Rush: 1994-05-07 Toronto, Ontario, Canada (FLAC_SB Remaster_2 CD)

Today is the 22nd anniversary of this excellent-to-superb sounding Rush concert in Toronto.  I got my first copy of this show on silver CD's in the late 1990's in the Animated released title.  This is the same titled source and it was remastered by "leegeddy".

As far as the remaster goes here, it seems to not be an audio remaster by EQ'ing the show.  The audio sounds just the same as my silver CD's.  It looks like the show was just tracked differently and some clicks/pops were removed from what is mentioned.  As far as the clicks/pops go, I'm not sure where they were located on the original Animated discs release because I have not noticed them on my copy.  I'm not saying they may not be there also...I just haven't noticed them.

LINEAGE:
"Animated" silver pressed CD's > EAC V0.95 prebeta 4 (Secure Mode) > Cool Edit Pro 1.2a > CD Wave > Remaster > SHN (mkwAct) > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness and align sector boundaries) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Rush
Date: May 7th, 1994
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Venue: Maple Leaf Gardens
Title: Animated - Remaster
Label: None
Source: SB (Remaster)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 647 MB
Length: 119:09:09

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Dreamline
102. The Spirit Of Radio
103. The Analog Kid
104. Cold Fire
105. Time Stands Still
106. Nobody's Hero
107. Roll The Bones
108. Animate
109. Stick It Out
110. Double Agent
111. Limelight

CD 2:
201. Bravado
202. Mystic Rhythms
203. Closer To The Heart
204. Show Don't Tell
205. Leave That Thing Alone
206. The Rhythm Method
207. The Trees
208. Xanadu
209. Hemispheres: Prelude
210. Tom Sawyer

LINK:
(1) 1994-05-07 Toronto, Canada (SB/Remaster)

The waveform looks perfect and has no audio clipping or other issues I can see.  And the sound of this show is really enjoyable as well.  This, to me, is really a superb recording of a Rush Counterparts tour.  But there are still better recordings from the tour so I will rate it as an excellent-to-superb only because I know there are a few better sounding recordings.  The show has a very nice mix and all three members and their instruments can be heard evenly.

On my silver discs copy of the show the first two tracks are (1) "intro" and (2) "(The) Spirit of Radio".  But here in the remaster the tracks were joined together to form one track.  The second difference is on the remastered copy the "Country Music" part the band did on this tour is not its own track and it is merged with "Cold Fire" to form one track.

The more I examine things while comparing my original copy with this remastered copy I do see there has been some amplification added as well to the remaster.  And this was done right too.  The waveform for the original copy shows no audio clipping either but it looks like some amplification was needed anyhow to bring up the audio a little.  The remaster was done very well and I see no visible errors at all in it.

The sector boundary errors I fixed were not any that would have made any difference if you had burned the FLAC files to disc without aligning the boundaries.  The errors were in the last track on each disc.  This location (final track of a disc) reportedly does not cause issues when located there.  But rather than chance it, and just because I like to make everything as perfect as I can, I went ahead and used Trader's Little Helper to fix them as I always do.

As usual, I am listening to the show now as I am preparing the upload.  Until earlier this morning (hours ago), I had not listened to this show in at least two or three years.  And this Rush Counterparts album tour was one of my favorite "newer era" Rush tours.  I remember buying the CD around 1995/1996 and really liking the songs.  I played it everywhere I drove, went, etc.  Not everybody around me liked it (at least they didn't act like they did) but that never phased me any.  A number of the songs from this album (or CD) touched home with me at the time.  I really thought "Cold Fire" was one such song.  Hard to believe that/she was 20 years ago now!

Any Rush fan should really enjoy this show and recording I am sure!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

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Rush: 1994-04-02 Madison, WI (FLAC_SB Master_2 CD)

UPDATE: This is a superb+ recording as I listened on...

This is an superb Rush soundboard from their show that occurred 21 years ago tonight.  The only thing in the stereo recording that is off is the mix up through "The Analog Kid".  I may be wrong, and with allergies starting in and stopping me up some, maybe I'm not hearing the sound right?

It sounds as if the right channel is either a little heavier on the balance or else the high's from the drums and some other instruments are channeled to the left channel.

The sound corrects itself during "The Analog Kid" and is balanced better which makes me think this an actual soundboard recording/balance issue in the early stages of the show..

Rush is kicking butt in this Counterparts tour concert.  They really sound great and they're not stopping and talking most of time between songs like they can sometimes do.  They're going from one song into the next with very little conversation (if any) from the stage at all.

