All roads have led to this. Forty-one years in the making, the R40 Live tour
took a very real journey back through time. Beginning with the grand design: a
state-of-the-art stage set that pivots, rolls and dives, and brings Clockwork
Angels in to bombastic, colourful life before marching stridently back in time
(through theatre stages, a panoply of band and fan shots, the accrued memories
of a life spent playing live) to a mocked-up school gym and the band playing
there; a solitary bass amp set on the chair behind Geddy Lee, a mirror ball
spiralling crazily above, casting thin rods of light like a light rain across
the crowd, “Working
Man” coming to a shuddering halt as the band’s beginning becomes
their end.
Rush recorded and filmed R40 LIVE over two sold-out shows in the band’s home-town of Toronto on June 17 & 19, 2015 in the middle of what was rumoured to be their last grand-scale tour. The set list includes classics “Tom Sawyer,” “The Spirit of Radio” and “2112” as well as rarities “Xanadu,” “Jacob’s Ladder” and “Lakeside Park,” not to mention, for the first time ever live, “Losing It.” R40 LIVE is the ultimate career-spanning live retrospective of Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart; a celebration of 40+ years of epic rock. Captured with 14 cameras in full HD quality, the concert is presented in feature film style with true Dolby stereo, 5.1 surround sound, and DTS HD surround sound. Package includes one Blu-ray and three compact discs.