RUSH 'N' ROULETTE '92

Silver Rarities
SIRA 54/55
(62:53) (63:18)

Recorded:
January 30, 1992
Oakland Coliseum. Oakland, CA


Track Listing (Disk 1):
Force Ten || Limelight || Freewill || Distant Early Warning || Time Stand Still || Dreamline || Bravado || Roll The Bones || Show Don't Tell || The Big Money || Ghost of a Chance

Track Listing (Disk 2):
Subdivisions || The Pass || Where's My Thing || The Rhythm Method || Closer to the Heart || Xanadu || Superconductor || Tom Sawyer || The Spirit Of Radio || 2112 || Finding My Way || La Villa Strangiato || Anthem || Red Barchetta || The Spirit Of Radio

Sound Quality: 10
Packaging: 7

This is arguably the best double-cd bootleg out there. Taken from a soundboard recording of an early Roll the Bones concert, it sounds almost like an official live Rush album. It merely lacks the final mix of elements to make a "true" live album (sometimes the crowd is too loud, sometimes very faint).

The original recording of this show is somewhat in question. Story has it that Les Claypool (bassist for the group Primus, an opening act on the RTB tour) wanted to hear a recording of one of the shows. A DAT copy of the soundboard was sent to him, but intercepted along the way and made into this double CD. Whether or not the story is true, the sound quality on this is almost a guarantee that this is from a (or copy of a) soundboard recording.

The packaging on the CD is weak, although there are pictures taken from the RTB tour included inside. Two of the songs are mislabeled: "Dreamline" is "Dream Life", and "Subdivisions" is "Sub Divisions". Overall though, care was taken to make the track listing fairly accurate.

This is a no-nonsense, no-frills, must-have cd. In this little gem you're paying for sound quality, not pretty pictures. If you can only buy one RTB show, this is the one to get.