Rush - Rush In Rio
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Track List: Rush In Rio
Disc 1:
- Tom SawyerDownload & Buy
- Distant Early WarningDownload & Buy
- New World ManDownload & Buy
- Roll the BonesDownload & Buy
- EarthshineDownload & Buy
- YYZDownload & Buy
- PassDownload & Buy
- BravadoDownload & Buy
- Big MoneyDownload & Buy
- TreesDownload & Buy
- FreewillDownload & Buy
- Closer to the HeartDownload & Buy
- Natural ScienceDownload & Buy
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Disc 3:
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Album Details: Rush In Rio
- Release Date:
- 10/21/2003
- Label:
- Atlantic / Wea
- UPC:
- 075678367229
User Reviews: Rush In Rio
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God, these Guys are Good! But...
, October 27, 2003Reviewer: Carol (Raquel) Dearborn - See all Carol (Raquel) Dearborn's reviews -
Made a fan out of my wife!
, October 6, 2004Reviewer: snowdog83 - See all snowdog83's reviewsPros: Excellent concert footage and interviews
Cons: Maybe a bit too much "driving around" on the documentary
I've been a Rush fan for many, many years. I have all of their concert and music video collections on VHS. But this DVD is spectacular. The quality sound and the video are unsurpassed. You can actually feel the energy of the boys and excitement of the crowd at the concert. My wife was not a fan of Rush until she sat down to watch this DVD with me. Now she understands why I was so disappointed when I missed the Vapor Trails tour. The second CD with the documentary "The Boys in Brazil" was also great. Not only did it have a lot of insight about everything that goes on to put on concerts of that magnitude, it really shows how these three fellows are not just guys in a band, they are true musicians and artist in every sense of the word. They take their music seriously and really care about the quality of show they put on. Additionally, the second disk contains three interactive clips, where you can switch back and forth between four camera angles: the original concert cut, or focus on Geddy, Neil, or Alex. Truly, this is one of the best concert videos ever made. It must have been the soup... ...
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Pro Reviews: Rush In Rio
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Set for production as a live DVD from the ~Vapour Trails tour, the audio from Rush in Rio clearly stands as a startling historical and musical document. The live mix is simply superb and reveals the show as it happened, without overdubs or DAT splices. The band played in front of their second-largest crowd ever, 40,000 people on the final night of the tour. (The largest was 60,000-plus the night before in São Paulo in the rain.) Covering three CDs, this is one of those documents that can make a punter wonder why he ever doubted the glory, majesty, and heavy, overblown, pretentious rock power of Rush. Opening with thunderous crowd noise, "Tom Sawyer" -- with complete audience participation from the git -- it is somehow awe-inspiring to hear 40,000 people singing the song with Geddy Lee. These people are so crazy; they aren't left out of the mix because they couldn't be But it works. There was no soundcheck that night due to production delays in the arena. This is the sound of a band going for it in spite of everything and on the wing -- and the sound, very live, very real, extremely dynamic -- and not only do they pull it off; they issue their best live outing ever. Seeing Rush live can be an experience, but only those people in Rio saw them like this: far from complacent veteran rock stars, they musically push their own envelopes to the breaking point and goad each other onto ever greater intensity. Lee's bass playing has never been this ferocious, so aggressive and driving -- on a live album anyway. Neil Peart pushes the entire band with his polyrhythmic assault and overdriven flourishes and fills; knowing this is the last date, he gives it all up in every single track. And Alex Lifeson, ever the band player, is, on this night anyway, simply the greatest arena rock guitarist in the world. The program ranges over the band's entire recorded output. The majority of the material comes from Farewell to Kings and after, though "Working Man," "2112," and a medley of "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" and "Cygnus X-1" are present here. Versions of "Roll the Bones," "The Big Money," "One Little Victory," "Ghost Rider," "Red Sector A," and "La Villa Strangiato" are given something like their definitive reads. Again, on well-known tracks like "Closer to the Heart," "Free Will," and "Spirit of Radio," the crowd participation would normally be off-putting. In this context, however, it is an asset. One can hear how this adulation and frenzy literally feeds the band, forcing the issue and making these breathtaking performances. To round out the encores on disc three Rush has included "board bootlegs" of "Between Sun Moon" and "Vital Signs" that are more than worthy performances. They were taken from shows in Phoenix and Quebec. For those for whom Rush is a secret and guilty pleasure, it's time to indulge it openly by playing this for friends who erroneously insist that Sonic Youth or Strokes concert bootlegs are the epitome of "big-label live rock." For the faithful, you'll know. This one is bloody great. - Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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Pros: Another Live 3CD Set to Exercise/Dance to
Cons: Bad, flat, Production
Rush is best live but the sound quality of "Rio" is not as good as "Different Stages (1998)." 2112 is abridged and the other tunes, most of which appear on DS, are not different -- Rush could have jazzed them up or extended the jams adding more LSD, space and mind teases. The 16 page playbook that comes with the CD says they didn't plan to do another Live CD so soon. 60,000 people! attended the show in Sao Paulo, 25,000 in Porto Alegre and 40,000 in Rio. To put these numbers in perspective, their average audience on the Vapor Trails tour [66 concerts] in the States & Canada was "something like 12,000." Perhaps this is meant to be a souvineer for the 125k fans -- if the CD is not bootleged as usual in developing nations or to tap into the vast Latin American market. (There are now more Hispanics in the US than Blacks!) If you're a Working Man (do very many women attend Rush's concerts?) and you already own Different Stages, spend your hard-earned slave wages elswhere. ...