LINEAGE:
No lineage given (SB > DAT given as source) > SHN > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Rush
Date: April 2nd, 1994
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Venue: Dade County Coliseum
Title: Passive Aggression
Label: Signals Productions
Source: SB (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 823 MB
Length: 123:11:23

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. 2001 A Space Odyssey (intro music)
102. Dreamline
103. The Spirit Of Radio
104. The Analog Kid
105. Cold Fire
106. Time Stands Still
107. Nobody's Hero
108. Roll The Bones
109. Animate
110. Stick It Out
111. Double Agent
112. Limelight

CD 2:
201. Mystic Rhythms
202. Closer To The Heart
203. Show Don't Tell
204. Leave That Thing Alone
205. The Rhythm Method
206. The Trees
207. Xanadu
208. Hemispheres - Prelude
209. Tom Sawyer
210. Force Ten
211. YYZ

LINKS:
(1) 1994-04-03 Madison, WI (SB Master/Signals)

I burned this these same files to disc about seven or eight years ago.  Other than me embedding track information, naming tracks and organizing the file set, it is the same files I got back then.  I've mentioned I'm jamming on it now and enjoying it.  In fact, I want to hurry and finish this post and get it uploading so I can go sit in the living room and enjoy it better!  It's definitely not a disappointing sound, and even if there is a slight imbalance in the audio channels early on, it is slight and works out.

I made some LightScribe artwork for the 2 CD's I burned years ago and I'll scan them and add them in case anyone want to use them for disc art.

I don't want to give the impression this show is anything short of superb overall.  It is one of the sharpest, cleanest sounding shows I've heard in a long time.  But the mix is the one thing I wish was balanced just a little differently.  But after the sound changes, you really stop noticing the difference I mentioned and you just enjoy a superb sounding show very easily.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

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Rush: 2002-10-13 Atlanta, GA (FLAC_SB In House Feed/AUD Master Matrix_3 CD)

At the request of a friend interested in this show, I found it recently on Dime and was able to get a seeder to join in and help me download it.  And it sounds like it is a real gem too!

This is a superb recording of the Rush concert on 2002-10-13 using the in house feed (soundboard) and a master audience matrix production of the concert.

This is the best sounding show I now have from Rush's Vapor Trails tour.  I don't have too many 2002 shows however.  But I imagine as my collection of this tour grows, it will be very hard to beat how greatb this show and the mix in the recording sounds.  I can hear all instruments and vocals perfect as I sample multiple song from each disc via the PC.

LINEAGE:
(1) Source:  (a) AUD: Sonic Studios DSM-6 > PA-6 > Sony PCM-M1 & (b) SB: SB > in house feed >
(2) Transfer:   Sony PCM-M1 > Oade 7-pin > Audioquest VSD-2 S/PDIF > M-Audio DeltaDio 2496 > CDWave > CoolEditPro 1.2a > CD Wave > SHN (mkwACT) > Dime >
(3) me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness & align sector boundaries) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

NOTES:
The audience recording source was done from the 10th row.

DETAILS:
Artist: Rush
Date: October 13th, 2002
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Venue: Phillips Arena
Title: Matrix:  Atlanta '02
Label: Bumblebee Productions
Source: SB/AUD Matrix (SB In House Feed/AUD Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 3
Artwork: Yes (full artwork in download)
Size: 1.08 GB
Length: 172:08:41

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Three Stooges intro
102. Tom Sawyer
103. Distant Early Warning
104. New World Man
105. Roll The Bones
106. Earthshine
107. YYZ
108. The Pass
109. Bravado
110. The Big Money
111. Beneath Sun And Moon
112. Vital Signs
113. Natural Science

CD 2:
201. dragon intro
202. One Little Victory
203. Driven
204. Ceiling Unlimited
205. Secret Room
206. Dreamline
207. Red Sector A
208. Leave That Thing Alone
209. O Baterista

CD 3:
301. Resist
302. 2112: Overture ~ The Temple Of Syrinx
303. Limelight
304. La Villa Strangiato
305. The Spirit Of Radio
306. By-Tor And The Snow Dog
307. Cygnus X-1
308. Working Man

LINKS:
(1) 2002-10-13 Atlanta, GA (SB/AUD Matrix/Bumblebee)
(2) 2002-10-13 Atlanta, GA (SB/AUD Matrix/Bumblebee)

Both the in house feed and the audience sources used in the matrix are superb sounding recordings.  And the waveform looks perfect too with no audio clipping.

The in house feed is likely a mono recording like it is in the One Big Victory recording that uses it solely.  Even being a mono mix and not having the stereo audience recording used for a matrix recording like the copy being uploaded now, it is a surprisingly excellent sounding too.  It has a great low end frequency coverage and sounds very clean with great bass.  But of course, this matrix is a much better sounding recording than just the in house feed recording too.

Any Rush fan will enjoy this recording I am sure.  I have not been able to listen to much of the show yet.  I am burning it to disc right now and will be listening very soon.  And I know from the sampling I've done via the PC's Bose speakers, I will not be disappointed with the sound at all as I listen through the digital home theater sound system.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

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Rush: 1981-06-12 Anaheim, CA (FLAC_AUD 1st Gen_2 CD)

UPDATE: Cancel what I am saying about this being an "excellent"recording below.  This one is superb!  I'm listening to it and am on CD 2's "Natural Science" and this has been a spectacular performance and with superb sound after all!

