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  1. 1. Which setlist do you fancy hearing or seeing live

    • Setlist A
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    • Setlist B
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    • Setlist C
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    • Setlist D
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Which one of these fantasy setlists would you want to hear live the most?

 

 

Setlist A: Well balanced setlist, representative of all eras, slight focus on 80s Rush, one drum solo, features one never-before-played song.

 

1. The Spirit of Radio

2. Subdivisions

3. Limelight

4. Distant Early Warning

5. Lock and Key

6. Where's My Thing?

7. Nobody's Hero

8. The Pass

9. Middletown Dreams

10. Xanadu

11. YYZ

12. Clockwork Angels

13. Far Cry

 

Intermission

 

14. Dreamline

15. Drum Solo

16. Territories

17. Red Sector A

18. Fly By Night

19. Finding My Way/In The Mood medley

20. Second Nature

21. Vital Signs

22. 2112 (Overture/Temples/Grand Finale)

23. Mystic Rhythms

24. Closer To The Heart

 

Encore

 

25. The Enemy Within

26. The Weapon

27. Witch Hunt

28. Tom Sawyer

 

Setlist B: Longer setlist, lots of rarities and a never-before-played song, leaning more towards 80s and 90s Rush, very Signals heavy, two drum solos

 

1. The Enemy Within

2. The Weapon

3. Witch Hunt

4. Subdivisions

5. Distant Early Warning

6. Time Stand Still

7. Red Tide

8. Headlong Flight

9. Drum Solo 1

10. Scars

11. Jacob's Ladder

12. The Analog Kid

13. Chemistry

14. YYZ

 

Intermission

 

15. Animate

16. Digital Man

17. Red Barchetta

18. New World Man

19. Red Sector A

20. Prime Mover

21. Fly By Night

22. Finding My Way/In The Mood medley

23. Drum Solo 2

24. Roll The Bones

25. 2112 (Overture/Temples/Grand Finale)

26. Mystic Rhythms

27. Closer To The Heart

 

Encore

 

28. The Spirit of Radio

29. Red Lenses

30. Tom Sawyer

 

Setlist C: Another well balanced setlist with all eras equally represented, slight lean towards 70s Rush in second set, no drum solos

 

1. Force Ten

2. Subdivisions

3. Show Dont Tell

4. Virtuality

5. Headlong Flight

6. The Big Money

7. Territories

8. Superconductor

9. Far Cry

10. Main Monkey Business

11. Lock and Key

12. Limelight

 

Intermission

 

13. The Spirit of Radio

14. The Enemy Within

15. The Weapon

16. Witch Hunt

17. Prime Mover

18. Red Sector A

19. La Villa Strangiato

20. Natural Science

21. Jacob's Ladder

22. YYZ/Xanadu/Tom Sawyer medley

23. Mission

 

Encore

 

24. Closer To The Heart

25. 2112 (Overture and Temples)

26. Finding My Way/In The Mood medley

 

Setlist D: Alternative R40 tour setlist, all eras represented more fairly,

 

1. The Anarchist

2. Headlong Flight

3. Far Cry

4. One Little Victory

5. Animate

6. Dreamline

7. Roll The Bones

8. Mission

9. Marathon

10. Mystic Rhythms

11. Distant Early Warning

12. Red Sector A

13. The Analog Kid

14. Subdivisions

15. YYZ/Drum Solo

16. Witch Hunt

17. Tom Sawyer

 

Intermission

 

18. The Spirit of Radio

19. Natural Science

20. Jacob's Ladder

21. The Trees

22. La Villa Strangiato (shortened version)

23. Xanadu

24. Closer To The Heart

25. 2112 (Overture/ Temples/ Presentation/ Soliliquy/Grand Finale)

 

Encore

 

26. Bastille Day

27. Anthem

28. Finding My Way/ In The Mood

 

 

 

 

And yes, just like the song says, I have too much time on my hands.

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My favorites were A and D, but I went with D. Couldn't pass up the reverse chronological order and the first set with Far Cry, Dreamline, Mission, Red Sector A and Analog Kid. Not to mention Xanadu, etc to follow. :heart:
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Any of them as long as we could have a time machine and go back to get pre-2000’s Geddy to sing them.

This was my first thought. No matter the set-list, who can do vocals at this point?...
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I went with A although I like all the other ones as well. I'm inclined to give you my own personal fantasy setlist so why not give my own personal taste on it? I will go ahead and say some of this is inspired by the R30 set-list so please don't get any pitchforks ready since the setlist I propose is similar to one that's been done before. Also, let's imagine that all three members weren't suffering from any playing/singing deterioration (no offense). Deep tracks included as well.

