RUSH Drummer Talks About 'R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour' DVD

November 16, 2005

ChartAttack.com is reporting that next Tuesday's debut of RUSH's "R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour" multi-CD and DVD package has notoriously quiet drummer Neil Peart so pumped that he's actually talking about it.

"R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour" is due November 22 via Rounder in the United States and Anthem in Canada; Sanctuary Visual Entertainment will issue it November 28 in Europe. It was recorded September 24, 2004 at Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany.

In addition to featuring 22 tracks from the show, "R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour" will also come with a second disc, which collects a multitude of rarely seen bits from the RUSH archives, including studio footage from 1978, a soundcheck from 1980, and a recent rendition of "Closer to the Heart" with BARENAKED LADIES' Ed Robertson, according to Billboard.com. The set will also be made available as a deluxe edition, which will include two audio CDs of the Frankfurt concert, as well as various goodies, such as limited edition Dunlop guitar pick and a backstage pass.

Looking back at all the archived material made Peart reflective of his early days with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. "What that old footage does is make us laugh, really, at how we looked back then, and smile with a certain fond appreciation for our youthful earnestness and energy," he said. "We had a lot to learn, but we were learning it."

Though RUSH have played more than 5,000 concerts since the Trudeau administration, Peart still vividly remembers the first one.

"Two weeks after I joined, we played our first show together in Pittsburgh, in front of about 11,000 people, then continued around the U.S. — opening for bigger bands, playing club dates on our own and even appearing on a few television shows. Eventually that first tour took us all around the United States and Canada, and that was pretty exciting, too. Those were heady times, no question, and we were certainly fully engaged in the moment. It's safe to say we weren't thinking too much about the future."

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