Thanks for the year correction just above, AtD.
Been on a big prog kick lately in general (King Crimson, Yes, Tull and ELP to a lesser extent) and Rush specifically.
Xanadu live Madison WI 4-2-94 (AUDIO 10 minutes), very clean soundboard recording. On official Rush concert video I've seen (the 3 X Replay box with Exit Stage Left, Grace Under Pressure and Show Of Hands circa Power Windows/Hold Your Fire, Rio, R30, Snakes And Arrows, Clockwork Angels and Time Machine), songs from different eras are sometimes played similarly. One thing I've found recently, there are some bootleg versions of Pink Floyd (San Diego on Meddle tour and Montreux on Atom Heart Mother tour) that are among my favorites of any of their body of work, studio or live. This version of Xanadu (the whole concert is worth looking up for those interested in that era and set list*) is my new favorite. Lifeson's FX and processing make the guitar intro sound like an electric violin, and later has a clipped, edgier, heavier, harder sound than previous versions I'd heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVYxMT1aunA
Auburn Hills, Michigan 3-22-94 (VIDEO nearly 2 hrs), show less than two weeks before the above show. Xanadu starts 1:27:30 mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_zL8-0KBs4
Re-watched Beyond The Lighted Stage, the well done Rush documentary (avail. streaming on Netflix).
12 Months Of Rush: 14 Albums From Mercury Era For Release In 2015 (concludes with the Live Show Of Hands in Dec.). I was a little late to the party in hearing about this a few days ago. They re-issued vinyl and had hi res downloads for the albums, the re-masters were reportedly well done, in three cases also Blu-ray audio (Fly By Night, A Farewell To Kings and Signals), though with the latter three using the previous latest re-masters from the three Sectors box sets (each with four studio, one live and one hi res 5.1 surround disc, same as the Blu-ray audio titles noted here). I think Moving Pictures was originally limited somewhere in the recording/engineering chain to CD spec 16/44. At PROSTUDIOMASTERS (hi res download site), they have some at 96, but the duplicates per album at 48 are the ones with the superior 2015 re-masters. They are 24 bit FLACs, which sound great to my ears. I'm very familiar with the era from Farewell To Kings to Moving Pictures (including Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and Exit Stage Left), less so after, as well as before. I forgot how much I liked Signals (Moving Pictures is great, but was played in such heavy rotation on classic rock stations), had forgotten about Grace Under Pressure and Power Windows was the last album I recall playing a lot, at that time, but I haven't had it or listened to it in a while. The one show I saw in person at the LA Forum I'm pretty sure was Show Of Hands, touring Hold Your Fire (another studio album I forgot about). I don't think I got Presto, did get Roll The Bones but don't remember it, and then stopped buying albums/CDs by them. I did stay in touch over the years through the live DVDs noted above, so was exposed to some newer material that way, but tended to prefer the "classic" material from 2112 to Moving Pictures (maybe also a bit after, like Signals and Power Windows). Anyways, I was prompted to reacquaint my self with some of this post-Moving Pictures studio albums (final handful for the Mercury label). I broke out the 3 X Replay box, re-watched Exit Stage Left (and may have watched Grace Under Pressure and Show Of Hands for the first time - the latter reminded me of Hold Your Fire), and enjoyed all of them a lot, also the R30 set. I had also recently watched Clockwork Angels and Time Machine, as they were on YouTube (and think linked upthread, maybe on the previous page?). Haven't heard/seen the R40 show yet.
http://www.rush.com/12-months-of-rush-14-albums-from-mercury-era-for-release-in-2015/
Signals, Grace Under Pressure and Power Windows (AUDIO 2+ hrs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlwrioK3H74
Exit Stage Left '81 (VIDEO nearly 1 hr)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa9g49yeFms
Grace Under Pressure (VIDEO 1+ hr)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukhdUkRFBa0
Show Of Hands (VIDEO 90+ minutes?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsskd9LCp_Y&list=PLM7m89LxRZWTZs0arlKjLwopmmzIWA2m0
* Set list for the 4-22-94 show in Madison WI
1
01 Opening
02 Dreamline
03 The Spirit Of Radio
04 The Analog Kid
05 Cold Fire
06 Time Stand Still
07 Nobody's Hero
08 Roll The Bones
09 Animate
10 Stick It Out
11 Double Agent
2
01 Limelight
02 Mystic Rhythms
03 Closer To The Heart
04 Show Don't Tell
05 Leave That Thing Alone
06 The Rhythm Method
07 The Trees
08 Xanadu
09 Hemispheres (Prelude)
10 Tom Sawyer
11 Force Ten
12 YYZ - Cygnus X1
13 Bravado