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Associated album
  
Feedback

End date
  
October 1, 2004

No. of shows
  
58

Leg
  
2

Start date
  
May 26, 2004

Legs
  
2

Dates
  
26 May 2004 – 1 Oct 2004

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The R30: 30th Anniversary Tour was a concert tour by Canadian rock band Rush that celebrated the 30th anniversary of the band's definitive formation in July 1974 after Neil Peart replaced original drummer John Rutsey. It was also in support of the cover album Feedback. The tour started at the Starwood Amphitheatre in Nashville, Tennessee on May 26, 2004 and culminated at Sportpaleis Ahoy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on October 1. The show on September 24, 2004 at the Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany was recorded and released as a DVD titled R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour in November 2005.

Contents

The tour was staged in amphitheaters in North America and arenas in Europe. Of note was a video role of comedian Jerry Stiller as an introduction to each performance. The setlist was consistent throughout the entire world tour for the first time since the 1987 Hold Your Fire tour.

Set one

New opening film with imagery from each album and a band introduction by Jerry Stiller.

  • "R30 Overture" (instrumental medley representing excerpts of 6 songs from the band's first 6 albums; the songs were "Finding My Way", "Anthem", "Bastille Day", "A Passage to Bangkok", "Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage", and "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres")
  • "The Spirit of Radio"
  • "Force Ten"
  • "Animate"
  • "Subdivisions"
  • "Earthshine"
  • "Red Barchetta"
  • "Roll the Bones"
  • "Bravado"
  • "YYZ"
  • "The Trees" ("I Feel Fine" and "Day Tripper" ending.)
  • "The Seeker"
  • "One Little Victory"

    • Set two

    "Darn That Dragon" film

  • "Tom Sawyer"
  • "Dreamline"
  • "Secret Touch"
  • "Between the Wheels"
  • "Mystic Rhythms"
  • "Red Sector A"
  • "Der Trommler" (drum solo)
  • "Resist" (acoustic)
  • "Heart Full of Soul" (acoustic version with Peart on drums)
  • "2112" (I. "Overture", II. "The Temples Of Syrinx", VII. "Grand Finale")
  • "La Villa Strangiato"
  • "By-Tor & The Snow Dog"
  • "Xanadu" (abbreviated)
  • "Working Man" (with reggae ending)

    • Encore

  • "Summertime Blues"
  • "Crossroads"
  • "Limelight"

    • The concert ended with another quick Jerry Stiller "dream sequence" film.

    References

    R30: 30th Anniversary Tour Wikipedia
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