which tour?

Carl Gibbons ....as an owner of a DW drum kit I have to agree, the Ludwig used for the rtb tour is my all time favorite kit! They really bring out the tones of the master!

Heck yah!

Todd Lipani For me it was that Counterparts Ludwig kit...which may have been a modified version of the RTB kit (not sure).

@@drummer78 Neil played the same Ludwig kit beginning with Hold Your Fire through Counterparts... Originally the Ludwig kit was painted white with some pink flecks in it, but with Presto, he had the kit painted Blue and it stayed the same until he switched to DW...

Love “Where’s My Thing”!! Fabulous audio from RTB Tour.

I think the bootlegs of Clockwork Angels are better than the official release. The sound is so compressed, drums muffled. How bout Alex Lifeson showing flashes of Eric Johnson licks on this tour? This show they played perfectly. In Worcester Massachusetts it was the towards the beginning of the tour, really good but not as good as this. Not as good as Presto a year and half before. I had this bootleg on audio back in 93'. The Roll the Bones tunes are amazing.

@@cosmicjazzman4817 Presto was the best show I ever saw. I caught all of these in Albany in the 90s. I cannot believe how good the audio is. I remember these shows being awesome sounding but wow. The one thing about this area is it's fantastic for music. I

i was there too! good ole kinickerbocker

I’m sorry you had a sad day dude

ACDC opened up for them at the Palace in 77. I cannot even wrap my mind around that show. That was like A Farewell to Kings tour.

Rush's sound started getting more and more dirty and distorted starting with Counterparts. I didn't really care for it as much as what they had going in this era of their music

Yep this was their peak. Flawless perfection. Tighter than a knats ass

I was also there what a great blast from the past

I'm a drummer,and yes, I don't care for DW's. Would rather Tama or Ludwig any day.

shrill Mark I don’t care for them either. They’re beautifully crafted drums. Some of their finishes are out of this world but they’re overrated in my opinion. A lot has to do with how they are recorded and produced but I’ve never liked a single one of Neil’s DW kits. His red sparkle kit with coated ambassador heads made me wonder what the hell he was thinking so I check out a set for myself. I could never get a decent sound out of them so I stuck with my Ludwig Super Classics. The Ludwig factory in Monroe is/was stellar. They use to let Joe blow to come in and try out their drums. When I bought my drums they even refinished my Tama 22" gong bass drum to the exact color of my Ludwigs like Neil. They don’t do that anymore unless you’re famous which sucks. I had to replace my 6" drum and that one drum was just about a grand because they considered it a very specialty drum. I love them. Listen to the beginning of “Where’s my thing”. Neil’s small toms are so tight it sounds like a raindrop hitting a puddle. AMAZING!!

Yeah the Dws font have the attack and throatyness of tamas, ludwigs

Keyop68 There’s a video interview with Neil discussing and playing his R40 “modern” DW kit. The program is called “Masters of Resonance”. Towards the end of the program he is when he’s test driving his kit and I must say they don’t sound half bad. I don’t know what kind of microphones were used to record it but I can hear tones coming out of his drums that I haven’t heard in YEARS!! That that doesn’t mean I like the way they sound but it’s a big improvement over his Time Machine and Snakes and Arrows kits and they absolutely sound better than horrible red sparkle DW’s with coated Ambassador heads! Neil was and always will be the shit but once he switched to DW and started taking lessons from Freddie Gruber (who convinced Neil that he was a jazz drummer in a rock drummers body) I didn’t follow his playing as much. His playing just wasn’t as creative as it use to be but that’s just my opinion.

apiece ofdirt I agree , Neil didn’t need to re invent himself, he needed to push on . I hated test for echo. I think the tama kits sounded the best

I’ve never seen or heard a crowd go so crazy for a drum solo. This was epic.

All were amazing but some of Neils solos just left me teleported to what in the world did I just witness. Jaw drop.

I’m from Connecticut and you are right ..... but this is from Albany NY

Unforgettable memories... I envy you, Charles ;) www.2112.net/powerwindows/tours/760315-18ad.jpg

I was a couple of albums late to the party. First ever live show was at the Forum signals tour and I remember opening act doing there hit "twilight zone" and the drummer standing on his drum kit and falling off of them. 4th row alex side.

@@chinatype2bassrocker809 That was Golden Earring opening for Rush. They had a 1973 hit Radar Love.

me too.

+Rob Hardy where's my thing? is pure energy

they also do that with freewill to la villa on earlier shows and it is so perfect.

