It was really cool. Distant Early Warning sounded awesome (Stadler's wrong about Grace Under Pressure).
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but what does the sound of a song performed in 2015, as depicted in a film in 2019, have to do with the quality of an album released in 1984?
Overall I had a good time and was really pleased to get an excerpt from Cygnus X1:Book 2. It's easy to see why their set list went backwards through the discography. The concert ending was electric for the fans in attendance. Very entertaining to watch.
Some gripes that aren't really important, so I'll just give the experience a and leave it at that.
I have mixed feelings, and part of those feelings come from my own failure to look into exactly what we were getting from CS. One one hand, Rush concert footage rarely disappoints, and seeing the footage on a big screen and with high quality audio was great. I also haven't gotten around to buying the R40 video, so I hadn't seen any of the concert footage before (although I did attend the August 1, 2015 show). On the other hand, I would have preferred some more backstage stuff and really could have done without some of the screwball comedy stuff (the Trailer Trash Boys or whatever they're called and that silly stuff about sausage that they used during intermissions at concerts).
Anyone happen to know how far down the Hemispheres prelude was tuned? A half- or full step isn't usually noticeable, but that sounded like at least a couple steps and was really noticeable/distracting.