You know what Rush song I hadn’t listed to for ages, that now is on my mp3 player, The Camera Eye. I was reading that they haven’t played that song live since the Signals tour in 1983, which kinda sucks cause I’d love to see it live, and I couldn’t in 1983 since I was only 10 at the time. It’s also the last song Rush played that was longer than 10 minutes long.
Incorrect there...they played all of 2112 on their Test For Echo tour which clocks in around 20 mins.
They have run through The Camera Eye in rehersals for years and are bored to tears every time they play it. I love TCE as well but the full version has never been played live...even when it was played live it had a chorus cut out of it. It’s the single most requested song by fans and it is the one song they refuse to budge on.
My dream list of songs to hear live has shrunk over the last few tours...Circumstances and Entre Nous took care of a few from my top ten. My first tour was in 1984..Grace Under Pressure but I would kill to hear/see those songs performed again with those original instruments.
Songs would love to see live:
Here Again
Before and After
Beneath, Between, and Behind
In The End
Making Memories
Farewell to Kings
Cinderella Man
all of Hemispheres
Jacobs Ladder
Different Strings
Camera Eye
Losing It
all Fear songs again...including Freeze
Afterimage
Body Electric
Emotion Detector
Grand Designs
Middletown Dreams
Open Secrets
Prime Mover
High Water
Presto
Chain Lightning
Available Light
Big Wheel
Neurotica
Where’s My Thing?
Double Agent
Cut To The Chase
Everyday Glory
Time and Motion
Resist (electric)
Totem
Carve Away The Stone
Vapor Trail
Nocturne
Bravest Face
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