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Hey Tommy while your on the Rush Website pick me up the DVD 30 years collection (Bernie hint hint how about a Raspberries edition) comes with lots of goodies archival dvd footage cd's guitar picks.

This DVD was released on November 22nd in North America, and November 28th in the UK and Europe.

We are very pleased to announce the definitive live in-concert rock n' roll DVD extravaganza, RUSH - R30. The DVD celebrates the 30th Anniversary World Tour. The concert was filmed with 14 hi-definition cameras in 16x9 widescreen format at the Festhalle, Frankfurt Germany on September 24, 2004.

This 2 DVD and 2 CD Package includes the Frankfurt concert on disc one (mixed in pcm stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound); while the second DVD disc includes rare and classic performance footage from the late seventies to the Tsunami relief benefit concert in 2005 along with interview footage culled from the last three decades. The Deluxe Edition includes two CDs in addition to the aforementioned two DVD discs. The two bonus CDs feature the soundtrack from the Frankfurt concert DVD (CDs will not be sold separately). The Deluxe Edition also includes two limited edition RUSH guitar picks and a souvenir backstage pass.

This DVD is coded for:

The Whole World! (NTSC)

For those with European PAL players, please ensure your player can read NTSC. Some of the old PAL players will not read this DVD (95% of the world's DVD players can read NTSC).

DVD Disc #1 - The Concert

Disc one features the concert that Rush performed in Frankfurt, Germany on September, 24 2004, during their 30th Anniversary World Tour.

TRACKLISTING:

1. R30 Overture - (Finding My Way, Anthem, Bastille Day, A Passage to Bangkok, Cygnus X-1, Hemispheres)

2. The Spirit of Radio

3. Force Ten

4. Animate

5. Subdivisions

6. Earthshine

7. Red Barchetta

8. Roll The Bones

9. The Seeker

10. Tom Sawyer

11. Dreamline

12. Between the Wheels

13. Mystic Rhythms

14. Der Trommler

15. Resist

16. Heart Full of Soul

17. 2112

18. Xanadu

19. Working Man

20. Summertime Blues

21. Crossroads

22. Limelight

Running Time: 2:10

DVD Disc #2 - Special Features:

This disc includes bonus features including the following RUSH rarities:

ARCHIVE PERFORMANCE FOOTAGE:

Fly By Night - Church Session Video (1975)

Finding My Way – mpeg1 from Rock Concert

In The Mood – mpeg1 from Rock Concert

Circumstances

La Villa Strangiato

A Farewell to Kings - Seneca College Theatre (1977)

Xanadu - Seneca College Theatre (1977)

Soundcheck: Various Songs - Ivor Wynne Stadium (1977)

Freewill - Toronto Rocks / Rolling Stones Concert (2003)

Closer to the Heart - Canadian Tsunami Disaster Fund charity telethon performance on CBC television (2005)

INTERVIEW FOOTAGE:

Interview with Rush at Ivor Wynne Stadium (1979) – A Farewell to Kings Tour

Studio interview at Le Studio, Montreal (1981) while recording the album Signals (released 1982)

Interview featuring all 3 members (1990) for Artist of the Decade (1980s)

Interview for release of the album Vapor Trails (2004)

CBC Television: Juno Award news report - RUSH induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame (1994)

Running Time: 1:30

R30 – Rush 30th Anniversary Tour:

2 CD Soundtrack

CD #1 TRACKLISTING:

1. R30 Overture - (Finding My Way, Anthem, Bastille Day, A Passage to Bangkok, Cygnus X-1, Hemispheres)

2. The Spirit of Radio

3. Force Ten

4. Animate

5. Subdivisions

6. Earthshine

7. Red Barchetta

8. Roll The Bones

9. The Seeker

10. Tom Sawyer

11. Dreamline

Running Time: 61:19

CD #2 TRACKLISTING:

1. Between the Wheels

2. Mystic Rhythms

3. Der Trommler

4. Resist

5. Heart Full of Soul

6. 2112

7. Xanadu

8. Working Man

9. Summertime Blues

10. Crossroads

11. Limelight

Running Time: 61:11

Total Running Time: 5:42

Price:

$27.99 USD

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To stop the Rush bashing for at least the time being...I actually kinda liked their all-covers EP from a couple of years ago....but then, I realized that the only reason I liked it was because they didn't do Rush songs....and even then, I didn't care for Mr. Lee's caterwauling. (I remember reading a review years ago that compared Geddy to a parakeet - both in looks and singing)....now, what was it I said about Rush bashing...let it continue!

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Wait a minute. STOP THE PRESSES

A warm and sincere Thank You to James and especially CubfanMike for their rediculous and sometimes unintelligible posts. For these posts accomplished something all o the TOMMY TUNES and Sugarbabi PMs couldn't. The resurfacing of our fearless leader Lew Bundles.

