NewsRush / R40: six-disc blu-ray live set
Eagle Rock are celebrating 40 years since Rush‘s eponymous debut with R40, an extensive collector’s box set on Blu-ray (and DVD).
R40 brings together Rush live performances from each decade of their career and spans six blu-ray discs or 10 DVDs, depending on which format you choose. It includes Rush In Rio, R30, Snakes & Arrows Live, Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland and Clockwork Angels Tour plus a bonus disc of previously unseen live material stretching from 1974 to 2013.
The blu-ray set is packaged in a 56-page hardback book (305mm x 225mm) which documents four decades of Rush live in concert with appropriate photos and pictures of memorabilia.
R40 is released on 17 November 2014
6 x Blu-ray Edition
- • UK Pre-order: R40 [Blu-ray] [2014]
- • USA Pre-order: R40 [6 Blu-ray Box Set]
- • GERMANY Pre-order: R40 [Blu-ray] [2014]
10 x DVD Edition
- • UK Pre-order: R40 [DVD] [2014] [NTSC]
- • USA Pre-order: R40 [10 DVD Box Set]
- • GERMANY Pre-order: R40 [DVD] [2014] [ntsc]
Track listing
Disc One – Rush In Rio
- 1) Tom Sawyer
- 2) Distant Early Warning
- 3) New World Man
- 4) Roll The Bones
- 5) Earthshine
- 6) YYZ
- 7) The Pass
- 8) Bravado
- 9) The Big Money
- 10) The Trees
- 11) Freewill
- 12) Closer To The Heart
- 13) Natural Science
- 14) One Little Victory
- 15) Driven
- 16) Ghost Rider
- 17) Secret Touch
- 18) Dreamline
- 19) Red Sector A
- 20) Leave That Thing Alone
- 21) O Baterista
- 22) Resist
- 23) 2112
- 24) Limelight
- 25) La Villa Strangiato
- 26) The Spirit Of Radio
- 27) Encore Medley: By-Tor And The Snow Dog / Cygnus X-1 / Working Man
Rush In Rio Bonus Features
- The Documentary – The Boys In Brazil
- MX Multiangle versions of: (1) YYZ (2) O Baterista (3) La Villa Strangiato
- Easter Eggs: (1) By-Tor And The Snow Dog animation (2) Anthem (1975 performance)
Sound Formats: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Stereo
Disc Two – R30
- 1) R30 Overture (Finding My Way / Anthem / Bastille Day / A Passage To Bangkok / Cygnus X1 / Hemispheres)
- 2) The Spirit Of Radio
- 3) Force Ten
- 4) Animate
- 5) Subdivisions
- 6) Earthshine
- 7) Red Barchetta
- 8) Roll The Bones
- 9) The Seeker
- 10) Tom Sawyer
- 11) Dreamline
- 12) Between The Wheels
- 13) Mystic Rhythms
- 14) Der Trommler
- 15) Resist
- 16) Heart Full Of Soul
- 17) Medley: 2112 / Xanadu / Working Man
- 18) Summertime Blues
- 19) Crossroads
- 20) Limelight
R30 Bonus Features
Interviews:
- (1) 1979 Hamilton, Ivor Wynne Stadium
- (2) 1981 Le Studio, Quebec
- (3) 1990 Artist Of The Decade
- (4) 1994 Juno Hall Of Fame Induction
- (5) 2002 Vapor Trails Tour
From the Anthem vault:
- (1) Fly By Night
- (2) Finding My Way (mpeg1 from Rock Concert)
- (3) In The Mood (mpeg1 from Rock Concert)
- (4) Circumstances
- (5) La Villa Strangiato
- (6) A Farewell To Kings
- (7) Xanadu
- (8) The Spirit Of Radio (Soundcheck 1979 Ivor Wynne Stadium)
- (9) Freewill (Toronto Rocks 2003)
- (10) Closer To The Heart (Canada For Asia 2005)
Easter Eggs:
- (1) Rush hits St John’s (1988)
- (2) Alex Lifeson interview for Artist Of The Decade (1990)
Disc 3 – Snakes & Arrows Live
- 1) Limelight
- 2) Digital Man
- 3) Entre Nous
- 4) Mission
- 5) Freewill
- 6) The Main Monkey Business
- 7) The Larger Bowl
- 8) Secret Touch
- 9) Circumstances
- 10) Between The Wheels
- 11) Dreamline
- 12) Far Cry
- 13) Workin’ Them Angels
- 14) Armor And Sword
- 15) Spindrift
- 16) The Way The Wind Blows
- 17) Subdivisions
- 18) Natural Science
- 19) Witch Hunt
