Rush at Starlight

It’s difficult for this review not to simply consist of the words “Fuck yeah, Rush!” That’s pretty much the reaction one has after a full three hours of Canadian progressive rock, especially when done as well as this particular threesome does.

Rush played on what had to be one of the most beautiful nights one could hope for a show at Starlight. The performance was worthy of the weather, and vice versa, really. Geddy Lee and company managed to do that rare thing at Starlight last night: get an audience jazzed about new stuff. The band has an album “way, way forthcoming” next year, and it played two songs off it. The first, early in the night, was called “Brought Up to Believe” and was heavy as all hell, with a video projected on the giant screen behind them as they played that looked like the opening credits to Seven.