Rush: Fifty Something Tour. More Dates Added Due To Incredible Demand

[BillsFanNC]

 

Edited 3 hours ago by BillsFanNC

[Toomstone.Part.Duex]

This news helps the pain of last night!   Awesome!

[Southern McButterpants]

What??  Seriously??

[DD4Bills]

Really excellent news, and I am very intrigued as to how this will all come together. 

[Southern McButterpants]

Looks like I'm travelling next summer!

[ExiledInIllinois]

Are they broke?

[BillsFanNC]

They have the blessing of Neil's family. Also some interesting details about how this all came together when they did the reveal during this secret event at the RnR HOF. They plan to add a keyboard player as well so Geddy has less to do.

 

 

[T&C]

Saw them once and that's good enough for me... pass.

[Draconator]

I'm all signed up for the pre-sale. Gonna be a busy summer. Rush in either Toronto or Cleveland, Italy, and a Greek Island cruise in the span of 30 days. 

[Draconator]

Rush's new drummer for this tour. She ain't bad. 

 

 

[davefan66]

10 hours ago, Draconator said:

Rush's new drummer for this tour. She ain't bad. 

 

 

She definitely has the chops to be the drummer for Rush.

 

Question is, does she put her spin on the drum parts, or try and mimic Neal?  I’d say, gotta be a bit of both. Neal’s drum parts are integral to the music and don’t allow for much variance, but she has to be able to put some of her own into the music. 

[Draconator]

3 hours ago, davefan66 said:

Question is, does she put her spin on the drum parts, or try and mimic Neal?  I’d say, gotta be a bit of both. Neal’s drum parts are integral to the music and don’t allow for much variance, but she has to be able to put some of her own into the music. 

In the video at the RRHOF, Geddy talked about this. He was saying that when Anika was playing and getting more involved with Rush, that Geddy and Alex had to describe the feel they had when Neil played with them, and tried to convey that to Anika and to have her try and reproduce that same feel, not only for Geddy and Alex, but to the audience so they would hear the songs live on this tour as they remember them. For Rush to get to this point, I would say Anika did her job wonderfully. 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

Too bad Bubbles is a guitar player, and not a drummer.

 

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

On 10/6/2025 at 9:25 AM, BillsFanNC said:

Rush: Fifty Something Tour

 

[Sweats]

It was Sir Paul McCartney that told Alex and Geddy that they should get back out there and tour, even going so far to say that Paul would manage the band from here on out........he also agreed to be the dietary manager for Rush, which they agreed to, however, Paul is a vegetarian, while Alex and Geddy are not.

[Draconator]

3 minutes ago, Sweats said:

It was Sir Paul McCartney that told Alex and Geddy that they should get back out there and tour, even going so far to say that Paul would manage the band from here on out........he also agreed to be the dietary manager for Rush, which they agreed to, however, Paul is a vegetarian, while Alex and Geddy are not.

I believe that was at the London Taylor Hawkins tribute, and it was certainly tongue in cheek. 

[DD4Bills]

1 hour ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:

 

In this instance, I will happily wear that label!

6 hours ago, Draconator said:

In the video at the RRHOF, Geddy talked about this. He was saying that when Anika was playing and getting more involved with Rush, that Geddy and Alex had to describe the feel they had when Neil played with them, and tried to convey that to Anika and to have her try and reproduce that same feel, not only for Geddy and Alex, but to the audience so they would hear the songs live on this tour as they remember them. For Rush to get to this point, I would say Anika did her job wonderfully. 

Anika definitely appears to have the chops!

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15GaN15YGeg/

 

[Sweats]

4 minutes ago, Draconator said:

I believe that was at the London Taylor Hawkins tribute, and it was certainly tongue in cheek. 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, it was all in good fun

[US Egg]

On 10/6/2025 at 7:22 PM, T&C said:

Saw them once and that's good enough for me... pass.

Same here. A very good band I didn’t get into.

 

Saw them 49 yrs. ago in old Century Theater. Their fog machine filled the place up to the balcony obscuring them, took awhile to clear and see the band. Peart stood out.

[RkFast]

2 minutes ago, US Egg said:

Same here. A very good band I didn’t get into.

 

Saw them 49 yrs. ago in old Century Theater. Their fog machine filled the place up to the balcony obscuring them, took awhile to clear and see the band. Peart stood out.

 

The band freely admits they aint for everyone. Its pretty much a running joke with them at this point. Case in point, their new drummer is a girl and I think Geddy Lee, himself said "Finally, theres going to be a woman at a Rush show."