. I am not a huge fan of Rush. It has only been in the last year and a half that I have been listening to them, but when they put on a show, they really put on a show. They had lights that would either send you into a seizure or into a flashback. There was also a giant bunny that popped up and a screen behind the band that flashed words and pictures during some of the songs. Rush was really really great. Their drummer is a god. They played one really long encore. The funniest thing that night was seeing all these people smoking right next to or under “no smoking” signs. I’d have to say it was pretty hazy in the smoke -free Target Center that evening.