Jump to content

What song do thing would be the best show opener for R40something tour?


Recommended Posts

What song would you most like to hear or think would be best to open the show for the R40 tour? One song, entire catalog.
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Finding My Way. No better opener for an anniversary tour celebrating four decades the to play the song where it all began.
  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

The first couple minutes of Hemispheres. Then moment right before the vocals they can just transition into another song.

 

That would be cool. They can go right into The Spirit Of Radio right after that. I know they've opened with it a bunch of times in the past but Spirit is still the best song I've seen them open a show with. Or maybe they can do us all a favor like they did on the Vapor Trails tour and open with Tom Sawyer so we can get that song immediately out of the way ;)

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

What song would you most like to hear or think would be best to open the show for the R40 tour? One song, entire catalog.

 

I'd really dig a debut album medley. Something like they did for R30 but keep it to just the 1974 Rush album that will 40 years old at that point. Hell, I'd settle for a 20 album all-medley show... get pieces of EVERY song from their catalog in one show... I'd like that. I know there are medley haters out there but I've always enjoyed getting a little sample of many tunes versus the entirety of a select few. How cool would a Rivendell/Tears/TaiShan mash-up be, LIVE?! Rock ON!!!

 

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z33/bfwgjma/Rush%202013%20Milwaukee%204%20July/IMG_3780_zpse0fbcc2d.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

As I have said in other R40 forums, I think it would be awesome if they picked up where they left off from R30. In R30 they played a bit from the first six albums then a full song from the seventh, so do this with the next set of albums. Think a medley of The Camera Eye, Digital Man, Kid Gloves, Emotion Detector, Lock And Key, and Show Don't Tell, then play Dreamline. Of course the songs could be interchanged, but I think these would flow nicely.
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

No f*ckin' half-assed medleys! Sweet Jesus - can we just get a definitive (more or less) tune to open the set?

What about:

 

1. Working Man -- or

2. The Camera Eye -- or

3. The Analog Kid

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The first couple minutes of Hemispheres. Then moment right before the vocals they can just transition into another song.

 

YES!

This is exactly how I have my R40 dream setlist beginning. Start with Instrumental of Hemispheres Prelude, then launch into The Spirit of Radio. :)

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

An Instrumedley: (Finding My Way, By-Tor & the Snowdog, The Necromancer, a Passage to Bangkok, Cygnus X-1, Hemisphere (prelude), Freewill) going right into Limelight! Like Below:

 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

2112 Overture ---->

Tom Sawyer

 

You can make the last crash of the overture the 1st of Tom Sawyer and play them seamlessly.

 

That's how you give the show some juice right from the start.

 

 

Good idea, but is 2112 tuned up, or is Sawyer tuned down?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

What song would you most like to hear or think would be best to open the show for the R40 tour? One song, entire catalog.

 

I'd really dig a debut album medley. Something like they did for R30 but keep it to just the 1974 Rush album that will 40 years old at that point. Hell, I'd settle for a 20 album all-medley show... get pieces of EVERY song from their catalog in one show... I'd like that. I know there are medley haters out there but I've always enjoyed getting a little sample of many tunes versus the entirety of a select few. How cool would a Rivendell/Tears/TaiShan mash-up be, LIVE?! Rock ON!!!

 

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z33/bfwgjma/Rush%202013%20Milwaukee%204%20July/IMG_3780_zpse0fbcc2d.jpg

 

 

 

MEDLEYS, MEDLEYS MEDLEYS.....

 

I AM WITH YOU.....GET IN AS MANY SONGS AS POSSIBLE, EVEN 10 SECONDS OF SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING...

 

and keep the casual fans wondering what song they are playing, sorry, if you can't keep along with the changes, go back and listen to the catalog again...

 

can't tell you how many "fans" on this tour were heading to the bathrooms and beer during songs like Territories and Halo Effect...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I'd love it if they opened with a ripping drum solo....

 

ya a short one that leads into One Little Victory!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Set One

1. The Spirit of Radio

2. Superconductor

3. Cut to the Chase

4. Red Barchetta

5. Lock and Key

6. Carnies

7. Fly By Night

8. Available Light

9. Cold Fire

10. Tom Sawyer

 

Set 2

1. Distant Early Warning

2. Afterimage

3. Red Sector A

4. The Enemy Within

5. The Body Electric

6. Kid Gloves

7. Red Lenses

8. Between the Wheels

9. Witch Hunt

10. YYZ/drum solo

11. Limelight

12. 2112

 

Encore

1. Subdivisions

2. The Anarchist

3. Working Man

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...