Rush, at Last!
Geddy Lee- bass & vocals
Alex Lifeson- guitar
Neil Peart- drums
Providence Civic Center
Providence, R.I.
November 7, 1984
(originally scheduled for September 25,
twice postponed due to an illness in the band)
performance quality: B to B+ (mostly pretty good)
recording quality: C to B (some variation, mostly close to a B,
some distorted parts from master tape levels too high,
recorded from 5th row in front of PA speakers)
source: master audience tape
total runtime: 100:58
setlist:
disc 1 57:57
1: three stooges theme intro :40
2: the spirit of radio 4:58
3: subdivisions 5:23
4: the body electric 5:20
5: the enemy within 5:12
6: the weapon 8:07
7: witch hunt 4:45
8: new world man 4:32
9: between the wheels 5:53
10: red barchetta (spliced) 6:11
11: distant early warning 6:51

disc 2 43:01
12: red sector A 6:02
13: closer to the heart 4:08
14: kid gloves 4:18
15: afterimage > YYZ > 2112 > the temples of syrinx 9:02
16: Tom Sawyer 4:43
17: encore break 1:04
18: red lenses > drum solo 5:34
19: vital signs 4:48
20: finding my way > 1:11
21: in the mood 2:06
lineage: Philmore mini-mikes >
Sony WMD-6 cassette deck (dolby off) >
Maxell XLII-S cassette > soundforge 4.5 > FLAC > torrent.
first seeded in 2008. reseeded in 2010 with complete (hopefully corrected) setlist
and a flac > wav > flac (sb's aligned) reconversion to remove the sbe's
This one is a You're a Little Too There production.
This one is not totally pegless, but it is Glasnost Radio Productions
certified clipless, glitchless and gapless except for one brief
silent spot (less than a second, from level adjusting) in the
Spirit of Radio, and has been restored to a point where I don't feel
bad about posting it any more (with no EQ or noise reduction).
comments:
This is just about the complete show here, only a few seconds missing
in 1 tape flip a few seconds into track 10, a couple of problems with
saturated levels in about the last 20 seconds of Kid Gloves, and the
1st 90 seconds or so of the following Temples of Syrinx. I've levelled
it out so it won't just punch a hole in your ears (or speakers), and
the first few songs are a bit muddy. The rest of it is close to an 8 quality.
I recorded this, my only Rush master (in 3 tries) from 5th row (row E)
right in front of the PA speaker on the left side. I've heard some rave
about recordings made right in front of a PA speaker (not this one),
but as one with some audio recording experience, this is not an ideal
location. I tried to find someone with a camera to swap my ticket with,
because my seat was very good for that kind of recording, and may have
lost more of my hearing at this show than any I've ever attended. Don't
get me wrong, I like Rush alot in certain points of their history and this
tour is one of my favorites. Apparently I'm not alone there, heard several
84 Rush shows here on the dime, so why not throw this one into the pile too?
When I first taped it, I never wanted to listen to it because it is not one
of my better sounding masters, but I finally decided, heck, I have 1 Rush
master, I'll remaster this thing and see if it sounds worth posting, (not too
bad), so I'll post it up and see if others want it. It's not as bad as I
remember it at the show, my ears were ringing for weeks, and it wasn't so
much that the music was too loud, not any louder than many shows I've seen,
(without it hurting the ears at all) but because I was right in front of a
huge tower of speakers. That's the only time I've ever sat right in front
of a PA speaker tower at a rock show. I did not enjoy that at all, but I
did enjoy the concert, which was twice postponed due to illness in the band.
There's alot of room tone lower midrange/upper bass-heaviness on this recording,
but the recording is much easier to listen to than it was to record. Someone
who is good with EQ could probably make this sound pretty nice. I'm not,
so I'm offering this from the master and letting you do as you wish with it.
This followed two fiascos past when I tried to see a Rush concert. The first
time, they were supposed to open for Blue Oyster Cult in 1975, right about the
time Fly By Night had just come out and I was really into them, would have
been Rush's 1st Boston area theater show (I think), and they cancelled out
(I was told due to passport problems that time), my second try to see Rush was
in Worcester 84 and I had an extra ticket when my buddy (?) stood me up so I
tried to sell 1 $11.50 ticket for $10, got busted for scalping, spent 3 hrs. in
the Worcester can, and of course, missed entire Rush concert. (charge was reduced
to resale, even though resale is legal in Worcester when no profit is made
from a ticket sale, no matter when the judge falls asleep during your hearing.)
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly.