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The Pendulum
Thursday, March 31, 1983
features
Rush delights crowd with hits, light show
by Loukia Louka
News Editor
What a setting for a Rush -
concert: a full moon and a
wet, foggy night made the
drive to Greensboro Hitch-
' cock material. But the coli
seum defied any hint of
mystery as it boldly stood
surrounded by lights and a
maze of cars searching for
an elusive parking spot.
Fans chugged the last swal
lows of beer as scalpers
lingered over the front gates
saying, “I’ve got one ticket
left.”
Concert Review
Inside, the coliseum pro
vided a better look at the
concert-goers. It was a rela
tively young crowd, with no
one looking over the age of
18. Ptmkers took a backseat
to the predominantly Levi’s
and jean jacketed crowd,
which was faintly reminis
cent of the mid seventies’
heavy metallurgists who
were still backlashing the
Vietnam war.
The concert was not sold
out, but there was a good
size crowd. This says a lot
about the audience and
Rush. The tickets were prob
ably financed by disgruntled
parents, while on the other
hand recent concerts by Neil
Young and Pat Benatar sold
better because the artists had
wider age-range appeal.
This successful Canadian
group has only three mem
bers, so their act was clean
and uncluttered — little
room was left for mistakes
because there was no one
just standing around to take
up slack.
Blond-haired Alex Life-
son, dressed in black, played
the electric guitar as though
he were bom with the instru
ment in hand. His melodic
solo on the accoustic guitar
opened up “The Trees”
from the “Hemispheres”
album, to the appreciative
roar of the crowd.
Neil Peart sat right at
home behind drimis, orches
tra bells and wind chimes,
lost in his own talent. His
consistent rhythm and tenac
ity provided a total challenge
to the raging crowd as they
pressed closer to the stage.
However, the scene-stealer
was deHnitely Geddy Lee,
dressed in black pants and
an oversized white jacket,
his unruly brown hair cas
cading past his shoulders.
Lee was a burst of energy as
he welcomed the crowd,
delighting them with small
snatches of conversation.
Lee was a powerhouse, play
ing the bass guitar, key
boards, singing lead vocal
and no telling what else, all
the while prancing about like
a kid out of school.
For two non-stop hours.
Rush carried the audience
into their world singing hits
off a variety of albums: they
opened with “Spirit of the
Radio” from “Permanent
Waves” and went on to
Mexican summer trip
earns 6 hours credit
If summer trip to Mexico-
sounds enticing, anyone
planning to attend Elon’s
summer school session
should consider the idea.
Dr. E.J. Limsford, assis
tant professor of Spanish,
will supervise a four-week
summer school program
which will take place in
Mexico City. The program
will last from May 30 to
June 30.
Six semester hours of
credit will be awarded in
Spanish, anthropology, busi
ness administration, fine
arts, history, political science
and sociology. Other than
Spanish, the courses will be
taught in English.
The trip will cost $1,500.
This cost covers round-trip
air fare from Greensboro,
room and board in Mexico
City and tuition. Deadline
for enrollment is April 29.
Students who choose to
participate in the program
will live with upper-middle
class families and attend the
Universidad Iberoamericana.
The students will take d^y
trips to metropolitan Mexico
City, Aztec archeological
sites and to a typical Indian
market.
The markets are “very
colorful,” Lunsford said.
“They are open markets,”
he said, where both food
and vegetables and crafts are
sold.
“You are expected to
argue over price at these
markets; don’t take the first
price ever,” Lunsford said.
Teotihuacan, one of the
Aztec sites that will be
visited, contains the pyramid
of the moon and the pyra
mid of the sun. Lunsford
said the pyramid of the sun
is the largest in the world.
A weekend tour to
Acapulco and Taxco is also
planned, but it will cost
about $50 extra.
For further details contact
Lunsford in Carlton 201-C,
or call him at extension 267.
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THOUGH THE coUsena was not filled, Rush pleased the crowd that
hours of music. Photo by Tripp Owen.
perform “Freewill,” “Closer
to the Heart,” “Tom Saw
yer,” “Limelight,” and
“Red Barchetta.” From
“Signals,” their current LP,
they sang “Subdivisions,”
“The Analogue Kid,” and
“New World Man,” and a
variety of other songs from
various albums.
Enhancing Rush’s per
formance was a video screen
backdrop with fllm depicting
their albums, or lyrics from
their songs. They also had
an unreal light show that
constantly bathed the per
formers in brilliant shades of
yellow, red, green and blue
— no combination ever
seeming the same.
And there was the con
stant feedback from the
ecstatic crowd. The typical
frisbees, lighters, firecrack
ers, and flying rolls of toilet
paper were visible as police
men kept their presence.
distant though they seemed.
For their encore. Rush
came back and performed
“YYZ” with drummer Peart
doing an unbelievable solo
performance. After the trio
left the stage and the lights
brought back reality, the
song “Limelight” seemed to
permeate my mind. What
did Lee say? “Living on a
lighted stage approaches the
unreal?” It did.
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