A bootleg-quality recording on a bad night
1 Stars
Posted
Saturday, November 26, 2011
by
Drew
This is truly disappointing, both in quality and performance. The sound quality is worse than most bootlegs, with absolutely no soundstage, missing drums (how can you lose Neil Peart in the mix?) and a shrill mix of Geddy's vocals that sounds like bad karaoke. (I saw Rush on this tour in NY, and they sounded like Rush of 20 years ago...great in every way.) Honestly, I don't know how they even made this recording sound so bad. Scary but true - I shot 30 seconds of video at the show from the audience with an iPhone, and the sound is actually slightly better than this. It's hard to believe, with live recordings generally sounding so incredible these days (even in stadiums...look at David Gilmour's live box set from Gdansk on vinyl, which is an exceptional recording throughout). The only positives are that this record is very inexpensive, and that it serves as a good souvenir for anyone that went to an actual show from this great tour.