I am partial to the Boston 1-11-79 show. I cannot imagine seeing them at the Orpheum.
That's a pretty cool show. I'd only just gotten it a few years ago. I think it's only surfaced within the last five years or so.
It must be pretty recent because it's not even on the DRE. Was the Boston boot a soundboard recording as well? I know there quite a few SBDs from the Hemispheres Tour, and I've heard most of, if not all of them.
-Marc.
Anyway, it's definitely an audience, but it is of great quality.
I'm mostly partial to it because it is in my neck of the woods. I just listened to it on a trip to Florida a couple of weeks ago, and I was blown away. What a setlist! As much as I love Moving Pictures and Permanent Waves, if I could ever freeze Rush in time, it would easily be the Hemispheres era.
I know I sound critical of Rush at times, but when you listen to what they were doing in 1979, I just don't know how anyone could get excited about ..say Roll The Bones.
I will admit, that even an album like Presto is nice to listen to and they all have their place, but to me, when they turned their back on this era, they really lost me.
Clockwork Angels is so great and Old School, why did we have to wait so damned long for it?