AWESOME post! Thanks !!!

I agree with you, Bats. I love Rush in Rio. The concert footage is fantastic, the bonus material is excellent, and the audio sounds incredible. They managed to capture the sense that the band was blown away by the crowd. You don't see that often with bands that have been performing together for this long. 

I love how Alex uses at least one new guitar for each song on the Rio DVD.

this:
 
https://qello.com/concert/R40-Tour-Webisodes-6353#track-6353-1
 

honestly,
if lifeson is using mostly his new Lerxst amps live right now, they sound really good.
 
http://lerxstamps.com/
 
 

Me and the missus kicked back and watched the whole of the R40 gig on our big telly last night. Dirk did struggle with his vocals in places, but who cares?
 
I'm trying to think of a highlight of the show, and I can't. If I had my arm up my back and I had to think of one, it was bursting into Tom Sawyer after the "intermission."
 
It was interesting that they played Jacobs Ladder. I bet I haven't heard that song since the early 80's.
 
I've since dusted off my R30, Rush in Rio and Beyond the Lighted Stage videos to watch in the near future...
 
here's one I like:-
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK1hmDpa8bo
 

Hi,
 
While there is enough music to appreciate in this band, it has never been one of my favorites, and i could never really get into them beyond a couple of pieces here and there and elsewhere. I do give them credit for having stuck around and not quit and continue to do what they do, but to me, it was a lot closer to a pop band, than it was closer to something "progressive" or "artistic".
 
I do appreciate the musicianship, but have not bought or own a single album by this band, and I have heard all of them just about.
 
Just not for me ... can't help it that a Banco, Ange, Focus, Van der Graff or Peter Hammill, King Crimson and others, over the years, but this band just was not as "important" to me, otherwise.

I'm pretty certain that I've heard Geddy specifically say that Rush are not a prog rock band.
 
Perhaps Rob can shed more light on that, being the top Rush fan here 

All band members tend to hate labels.  I have Rush with the following genres/subgenres: Progressive rock, hard rock, heavy metal, Arena Rock, pop rock and art rock (culled from various sources and not reviewed yet).  I'm gathering this information for all of my music (thousands of artists), then will distill them down into a few primary genres and a lot of secondary/subgenres to help categorize the tracks on my media player.

Who cares about putting music into neat labelled pigeonholes marked 'prog' or 'pop', and why would one band be more 'important' than another, for any reason? Music's there to be enjoyed, not endlessly analysed and rated. Rush are what they are, they continue to tread their own path and long may they do so.
 
(not directed at Craig btw, he can't help it...)