 

Part 1:

1. Instrumedley (Finding My Way. Anthem, Bastille Day, Something for Nothing, Cygnus X-1, Hemispheres Prelude, Entre Nous)

2. The Spirit of Radio

3. Subdivisions

4. Dreamline

5.Lock and Key (with Last Mile intro)

6. Red Barchetta

7. Show Don't Tell

8. Bravado

9. Marathon

10. Caravan

11 .Test For Echo

12. Stick It Out

13. Distant Early Warning

14. Vital Signs

15. Closer to the Heart

16. Freewill

 

{Intermission}

 

Part 2:

1. The Big Money (with Also spruce Zarathustra intro)

2. Driven (with bass solo)

3. Where's My Thing?

4. Mission

5. Jacob's Ladder

6. YYZ (with drum solo)

7. Broon's Bane/The Trees

8. New World Man

9. Roll the Bones

10. Chemistry

11. Red Sector A

13. Natural Science

14. By-Tor and the Snow Dog

15. The Camera Eye

16. In the End

17. Witch Hunt

 

Encore:

1. Xanadu

2. Tom Sawyer

3. La Villa Strangiato

4. 2112 (Overture/Temples of Syrinx/Grand Finale)

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I went with A although I like all the other ones as well. I'm inclined to give you my own personal fantasy setlist so why not give my own personal taste on it? I will go ahead and say some of this is inspired by the R30 set-list so please don't get any pitchforks ready since the setlist I propose is similar to one that's been done before. Also, let's imagine that all three members weren't suffering from any playing/singing deterioration (no offense). Deep tracks included as well.

 

Part 1:

1. Instrumedley (Finding My Way. Anthem, Bastille Day, Something for Nothing, Cygnus X-1, Hemispheres Prelude, Entre Nous)

2. The Spirit of Radio

3. Subdivisions

4. Dreamline

5.Lock and Key (with Last Mile intro)

6. Red Barchetta

7. Show Don't Tell

8. Bravado

9. Marathon

10. Caravan

11 .Test For Echo

12. Stick It Out

13. Distant Early Warning

14. Vital Signs

15. Closer to the Heart

16. Freewill

 

{Intermission}

 

Part 2:

1. The Big Money (with Also spruce Zarathustra intro)

2. Driven (with bass solo)

3. Where's My Thing?

4. Mission

5. Jacob's Ladder

6. YYZ (with drum solo)

7. Broon's Bane/The Trees

8. New World Man

9. Roll the Bones

10. Chemistry

11. Red Sector A

13. Natural Science

14. By-Tor and the Snow Dog

15. The Camera Eye

16. In the End

17. Witch Hunt

 

Encore:

1. Xanadu

2. Tom Sawyer

3. La Villa Strangiato

4. 2112 (Overture/Temples of Syrinx/Grand Finale)

 

35 songs (which include the beasts of By-Tor, La Villa, and Natural Sci), a massive medley, AND most of 2112?! Your fantasy setlist, though an awesome one, would hospitalize them! These aren't wimpy little pop songs they'd be playing.

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I went with A although I like all the other ones as well. I'm inclined to give you my own personal fantasy setlist so why not give my own personal taste on it? I will go ahead and say some of this is inspired by the R30 set-list so please don't get any pitchforks ready since the setlist I propose is similar to one that's been done before. Also, let's imagine that all three members weren't suffering from any playing/singing deterioration (no offense). Deep tracks included as well.

 

Part 1:

1. Instrumedley (Finding My Way. Anthem, Bastille Day, Something for Nothing, Cygnus X-1, Hemispheres Prelude, Entre Nous)

2. The Spirit of Radio

3. Subdivisions

4. Dreamline

5.Lock and Key (with Last Mile intro)

6. Red Barchetta

7. Show Don't Tell

8. Bravado

9. Marathon

10. Caravan

11 .Test For Echo

12. Stick It Out

13. Distant Early Warning

14. Vital Signs

15. Closer to the Heart

16. Freewill

 

{Intermission}

 

Part 2:

1. The Big Money (with Also spruce Zarathustra intro)

2. Driven (with bass solo)

3. Where's My Thing?

4. Mission

5. Jacob's Ladder

6. YYZ (with drum solo)

7. Broon's Bane/The Trees

8. New World Man

9. Roll the Bones

10. Chemistry

11. Red Sector A

13. Natural Science

14. By-Tor and the Snow Dog

15. The Camera Eye

16. In the End

17. Witch Hunt

 

Encore:

1. Xanadu

2. Tom Sawyer

3. La Villa Strangiato

4. 2112 (Overture/Temples of Syrinx/Grand Finale)

 

35 songs (which include the beasts of By-Tor, La Villa, and Natural Sci), a massive medley, AND most of 2112?! Your fantasy setlist, though an awesome one, would hospitalize them! These aren't wimpy little pop songs they'd be playing.

