We needed at least one thread for the Jersey show!

I know there were a bunch of us that got Sec 101.
I'm in 101 Row W seats 1-4

River Alph?
Ben?

Who else (any section)?

I am SO psyched for this show. It will be #4 of 5 on the tour for me, and I'm going with a life-long friend and bass player from NYC. We played in a sort of Rush tribute band , back in the late '70s/early 80s before there were tribute bands...

We are Sec 103 Row A !!
I've been 2nd, 4th, 8th for the boyz. But never front row and close to center(right between Neil and Alex)

Now.... if I can just get some back stage or meet & greet passes to make this night complete :lol

LosingIt - Congrats on the seats! How did you get them? I sat Sec 102, Row A for the Vapor Trails show there - THE best show I've ever seen! Unfortunately for this show I'm still in need of 2 tickets (in the 100 level of course!). And if by chance you have an extra front row seat, please contact me!

A very, very good friend who works for a company involved in artist promotion hooked me up.

I owe her BIG time.

Section 101 row V, checking in!

101, row h , seats 18,20
hotel booked from July 7 to July12...........can't wait..... first time to NYC area!

Send me a PM if you want to meet in the lot. I'm also gonna hook up with the gentlemen from rushtour.com like Chipper, Vaportours, New World Man, Stephena, H2, NJDevil, Fletz, and 'Some Guy Named Jeff'. We should also send a note to 'NHL Rush'. He lives about 10 min. away from me.

i don't remember where my seats are
it's buried in some thread
section 101 definately, i think 2 rows in from of Baskin

i'd suggest that we should all wear COUNTERPARTS tour tee-shirts, but i'll probably forget to wear mine by then

My wife and I will be with friends in Sec. 303, Row P. I got on the presale within a minute of its start, and that was the "best available".
Our friends are big fans, he plays guitar and drums in his own band.
It's the latest in many shows for them, but the first for my wife and I. (Hard to believe, isn't it?)

DC Rush Fan

this pre-sale universally SUCKED ASS

Yeah the "Presale" yielded ZERO quality seats for me... We ended up doing a Ticketmaster "auction" bidding on five (or seven?) sets of seats in different sections up front.
$400.00 later (per seat) we got Section 103, seventh row. It's absolutely criminal and highway robbery but Rush is worth the $$.

got my tickets Friday
101 Row T, seats 2 & 4

Ill be there 104 M seat 1 aisle, close to 103.

Hello all,

New to the forums but long time fan of the band. Sitting in Sec 102, row B. Going solo to the show.

I’m just giddy thinking about what new songs they may play and possibly what they may dig out of the vault.

I'll be there, sitting with 1-0-0-1...sec. 101, row V.

Me and CeeJ will be there too. But we're doing the lawn for this show. Great seats at Scranton, Jones Beach and Detroit, so we're partying for this one.

101 row X, seats 1 & 2... See ya there!

We don't have seats...but I think we may well try to get in on this show, maybe just by showing up & trying our luck day of, if we don't get anything great resold at face value by fans from online forums ...



!!!

My husband's first RUSH show was opening night in ATL. (It was only my 2nd ever: I saw them in 1991 for RTB in Worcester, MA, my first year of college.) Y'all are in for a TREAT!!!

Have you been looking at the setlist, or are you avoiding spoilers?

We went in unspoiled... and oh, were we thrilled with what we heard!!!

Also --

The PMs we've been exchanging are just too funny, and your latest post & link to The Franchise just confirms it: y'all are like some kind of Bizarro-universe version of us, so clearly we need to meet up (if doing so does not cause matter/anti-matter annihilation to occur).

The band looks cool, and the interests align mightily:

