Rush will perform its classic 1981 album "Moving Pictures" in full for the first time ever on its massive upcoming summer trek, dubbed "The Time Machine Tour."The veteran Canadian power trio launches their major outing June 29 in Albuquerque, NM. The trek stretches through September before wrapping Oct. 2 in West Palm Beach, FL.
"Moving Pictures," originally released in 1981, is Rush's most successful album. The set produced radio classics in "Tom Sawyer" and "Limelight," and has been certified quadruple platinum in the US.
Rush will likely be playing new material on the road, fruits of its ongoing recording sessions with producer Nick Raskulinecz, who co-helmed the group's most recent effort, 2007's "Snakes & Arrows," as the band moves toward completion of its 20th studio album.
"We were off for a year and a half, and now it's just pouring," guitarist Alex Lifeson told BPD. "Everything is totally crazy and there's not a minute left in the day. We've got these half-dozen songs, and we'll probably go in the studio and work on a couple of them and see how it goes, perhaps release something--and I say perhaps--and then we plan on being on the road."
The band played more than 100 shows during its previous tour in support of "Snakes & Arrows," grossing nearly $65 million on the trip, which launched in the summer of 2007 and concluded more than a year later.
The dates are:
June 2010
29 - Albuquerque, NM - Hard Rock Casino Albuquerque
July 2010
1 - Kansas City, MO - Starlight Theatre
2 - Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest
5 - Chicago, IL - Charter One Pavilion
19 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun
21 - Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center
23 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
24 - Wantagh, NY - Nikon at Jones Beach
August 2010
5 - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
7 - Seattle, WA - White River Amphitheatre
9 - San Francisco, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
11 - Inglewood, CA - The Forum
13 - Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
14 - Las Vegas, NV - MGM Grand Garden Arena
16 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
20 - Wichita, KS - INTRUST Bank Arena
22 - St. Louis, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
25 - Omaha, NE - Qwest Center
27 - St. Paul, MN - Minnesota State Fair
29 - Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena
31 - Allentown, PA - Allentown Fair
September 2010
2 - Syracuse, NY - New York State Fair
3 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
14 - Boston, MA - TD Garden
16 - Pittsburgh, PA - Consol Energy Center
18 - Washington, DC - Jiffy Lube Live Amphitheater
21 - Tulsa, OK - BOK Center
23 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
25 - The Woodlands, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
26 - Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center
29 - Atlanta, GA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre @ Encore Park
October 2010
1 - Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre
2 - West Palm Beach, FL - Cruzan Amphitheatre
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