3 posts tagged “rush: snakes and arrows”
-Just like I said I would, and just like it deserves, and also with my ticket to their Las Vegas show from the "Test For Echo" tour, Sunday: November 24th, 1996!!!
This past April 14th, I wrote about receiving Rush's live CD of the Snakes And Arrows tour the day before it's official release. In that posting, I mentioned that I hadn't yet received the poster from my order.
-I just got it today!!!!!
It's not exactly a "poster", as posters go. -Posters are typically on a thin, glossy type of paper, where this was printed on a thicker sheet of construction paper-like material. And, if you look closely at the bottom right of this lithograph, you will see that it is numbered 282/500, meaning that only 500 of these were printed, and I got #282.
My wife and I will be getting a nice frame to put this in, and I'll also put my ticket stub from their "Test For Echo" concert in Las Vegas in it!
Officially, it's release date is tomorrow: Tuesday, April 15th, 2008.
(-Bumped up from April 8th, for some unknown reason. -Make you pay your taxes first, eh?)
;-)
However, those who pre-ordered it, received it TODAY!!!
I ordered the "Snakes..." bundle, which included the 2-disk concert and booklet, a Classic Starman T-Shirt and a Snakes And Arrows Lithograph/poster. (-which was shipped separately. -I should get it either tomorrow or Wednesday. -I'll show it to you when I get it!!!) But, here's the T-Shirt:
Personally, I prefer studio albums over the live ones. (-Not knocking Live CD's in any way) -No applause, no static of any kind, no mistakes or variations of the original songs, and fully intense. -I like the live stuff on DVD, or "live" as in "I was there to see the show". But, why collect a band's library of music, if you don't collect the live ones too?
Since I JUST got the CD, I'm still listening to it. (13 songs to go, out of the 27) However, on an interesting note, there are two songs here that have NEVER been on any live CD release: Entre Nous, from the Permanent Waves CD (1980) and Circumstances, from the Hemispheres CD (1978). -PLUS, there's a rarely live recorded song: Between The Wheels, from the Grace Under Pressure CD (1984) -Also, there's a nice surprise in "Far Cry".
I wish they would release a COMPLETE DVD of every music video they've ever done. -I'd buy it in a New York Second!!!
A little left of the topic, but there's something I wonder about:
On Rush's 1991 release "Roll The Bones", there's a song called "Where's My Thing (Part Four, Gangster Of Boats Trilogy)" 17 years later, and I wonder if they'll ever complete this four-part trilogy.
-I think it would be interesting.
