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Like 'Clockwork': Rush returning May 12 to Xcel Center on R40 Live Tour

Time to start brushing up on your air-drumming technique again, Rush fans. Neil Peart and the guys are coming back to Xcel Energy Center on May 12 for their 40th anniversary.

January 22, 2015 at 4:34PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Neil Peart messed up a lot when Rush played Target Center in 2012. OK, not really. His precision was godly, as usual. / Star Tribune file
Neil Peart messed up a lot when Rush played Target Center in 2012. OK, not really. His precision was godly, as usual. / Star Tribune file (DML - Special to the Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Time to start brushing up on your air-drumming technique again, Rush fans. Neil Peart and the guys are coming back to Xcel Energy Center on May 12 as only the third stop on their 40th anniversary tour. Tickets go on sale Jan. 31 at 10 a.m. for $48.50-$128.50 through Ticketmaster and the arena box office.

With no new album to promote, the Canadian trio is promising to pull tracks from throughout its 40-year discography for the 34-city R40 Live Tour, which kicks off May 8 in Tulsa, Okla. Technically, the band is marking its 41st anniversary in 2015, since its debut album landed in 1974, but Rush fans aren't the type to quibble over facts and numbers. Ha! Just kidding.

Rush's last time in the Twin Cities was a 2012 concert at Target Center behind its last album, "Clockwork Angels."

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Chris Riemenschneider

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Chris Riemenschneider has been covering the Twin Cities music scene since 2001, long enough for Prince to shout him out during "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)." The St. Paul native authored the book "First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom" and previously worked as a music critic at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas.

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