R30: 30th Anniversary Tour

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R30: 30th Anniversary Tour

R30 promotional black & white
Tour by Rush
Start date	May 26, 2004
End date	October 1, 2004
Legs	2
Shows	58
Rush tour chronology
Vapor Trails Tour (2002)	R30: 30th Anniversary Tour (2004)

Rush's R30: 30th Anniversary Tour was a concert tour which celebrated a milestone for the Canadian progressive rockers. It also resulted in the R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour DVD. Staged in amphitheaters in North America and arenas in Europe, of note was the role of comedian Jerry Stiller (Rush not being normally thought as comedic group).

The setlist remains the same throughout the tour except in a few locations. Bravado, One Little Victory, By-Tor And The Snow Dog, YYZ, Red Sector A, and Secret Touch were left out of the European leg of the tour, reportedly because the tracks were featured on the Vapor Trails Tour and were removed to prevent sounding too much like the previous tour. This 'alternate' setlist is heard on the 30th Anniversary Tour DVD.

Tour routing saw Starwood Amphitheatre, Antioch, Tennessee to start with on May 26, 2004 and Sportpaleis Ahoy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands to finish on October 1 of that same year.

1 Setlist
- 1.1 Set One
- 1.2 Set Two
2 Tour dates

[edit] Setlist

[edit] Set One

New opening film with imagery from each album and a band introduction by Jerry Stiller.

   R30 Overture (Finding My Way, Anthem, Bastille Day, A Passage To Bangkok, Cygnus X-1: Book I: The Voyage (Prologue), Cygnus X-1: Book II: Hemispheres (Prelude))
   The Spirit of Radio
   Force Ten
   Animate
   Subdivisions
   Earthshine
   Red Barchetta
   Roll The Bones
   Bravado
   YYZ
   The Trees ("I Feel Fine" and "Day Tripper" ending.)
   The Seeker
   One Little Victory

[edit] Set Two

Darn That Dragon film

   Tom Sawyer
   Dreamline
   Secret Touch
   Between The Wheels
   Mystic Rhythms
   Red Sector A
   Drum Solo
   Resist (Acoustic Version)
   Heart Full Of Soul (Acoustic Version with Neil on drums)
   2112 (I. Overture, II. The Temples Of Syrinx, VI. Grand Finale)
   La Villa Strangiato (with various, random Alex "rants".)
   By-Tor & The Snow Dog
   Xanadu
   Working Man (With Reggae ending.)
   Summertime Blues - encore begins
   Crossroads
   Limelight

Concert ends with another quick Jerry Stiller "dream sequence" film.