Different Stages Live

set one:

Dreamline (5.34)
Limelight (4.32)
Driven (5.16)
Bravado (6.23)
Animate (5.29)
Show Don't Tell (5.29)
The Trees (5.28)
Nobody's Hero (5.01)
Closer To The Heart (5.13)
2112
I. Overture (4.32)
II. The Temples of Syrinx (2.20)
III. Discovery (4.17)
IV. Presentation (3.40)
V. Oracle: The Dream (1.49)
VI. Soliloquy (2.07)
VII. Grand Finale (2.39)

set two:

Test For Echo (6.15)
Analog Kid (5.14)
Freewill (5.36)
Roll The Bones (5.58)
Stick It Out (4.42)
Resist (4.27)
Leave That Thing Alone (instrumental 4.46)
The Rhythm Method (drum solo 8.19)
Natural Science (8.05)
* Force Ten (4:47)
The Spirit of Radio (5.00)
Tom Sawyer (5.18)
YYZ (instrumental 5.25)

set three (Hammersmith
Odeon, February 20, 1978):

Bastille Day (5.07)
By-Tor and the Snowdog (4.59)
Xanadu (12.32)
A Farewell to Kings (5.53)
Something For Nothing (4.01)
Cygnus X-1 (10.23)
Anthem (4.47)
Working Man (4.00)
Fly By Night (2.04)
In The Mood (3.34)
Cinderella Man (5.09)
Different Stages Live
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Geddy Lee - Bass Guitars/
Vocals/Synthesizers
Alex Lifeson - Electric And
Accoustic Guitars/Vocals
Neil Peart - Drums/Percussion

Produced by Geddy Lee and Paul Northfield
Mixed by Paul Northfield
Disk 3 Engineered by Terry Brown

Disks 1 & 2 recorded 6/14/97, except
Disk 1 track 4, 4/30/94
Disk 1 track 6, 2/27/94
Disk 1 track 7, 5/24/97
Disk 1 track 10 & Disk 2 track 7, 6/23/97
Disk 2 track 2, 3/22/94
Disk 2 track 6, 7/2/97

* Disk 2 track 10, 6/4/97
(Japanese release only)

In loving memory of Jackie and Selena

Atlantic/Anthem, November 10, 1998

Notes:

  • Certified Gold by RIAA: December 2, 1998 - Highest Billboard Chart Position: 35
  • The Japanese release includes minature A Farewell To Kings and Test For Echo tourbooks.
  • "[Natural Science is] one of my favorite songs. It's one of those songs that kind of went away in our live show for many years. And when we brought it back, we changed the arrangement a bit. There were things in the arrangement that were a little shortchanged in the original song. Like in the second part of the song for the main 'wheels within wheels' part of the song. It's not a traditional song; there's no real verse/chorus/verse/chorus, but I remember certain melodies like that that I felt derserved to appear more than they did, and I thought it would give the song more resonance. So we did those things, and the last section of the song is made shorter than it was in the original version. I felt we had kind of overdone it on the record. So sometimes there's that opportunity to fix a mistake or an arrangement that may be short-changed in some way. And I think our current version live is the best we've erver played it." - Geddy Lee, Contents Under Pressure
  • The Hammersmith recording is not the complete show; missing from the setlist are Lakeside Park, Closer to the Heart, 2112 and the drum solo.
  • As demonstrated on both All The World's A Stage and disk three of Different Stages, during live performances of "Bastille Day", Geddy mixes together the first and last stanzes, singing "Hear the echoes of the centuries, Power isn't all that money buys" in the first chorus, instead of "Free the dungeons of the innocent, The king will kneel, and let his kingdom rise".
  • The band had video taped the first Toronto show of the Test for Echo tour with intentions to releasing it as a live DVD. Plans for a Different Stages DVD were shelved, as problems with the sound recording would have cost Rush $150,000 just to sync up another recording with the video, not to mention the enourmous time involved.
    "...we have other things in the vault as well, such as a concert that we recorded on the Test For Echo tour, with which we weren't satisfied at the time, but that's been replaced by its historical value." - Geddy Lee, Aardschok Magazine, March 2006