This is an excellent sounding Rush concert I've had for years but only in the mp3 format (and I don't like mp3's).  A new friend had asked me if I had a lossless copy of it yesterday, and after searching for a little while, I found two copies (this being the best one) on Dime.

It seems this show has had a number of wrong dates associated with it.  In fact, the artwork for this copy has 6/16/81 wrongly listed.  The dates I ran across were 1981-06-10, 1981-06-12, and 1981-06-16 as I found different information on the show.  But in the long run, the general consensus was it was recorded on 1981-06-12 and someone even posted a ticket stub for that date at this venue and city.  And since Rush only played one night in Anaheim in June of 1981, it makes sense the consensus is correct.

LINEAGE:
None really given other than 1st Gen metal cassette tapes > SHN > Dime > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

NOTES:
A lot of Rush shows shared never give a real lineage at all.  This one, The Definitive Edition, has to have had some EQ work done by JKR Productions I am sure.  Even the lesser sounding copy, We Have Assumed Control, by CatSkip Records Inc that was released in 2003 I would imagine had some EQ work done on it.  Very few labels ever release a show without doing some EQ work on it (be it good or bad).

DETAILS:
Artist: Rush
Date: June 12th, 1981
Location: Anaheim, California
Venue: Convention Center
Title: Anaheim, CA 6/18/81 - The Definitive Edition
Label: JKR Productions
Source: AUD (1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (full artwork in download)
Size: 782 MB
Length: 120:31:45

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. 2112: Overture
102. 2112: Temple Of Syrinx
103. Freewill
104. Limelight
105. Hemispheres: Prelude
106. Beneath, Between, Behind
107. The Camera Eye
108. YYZ
109. Neil Peart (drum solo)
110. Broon's Bane
111. The Trees
112. Xanadu

CD 2:
201. The Spirit Of Radio
202. Red Barchetta
203. Closer To The Heart
204. Tom Sawyer
205. Vital Signs
206. Natural Science
207. Working Man
208. Hemispheres: Armageddon
209. By-Tor And The Snow Dog
210. In The End
211. In The Mood
212. 2112: Finale
213. La Villa Strangiato

LINK:
(1) 1981-06-12 Anaheim, CA (AUD 1st Gen)

I was told this is a Mike Millard recording.  The person requesting the show stated that it was in an online list of shows Millard recorded.  And from the excellent sound I've heard, I have no problem believing this may be the case too.  While I can't confirm or deny it myself at this point in time, I'd be interested in knowing if anyone else has any information on the taper and whether or not it is a confirmed Mike Millard recording or not.

This is an excellent sounding show as I stated.  It falls just a little short of being a superb sounding recording, but in a lot of the show's sections, I do believe it is superb.  There are better sounding 1981 audience recordings, but this one is in no way even close to being anything short of excellent and it is definitely one of the better Rush 1981 recordings I have heard.

I still have only listened to about 75% of the show via the PC Bose speakers.  But I plan on burning it to disc today and listening to it tomorrow on the home theater setup where I can really hear it much better and notice little things that get overlooked listening through PC speakers and sound setups.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

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Rush: 1992-03-04 Atlanta, GA (FLAC_AUD Master_2 CD)

This is an excellent-to-superb audience recording of the Rush concert that took place 23 years ago today.  The taper really did an excellent job and got a very enjoyable recording.  This is a master DAT recording and one I really have not listened to before (even though I've had it for a long time).  But I'm going to fix that today!

I'm still jamming out to the Led Zeppelin 1975-03-04 Dallas show I just uploaded, Zapruder, and once it is done I am putting this Rush show in.  Today is a cold, rainy, and about to be a few inches of ice kind of day and it is perfect to just upload a few shows and listen to a few at the same time.

LINEAGE:
None given other than "original DAT master" > SHN > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Rush
Date: March 4th, 1992
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Venue: The Omni
Title: A Roll Of The Dice
Label: Digital Reproductions
Source: AUD (Master DAT)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (full artwork in download)
Size: 770 MB
Length: 117:54:23

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Limelight
102. Freewill
103. Distant Early Warning
104. Time Stand Still
105. Dreamline
106. Bravado
107. Roll The Bones
108. Show Don't Tell
109. The Big Money
110. Ghost Of A Chance
111. Subdivisions

CD 2:
201. The Pass
202. Where's My Thing
203. The Rhythm Method
204. Closer To The Heart
205. Xanadu
206. Superconductor
207. Tom Sawyer
208. The Spirit Of Radio
209. 2112 - Overture
210. Finding My Way
211. La Villa Strangiato
212. Anthem
213. Red Barchetta
214. The Spirit Of Radio (reprise)

LINK:
(1) 1992-03-04 Atlanta, GA (AUD Master DAT)

The waveform looks great on this recording with no audio clipping in it.  I'm really impressed too by how good it sounded through the PC speakers as I was sampling it earlier.  I'm a little surprised I didn't put it to CD and listen to it before to be perfectly honest.

