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Rush

Stadthalle Offenbach
Offenbach am Main
Germany
May 28th 1979

Reposted from May 2020

Here's the three amigos thrashing away on their Hemispheres tour.

Well known soundboard that goes by many names.
Black Forest, Hemispheres in Frankfurt etc.
Doubt the good folks of Offenbach would appreciate being tagged as Frankfurt!
They first played in Germany in 1977 and they were Offenbach (sorry)
Mrs. Luxor is German and she says she had never heard of Rush before coming to the UK.
But Germans think Barclay James Harvest are as good as Led Zeppelin.
And Saga are the best thing since sliced sauerkraut.
I saw Rush on this tour about a month prior to this recording.

Support was from the wonderful Max Webster

who were promoting their Million Vacations album at the time.
Which is a better album than anything Rush ever did IMO.
There were free Max Webster promotional flexi-discs left on each seat.

Might still have one somewhere.
I remember Kim Mitchel in his long stripy socks.
I still have the ticket...£3.50...which a quick google told me
is equivalent to £17.50 in today's money.
About the price of two beers at the venue bar now. If you're lucky!
regards
Titus

Disc 1

01 - Intro
02 - Anthem
03 - A Passage To Bangkok
04 - By-Tor & the Snow Dog
05 - Xanadu
06 - Something For Nothing
07 - The Trees
08 - Cygnus X-1
09 - Hemispheres
10 - Closer To The Heart

Disc 2

01 - A Farewell To Kings
02 - La Villa Strangiato
03 - 2112
04 - Working Man
05 - Bastille Day
06 - In The Mood
07 - Drum Solo

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