IanBond
09-13-2004, 11:58 AM
It was Stunning!!!!!
Arrived to a packed Manchester Arena (One guy paid £240 for 3 tickets off a tout!) The guys came on at 7.30 and finished at 11.10 with a 20 min break,Amazing tunes,sound lights the sounds 3 guys make is remarkable.
It was a bit emotinonal here and there The drummer Neil Peart lost his daughter in a car accident and his wife with Cancer 10 months later in the nineties and didnt pick up a drumstick for 4 years while he came to terms with it so the band went on hold until he was ready or indeed wanted to come back,and I for one are glad he came back ! The crowd made him very welcome though getting huge cheers and boy can he drum he can chew and spit out any other drummer in rock-period
There was huge screen back of the stage and in one song a dragon (the bands new mascot)breathed fire and the whole stage set alight!! it looked so cool (or hot!)
The tour is the 30th anniversary of the band and with it being 12 years since they last came over another tour looks a little slim but Im glad I saw this a night I will never forget!!
Arrived to a packed Manchester Arena (One guy paid £240 for 3 tickets off a tout!) The guys came on at 7.30 and finished at 11.10 with a 20 min break,Amazing tunes,sound lights the sounds 3 guys make is remarkable.
It was a bit emotinonal here and there The drummer Neil Peart lost his daughter in a car accident and his wife with Cancer 10 months later in the nineties and didnt pick up a drumstick for 4 years while he came to terms with it so the band went on hold until he was ready or indeed wanted to come back,and I for one are glad he came back ! The crowd made him very welcome though getting huge cheers and boy can he drum he can chew and spit out any other drummer in rock-period
There was huge screen back of the stage and in one song a dragon (the bands new mascot)breathed fire and the whole stage set alight!! it looked so cool (or hot!)
The tour is the 30th anniversary of the band and with it being 12 years since they last came over another tour looks a little slim but Im glad I saw this a night I will never forget!!