RUSH In Rio - Complete Concert from Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro - 11/23/2002
Even with all the work on the audio Alex and engineers Jimbo and Patrick had done, the source material I used sounded pretty flat so I tried to punch it up just a little in post production.
Rush in Rio was the first concert film to feature a complete setlist without any changes in song order, including Neil Peart's drum solo. It is also the band's first live album that presents a single night's performance in its entirety.
The show in Rio de Janeiro was recorded on the fly by a somewhat primitive Brazilian recording truck, and Alex, along with engineers Jimbo and Patrick, spent many long nights refining the raw material that was caught on tape, polishing those rough diamonds into something that might reflect the shine of that hot night in Rio as they and the audience had experienced it.
For this live recording, recorded at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on the final night of the Vapor Trails Tour, the band played to approximately 40,000 people, their second largest crowd on the Vapor Trails Tour (the largest crowd was 60,000 the previous night in São Paulo).
All told, the band performed for over 125,000 fans over three Brazilian shows.
In a rare departure from the band's practice of re-creating the sound of their studio work when playing live, the song "Resist" was rearranged into a stripped-down acoustic version between Lifeson and Geddy Lee, with Peart sitting out after his drum solo.
“It’s surprising how in tune they are with everything, all forms of music. They don’t speak a lot of English down there, yet the audience was singing the whole night. And they very easily sung along with songs from Vapor Trails as they did from 2112 or Moving Pictures” – Alex Lifeson in 2003
“YYZ was one of the audience highlights of the show. As soon as we started playing that song, the whole crowd started bobbing up and down in time with it. And they were singing along. What was amazing about the Brazilian crowds, when we played some of our instrumental stuff, they would be singing parts, like they had written parts for it on top of some of the music.” – Geddy Lee in 2003
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