- 20) Malignant Narcissism – De Slagwerker
- 21) Hope
- 22) Distant Early Warning
- 23) The Spirit Of Radio
- 24) Tom Sawyer
- 25) One Little Victory
- 26) A Passage To Bangkok
- 27) YYZ
Bonus Features
Oh, Atlanta! The Authorized Bootlegs
- (1) Ghost Of A Chance
- (2) Red Barchetta
- (3) The Trees
- (4) 2112 / The Temples Of Syrinx
Disc 4 – Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland
Tracklisting:
- 1) The “Real” History Of Rush Episode No.2 “Don’t Be Rash”
- 2) The Spirit Of Radio
- 3) Time Stand Still
- 4) Presto
- 5) Stick It Out
- 6) Workin’ Them Angels
- 7) Leave That Thing Alone
- 8) Faithless
- 9) BU2B
- 10) Freewill
- 11) Marathon
- 12) Subdivisions
- 13) The “Real” History Of Rush Episode No.17 “…and Rock and Roll is my name.”
- 14) Tom Sawyer
- 15) Red Barchetta
- 16) YYZ
- 17) Limelight
- 18) The Camera Eye
- 19) Witch Hunt
- 20) Vital Signs
- 21) Caravan
- 22) Moto Perpetuo (featuring Love For Sale)
- 23) O’Malley’s Break
- 24) Closer To The Heart
- 25) 2112 Overture / The Temples Of Syrinx
- 26) Far Cry
- 27) La Villa Strangiato
- 28) Working Man
Bonus Features
- Outtakes from “The “Real” History Of Rush Episodes 2 & 17”
- “Tom Sawyer” featuring the cast of “The “Real” History Of Rush Episode 17”
- “Need Some Love” live at Laura Secord Secondary School, 1974
- “Anthem” live from Passaic, New Jersey 1976
Disc 5 – Clockwork Angels Tour
- 1) Subdivisions
- 2) The Big Money
- 3) Force Ten
- 4) Grand Designs
- 5) The Body Electric
- 6) Territories
- 7) The Analog Kid
- 8) Bravado
- 9) Where’s My Thing? / Here It Is!
- 10) Far Cry
- 11) Caravan
- 12) Clockwork Angels
- 13) The Anarchist
- 14) Carnies
- 15) The Wreckers
- 16) Headlong Flight / Drumbastica
- 17) Peke’s Repose / Halo Effect
- 18) Seven Cities Of Gold
- 19) Wish Them Well
- 20) The Garden
- 21) Dreamline
- 22) The Percussor (i) Binary Love Theme (ii) Steambanger’s Ball
- 23) Red Sector A
- 24) YYZ
- 25) The Spirit Of Radio
- 26) Tom Sawyer 27) 2112
Bonus Features
Bonus tracks:
- (1) Limelight (soundcheck recording)
- (2) Middletown Dreams
- (3) The Pass
- (4) Manhattan Project
Can’t Stop Thinking Big (tour documentary) / Behind The Scenes (featuring Jay Baruchel) / Outtakes / Interview with Dwush / Family Goy / Family Sawyer / The Watchmaker / Office Of The Watchmaker
Disc 6 – R40 Bonus Disc
Laura Secord Secondary School 1974
1. “Need Some Love”
2. “Before and After”
3. “Best I Can”
4. “I’ve Been Runnin'”
5. “Bad Boy”
6. “The Loser”
7. “Working Man”
8. “In the Mood” (partial)
Capitol Theatre 1976
1. “Bastille Day”
2. “Anthem”
3. “Lakeside Park”
4. “2112”
5. “Fly By Night”/”In the Mood”
1988
“Lock and Key”
Molson Amphitheatre 1997
1. “Limelight”
2. “Half the World”
3. “Limbo”
4. “Virtuality”
5. “Nobody’s Hero”
6. “Test for Echo”
7. “Leave That Thing Alone”/Drum Solo
8. “2112” (all seven parts)
2011
“I Still Love You Man”
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction, 2013
1. “2112,” featuring Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins and Nick Raskulinecz
2. “Tom Sawyer”
3. “The Spirit of Radio”
6 x Blu-ray Edition
- • UK Pre-order: R40 [Blu-ray] [2014]
- • USA Pre-order: R40 [6 Blu-ray Box Set]
- • GERMANY Pre-order: R40 [Blu-ray] [2014]
10 x DVD Edition
- • UK Pre-order: R40 [DVD] [2014] [NTSC]
- • USA Pre-order: R40 [10 DVD Box Set]
- • GERMANY Pre-order: R40 [DVD] [2014] [ntsc]
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Recently bought a copy, but found that the download code for bonus material expired back in 2015. Bit of a short shelf life…..