I can't really give a review on something I haven't listened to all the way through yet.  But if there is anything worth making a special note of, I will come back and add it to this post (even though it won't be in the text file enclosed).  If you'd like to read some reviews from other Rush fans that have rated this show and have given it their reviews, go to the following link below and read the Digital Rush Experience website's reviews posted there.  There is almost always good information on the many Rush shows out there.

The Digital Rush Experience - A Roll Of The Dice

From what I've sampled so far, I am sure any Rush fan should like this one!

Dang it!  I just started burning CD 2 and went to update my list and realized I have already burned this one to disc before.  I was reading the wrong line for the show above it that I still had not burned yet.  Oh well, at least now I won't have to lokk for it and I'll have an extra copy to pass along to a friend or something like that :-)

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!

Rush: 1981-03-01 Chicago, IL (FLAC_AUD Remaster_2 CD)

Today is the 34th birthday of this excellent Rush recording from their 1981-03-01 Chicago, Illinois concert.  I decided to upload the fan remastered (EQ'ed) copy since it is speed corrected and shows no signs of audio clipping.

While this is an excellent recording, there are some audio problems sometimes too.  It's not perfect.  I'm not sure if some of the problems were caused by the remastering (or EQ job) of the audio or if they were in the original recording too.  I don't think they were caused by the remastering though.  I believe it is just some audio distortion or echo I am hearing in the songs I've listened to so far (all of CD 2).  It does seem to be a problem throughout most of the show and the best thing I can compare it to sound-wise is an FM radio station tuned just a few kHz off of the radio station frequency it is suppose to be on to get a good signal.

LINEAGE:
None given > SHN > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Rush
Date: March 1st, 1981
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Venue: International Amphitheatre
Title: Exit...Stage Right
Label: Moose Records
Source: AUD (Remaster)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (full artwork in download)
Size: 753 MB
Length: 118:35:36

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. 2112: Overture
102. Temple Of Syrinx
103. Freewill
104. Limelight
105. Hemispheres: Prelude
106. Beneath, Between, Behind
107. The Camera Eye
108. YYZ
109. Broon's Bane
110. The Trees
111. Xanadu

CD 2:
201. The Spirit Of Radio
202. Red Barchetta
203. Closer To The Heart
204. Tom Sawyer
205. Vital Signs
206. Natural Science
207. Working Man
208. Hemispheres: Armageddon
209. By-Tor And The Snow Dog
210. In The End
211. In The Mood
212. 2112: Finale
213. La Villa Strangiato

LINK:
(1) 1981-03-01 Chicago, IL (AUD Remaster)

The remastered copy was shared by "Digitalman" on Dime not too long ago, so the thanks go to him.  He didn't include any lineage however.  So other than the mention of speed correcting and EQ work being done, I'm not sure what may have been done.

I went ahead and checked another copy of this show I have listed as the "Definitive Edition" and it has the same errors too.  So it does seem to be in the original source recording too and not from the remastering job after all.  Actually, I'm kind of wishing I'd uploaded the "Definitive Edition" instead as I listen to it now because it does seem to have a slightly better sound even with the problem in the audio and it came from a first generation copy of the audience tapes.  But I've already prepared this Exit...Stage Right copy so I am uploading it,

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

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Rush: 1980-01-26 Poughkeepsie, NY (FLAC_SB_1 CD)

It really is too bad this concert by Rush that was played in Poughkeepsie, New York is just a partial segment of the show.  It is a superb recording!  I sure wish we had the rest (and most) of the show.  But at least one of my Rush favorite tracks, "La Villa Strangiato", is one of the tracks in the recording.

LINEAGE:
SB (National Sound titled copy) > Dime torrent > Eeklair tweak > FLAC 5 > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Rush
Date: January 26th, 1980
Location: Poughkeepsie, New York
Venue: Mid-Hudson Civic Center
Title: Eeklair's Poughkeepsie '80
Label: Nephonic/Simple Man Productions/Eeklair Remaster
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: Yes
Size: 217 MB
Length: 34:21:39

SETLIST:
01. Jacob's Ladder
02. Working Man
03. Finding My Way
04. Anthem
05. Bastille Day
06. In The Mood
07. Neil Peart (drum solo - Dr. Braino)
08. Working Man (ending)
09. La Villa Strangiato
10. We'll Meet Again (Vera Lynn closing music)

LINK:
(1) 1980-01-26 Poughkeepsie, NY (SB)

This is the Eeklair remastered copy and it sounds so much better than the original, untouched copy of this recording.  He did a spectacular job making this go from excellent sounding to really superb sounding.

