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Rediscovering Rush – All the World’s a Stage I

Posted on October 14, 2005 by Richard

All The World’s A Stage

A quick note from the future:  I’m not going to post individual song links for the live albums, I think.  Quite apart from it being somewhat of a pain to do, it will make the posts somewhat unwieldy, and probably not offer much in the way of illumination.

History

I love live albums.  I think I tended to buy live albums rather than compilations, since they were at least different versions of songs, and – to my mind, anyway – a better indication of what a band could actually do.  Also, there tended to be interesting stuff on them which you couldn’t get elsewhere – I’m a completist, remember?

This was the first live Rush album I owned (by the time Exit Stage Left came out, I already owned everything else), and for a time, it was my favourite Rush album.  After a while, though, I noticed that I didn’t play it much at all  – probably because I preferred the newer stuff, but also possibly because I think this is an uneven selection.  Looking at it now, it seems to me to be a record company-driven exercise in getting people to buy the back catalogue. (at the same time, I’m not sure that’s true, because I imagine this is a pretty faithful representation of the live show at the time.)  I’d love to know (yeah, I know – it’s on the web somewhere!) how much of the recorded show never made it on to vinyl; interesting to know what the full show was like.  Or maybe this is the full show – sets would have been shorter in those days, I guess.

Anyway, I’ve been debating with myself how to approach this – I’ve only just finished talking about most of these songs, so I think this will be slightly more cursory than usual.  I’ve got plenty to say about A Farewell To Kings, though, so that should make up for it.

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