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Beneath, Between & Behind (Live) – 2:34.The whole album is a beautiful compilation of hits, hits and more hits with the band sounding fresh, relaxed and at their musical and performance prime. Stage Left has all of the Rush hits that would become staples on classic rock radio stations all around North America: ‘The Spirit of Radio’, ‘Closer to the Heart’, ‘Tom Sawyer’, ‘YYZ’ and many others. The album also features an unofficial lead-in to ‘The Trees’ called ‘Broon’s Bane’ a solo guitar arrangement by Alex. ‘La Villa Strangiato’ is here, as is ‘Xanadu’ – a rare number from the band’s ultra prog days just a few years ago. Stage Left features some early live takes of Rush epics. The band is coming off their Hemispheres progressive rock phase and nestled comfortably into ‘simpler’ songwriting and were blazing trails and possibilities of smart radio-friendly music and playing many of their old numbers in their entirety. Compared to the band’s earlier live releases and A Show of Hands in 1989, Stage Left is the most complete sounding Rush live album.
Rush 2112 album review ultimate classic rock full#
All of which feature Geddy’s vocals crassly high at times but a band still pumping that classic rock power through their instruments at full volume.Įxit…Stage Left was cut at a time when Rush was the most Rush as we know them, casual fan or otherwise.
Rush 2112 album review ultimate classic rock plus#
The album features a complete ‘By-Tor and the Snow Dog’ and a rare pseudo-medly of the band’s early songs, ‘Finding My Way’ and ‘Working Man’ plus an unscripted drum solo from the newly signed-on Neil Peart. The band would never play ‘2112’ in it’s entirety until the Test for Echo tour in the 90s which, fortunately, was documented on the live album, Different Stages.Īside from the bizarrely abridged ‘2112’, All the World’s a Stage offers a fantastic look into young Rush performing live. Only about 15 minutes of the 20 minutes and 34 seconds is played. What makes 1976’s All the World’s a Stage so memorable is that ‘2112’ is played here but not all of it is played.
Naturally, when you tour in support for an album for the title song: ‘2112’, right? The Rush community and the record executives supporting the tour were relieved that 2112 did not turn out to be another experiment like Caress of Steel.īecause 2112 had just dropped, a listener of this album might expect to hear ‘2112’ performed in its entirety. 2112 was released in April of that year and the band was already off on tour supporting the album that fans raved over. Each album has it’s own special mark that is worth looking at during these 25 days of Rush. They’ve become something of a convention of die hard fanatics all converging into a single theater for one night to hear their favorite songs or their favorite parts of songs played live or just to see their musical heroes in person.įrom the 1970s to 2011, Rush has (usually) dropped a live album supporting a major tour or a major event in the band’s history (like their 30th and 40th anniversary collections, for example). Rush live shows have become an event since the band first formed and started touring outside of Canada and the upper United States. Few bands have live albums that perfectly capture the energy of the band performing and the crowd loving every moment of the performance. The live albums have also served as a valuable time stamp of sorts, capturing the band’s sound and ambitions at a particular point in their history onto a single disc. Rush’s live albums are an anomaly in live recorded music.
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