I hope you enjoy this show...or at least part of it...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

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Rush: 1979-01-11 Boston MA (FLAC_AUD Master_2 CD)

This is an excellent audience master recording by Dan Lampinski of the Rush concert in Boston that was 36 years ago today.  Lampinski recorded a lot of Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island shows through the 1970's and 1980's.  He had a friend that helped him get great tickets which in turn led to him being able to get great recordings too.  These shows started being released and cirulating around 2009.

LINEAGE:
Dan Lampinski master AUD tapes > Nakamichi 550 tape recorder with two Nakamichi CM-300 microphones > Maxell cassettes > Nakamichi CR-3A cassette deck with azimuth correction > M-Audio Firewire Audiophile 96/24 > CD Wave > WAV (96/24) > Goldwave (normalizing and crossfades) > CD Wave (track breaks) > dBpowerAMP Audio Converter (96/24 WAV files converted to 44/16 WAV files) > FLAC Front End (FLAC 8 with sector boundary alignment) > FLAC files tagged with Foobar2000 Live Show Tagger > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

Mastered and FLAC'ed by Carl Morstadt (dantalion8@yahoo.com)

NOTE: I named the unnamed tracks and tagged (or embedded metadata to) them so that they show more information and follow my tagging format.

DETAILS:
Artist: Rush
Date: January 11th, 1979
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Venue: Boston Music Hall
Title: Boston '79
Label: Dan Lampinski Masters
Source: AUD (Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 811 MB
Length: 120:08:71

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. introduction
102. Anthem
103. A Passage To Bangkok
104. Bt-Tor And The Snow Dog
105. Xanadu
106. Something For Nothing
107. The Trees
108. Cygnus X-1
109. Hemispheres
110. Closer To The Heart

CD 2:
201. Circumstances
202. A Farewell To Kings
203. La Villa Strangiato
204. 2112
205. Working Man
206. Bastille Day
207. In The Mood
208. Neil Peart (drum solo)

LINK:
(1) 1979-01-11 Boston, MA (Aud Master/Lampinski)

Lampinski was very meticulous about storing his tapes and taking care of them.  Being stored correctly and in a climate controlled environment led to great quality masters as they started surfacing.  From some reading I did on a packet Dan put out to traders, he was unaware of the world of collecting and collectors as well as trading tapes through the years.  He recorded these shows for his own enjoyment.

Once Lampinksi learned of the vast crowd of us out there that collect and record shows and then share them, he started releasing them with the help of some friends doing the digital transferring and other tasks like that as well as others that created artwork for each show.  There are a lot of Lampinski master recordings out there now.  Most I have gotten, but there are still a few I had passed on at the time because I wasn't a fan of the artist.  I wish I'd gone ahead and got each of them just for the sake of completeness and for sharing with others who do like the artists I didn't care for.

All thanks goes to Dan Lampinski and his friends for their generosity shown by sharing Dan's masters with everyone for free!

I hope you enjoy this show from 36 years ago today...

Bootradr

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Rush: 1977-11-12 New York, NY (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

This is an excellent sounding Rush recording that you might mistake for a soundboard if you came in mid song.  This concert was during Rush's A Farewell To Kings LP tour.and is really an exceptional show.

LINEAGE:
No lineage given > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Rush
Date: November 12th, 1977
Location: New York, New York
Venue: The Palladium
Title: The Art Of Sound
Label: Digital Reproductions
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 548 MB
Length: 86:51:41

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 Medley ~ drum solo

LINK:
(1) 1977-11-12 New York, NY (AUD)

The waveform looks excellent for this show and has no audio clipping at all.  I could go on and on about how good the show sounds or this and that.  But I'm not today.  Here it is...get it if you want it!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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Rush: 1994-03-22 Auburn Hills. MI (Pro Shot DVD_2 DVD)

This is a superb two disc pro shot Rush concert from 1994.  This is without any doubt one of the best videos to have ever surfaced from the band live.  The picture quality as well as the audio are spectacular and the performance is just as amazing.  I've had this DVD for a long time.  My first DVD of it was a 1 DVD copy that was nowhere near as good of a video or audio source as this project's sources.  And around 2009 or 2010 I got this source being shared somewhere (sorry, I cannot recall where or who to think).  The additional detail I got from another site sharing it too and they obviously had the text file I did not have.

This is a must have for any Rush fan!