I forgot to add the setlist where the only song is Tai Shan for 2 hours straight...

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I went with B. My 3 favorite Rush songs (2112, Subdivisions & Time Stand Still) plus a bunch of deep cuts & 80's music - yup, thats it for me.

 

Now, to improve it, get YYZ out of the set list and replace it with The Main Monkey Business or La Villa. Plus get rid of the Finding my Way / In the Mood medley and replace it with The Big Money. Also add Freewill & Limelight and take out Jacobs Ladder & Red Lenses (yes, thats 2 deep cuts, just not 2 would want). Finally, replace Animate & The Spirit of Radio with Everyday Glory (never played live to the best of my knowlege), Cold Fire and / or Presto

 

But even so, that my preferred list.

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And yes, just like the song says, I have too much time on my hands.

 

Which song? Rush comes close in The Analog Kid with "Too many hands on my time," but if you're a Styx fan...

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A or B work for me. Not having to endure Headlong Flight, Chemistry and Jacob's Ladder made me choose A over B, although missing out on Prime Mover, Red Tide, and Roll The Bones makes me sad. Could I swap out Lock & Key for Prime Mover, Where's My Thing? for Roll The Bones and YYZ or the Drum Solo for Red Tide? I would also like to get rid of Clockwork Angels and replace it with Caravan, because I can't stop thinking big! Okay? Deal??? Edited by diatribein
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Okay, I'm gonna necro my own dead thread because I recently came up with another pretty decent fantasy setlist. This one is kind of based on the idea for a themed show for a Rush tribute band, It's a retrospective show, but instead of being modeled after R40, it's kind of in the vein of the Time Machine tour, where you have a greatest hits tour but it's not in chronological order.

 

 

(Band is dressed in modern Rush casual style. Alex impersonator playing Les Paul while Geddy impersonator plays Fender Jazz)

1. Limelight

2. Grand Designs

(Geddy Impersonator: "How you all doing tonight? Those were two songs from the 80s, let's do something from the 90s!)

3. Dreamline

( Geddy Impersonator: "We're gonna do a little exercise in self indulgence here tonight....a little exploration into modern Rush")

4. One Little Victory

5. Test For Echo

6. We Hold On

7. The Anarchist

(Band does a quick costume change, putting on monk robes while the Geddy impersonator exchanges his Jazz bass for a Rickenbacker. Geddy Impersonator: "As a reward for sitting through our little exercise in self-indulgence, how about some fan favorites from the 70s?")

8. The Trees

9. Xanadu

10. Lakeside Park

11. 2112 (Overture/Temples)

(Band changes out of robes, Geddy Impersonator gets his Jazz bass back)

12. Distant Early Warning

13. Subdivisions

 

(END OF FIRST SET)

 

(The Three Stooges Intro from A Show of Hands plays on the jumbotron before the first song of the second set. Band changes their dress style to mimic the Power Windows era of Rush. Alex impersonator is now playing a Kramer Baretta and is dressed in a black velveteen suit. Geddy Impersonator is dressed in a similar suit, is wearing an actual raccoon hat, and is playing a Steinberger Spirit bass)

14. The Big Money

15. Witch Hunt

16. Digital Man

(Geddy Impersonator: "We're gonna do a song now that has never been performed live before by the real Rush")

17. High Water

(Geddy Impersonator: We're gonna do a quick detour to the 90s!)

18. Roll The Bones

19. Middletown Dreams

20. Red Barchetta

21. Red Sector A

(Geddy impersonator replaces Steinberger with Rickenbacker)

22. Manhattan Project

(Band does another costume change to the early 80s bowling shirt/skinny ties, Alex impersonator playing Les Paul again. Geddy impersonator: "We're gonna finish things off by paying tribute to the most sucessful era of Rush, the late 70s and early 80s, when they really became legends!")

23. Natural Science

24. Jacob's Ladder

25. The Spirit of Radio

26. Tom Sawyer

27. Closer To The Heart

 

(ENCORE)

 

(Band still wearing same outfits from the last decade block and playing the same instruments)

28. The Camera Eye

29. YYZ

(Band makes final costume change to 1970s-styled high school kid outfits, Alex impersonator now playing Squier Stratocaster and Geddy impersonator playing a Squier Precision)

30. Fly By Night

31. Finding My Way/In The Mood

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