Comments on: Cyg’s Mini-Review: Rush at Montage Mountain, Scranton, PA, June 29th, 2007

By: Isorski

Isorski — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:06:53 +0000

Great to read your review. Know that traffic issues are not exclusive to PA. I saw the band at Clark County Amphitheater in Portland last night and it took me an hour to get out of the parking lot. Well worth it, though. I posted a review of the show at my Bog at http://isorski.blogspot.com/. Enjoy!

By: Irfan Khawaja

Irfan Khawaja — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:07:11 +0000

This review was spot-on. My wife and I successfully avoided the traffic by getting to the show three hours early. We were among the first people into the parking lot and the first into the amphitheater.(We were tourists in Scranton, on our belated honeymoon, so we had all the time in the world.) We couldn’t deal with the idea of sitting in traffic after the show, so we just sat in the parking lot for two hours, then made it down the mountain in 30 minutes. Not an optimal situation!

I thought the guitars were overly distorted/reverbed, too–especially in the first set, and especially when Lifeson used the black Les Paul. The second set sounded better than the first, but I’m not sure whether that was the set or my ears.

But all in all, it was a good show (my sixteenth). Good review, too, thanks!

By: DJ Dave

DJ Dave — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:49:37 +0000

What an incredible show both musically & technically! Three large video screens which accented Geddy, Alex & Neil made the lawn seats worth it! I first saw Rush in 1987 during the ‘Hold Your Fire’ tour. The second show was the ‘Counterparts’ tour. (Both shows @ The Broome County Arena in Binghamton, NY) However, you need to find the perfect lawn seat section early, due to the ENORMOUS tent poles which do the deed of obstucting certain angles of the stage.
How come someone @ Montage Mountain hasn’t figured out a new entrance / exit from a top ‘the hill’. For those making the slow crawl down the hill, I couldn’t help to notice the large, idle front loader next to the housing development, which I was tempted to jump into and start the new exit… Will someone shed light on this situation, or will Toyota Pavillion be blacklisted for future events?

By: aharden

aharden — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:35:11 +0000

Looks like I’ve touched a nerve with the parking/traffic issues at Montage. Thanks for the comments. Hopefully someone interested in fixing the situation will do something about it.

By: rushhead79

rushhead79 — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:31:14 +0000

I agree. Totally awesome show…that was my 14th Rush concert and they haven’t missed a beat! Usually we go to the Tweeter Center in Camden…but for this show we decided to go to Montage…they REALLY need to WAKE UP and DO SOMETHING about the PARKING and TRAFFIC! We left in the middle of YYZ and only had to wait 45 minutes…got home in Allentown at 1:00…others stayed for the entire encore…which was only an additional 3 minutes…got home at 3:00! That is NOT acceptable! See ya Montage… If there was ever a medical emergency up on that hill….the victim would be DONE by the time they got off that hill!

By: mclance

mclance — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:20:10 +0000

I agree with the review- The traffic sucked!!

By: aharden

aharden — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:33:03 +0000

Cool, thanks for the link.

By: Daryl

Daryl — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:12:52 +0000

Cool. Thanks for the review and setlist. I linked to it from my blog:
http://www.easthollow.com/blogger/2007/07/rush-and-stevie-nicks-montage-mountain.html