That version with the extra DVD is also available from BestBuy
Love Rush. But not paying £100 for a bonus disc. I only have a couple of these shows on BluRay and the rest on DVD. While I’d love to upgrade I have to ask myself how often do I play these things? Certainly not often enough to justify the spend. R40 is certainly an anniversary to forget.
Simon i am with you completely, i have all the Rush concerts on bluray and one of them on dvd, and once again they expect me to go out and buy
the same once again, this seems to happen on a regular basis. All in all bonus bd number 6 would be of some interest but as Alex would say during the Hall Of Fame Induction if i remember correctly blah,blah,blah,blah,blah,blah, i am not sure how many times that was actually said but that’s how i feel towards the box set.
Folks, do remember, there is more to a Blu-Ray than HD video. In the case of ‘Rush in Rio’, we would hopefully get high resolution, lossless 2.0 and 5.1 soundtracks. I have no problems with SD video on a Blu-Ray with high-res soundtracks. The latest Ian Anderson release is that way as are archive releases from Dio and Dire Straits to name a few.
Do you really think Rush In Rio would sound any better with high-res audio, given the circumstances under which it was recorded and filmed? It doesn’t sound great on the current CD and DVD releases; that’s not because it’s not HD, it’s because it was recorded and filmed with mediocre equipment under difficult circumstances. I’d be amazed if an HD audio version sounded any better than the current CD and DVD.
Complete rip-off!! Basically, Rush fans will be paying £90+ for the bonus disc and (probably) nice packaging!! As Mr.Long mentioned, the Rio blu will be a waste of time because the source material is of low quality to begin with. Having said that, wouldn’t it have made more sense to release a box set featuring the 3 shows from the Replay box set + Rio, on blu + bonus disc? At least, doing that, the fans won’t be forking out a premium price for a lot of stuff that they already have. I’ve pre-ordered, purely because they’re my fave band (and I want that bonus disc), but I’ll be keeping everything crossed that there’ll be a sizeable price drop. I’d guess that, if the bonus disc is released separately, it won’t be for a while. If that happens, I’d encourage fans to send LOTS of hate mail the the bands management office in Toronto!!
Are the prices typos???? Surely not…..is the blu ray region free btw??
Does anyone know if the US bluray’s will play in the UK, ie are they region free ? I ask because the US version is cheaper than the UK one.
My suggestion for Rush would be to release each blu-ray separately and as a box set, get the guy that fixed Vapor Trails to fix the sound issues, and add more songs to the Molson set.
What an utter rip-off. Everything but Rush In Rio and the bonuses is already released on Bluray. The version of R30 included on the Bluray version of the set still doesn’t include the bonus features from the DVD version. Rush In Rio was shot on low quality cameras, which is why the original DVD was in non-anamorphic format; they didn’t have the quality to support anamorphic SD, so HD is going to look dreadful – no point releasing that on Bluray anyway. So the only thing that it’s worth getting the set for is the bonus disc – £100+ for that? Someone is having a laugh at the fans’ expense. I’d like to get the version of Lock and Key from the bonus disc, which was on the Laserdisc release of A Show Of Hands but not the VHS or DVD, but not at that price. What a shame.
Any news if the bonus disc will also be available separately? I have all of the above on blu ray except rio only on three cds.