R.E.M.? check!
-- husband grew up in Athens, GA (and saw Michael Stipe at their local video store) -- his first present to me (b-day present when I was 14) was Document on tape; I went to opening night of the GREEN tour in Louisville (with a female friend from Hebrew High School, no less!)
TMBG? check!
-- they're probably the band we've seen most often (though the WHO, and Rush by the end of this summer, will give 'em a run for their money): just about every year at Toad's Place while we were in New Haven, + I saw them a coupla times for free as well as for $ in college
Elvis Costello? check!
--he, TMBG, RUSH, Dylan, and The Who = probably the best-represented artists in our CD collection; saw him & Alan Toussaint at Wolf Trap last year, and saw him at the 9:30 Club last month (we, um, bailed out of hosting a Shabbat potluck chez nous -- gave our friend the key to our apartment to host it in our absence, and high-tailed it down to the venue with our visiting out-of-town friend [our grad school buddy + husband's comics collaborator]--after he & hubby had been up for 30+ hrs making a new minicomic, since that Thurs. night!!! ... well, Shabbat hadn't even come in when we got down there...welcome to summer!)
geeks? oh yeah, check, biiiiig time...
--hubby and I met 20 yrs ago yesterday (June 26, 1987) at "nerd camp" -- academic summer camp at Duke U. (TIP; I also did CTY): I was taking Japanese (b/c I'd gotten into anime & manga via Robotech...as my screenname/avatar may indicate to those who know!), he was taking writing...and the rest is history!
"from quirky covers to songs about pets, comic books, or middle eastern food"
quirky covers? check!
--husband's college band covered "Kawlijah" and "Wipeout"
pets? check!
--currently 2 cats, Shayna & Gittel (so they represent the Beautiful and the Good)
comic books? check!
--oy, don't even get me started... talk to the husband (who's wanted to be a cartoonist since he was 9; Walt Kelly of Pogo = his childhood idol) ...but it's me, too: comics = what he & friend & I talked about on that afternoon 20 yrs ago, and my offer to lend him some of the independent comics I was reading gave him the first excuse to come up to my room and socialize with me (after braving my snotty older roommate's "excuse me, but who the hell are you?" upon her opening the door)... Husband is teaching a course on the graphic novel at AU this fall...
middle eastern food? check!
--mmmmmm...
a capella/other singing background? check!
--I sang in Radcliffe Choral Society all 4 yrs of undergrad, and in their small group 'Cliffe Notes for a year or 2; husband sang with Duke's group The Pitchforks for a summer (and we were also in the chorus of the Dunster House Opera production of Die Fledermaus together, which was lots of fun!)

Husband plays guitar, keyboard/piano. I sing...but he has bought me a bass, and I am realllllly psyched to learn how to play it.

We performed a metal/punk version of the Yiddish song "Ikh Vil Nit Geyn In Kheyder" (= "I Don't Want to Go To Hebrew School"; words by Sholom Aleichem!) at Yidish-Vokh 2004, and are looking forward to something spectacular this year... maybe our debut as a Yiddish RUSH cover band (called, what else? Ra'ash! = noise, sound)???

A gute nakht!

See you in Holmdel?
Kosher BBQ for tailgate?!?!?!
(Have you got a grill? We don't...but that could change with a li'l shopping trip if need be...)

Lomir redn!

EDIT: It was nice to see you at the Zoo on Shabbes! You win MAJOR smoothness points for just casually saying "see you at Holmdel" -- and letting the penny [nit shabbes geredt] drop. That, and the "I was going to ask 'Where's Max?'" -- you win!

But now that we've seen ya, we can skip Holmdel
Nah, seriously: we have a friend's birthday party to get back for, so we won't make it to this show.

But we look forward to seeing y'all around town more!

And guess what we watched last night, to begin to indoctrinate the girls?

Oh yes -- Robotech. Liz, the 13-yr-old (who will probably come with us to the Cincy show), seems to love it just as much as her mom & "aunt." A judicious selection: The Long Wait; Farewell, Big Brother; then the sequence Showdown; Wedding Bells; The Messenger; Force of Arms. Since we'd basically destroyed the earth at that point, we called it quits around 11 pm and went to bed, but I strongly suspect that Reconstruction Blues and some (if not all) of the rest of Macross Saga will be watched tonight!

I have lawn seats...have been a fan since 1982 and have seen every tour since the late 80s...coming with my brother and my cousins...my brother is a big fan like me but our cousins are younger, only in their mid20s, and do not really know Rush but just love live shows...hopefully we will convert them into fans! I can't believe it is next weekend! Terri

I'm gonna bring my bicycle. Look for me riding the bike around the lot. Its a blue Giant. If you see me, just yell. This is the only way to meet up with folks.

I'll look for ya Ben.
I usually wind up paying the parking attendant the extra cash for the close-up parking, on the left side of the lot coming from the Parkway, looking at the Arts Center.

You'll see me. I'll have on the buttoned down Rush Vapor Trails shirt. Its a bowling shirt.

Section 103, Row M...with a possible meet and great beforehand that I am still waiting to hear back about...very exciting, indeed! Getting there early to hang out, through the frisbee around, have a bit to eat and maybe even a libation or two. Look for a black Toyota pick-up with a Welsh flag in the rear window...that'll be me! Less than a week to go!!!!! ~RGLT

i forgot which row you were in..fro some reason i though it was row V...didn't want to walk up to someone and say "Are you BK2112?"

Looks like I was 3 rows behind you.
Sunday was a busy day, we got there late and missed most of Limelight. Ben Mink had given me his cell# but I had no time to call him or try to meet any peeps.

I had the aisle seat directly behind a teenage kid who was there with his Dad.
I was the big guy in the lime-green T-shirt, drumming on my thighs most of the night.

HAHAHAH..i thought you were that guy with the kid!
i was thinking you were the guy in seat six..i was on the aisle in the white counterparts tour tee.. of which there were 3 of them within 3 rows (2 in the next section)!