# Rush have decided not to tour any more **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-have-decided-not-to-tour-any-more/748483 "2016-03-09T22:15:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-have-decided-not-to-tour-any-more/748483/21 "2016-03-11T04:04:47Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > [Meg White is filling in for their pending tour.](https://www.ncscooper.com/white-stripes-drummer-meg-white-to-replace-rushs-neil-peart/) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-have-decided-not-to-tour-any-more/748483/22 "2016-03-11T04:21:52Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > 😉 😉 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-have-decided-not-to-tour-any-more/748483/23 "2016-03-11T04:21:54Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Hey! I was at that Moline show! I was in grad school at Iowa City at the time! > > It’s like we’re related or something. 4th row, center stage! 🆒 Primus opened. That show was 6 weeks before I graduated from Iowa myself. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-have-decided-not-to-tour-any-more/748483/24 "2016-03-11T07:22:41Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > [Meg White is filling in for their pending tour.](https://www.ncscooper.com/white-stripes-drummer-meg-white-to-replace-rushs-neil-peart/) Interesting tidbit from article: "Reaction from the Rush fan base was generally confused, with some questioning the bands replacement. Most vocal of these, was current Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, an ardent Rush fan. ‘I’ve been a Rush fan since High School,’ said the United Speaker of the House. ‘It’s safe to say that they turned me onto Ayn Rand, who guides my every decision.’" huh. gee, thanks alot, Rush :dubious:😕:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-have-decided-not-to-tour-any-more/748483/25 "2016-03-11T07:40:02Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Interesting tidbit from article: > > "Reaction from the Rush fan base was generally confused, with some questioning the bands replacement. Most vocal of these, was current Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, an ardent Rush fan. > > ‘I’ve been a Rush fan since High School,’ said the United Speaker of the House. ‘It’s safe to say that they turned me onto Ayn Rand, who guides my every decision.’" > > huh. > > gee, thanks alot, Rush :dubious:😕:eek: Again, ;). ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-have-decided-not-to-tour-any-more/748483/26 "2016-03-11T13:02:48Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > :dubious:😕:eek: Have a look at the masthead of the publication (and its weather report). ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-have-decided-not-to-tour-any-more/748483/27 "2016-03-11T15:44:05Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > …weather report. whoa - chemtrail reports - ok that’s a new one on this codger. Even the site’s name…“Scooper”…sure, I get the journalistic “scoop” reference, but scoops can be used for other things too, I guess.😛 ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-have-decided-not-to-tour-any-more/748483/28 "2016-03-11T17:24:48Z")
My first Rush concert was in San Antonio, TX at the Municipal Auditorium, and was to support the new album “2112”. Thin Lizzy was the opening act. My last Rush concert in Concord, CA at the Sleep Train Pavilion on June 26, 2011 . As a drummer I was always impressed with Neil Peart. I loved the wall of drum equipment. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-have-decided-not-to-tour-any-more/748483/29 "2016-03-11T21:26:56Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > My late brother-in-law had a Mastiff mix named By-tor. Almost no one in the family “got it”, but of course I did. They all thought it was a goofy way to spell “Biter”. Which, actually, it is. 🙂 From Wiki: _“By-Tor & the Snow Dog” was inspired by Rush roadie Howard Ungerleider’s story of him staying at Anthem records manager Ray Danniels’s house, where Danniels’s German Shepherd growled at him, and a tiny dog also owned by Danniels tried to jump on him. Ungerleider told the band members about the incident, which they found hilarious._ ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-have-decided-not-to-tour-any-more/748483/30 "2016-03-11T22:42:51Z")
Push it any longer and it turns into elder abuse. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-have-decided-not-to-tour-any-more/748483/31 "2016-03-12T02:31:49Z")
> [@DrumBum](#): > > My first Rush concert was in San Antonio, TX at the Municipal Auditorium, and was to support the new album “2112”. Cool, you caught the end of their white shiny robe phase. Niel was still using Slingerland, then? How many Rush gigs you’ve seen? Were Mr. Moore and Mr. Lynnot in good form with TL? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-have-decided-not-to-tour-any-more/748483/32 "2016-03-12T11:31:31Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > 4th row, center stage! 🆒 > > Primus opened. > > That show was 6 weeks before I graduated from Iowa myself. 🙂 7th row center stage! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-have-decided-not-to-tour-any-more/748483/33 "2016-03-12T13:05:54Z")
I was a huge Rush fan in high school, and saw them on every tour from “A Farewell to Kings” through “Grace Under Pressure”. I lost interest when they moved into their synth-heavy phase in the 80’s and missed about 25 years, but saw them again on their Time Machine tour a few years back. So glad I got to see them one last time! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-have-decided-not-to-tour-any-more/748483.md?page=1)