LINEAGE:
2nd Gen VHS & remastered "Critical Mass" soundboard audio (Rush-Signals Productions) source used > AppleJack Productions mastered DVD project  > me > TLH (to create and verify md5 file) > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Rush
Date: March 22nd, 1994
Location: Auburn Hills, Michigan
Venue: The Palace Of Auburn Hills
Label: AppleJack Studios
Title: A View From The Palace
Total Running Time: 124:17

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Source: 2nd Gen VHS
Artwork: Yes
DVD's: 2
DVD Size: 8.14 GB (combined discs size)

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Color/B&W: Color
Type: Pro Shot
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 8000 knps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 1536 kbps
Codec: LPCM
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

DVD 1:
101. Dreamline
102. The Spirit Of Radio
103. The Analog Kid
104. Cold Fire
105. Time Stand Still
106. Nobody's Hero
107. Roll The Bones
108. Animate
109. Stick It Out
110. Double Agent
111. Limelight

DVD 2:
201. Mystic Rhythms
202. Closer To The Heart
203. Show Don't Tell
204. Leave That Thing Alone
205. The Rhythm Method
206. The Trees
207. Xanadu
208. Hemispheres: Prelude
209. Tom Sawyer
210. Force Ten
211. YYZ

LINKS:
(1) 1994-03-22 Auburn Hills (Pro Shot)
(2) 1994-03-22 Auburn Hills (Pro Shot)
(3) 1994-03-22 Auburn Hills (Pro Shot)
(4) 1994-03-22 Auburn Hills (Pro Shot)
(5) 1994-03-22 Auburn Hills (Pro Shot)
(6) 1994-03-22 Auburn Hills (Pro Shot)
(7) 1994-03-22 Auburn Hills (Pro Shot)
(8) 1994-03-22 Auburn Hills (Pro Shot)
(9) 1994-03-22 Auburn Hills (Pro Shot)

It seems nobody knows the story on how this show surfaced.  If they do, they aren't saying. 

This concert was professionally filmed during the Rush Counterparts tour.  I think this was one of Rush's best CD releases in their modern day (at the time) era back then.  It was a lot better than some of their 1980's releases and it was a time when Rush was reemerging as a rock and roll music playing band again and not adding the new wave tint to their songs.  This is my personal opinion and feelings about Rush's music.

I think each and every era, and especially the 1970's, of Rush live had (and still has) something excellent and great in it as the band has played and toured up through today.  But having seen Rush a few times, and having heard what true musicians these guys are, it is easy to enjoy all of Rush's music even if there are a few songs in a show (like "Roll The Bones" for me) you don't care for.  Because it will just take a few minutes and there will be a song you love.  And I have also come to appreciate a lot of the songs I use to not like as much (like "Roll The Bones") after years of seeing and hearing shows with the song in it.  Rush really rocks!

I hope you enjoy the concert...

Bootradr

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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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Rush: 1994-01-18 Pensacola, FL (FLAC_SB Rehearsals Master_2 CD)

This si a superb+ recording shared on Dime back in 2005 and then re-seeded again today.  This is the band's almost complete show/setlist rehearsals four days before their Pensacola, Florida concerts began.  The recording sounds like a studio recording because (a) it is a soundboard and (b) there is no crowd noise.  This is something you'll definitely want if you're a Rush fan and you do not have it yet!

LINEAGE:
Cygnus original pressed silver CD's > EAC (secure mode) > WAV > Carbon Shorten > SHN > Dime (2014) > me > TLH > WAV (to check for lossiness or any errors) > Audacity (to name tracks & embed metadata/track titles & info and then encode as FLAC) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to recheck for SBE's & create & verify new mds & ffp files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Rush
Date: January 18th, 1994
Location: Pensacola, Florida
Venue: Civic Center
Source: SB (Rehearsals Master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (complete artwork in download)
Label: Cygnus
Title: First Part Of Counters
Size: 764 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
102. Dreamline
103. The Spirit Of Radio
104. The Analog Kid
105. Cold Fire
106. Time Stand Still
107. Nobody's Hero
108. Roll The Bones
109. Animate
110. Stick It Out
111. Double Agent
112. Limelight

CD 2:
201. Mystic Rhythms
202. Closer To The Heart
203. Show Don't Tell
204. Leave That Thing Alone!
205. The Rhythm Method
206. The Trees
207. Xanadu
208. Hemispheres - Prelude
209. Tom Sawyer
210. Force Ten
211. Distant Early Warning
212. YYZ

LINKS:
(1) 1994-01-18 Pensacola Part 1
(2) 1994-01-18 Pensacola Part 2

Rush is a very talented band!  They're true musicians in all aspects of music.  And this rehearsal soundboard is a great sample into how talented the band is.  And this is just their informal rehearsal four days before the concerts began too.

Most bands do a few tracks from all over the sprectrum as they do their sound check.  They'll play a song, stop mid stream, move on to another song, and a lot of times they play songs not even in their setlist or songs they ever made (other artists music).  But here, Rush sticks to their setlist (with a few additional changes, errors, and other goodies).  There is total silence between songs other than an occasional comment heard between some songs as well as during some songs too.  This is what is called an informal recording.  There is no pressure to please an audience or anyone other than themselves and the guy running the soundboard so they can get everything set up right for the live show.

