Rush
Niagara Center
Buffalo, NY
June 10, 2015

16 bit version

Taper 2: Binko
Gear: Tascam DR-08
Lineage: DR-08 > USB > Adobe Audion 1.5 (clap reduction, EQ, splits & fades, conversion to 16/44.1) > TLH (SBE fix, flac 8)


The first set of this show sounded radically different than the second. The midrange was cranked up really high, so the guitar was overpowering and the vocals were shrill. Very little bass could be heard. Because of this and the acoustical characteristics of the venue all I could hear where I was sitting was the thump of the kick drum, the snare, and a wall of white noise. The vocals sounded like they were coming from behind me to the left. In fact, I could hear sound coming from every direction EXCEPT that of the stage. I couldn't even tell what was being played. At least the recorders were more directional than my ears and the recordings sound much better.

All that changed for set 2. The sound was great. It was like a totally different band. Ther first set was the radio-friendly pop Rush of the last 20 years, but the 2nd was the prog metal band they were before Signals. The sound guys even mixed it like they were their own opening act, sabotaging the sound for set 1, then making it right for set 2.

This is the Binko recording, taped from a couple of sections over and 13 rows farther back than the }{eywood recording and without the technical problems.

Set 1

01 Intro montage: The World Is...The World Is
02 The Anarchist
03 The Wreckers
04 Headlong Flight (with drum solo #1)
05 Far Cry
06 The Main Monkey Business
07 How It Is
08 Animate
09 Roll The Bones
10 Between The Wheels
11 Subdivisions

Set 2

12 Intro film: No Country For Old Hens
13 Tom Sawyer
14 The Camera Eye
15 The Spirit of Radio
16 Jacob's Ladder
17 Hemispheres: Prelude
18 Cygnus X-1 (with drum solo #2)
19 Closer To The Heart
20 Xanadu
21 2112 Overture
22 2112 The Temples of Syrinx
23 2112 Presentation
24 2112 Grand Finale

Encore:

25 Intro clip
26 Lakeside Park
27 Anthem
28 What You're Doing
29 Working Man (with Garden Road teaser)
30 Ending film: Exit Stage Left
31 Outro music: Closer To The Heart (polka version)