Legs 3 End date August 1, 2015 | No. of shows 35 Leg 3 | |
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Start date May 18, 2015 (2015-05-18) | ||
The R40 Live Tour was a 2015 concert tour by Canadian rock band Rush that commemorated the 40th anniversary of drummer Neil Peart joining the band in July 1974. The title hearkens back to Rush's 2004 R30: 30th Anniversary Tour that celebrated the 30 year anniversary of the band. The tour began on May 8 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and concluded in Inglewood, California on August 1. It is expected to be Rush's last large-scale tour. The shows performed on June 17 and 19, 2015 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto were filmed and released as the concert film R40 Live on November 20, 2015.
Contents
First set
"The World Is...The World Is" (video introduction)
- "The Anarchist"
- "Clockwork Angels" or "The Wreckers"
- "Headlong Flight" and "Drumbastica" (Neil Peart drum solo)
- "Far Cry"
- "The Main Monkey Business"
- "One Little Victory" or "How It Is"
- "Animate"
- "Roll the Bones"
- "Distant Early Warning" or "Between the Wheels"
- "Losing It"
- "Subdivisions"
Second set
"No Country for Old Hens" (video introduction)
- "Tom Sawyer"
- "Red Barchetta", "The Camera Eye" or "YYZ"
- "The Spirit of Radio"
- "Natural Science"
- "Jacob's Ladder"
- "Cygnus X-1
I. "Hemispheres" (Prelude)
II. "The Voyage"
1. "Prologue"
2. "Part I"
3. "The Story So Far" (Neil Peart drum solo)
4. "Part III" - "Closer to the Heart"
- "Xanadu"
- "2112"
I. "Overture"
II. "The Temples of Syrinx"
III. "Presentation"
IV. "Grand Finale"
Encore
"Mel's Rock Pile" starring Eugene Levy (video introduction)
- "Lakeside Park"
- "Anthem"
- "What You're Doing"
- "Working Man" featuring intro excerpt of "Garden Road"
"Exit Stage Left" (video outro)
Gross
The tour grossed US$37.8 million, with 442,337 tickets sold at 35 concerts.
Live album
Rush recorded two of their shows in June in Toronto for a live album released on November 20, 2015. The live album reached number one on Billboard Top Rock Albums chart.
Book
Neil Peart released a book about the tour titled Far And Wide: Bring That Horizon To Me! on September 13, 2015.