Rush is a group with a sense of humor I've noticed in my years of listening to them.  Both onstage and off stage, the guys have a great sense of humor that is easily spotted at shows and in interviews.  They seem to be just three laid back musicians that are not uptight or egotistical at all.  And with the exceptional talent they have musically as well as some of the best shows of any artists from the past and present days; their laid back and humorous attitude is just like the icing on the cake.  And I respect them for that.

Thanks to "jtm9734" for re-seeding this show earlier today because I'd never heard it nor had it.  I'm burning it to disc as soon as I finish this upload.  And I've been listening to it as I prepare this posting and get everything ready for the upload.  It's a superb+ recording as I started off saying in the first paragraph and I'm sure you'll agree.

I'm sure you'll enjoy this rehearsal show from days before before their first Pensacola show in 1994 on their Counterparts album tour...

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Rush: 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot_4 Audio Streams_2 DVD)

This is an excellent Rush show (and capture of it) from 20 years ago tonight at New York's famous Madison Square Garden.  A lot of work has been put into this 2 DVD project by both the videographer and Digital Reproductions to make this 2 DVD set.  There are four audio tracks (streams) on both DVD's to choose from.  They are (1) Dolby Digital original video soundtrack, (2) Dolby Digital alternate audio soundtrack, (3) Dolby Digital matrix soundtrack, and (4) a Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround soundtrack.  So with the use of your remote control's "audio", "sound", or whatever they titled the button for your brand of DVD player and it's remote control; you can switch between these four choices and determine which sound you prefer.  This is what I call "going the extra mile" in DVD production!

I'm not adding anything (no text file, my own checksum, etc) to this upload because it doesn't need anything added.  The text file describes the contents very well.  Not having to fool with organizing the file set contents since they were done right sure is nice.

LINEAGE:
Digital clone of master Hi-8 video tapes > Sony TR-101 camera using an unknown external Hi-Fi stereo microphone with image stabilization and optical 10X zoom quality > Dime > me > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Rush
Date: March 8th, 1994
Location: New York, New Your
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Title: The Big Apple Box
Label: Digital Reproductions

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: Yes (both DVD case & CD case artwork included)
DVD Size: 8.16 GB

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 7700 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2
Letterbox: No

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 448 kbps
Codec: AC3
Channels: 5.1 Dolby Digital/2.0 (Stereo)
Streams: 4

CHAPTERS:
DVD 1:
101. Digital Reproductions intro
102. Dreamline
103. The Spirit Of Radio
104. The Analog Kid
105. Cold Fire
106. Time Stand Still
107. Nobody's Hero
108. Roll The Bones
109. Animate
110. Stick It Out
111. Double Agent
112. Limelight

DVD 2:
201. Mystic Rhythms
202. Closer To The Heart
203. Show Don't Tell
204. Leave That Thing Alone
205. The Rhythm Method
206. The Trees
207. Xanadu
208. Hemispheres: Prelude
209. Tom Sawyer
210. Force Ten
211. YYZ
212. Cygnus X-1

LINKS:
Part 01 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 02 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 03 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 04 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 05 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 06 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 07 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 08 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 09 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 10 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 11 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 12 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 13 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 14 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 15 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 16 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)
Part 17 - 1994-03-08 New York, NY (AUD Shot/4 Audio Streams)

This show was on Rush's Counterparts tour.  Here is a review from the Digital Rush Experience website by "The Digital Dan", a respected source for Rush reviews, of this 2 DVD set:

The Digital Dan
(Audio - 8.5, Video - 8.5)

This is a great CP tour video taken from a Digital8 clone of the Hi8 master. The picture quality is very nice and much clearer than the unknown gen VHS sources floating around. The first half of the show has some points where the audience gets in the way of the camera, and those sections are filled in with a still shot montage. The second half of the show is obstruction free, but a big section of the drum solo is missing. That soundtrack to the original video is as good as the DAT audience recordings from this show, if not even better. This production includes 4 soundtracks; the original video soundtrack, the DAT audio soundtrack from "The Big Apple Box", a Matrix audio soundtrack, and a 5.1 surround soundtrack. The discs include full motion and interactive menus as well as the artworks. The video was encoded at constant bit rate of 7500kbps and all audio was encoded as Dolby Digital at 448kbps, the maximum rate allowed. This is a show any Rush fan would be delighted to watch, it gets a heavy rotation from me. Special thanks to the NYBG for loaning out his wonderful source. As with all Digital Reproductions releases, this is a free trade or blank trade only production. Please do not buy, sell or distribute for profit. Let's keep the spirit of trading alive and well.
(2003-07-17)

I hope you enjoy this Rush concert being shared on its 20th anniversary...

Bootradr

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Rush: 1974-08-26 Cleveland, OH (FLAC_SB/Pre-FM Master_1 CD)

Here is an superb recording of a very early Rush show from the Agora Ballroom in their 1974 stage of the band's career.  Really, it's from their beginnings.  It's a Pre-FM soundboard master copy and it is their complete show including the song "Garden Road" which was left off of most lesser quality copies in earlier trading years.

