Rush
20150623
TD Garden; Boston, MA

Matrix
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Setlist Version B

Set 1:
1. Video Intro (The World is ... The World is)
2. The Anarchist
3. The Wreckers
4. Headlong Flight (with Drumbastica mini drum solo)
5. Far Cry
6. The Main Monkey Business
7. How It Is
8. Animate
9. Roll The Bones (with celebrity rappers video)
10. Between The Wheels
11. Subdivisions

Set 2:
12. Video Intro (No Country for Old Hens)
13. Tom Sawyer
14. The Camera Eye
15. The Spirit of Radio
16. Jacob's Ladder
17. Cygnus X-1 Book Two: Hemispheres - Prelude
18. Cygnus X-1 Book One - The Voyage: Part 1
Drum Solo
Cygnus X-1 Book One - The Voyage: Part 3
19. Closer To The Heart
20. Xanadu (double neck guitars)
21. 2112 Overture/The Temples of Syrinx/Presentation/Grand Finale

ENCORE
22. Video Intro (Mel's Rock Pile starring Eugene Levy)
23. Lakeside Park
24. Anthem
25. What You're Doing
26. Working Man (Garden Road riff at the end)
27. Video Outro (Exit Stage Left)
28. Closer To The Heart Polka Version (Exit music)

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http://www.rush.com/show/r40-live-boston/

http://www.rushisaband.com/blog/2015/06/23/4391/Rush-R40-Live-tour-Boston-open-thread

http://cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/concert-boston-06.23.2015.php

https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2015/06/24/rush-plays-its-history-reverse-garden/g0D4gOXleUvavCcOf7azIP/story.html?p1=Article_InThisSection_Bottom#

Rush plays its history in reverse at TD Garden

By Marc Hirsh GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

JUNE 25, 2015

According to the TD Garden website, the members of Rush have claimed that their current road trek “will most likely be their last major tour of this magnitude.” Whatever that may mean — or whether it can even be taken at face value — there was a sense of, if not finality, then retrospective contemplation on Tuesday. With a setlist that began with 2012’s “Clockwork Angels” and then worked chronologically backward all the way to 1974’s “Rush,” the sold-out concert was like witnessing the Canadian prog-rock group unwind its entire career in reverse.

It wasn’t just the setlist. A semi-constant flow of stagehands adjusted the set while the performance was in progress, adding or removing props and, crucially, adjusting the stacks of amps to more closely resemble a setup appropriate to the era of the song being played. That meant that once “Tom Sawyer” came and went, the stacks were slowly dismantled until there was only one amp each (propped on chairs) for guitarist Alex Lifeson and bassist Geddy Lee. By then, the video backdrop simulated the band playing in a high school gym. You half expected the late John Rutsey, Rush’s original drummer, to take over from Neil Peart on the closing “Working Man.”

As it was, the lineup onstage has been together for 40 years, and it still moved like a finely tuned machine. It would have to, to pull off shifting, multi-part epics like “Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage” and “2112,” where the synchronized timing of the opening fanfare must still be a tightrope to walk even after four decades. Peart played as though he was doing equations in his head (which he was, in a way), and he forged a genuine rhythm section with Lee’s muscular bass, rather than two independent virtuosos nodding at one another. They were why nearly every song reached a point when it started to roll with heavy momentum under Lifeson’s methodical playing.

The backward gaze led Rush to songs it hasn’t played in a while. The audience roared just as loudly at the start of “Jacob’s Ladder” (which, rotated just a hair, could have been Spinal Tap) as it did for classic-rock staples “The Spirit of Radio” and “Closer to the Heart.” And the band wanted to spotlight the overlooked “How It Is,” a ringing, lovely anthem featuring one of Rush’s sunniest, most openhearted melodies. If this truly is Rush’s last hurrah, the band made it special, and made it count.