RUSH RARE FOOTAGE ON R30

Rush has released R-30, a DVD of live performances from their thirtieth anniversary tour, and also a collection of rare videos and footage from the band’s early days. The Collection is two-to-three discs (depending on whether you get the regular or the deluxe package.

The DVD seems to be exactly what a fan would want and put together themselves if they had access to the archives. Geddy Lee told us that it’s his brother that discovered the footage, and the band felt that using the footage would be great for their Rounder Records R-30 dream collection.

“My brother, who does a lot of work with us in terms of… He’s kind of an intermediary between us and our video projects and there was a time where he just spent some time in the vault just kind of looking at what we had, cataloging what we had. And he found all this old footage that we had kind of forgotten about, and brought it to our attention. Once we knew about it, we said, ‘Well, we’ll look for the right opportunity to use all those pieces.’ And then when we decided to do the R-30 tour and then subsequently made the late decision to film one of the shows on R30, it seemed the perfect opportunity to add another disc with all these pieces.”

The DVD, R-30, features live performances of most of their hits in a non-chronological retrospective set on Disc 1. Archive footage and videos of “Fly By Night,” “Finding My Way,” “The Spirit Of Radio,” and “La Villa Strangiato” appear on Disc 2. The collection is currently in stores.