UPDATE - 5/30@12:12PM: Pics from the show are now up on Rush.com in the Multimedia: Rush on the Road section.
UPDATE - 5/23@5:11PM: Billboard Boxscore for some reason lumped the attendance and sales figures together for both LA shows since they were back to back. They have the attendance listed as 9,861 out of a capacity of 12,616 with gross sales totaling $1,185,575. That averages out to around 4,930 per night although the first night was close to sold out. So as far as reporting these in the tour section goes I'm just going to split the numbers in half. Thanks to Mark S for getting me the numbers.
UPDATE - 5/15@3:25PM: Here's a review from LA Met Blogs (thanks Mar).
UPDATE - 5/10@11:40AM: Ross Halfin has some photos from the show up on his website (thanks TorontoWriter).
UPDATE - 5/8@11:10AM: Here's a good review from the Orange County Register titled Rush still fierce in a smaller setting. It also includes a few snippets from an Alex Lifeson interview along with the review.
UPDATE - 5/7@2:28PM: Rock photographer Ross Halfin was at the show and gave the following report in his online diary:
... I go with Andy Curran to see Rush who are playing at Nokia Theatre in downtown LA. Go and watch the soundcheck, take a few photos, great to see them again. Neal Peart looks healthy - he's lost weight. Alex tells me they really liked the photos from Europe. They've added sixteen pages to the tour book, plus the new live cd, and it looks impressive.
Go hang out backstage, see Bob Rock with his blow-dried hair. At first I thought Bob was Kevin THE CAVEMAN Shirley come to have a rock'n'roll party and tell everyone about the new Judas Priest cd.
Went out to watch and shoot a bit of the show. The crowd was wasted, on Alex's side fairly well behaved, but Geddy's side was a different matter. Middle-aged men so fucked up they didn't know where they were. Stumbling around in circles, playing pretend drums and air guitar and bass. The strange part I don't get was that they mostly tended to not look at the stage, just bother everyone next to them as if it was their show. How can you say pay $1500 for a ticket then not have a fucking clue what you went to see? It was as if they'd regressed into being three-year olds with speech impediments who found their parents booze. One, who was about six foot five, kept leaning into me pointing in the air going 'Uuuuugh' or 'Yaaaaguh', then saying 'Yoooooour in the waaaaaaaaay.' In the way of what?
Alex had a girl the size of a herd of buffalo in front of him, she sang, cried (mainly cried - I thought they were good, nothing to cry about), made strange signs and after the show was standing holding in the air an LP of Signals with a pen. What did she think was going to happen - they come back on and sign her record? I suppose Alex could have taken pity and given her a bucket of KFC from Geddy's on stage rotisserie. Someone should film the crowd, horrifying. Imagine watching it in say thirty years - 'Welcome to America, the most civilised country in the world.'
I did manage to finish the night in a civilised way, drinking Dom Perignon with Donovan Lundstrom, Rush's very suave tour manager...
He certainly has a way with words... And he still can't spell Neil's (Neal?) name right. Thanks to LovLee for the heads up.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, May 6th @ 8:00PM
Show Number: 14
Venue: Nokia Theatre
Place: Los Angeles, CA
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