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Rush kicked off their Snakes and Arrows world tour last week, and fan site Power Windows has all of the details.

Two question jumps out: Are those rotisseries actually roasting chickens? And what else have Bob and Doug McKenzie been up to?

Among the more interesting facts:

* The dryers from the previous tours have been replaced by three rotisserie chicken roasters which are as tall as Alex’s stacks of H&K amplifiers, and are believed to say “Hen House” across the front of them.

* The opening video begins with a dream sequence of Snakes and Arrows images, then Alex sits up in bed, saying, “Snakes? Who would dream about snakes, that’s so creepy. Honey? Honey – wake up. I had this weirdest dream, it was a snake…” then the person lying next to him sits up and its Neil. They look at each other and yell in surpise and yell “AHHHHHHHHHHH!,” then after another sequence, Geddy wakes up in a chair and says “What did they do to my food?” and then in walks an old man in a Scottish kilt who speaks with a Scottish accent who tells Geddy he doesn’t care how he is feeling, to ”...wipe that chicken off your face and get out there!” after which they which they all ran out. The guy in the Scottish costume is actually Geddy, dressed in make up and wig.

* There is a video of Bob & Doug McKenzie to introduce “The Larger Bowl.”

* There is a South Park video intro to Tom Sawyer; during the video, the South Park characters begin playing Tom Sawyer but Cartman sings the wrong lyrics, ”...floated down the river on a raft with a black guy,” which leads to an argument with Cartman saying he’s read the book and that’s how the story goes, but the other quickly corrects him saying “that’s Huckleberry Finn, stupid!” Cartman then says “I am Geddy Lee! And I will sing whatever lyrics I want!”. They then start again to count off the beginning where Rush takes over and plays.