What tour would you go back to see if you had a time machine?

[losingit2k]

I guess it really all depends. If I actually had to stay there (One way trip) Fly By Night Tour!

 

If I would return 5 years later: (2112 Tour)

 

If it were for just one night: (PeW Tour)

 

If it were for a whole year of touring (Exit Stage Left Tour)

 

If it were a multiple jump sequence (Every Recorded live show)

[rushpepe]

I saw most of the tours from 2112 on, and some multiple times. However, Hemispheres will never get old.

[Shemp]

All of them but since that's not possible, my top three are Moving Pictures, All the Worlds a Stage then Hold Your Fire

[The Analog Grownup]

I don't have any personal connection with any of their tours except CA so that's the one I chose.

[mong82191]

The Moving Pictures tour was just the zenith of their talents(well their whole career is) but seeing Camera Eye played live back then would be heavenly!

[JimboWTF]

Hemispheres for me!

[Babycat]

Second choice would have been A Show of Hands if Zumbi had included it.

 

And me - I was looking all over for it..!

[The Analog Grownup]

I don't have any personal connection with any of their tours except CA so that's the one I chose.

 

Okay I'm revising my vote. Saw Snakes & Arrows Live yesterday and it's pretty good. Nice setlist, very good sound, only drawback is the tempo. Had they played that tour with the same gusto as the Clockwork Angels Tour it would have been near perfect.

[Lorraine]

The Moving Pictures tour was just the zenith of their talents(well their whole career is) but seeing Camera Eye played live back then would be heavenly!

 

I agree. I love Exit...Stage Left on account of Xanadu ( ) but Moving Pictures is great. They were at the top.

[Hemispheres4Echo]

I would go back and see the Test for Echo tour

[EagleMoon]

I'd like to see the first tour with Neil after Hemispheres.

[robertrobyn]

Moving Pictures or ESL for me

[bri-tor]

Given how much "recent" material gets played at the shows these days (and I labele as recent pretty much anything after Moving Pictures ;), it would have to be the Hemispheres tour. I would love to hear the whole song live, as well as La Villa...heck they could do the whole album! But I would feel bad about not giving them time to have written Jacob's Ladder ;)

[bri-tor]

Second choice would be the Counterparts tour. I was in seventh heaven for those shows!

[bathory]

all of em!

[bathory]

but preferably late 70s or early 80s

[Syrinx]

The late 70's shows were so magical. I would go back and see them again.....with a clear head. Rush were the KINGS in Toronto back then!

[LocalsBandGuy]

I just want to see Here Again & the old version of Working Man with bits of what would become By-Tor.

[troutman]

I would go back to Farewell to Kings tour so I could see Rush AND UFO in their prime :)

 

It was great!! :codger: :haz: :D :smoke:

[troutman]

I chose Snakes & Arrows not because it was all that amazing of a tour - although it WAS a good show...

I chose this tour because i saw this show at 5 different venues in Canada & the States and met some of the most amazing people that are still friends in my life.

Met all 3 admins of this forum...

and had the best time ever creating these friendships and meeting people - members of this board from all over the world. i would LOVE to do it all over again...

Pagscon , Party at the Exxon! Cincicon, Ladicon, London Ontario, Toronto...

 

I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

 

™

 

 

:hi: :ebert:

 

We drove are asses off!! :7up: :haz: :rush:

 

Miss you.

[Lorraine]

The late 70's shows were so magical. I would go back and see them again.....with a clear head. Rush were the KINGS in Toronto back then!

They will always be KINGS in my book. No matter what. I envy you that you saw them back then on their turf. It must have been not only special for you, but for them as well.

[Blue J]

Permanent Waves tour, no question- due to the quality of the setlist AND the performance. Dreamlike, on both accounts.

[greg2112]

Permanent Waves Tour - NYC Palladium 1980. Best rush setlist ever, IMO

[Detonator]

It was tight between Presto and HYF tours but I chose HYF.

 

Why?

 

Because "A Show of Hands" live VHS tape made me a lifelong Rush fan. I was just a kid and an enthusiastic drummer when I first saw this... and I never thought anything, anywhere could surpass Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd (in my book) but that ASOH video absolutely blew my mind.

 

The setlist is perfect and the guys were still young and Geddy's voice was in great condition. And (imho) as musicians they were in their absolute prime here. If I had to choose the "most important piece of music", this one would easily top the list.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VzxPLclEbE

 

Pink Floyd's Delicate and Van Halen's Live: Right Here, Right Now were another live videos that I watched to DEATH. ;)

 

Edited December 29, 2014 by Detonator

[lerxt1990]

Very easy (for me) and a tie: Hemispheres and PeW.

 

PeW Setlist:

2112 (minus Oracle)

Freewill

By-Tor and the Snow Dog (abbreviated)->

Xanadu

The Spirit of Radio

Natural Science

A Passage to Bangkok

The Trees

Cygnus X-1 (abbreviated)

Hemispheres (abbreviated)

Closer To The Heart

Beneath, Between and Behind (abbreviated)

Jacob's Ladder

Working Man (reggae intro)

Finding My Way

Anthem

Bastille Day

In The Mood

Drum Solo

Encore: La Villa Strangiato (electric guitar intro)

 

Hemispheres Setlist:

 

Anthem

A Passage to Bangkok

By-Tor and the Snow Dog (abbreviated)->

Xanadu

Something For Nothing (dropped from Germany dates)

The Trees

Cygnus X-1 (dropped from Germany dates)

Hemispheres

Closer To The Heart

Circumstances (dropped 4/23/79)

A Farewell to Kings

La Villa Strangiato

2112 (minus Oracle)

Working Man

Bastille Day

In The Mood

Drum Solo

 

 

I'd also like to remind the youngins of the time period involved here:

 

 

Hemispheres Tour

October 14, 1978 - June 4, 1979

Hemispheres released: October 28th 1978

 

Permanent Waves Warm Up Tour (Semi-Tour Of Some Of The Hemispheres)

August 17, 1979 - September 22, 1979

 

Permanent Waves Tour

January 17, 1980 - June 22, 1980

Permanent Waves released: January 14, 1980

 

And MP on the heels of that. THATS how and why Rush became a GIANT. A lot of brilliance in a rather brief period of time.