OK, so I was thinking our guy Rush (as in Limbaugh). I saw “Ohio”, and I was thinking of his opening song, and then...
time to get to bed!
Thought that meant they would be playing classics like "Back to Ohio", "Movin' on Up", and "Born Free".
well.. That was pretty awesome!
Wasn’t Rush a Canadian band?
I was seriously thinking Limbaugh. Which probably woulda gone over pretty well
My daughter is a freshman at thee Ohio State University...was at the game Saturday with friends...probably had no clue what the band was doing (and she’s a dance major!!!)
btw- here’s their performance of The music of Queen a few years ago- pretty awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHT_y09RIEQ
Incredible!
I was in high school band and did some marching, that was one impressive show. All of that is numerial, you have to not only remember the notes of the songs, but how many steps to your next turn, etc, and the circles and curves are very difficult. The guy in the lead has to get it just right for those. That last section where they marched through the existing lines to spell out Ohio was incredibly difficult to put together and do. Your timing and length of step have to be exact.
I’m really impressed. Not to mention playing all that Rush music...Our band did some of the most difficult halftime shows in our state, and we did nothing even close to this...
Saw Rush in 1976, they opened for Blue Oyster Cult. Felt bad for the Cult, excellent band with a long standing reputation for a great onstage show, and about 5 songs into their set, half the audience had left. It was just a let down after watching Rush do a 90 minute show, including the entire 1st side of 2112, which had just been released about 3 or 4 months earlier. Rush was an incredible onstage band, one of the best I’ve ever seen except for Styx and Jethro Tull. (saw Tull 3 times, THE best 3 shows I’ve ever seen.)
BOC still did an excellent show, I stayed till the echoes of the last note faded away. Don’t Fear the Reaper was probably the best song of their show, Godzilla didn’t exist yet so they didn’t do it. But Rush just did such a great show it was a let down to see BOC, which was a great band...I don’t think many bands could have followed their show, maybe Kansas, Styx or Tull...they should have been headliners, and after that probably were.
RIP Neil...the great gig in the sky now has 3 top notch drummers...Moon, Bonham and Peart (pronounced peert by the way, rhymes with pier, not perch)
Man, I wish our band had done some Rush, best we ever did was Asia. (Which was still pretty good, I think)
They played the Rush Limbaugh Show Intro Song “My City Was Gone”?