Michael Lamneck oh man, that is SICK!

i saw this tour in vancouver...the transition was just 4 or 8 bars of that arpegiated sample, THEN the descending chords....it was hair raising (i think is was a mistake, but it was fucking sick)

Rush are experts in this

I just wish they let him sing the bridge first

Thanks for kind words :)

I agree with that sentiment entirely. Thanks for all the great shows. I'm from Australia so obviously never got to see Rush live. After seeing all tthese great shows I'm kicking myself for not coming over to see them. And now it's too late. One question though what in your opinion is the best sounding show from the Moving Pictures tour? Once again thanks for all the shows

Thanks... I'm a fan of Rush so I do this "job" with real pleasure :) The best sounding show from the MP tour? In my opinion there are two such bootlegs (except for "Exit ... Stage Left" of course): show from Chicago, which took place on March 1, 1981 ("Chicago, IL 3-1-81 - The Definitive Edition") and show from Anaheim, which took place on June 12, 1981 ("Anaheim 1981 Master" or "Anaheim, CA 6-16-81 - The Definitive Edition"). My favorite is the second show, because it's closer to the version of the ESL. Below are a few useful links: www.digitalrushexperience.com/database/tourlist.php?tour=12 www.sepia.dti.ne.jp/Junya/trade/rushlist.text rushbootlegtrading.blogspot.com/ www.rushtrader.com/rush.htm www.test4echo.net/ kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gb2PibCc39fQm4U.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gryafqSAtq67ZIk.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bc5obMR9tLS7cmw.html

Thanks for that . I really appreciate it. I have heard the definitive version and I love it. I wonder if Rush will ever release a new remastered version of ESL which has all the songs on it. I particularly like Camera Eye. Once again thanks a lot.

"Camera Eye" is also my favorite song. Perhaps in 2021 for the 40th anniversary of the release of the album? In connection with your post, I'm uploading a new video on KZfaq: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7aVqa-fms_Jm2g.html

IKR. This was an amazing era for them but nope......nothing. After Test For Echo it all changed.

ASOH was only 4-5 years before this from the HYF tour and like 80% of the setlist is the same. Counterparts tour would be better IMO.

Agreed. This has all the music I love played really well

Yeah I remember back then it was just magazines you could see them in 🤷🏻‍♂️

I'm sure its a different set list from Glasgow. IIRC opening song was Force 10 @ SECC.

Basil Fawlty that correct force 10

Basil Fawlty This might have been a different leg of the tour? They did go to Europe. I have old tickets to prove it.

+VaporTrails2112 Nah, this recording just didn't capture the opening song.

Sooooo amazing, I feel like this was their prime.

. That Ludwig kit was so killer sounding. Especially after having to put up with the DW kits which you can't hear most of the time.

+George Dosal Soooooo true. Neil’s R40 kits sounded almost too dark. His snares had a nice crack to them but I could hardly hear his smaller toms on either one of his kits. They should have either been tuned higher or double headed because they just sound too dead. When I saw them in Greensboro this past May I shit at the sound of those kits because it was like after almost 20 of playing DW they finally gave Neil a more expensive kit that actually sounded worse than all the others. John Good is overrated.

It was better but you are right apiece ofdirt about the higher toms. He would always tune those very high.

20" gong bass with a 22" head. but hell ya i agree.

that damn DW was too boomy and sounded like shit to me, DW sucks!! saw the R40 tour front center 10th row and i was not impressed with the drum sound. yes those concert toms sounded weak, higher tension i say too. Neil should have stayed with Ludwig as is obvious here with this video. his HYF kit was the best ever to me, live and studio.

Ed M Why would that offend ? Its a very good complement !!!!

How would that offend? I agree with every word.

One of many reasons I loved this band so much, they always said because they as music fans themselves always wanted to hear people replicate their music the way "they" were familiar with it on the album so they painstakingly tried very diligently to do that themselves. Being a Zep fan also I always had a problem with Zeppelin live, they'd improvise everything so much and never never played anything like their albums which for that reason I later found peace in never seeing them live because of that.

I agree, barely even hear Neil

Couldn't agree more!!! NOT NEARLY ENOUGH NEIL!!! Could hear him, but could not see him...almost never!!!

I mean, HECK..."Free Will" is a friggin' drum solo and ZERO video of Neil Peart!!!😵 RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!😖

@@christopherwitteman8130 .. pointing the camera at Neil would not improve the cameras microphone at all.

@@dibber43 .... shut up. He pointed the camera at Neil for the real drum solo.

Remember that, thought the same thing when I was at the Montreal show. The raw strength of Freewill for me portended to great things to come that show, and from the band in later albums. Remember thinking " these guys are getting better with every passing year... Amazing..!!!! So many great songs that night and in this captured masterpiece! The energy, sound and crowd are just soo perfect. Thank you for the upload and thank you Rush for ALL of your music, words, enlightenment, and the sheer commitment you all gave live, each and every show.

That was the first time i saw them live, Presto tour in Calgary. I flipped out when they played Xanadu

They play Rree will in the Presto tour ( Before the Roll the bones tour )

Rush always sounded good live. Maybe not for the first two tours and maybe some parts of R40. But the rest is all fantastic.

@@jamlive6650 From one fellow Rush fan to another I definitely respect your opinion. However me personally, I just don’t care for their live sound once Neil started endorsing DW. I think his Ludwig drums sound killer in this particular video. Neil’s Snakes and Arrows kit were the only DWs I thought sounded good and were especially better than those dead sounding Romanian River Oak drums he played during their r40 tour. Those are just my opinions. I still love and respect Rush musically regardless of any differences we may have. Cheers my friend 😊