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I think you've done a very good job with the set list as is. Good pacing and nice tune selection

 

As for the 2 additional songs, my suggestion would be Dreamline after TCE and DEW after Freewill

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don't worry about the post-Signal stuff, it never goes over as well as the classics.

 

 

BLASTPHEMY

 

HERESY (lol geddit like the song)

 

I used to think the same thing... 20 years ago I was in a band that only wanted to do classics and I insisted on doing songs from every album, to the point where it became a major sore point. I later formed a band that agreed to do the newer stuff, but even I was eventually forced to admit that stuff we did like Open Secrets, Alien Shore or Secret Touch never went over as well as Jacob's Ladder, Camera Eye or Circumstances.

 

Maybe it's a regional thing, or maybe times have changed... Let's face it, everything before Vapor Trails is now considered classic stuff. It is extremely difficult to predict what audiences will like. You get a feel for it by playing a lot of different shows for different crowds, and the numbers don't lie... The biggest turnout we got in the last 5 years was for a re-creation of the Moving Pictures tour.

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don't worry about the post-Signal stuff, it never goes over as well as the classics.

 

 

BLASTPHEMY

 

HERESY (lol geddit like the song)

 

I used to think the same thing... 20 years ago I was in a band that only wanted to do classics and I insisted on doing songs from every album, to the point where it became a major sore point. I later formed a band that agreed to do the newer stuff, but even I was eventually forced to admit that stuff we did like Open Secrets, Alien Shore or Secret Touch never went over as well as Jacob's Ladder, Camera Eye or Circumstances.

 

Maybe it's a regional thing, or maybe times have changed... Let's face it, everything before Vapor Trails is now considered classic stuff. It is extremely difficult to predict what audiences will like. You get a feel for it by playing a lot of different shows for different crowds, and the numbers don't lie... The biggest turnout we got in the last 5 years was for a re-creation of the Moving Pictures tour.

 

If I were in a Rush tribute band and chose an entire album to play I’d go with Permanent Waves. It’s almost certainly in Rush’s top 3 most popular albums among fans. I’d start the second set with it.

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If I were in a Rush tribute band and chose an entire album to play I’d go with Permanent Waves. It’s almost certainly in Rush’s top 3 most popular albums among fans. I’d start the second set with it.

 

So far, we've done the Hemispheres and Moving Pictures albums in their entirety at shows. I have suggested Permanent Waves since we are only short "Different Strings", but so far, no dice... A trio cannot be a democracy, it has to be unanimity - that's how Rush outlasted The Police :):):).

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For the next gig we are a little tight to learn too many new tunes so I stuck with Distant Early Warning, Dreamline, Time Stands Still and Red Sector A. If any of you live anywhere near Orlando the show will be in June. Still finalizing the date but it will be a Friday or Saturday night! Will keep you posted.

 

Set 1

Space Odyssey 2001

Spirit of Radio

Subdivisions

Limelight

Entré Nous*

The Camera Eye*

Dreamline

New World Man

YYZ

Jacob’s Ladder

 

Set2

R30 Medley

Tom Sawyer

Time Stands Still

Closer to the Heart*

Broon’s Bain*

The Trees*

Xanadu**

Analog Kid

Freewill

Distant Early Warning

Red Barchetta

Overature/Temples

 

(Encore)

Red Sector A

La Villa Strangiato

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Xanadu

Anarchist

Red sector a

Spirit of radio

Marathon

Bravado

New world man

Far cry

One little victory

2112

 

 

Set 2

Countdown

Analog kid

Entre nous

Freewill

Limelight

Fly by night

Anthem

Tom sawyer

Headlong flight

Earthshine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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For the next gig we are a little tight to learn too many new tunes so I stuck with Distant Early Warning, Dreamline, Time Stands Still and Red Sector A. If any of you live anywhere near Orlando the show will be in June. Still finalizing the date but it will be a Friday or Saturday night! Will keep you posted.

