Rush In Rio News Archive
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Rush filmed the final show of the Vapor Trails tour in Brazil at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro in front of 40,000 fans on Nov. 23, 2002 (the previous evening's show at Morumbi Stadium in São Paulo had 65,000 fans, the largest Rush concert ever). Released Oct. 21, 2003, Rush In Rio, was Rush's first live DVD, as well as the first Rush DVD to be released on both Region 1 DVD [US and Canada from Amazon.com] and Region 0 DVD [all regions from Amazon UK]. The concert was released separately as a 3CD live album containing two "official bootleg tracks" not available on the DVD: "Between Sun and Moon" and "Vital Signs".
Included with both the DVD and CD is "Flying Down To Rio, Leaving Vapor Trails Behind", "the background story about 'that night in Rio,' as written for the DVD package" by Neil Peart. The DVD also includes multi-angle viewing options on "La Villa Strangiato" and "YYZ", and two alternate angle shots on "O Baterista" (drum solo); and two Easter Eggs including the "By Tor & The Snow Dog" cartoon created specifically for the tour, and a live performance of "Anthem" from 1975.
The DVD includes a documentary by longtime Rush photographer Andrew MacNaughtan titled "The Boys In Brazil". For the documentary, MacNaughton and 2-3 other official cameraman film rare rehearsal and backstage footage, as well as fans welcoming the band at the airports, in hotels, small interviews with fans while waiting in stadium lines, and shooting the crowd's reactions during the shows.
In Their Own Words
"In Rio, the trucks were late and didn't arrive until late afternoon, and we're filming and recording the last night of the tour, our one and only chance that we really wanted to capture on that tour. So this was the last and final chance under the most … impossible is not too strong a word. No sound check. Minutes before we went on, [drum tech] Lorne [Wheaton] came up to tell me the electronics were actually working. They had no sound check for the recording truck, no test for the cameras, everybody had to adopt that attitude of, "Okay, here's what we do." And did. One telling anecdote that I love, the carpet that we used on stage got so soaking wet during those days that we had to leave it behind. It was too heavy to ship home. It was so waterlogged that it would have cost way more than it was worth to ship it home, so we just left it there. It's in some Brazilian guy's living room. [laughs]" - Neil Peart, liveDAliy, July 30, 2004"...when we wanted to use 'The Girl From Ipanema', and they wanted something like forty thousand dollars just to use it. And our publishing guys said: 'Do you want to reconsider and use something else?' And we didn't because it's a highlight of the show, Alex introduces us and I play a little and then Geddy goes into '...Ipanema', so we had to have it whatever it cost." - Neil Peart, Classic Rock, Oct. 2004
"You will see very rare moments of the band doing a variety of daily 'being on the road' type things like; sound check, Neil in his drum room warming up before the show, Alex eating his breakfast while make happy faces out of his eggs... stuff like that... They filmed the Rio show with 20 cameras!!! It was an amazing concert... especially since the band wasn't able to do a sound check that night.... in fact the crew (who are amazing) were setting up the gear until 9:30pm... that's how crazy it was." - Andrew MacNaughtan, TriNet Chat, Dec. 15th, 2002.