No breakdown of the lineage was really given for this source other than it was from the Pre-FM disc master.  But I did the usual confirming of the audio file set to make sure the tracks were CDDA (or lossless) quality and I created my own ffp (file fingerprint) and md5 (checksum) files and verified them too before uploading it.  I also aligned the tracks on sector boundaries since the last track, "Garden Road", failed the SBE (sector boundary error) check in Trader''s Little Helper.

DETAILS:
Band: Rush
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Venue: Agora Ballroom
Date: August 26th, 1974
Format: FLAC
Source: SB/Pre-FM Master
CD's: 1
Label: Sirius Records
Title: The Fifth Order Of Angels
Artwork: Yes
Size: 383 MB

SETLIST:
01. announcer
02. Finding My Way
03. Best I Can
04. Need Some Love
05. In The End
06. Fancy Dancer
07. In The Mood
08. Bad Boy
09. Here Again
10. Working Man
11. Neil Peart (drum solo)
12. What You're Doing
13. Garden Road

LINK:
1974-08-26 Cleveland, OH (Pre-FM Master)

This is by far the cleanest, and as I mentioned also complete, copy of this show I've heard.  Reportedly it is directly from the master recording so it really can't get any better than this.

Rush was a new band and this show, as well as a few other 1974 shows promoted by an American FM radio employee who heard them from Canadian FM broadcasts across the border and contacted them, was part of what launched the band's career into its future rock star status.  Neil Peart, Rush's drummer, had only been a member of the band a month when this show was performed.  Many people think Peart wast a founding member of Rush, but in reality, he wasn't.  He might as well have been for his contribution in writing so many of their songs through the years.  But the first, self-titled album Rush, released in 1974, does not have Peart on it because he wasn't their drummer yet.  What a great addition he made to the new band and such a huge contribution I'm sure nobody could have foreseen at the time either.

I hope you enjoy this very early and superb sounding Rush show...

Bootradr

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Rush: 1979-05-28 Offenbach, Germany (FLAC_SB_2 CD)

This is a superb sounding show of Rush in Offenbach, Germany as they were touring in 1979.  I was listening to this Digital Rush Experience/Digital Reproductions (DRE) version and the Rush-Signals Production "Buenas Nochas, Mein Frankfurt" version earlier.  Both versions are excellent!  However, the Rush-Signals Production version may have been slightly better.  It's hard to tell at times.  But there was one problem as I was preparing the Rush-Signals Production version for upload.  It tested as lossy!  Somewhere between the lossless copy and the person who shared it, it had been converted to a lossy format.  It could show lossy results from the EQ work done it it possibly, and disc 1 appears to have very strong indicators that it was an MPEG sourced disc (more so than the disc 2).  So, the DRE version is what I'm uploading today because there is no doubt it is from a lossless, very low generation copy.

DETAILS:
Band: Rush
Location: Offenbach, Germany
Venue: Stadthalle
Date: May 28th, 1979
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Label: Digital Reproductions
Title: Black Forest
Artwork: Yes (full set in download)
Size: 730 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Anthem
102. A Passage To Bangkok
103. By-Tor And The Snow Dog
104. Xanadu
105. Something For Nothing
106. The Trees
107. Cygnus X-1
108. Hemispheres
109. Closer To The Heart

CD 2:
201. A Farewell To Kings
202. La Villa Strangiato
203. 2112
204. Working Man
205. Bastille Day
206. In The Mood
207. Neil Pert (drum solo)

FileFactory Links:
Part 1 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/ymfotk73gl5/
Part 2 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/kdfmyujkkz3/

I haven't listened to this show in about a year myself.  This show is from Rush's Hemispheres tour carrying over from 1978.

I notice that on the artwork for this show it "Offenbach/Frankfurt, Germany" is listed.  Upom more research, it appears there is some controversy regarding tracks 107 and 108.  There was speculation these tracks were from Rush's Hammersmith Odeon show in London on the Hemispheres tour.  Rush was reportedly doing shorter sets in their shows on the German dates and didn't include these two songs.  The sound man recording some of the shows during the tour was suppose to have told people he gave the show too (and how it was suppose to have made it into circulation) he added those two tracks from the London show.  Whatever the story may or may not be, the flow of the music is flawless and it doesn't change my perspective on the quality or desirability of collecting this one.

I mentioned doing this a few months ago, but as time has passed and nobody left a comment as if they were interested in it, I forgot about it.  But I may upload an excellent 1974 Rush show soon (even today) if there is any interest in it?  I've got a few 1974 shows and have even a few more rarer ones I haven't seen anywhere before that I got from an excellent Rush trader the trading days.  If you have any interest, let me know.

Enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

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