Rush: 1977-12-10 Hollywood, FL (FLAC_AUD 1st Gen_2 CD)

This is an excellent show from Rush on their tour not too many good recordings exist (so far) from.  This was Rush's A Farewell To Kings Tour, also known as the "Drive 'Til You Die Tour" too.  The band had just finished their All The World's A Stage Tour on 1977-06-13 and were back on the road again with their A Farewell To Kings Tour by 1977-08-23 (or a little over two months later) which went through 1978-05-28 when they finally took a few months break.  Looking at their tour dates from previous and post tours around this show, I can easily see why the tour had the band calling it the "Drive 'Til You Die Tour" too :-)

LINEAGE:
Master tape > cassette > unknown digital transfer to SHN > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Rush
Date: December 10th, 1977
Location: Hollywood, Florida
Venue: The Sportatorium
Label: DRE/Rubicon
Title: Canadian Bacon - Platinum Edition
Source: AUD (1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (complete artwork in download)
Size: 595 MB
Length: 90:37:35

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Bastille Day
102. Lakeside Park
103. By-Tor And The Snow Dog
104. Xanadu
105. A Farewell To Kings
106. Something For Nothing
107. Cygnus X-1

CD 2:
201. Anthem
202. Closer To The Heart
203. 2112
204. Working Man
205. Fly By Night
206. In The Mood
207. Neil Peart (drum solo)

LINK:
(1) 1977-12-10 Canadian Bacon - Platinum Edition

For some reason, the taper did not record the final song of the night which was the encore song "Cinderella Man".  What a terrible shame!  That is not a common live song.  I'm a little rusty on Rush dates and songs right now (I've been concentrating so much on my Zeppelin lately), but I do know "Cinderella Man" isn't heard live very often if at all.  I'll have to research a little more and update if I can find a date "Cinderella Man" was played because I seem to recall it was recorded at some point in some show I have.

The audio sounds really excellent in this Florida venue too.  There are a few small tape problems but they soon fade and the recording is very enjoyable.  As the person I got this show from had noted, it sounds a little distant but it is really clear and the band can be heard very easily and clearly too.

I have some other 1977 Rush shows that also sound great and I will be uploading some of them before long.  I think I may have uploaded one a year or two ago already.  This is a lovely show from my listening through headphones and my PC's Bose speakers (the $100 kind...not the $100's or $1000's type mind you) and I'm preparing it right now for a transfer to CD-R's and plan to be cranking it up in the next hour or two.

By the way; in case you're wondering what makes this the Platinum Edition as opposed to the first Canadian Bacon release that wasn't platinum. it is the lineage and better sound.  I don't know what the lineage was on the first circulated version.  And with the lack of real detail on this lineage currently, the only thing I do know is it was sourced from the master (which has been lost) and it is a first generation, cleaner and better sounding transfer of the audio and is an upgrade.  So now you know as much as me now.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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