R40 Set 2

[winter17]

Is the second set potentially the best set Rush has ever played, top to bottom?

 

• "Tom Sawyer"
  
• "Red Barchetta", "The Camera Eye" or "YYZ"
  
• "The Spirit of Radio"
  
• "Natural Science"
  
• "Jacob's Ladder"
  
• "Hemispheres"
  
• "Cygnus X-1: Book 1"
  
• "Closer to the Heart"
  
• "Xanadu"
  
• "2112"
  

[rocketom]

The 2nd set was Awesome! PW or Hemispheres tours might have a better set list.

[goose]

Meh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was incredible, and a heck of a way to go out! Got to share it with my long-time RUSH buds from the Northwest, which was great fun. And Jacob's Ladder... :drool:

[EagleMoon]

The section from Narural Science to 2112 was the best they'd done in years. Jacob's Ladder still gives me chills. And that light show was the best ever. Howard was at the top of his form.

[apetersvt]

I would go with the Hemispheres setlist. It certainly has the advantage of being from the era where there was only one long set and thus gets the benefit of not being one of two sets from a show:

 

Anthem

Bangkok

By Tor

Xanadu

Something For Nothing

Trees

Cygnus X1

Hemispheres

Closer To The Heart

Circumstances

Farewell To Kings

La Villa

2112

Working Man

Bastille Day

In The Mood

Drums

[Jaminbenb]

It was a "bucket list" of tunes I never got to hear live...so YEAH!!!!

[yyz305]

Not without La Villa!

[Poké Floats]

If it was perfect to my liking, they would have cut out MMB and the VT song, ended Set 1 with Moving Pictures, opened Set 2 with Spirit of Radio and then (finally) have La Villa after Jacob's Ladder.

[ytserush]

I liked the first set of R40 more myself....

[GabesCavesOfIce]

Yes. First time I saw them do an extended set of 70s material since MP tour (back then it would have been difficult NOT to!).

 

Next tour came Signals - the comedy and overall goofiness - and focus on their synth material live. Gone was their edgy and heavy live sound . A rather long wait, then 35 R40 shows later, history written. That's what made their first ever lack of a second leg disappointing, they FINALLY featured an extended set of 70s material, ONLY because it was their last chance to do so.

[Powderfinger]

So epic. Just one after the other. Face melting. Epic.

[Powderfinger]

If it was perfect to my liking, they would have cut out MMB and the VT song, ended Set 1 with Moving Pictures, opened Set 2 with Spirit of Radio and then (finally) have La Villa after Jacob's Ladder.

 

This is a cool idea. And it works, as TSOR can shoulder the set opener status. And set one therefore ends with even more crowd energy than Subdivisions provides, and that is saying a lot.

[Jbrooksga]

Best set I've ever witnessed. Been 2 years now and it still moves me to recall.

[goose]

Best set I've ever witnessed. Been 2 years now and it still moves me to recall.

 

And welcome to TRF!

 

:cheers:

[Mystic Slipperman]

It was truly amazing... if only La Villa had been in there too! But yeah, very powerful!