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The tour ultimately featured at least one song from every one of their albums up until that point, except Caress of Steel (beyond the snippet of "Bastille Day" as part of the R30 Overture) and Presto. A Blu-ray version of R30, containing the complete concert, was released on December 8, 2009 in the US, and in late 2013 in Europe.
"Bastille Day" is a song by the Canadian rock band Rush; it is the opening track from their third album, Caress of Steel. [7] Like most Rush songs, the music was written by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson , and the lyrics by Neil Peart .
The opening song of Rush's 2004 tour dates featured an instrumental combining sections of one song from each of the band's first six studio albums. The songs featured in the medley were: "Finding My Way" "Anthem" (Fly by Night) "Bastille Day" (Caress of Steel) "A Passage to Bangkok"
The tour began on October 14, 1978 which began with arenas in Canada, extending out into the United States. [1] It was the first tour where the band was noted as a major headlining act, playing an hour and a half instead of a forty-five minute set, with hopes that the audience would appreciate the length of the set. [2]
At the time, Peart had declared to his bandmates that they should "consider [him] retired", leaving guitarist Alex Lifeson and Lee facing the possibility of the album being Rush's last. The album is dedicated to the memory of Peart's daughter Selena, who died in a car accident in 1997, and his wife Jacqueline, who died of cancer 10 months later.
Max Webster, FM, Goddo and The Joe Perry Project were also opening acts for Rush on the tour. [1] The March 27, 1981 performance in Montreal was recorded for the band's live album, Exit... Stage Left and its accompanying video .
"La Bastille" by Jacques Brel "La Bastille" (from Les chansons d'amour) "La belle Paris", music by A. Baldwin Sloane, John Stromberg and W.T. Francis, lyrics by Edgar Smith "La belle Parisienne" from the musical The Belle of New York "La belle Parisienne, music by Louis Hirsch, lyrics by Edward Madden "La Chanson des fortifs" by Fréhel
Peart lived very close to Lakeside Park, and spent summers as a youth working and playing there. The lyrics mention the "24th of May", which is Victoria Day, commemorating Queen Victoria's birthday. The actual Lakeside Park in Port Dalhousie overlooks the War of 1812 wreck sites of USS Hamilton and USS Scourge.