 

Set 1

Space Odyssey 2001

Spirit of Radio

Subdivisions

Limelight

Entré Nous*

The Camera Eye*

Dreamline

New World Man

YYZ

Jacob’s Ladder

 

Set2

R30 Medley

Tom Sawyer

Time Stands Still

Closer to the Heart*

Broon’s Bain*

The Trees*

Xanadu**

Analog Kid

Freewill

Distant Early Warning

Red Barchetta

Overature/Temples

 

(Encore)

Red Sector A

La Villa Strangiato

To me, you have some 'snoozer' tunes in the middle of each set that might lose audience interest. The Camera Eye just needs to go...it's not all that interesting a live tune. Replace it with something harder from the earlier years...like a shortened version of Bytor, Bastille Day or Anthem.

 

The second set I would start with something else that kicks it in gear like Analog Kid or Freewill. Then move the r30 Medley to the middle or back end of the set. Actually Bastille Day would kick ass starting the second set.

 

Avoid doing Working Man...that seems like too easy of a song for tribute band to use to kill alot of time. I think you could work up an extend jam version of Headlong Flight that would replace the temptation of doing Working Man. You could also incorporate a shortened drum solo into HF.

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For the next gig we are a little tight to learn too many new tunes so I stuck with Distant Early Warning, Dreamline, Time Stands Still and Red Sector A. If any of you live anywhere near Orlando the show will be in June. Still finalizing the date but it will be a Friday or Saturday night! Will keep you posted.

 

Set 1

Space Odyssey 2001

Spirit of Radio

Subdivisions

Limelight

Entré Nous*

The Camera Eye*

Dreamline

New World Man

YYZ

Jacob’s Ladder

 

Set2

R30 Medley

Tom Sawyer

Time Stands Still

Closer to the Heart*

Broon’s Bain*

The Trees*

Xanadu**

Analog Kid

Freewill

Distant Early Warning

Red Barchetta

Overature/Temples

 

(Encore)

Red Sector A

La Villa Strangiato

 

Now that's a pretty decent setlist :) A little more balanced with a few more 80s tunes mixed in!

 

However, to me, Red Sector A is a bit more of a "middle of the set" song than an ending song. It is very cool that you included it, though! You'd probably be giving the Geddy impersonator a little bit of a rest from having the bass strapped on him for the whole show.

 

If I could be so bold as to give you some more ideas, I would rearrange this setlist in a few locations..

 

Spirit of Radio

Subdivisions

Limelight

Force Ten

The Camera Eye

Digital Man*

Dreamline

Territories**

YYZ

Jacob’s Ladder

 

Set2

 

Hemispheres Prelude

Tom Sawyer

Red Barchetta

Red Sector A

Time Stands Still

Closer to the Heart

The Trees

Xanadu

Analog Kid

Freewill

Mystic Rhythms

Red Barchetta

The Enemy Within

The Weapon

Witch Hunt

Freeze

 

(Encore)

Overture/Temples

La Villa Strangiato

In The Mood***

 

*=Sometimes replaced with Stick It Out or Show Don't Tell

**=Sometimes replaced with The Big Money or Manhattan Project

***=Sometimes replaced with Working Man or Fly By Night

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Changing it up a little... adding Witch Hunt and Vital Signs so we now do the entire MP album. I think that is a good marketing point.

 

Set 1

Space Odyssey 2001

Spirit of Radio

Subdivisions

Dreamline

Closer to the Heart*

Entré Nous

Analog Kid

Broon’s Bane

The Trees

Xanadu

 

Set2

Tom Sawyer

Red Barchetta

YYZ

Limelight

The Camera Eye

Witch Hunt

Vital Signs

 

R30 Overture----- Drum Solo

Freewill

Distant Early Warning

Overture/Temples of Syrinx

Jacob’s Ladder

 

(Encore)

La Villa Strangiato

 

 

 

* R30 Overture" (instrumental medley representing excerpts of 6 songs from the band's first 6 albums; the songs were "Finding My Way", "Anthem", "Bastille Day", "A Passage to Bangkok", "Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage", and "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres")

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