RUSHeads I couldn't be more happy or appreciative. I feel I owe you something. OK. I know what I'll do. CubfanMike, I grant you one free pass. I promise to look the other way the next time you post one of your sophmoric or factually incorrect posts. Remember this is a one shot deal. I won't put a time limit on my offer as I feel you won't need much time at all to make use of it. Thanks again CubManMike and you too Jamesy Boy.

Oh, by the way, RUSH STILL SUCKS!

CubfanMike,

Consider your free pass used up on that epic.

Thanks,

Your friend TOMMY

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Listening to too much RUSH can cause brain damage or, at a minimum, lead to an exagerated interest in ice hockey and/or canadian bacon. Regrettably, as Popdude mentions in another thread, they are one of the best bands that Canada has ever produced. While I am not a conspiracy theorist, its possible that RUSH were some sort of cross border plot intended on arresting the development of America's youth. Geddy Lee's singing sorta sounds like cats mating on a summer night, or the

the screetch of brakes right before a car accident involving a semi truck. So what to do?Ive often thought that RUSH music could be used to torture islamic terrorists without resorting to physical violence. RUSH CD's can make for reasonable table coasters, or when frozen as replacement hockey pucks for Toronto Maple Leaf games. I say replace Geddy Lee with Celine Dion.

This would keep it Canadian but stop some of the

incessant nasal screaming. Needless to say, I voted "overated" in the current poll.

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in all fairness, Rush doesn't suck, although I can't stand them and find 99.9% of their stuff unlistenable (bar "In The Mood" and some of 2112)...

any band who has churned out music so specific to a certain aesthetic (i.e. prog/metal) and has rarely strayed from it & has been so consistent at it, means they're pretty f'in good at something, albeit making music that's not up our alley...

i would hope that most diehard Rush fans would think the Raspberries suck just as much as most of us think Rush does... the "opposed" elements are very apparent...

But I don't think there's a single poster here who doesn't wish the Raspberries and Eric gave us as much music as Rush gave their fans... that's something no one can begrudge, except the fact that hearing Geddy Lee so continously is beyond annoying...

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Inspired but the diarrhea dominating this board over the last week or so, I buffered up my CD collection with 3 new Rush CDs....

....I smile when I think of this board's reaction if the same kind of collective gang-up had happened over at the Rush site, where Eric Carmen was the "bashee".

Long live Rush!

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I watched their new DVD "R30" last night, and have to say they can still play after all these years. I've always been a fan of their later stuff (ie "Permanant Waves", to "Counterparts")

You also have to admire drummer Neil Pearts tenacity to keep playing despite the horrible loss of both his daughter and wife within a year

As far as being overrated or underrated, the critics hated them and the fans loved them, so thier ya go!

At the peak of thier popularity (1980-1984) they got the recognition they deserved, so I would say neither.

Jeff

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I watched their new DVD "R30" last night, and have to say they can still play after all these years. I've always been a fan of their later stuff (ie "Permanant Waves", to "Counterparts")

You also have to admire drummer Neil Pearts tenacity to keep playing despite the horrible loss of both his daughter and wife within a year

As far as being overrated or underrated, the critics hated them and the fans loved them, so thier ya go!

At the peak of thier popularity (1980-1984) they got the recognition they deserved, so I would say neither.

Jeff

Well put but one thing. As far as that part about admiring the drummer. I never get talk like that. What was he supposed to do. Stop working for the rest of his life. Would you quit your job and never work again for the rest of your life if God forbid you lost your wife and daughter. Admire. scchmire!!
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Inspired but the diarrhea dominating this board over the last week or so, I buffered up my CD collection with 3 new Rush CDs....

....I smile when I think of this board's reaction if the same kind of collective gang-up had happened over at the Rush site, where Eric Carmen was the "bashee".

Long live Rush!

Darlene, you love this post? Polished gentleman using the "D" word ?
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Finally I got away.

CubfanMike has been holding me prisoner tied to a chair in his basement and force feeding me Rush lyrics for several days. Not nice, Mike.

I do have one Rush related question for you though. When you were playing your Rush CD's just what were you doing with the blow up Geddy doll in the other room behind closed doors. I assume you were learning some new dance moves, but I could be wrong.

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I have nothing against Rush for their musical ability as both Geddy Lee and Neil Peart are both masters of their instruments. However, listening to them would be like eating pickled pigs feet or a prune danish - you could do it if you wanted do and it really won't do much damage but why would you want do it?

Sorry to any Rush fans out there ... prog rock has never been my thing: it's neither funky nor are there many catchy melodies to hum along to.

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Exactly. If you play those RUSH records backwards you hear all subliminal, insidious messages like "BUY MOLSON", "FREE QUEBEC NOW", "EAT MORE BACON." And what about the Geddy Lee is dead rumors and all those hiddlen clues in the album covers? It was all a stunt to sell more records.I prefer the early RUSH when they were just four mopped top lads from Hamilton, Ontario. Once they went progressive rock it was the bloated, prententious pickled-prune danish feeling as John Shaft notes above. Apart from that I love the group, they were fantastic.

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