Grace Under Pressure Tour (album)
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Grace Under Pressure Tour is a live CD
by Canadian
progressive rock
band Rush
, originally released as part of the box set Rush Replay X 3
. It is a soundtrack to their video Grace Under Pressure Tour
, originally released on VHS
and Laserdisc
, remastered for the Rush Replay X 3 on DVD
. Grace Under Pressure Tour includes live recording of songs from albums Rush, 2112
, A Farewell to Kings
, Permanent Waves
, Moving Pictures
, Signals and Grace Under Pressure
. A limited edition version of the Rush Replay X 3 set sold by BestBuy contains four bonus audio tracks on the Grace Under Pressure CD. Those are "Limelight" from the Exit...Stage Left
video, "Closer to the Heart" recorded during the Moving Pictures tour, from the same video release, which is a different version than the live album release
track, which was recorded during the Permanent Waves tour, and "The Spirit of Radio" and "Tom Sawyer" from the A Show of Hands video
soundtrack.
The Grace Under Pressure Tour CD received a standalone release on August 11, 2009. That release featured a miniature reproduction of the tour booklet, as did the DVD. It also features the same artwork as the Grace Under Pressure album, with '1984 Tour' written in the bottom left hand corner.
(Note: tracks 13-16 appear only on the CD packaged in limited-edition copies of Rush Replay X 3 sold by BestBuy in 2006 during the DVD set's initial release. They are not present on the 2009 CD-only version.)
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...
by Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
band Rush
Rush (band)
Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart...
, originally released as part of the box set Rush Replay X 3
Rush Replay X 3
Rush Replay X 3 is a DVD box set of three separate filmed concert presentations by the Canadian band Rush, released on June 13, 2006. The three shows presented are Exit... Stage Left, Grace under Pressure Tour, and A Show of Hands, which were originally released individually in 1982, 1985, and 1989...
. It is a soundtrack to their video Grace Under Pressure Tour
Grace Under Pressure Tour (video)
Grace Under Pressure Tour is a concert released on videocassette, laserdisc, and DVD by the Canadian band Rush. It documents a live concert performance by the band on their 1984 tour in support of the studio album Grace Under Pressure....
, originally released on VHS
VHS
The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....
and Laserdisc
Laserdisc
LaserDisc was a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium. Initially licensed, sold, and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in North America in 1978, the technology was previously referred to interally as Optical Videodisc System, Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Optical...
, remastered for the Rush Replay X 3 on DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
. Grace Under Pressure Tour includes live recording of songs from albums Rush, 2112
2112 (album)
2112 is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1976.The album features an eponymous seven-part suite written by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, with lyrics written by Neil Peart telling a dystopian story set in the year 2112. The album is sometimes described as a concept album...
, A Farewell to Kings
A Farewell to Kings
A Farewell to Kings is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1977. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales, and mixed at Advision Studios in London....
, Permanent Waves
Permanent Waves
Permanent Waves is the seventh studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released January 1, 1980. The album was recorded at Le Studio, Morin Heights, Quebec, and was mixed at Trident Studios in London, UK. Permanent Waves became Rush's first US Top 5 album hitting #4 and was the band's fifth...
, Moving Pictures
Moving Pictures (album)
- Personnel :* Geddy Lee - Bass guitar; Minimoog; Oberheim 8-voice synthesizer; OB-X, Moog Taurus bass pedals, vocals* Alex Lifeson - Electric and acoustic guitars, Moog Taurus...
, Signals and Grace Under Pressure
Grace Under Pressure (Rush album)
Grace Under Pressure is the tenth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1984 . A symbol for the album is the letter "p" above a line with the letter "g" below ....
. A limited edition version of the Rush Replay X 3 set sold by BestBuy contains four bonus audio tracks on the Grace Under Pressure CD. Those are "Limelight" from the Exit...Stage Left
Exit...Stage Left (video)
Exit...Stage Left is a concert film released on videocassette, laserdisc, and DVD by the Canadian band Rush. It documents a live concert performance by the band on their 1981 Moving Pictures tour. In October 1981, the band released an audio album of the same name on vinyl LP, audiocassette, 8-track...
video, "Closer to the Heart" recorded during the Moving Pictures tour, from the same video release, which is a different version than the live album release
Exit...Stage Left
Exit...Stage Left is a live album by Canadian band Rush, released in 1981. A video release with the same name, with slightly different content, was released in 1982 on VHS and later on Laserdisc, and in 2007 on DVD....
track, which was recorded during the Permanent Waves tour, and "The Spirit of Radio" and "Tom Sawyer" from the A Show of Hands video
A Show of Hands (video)
A Show of Hands is a concert film released on videocassette, laserdisc, and DVD by the Canadian hard rock band Rush. It documents a live concert performance by the band on their 1988 Hold Your Fire Tour. In 1989, the band released an audio album of the same name on vinyl LP, audiocassette, and...
soundtrack.
The Grace Under Pressure Tour CD received a standalone release on August 11, 2009. That release featured a miniature reproduction of the tour booklet, as did the DVD. It also features the same artwork as the Grace Under Pressure album, with '1984 Tour' written in the bottom left hand corner.
Track listing
- "Intro"
- "The Spirit of Radio"
- "The Enemy Within"
- "The Weapon"
- "Witch Hunt"
- "New World Man"
- "Distant Early Warning"
- "Red Sector A"
- "Closer to the Heart"
- "YYZ/2112: Temples Of Syrinx/Tom Sawyer"
- "Vital Signs"
- "Finding My Way/In The Mood"
- "Limelight" (bonus track)
- "Closer to the Heart" (bonus track)
- "The Spirit of Radio" (bonus track)
- "Tom Sawyer" (bonus track)
(Note: tracks 13-16 appear only on the CD packaged in limited-edition copies of Rush Replay X 3 sold by BestBuy in 2006 during the DVD set's initial release. They are not present on the 2009 CD-only version.)