R30: 30th Anniversary Tour

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R30: 30th Anniversary Tour
World tour by Rush
Locations North America, Europe
Supporting album Feedback
Start date May 26, 2004
End date October 1, 2004
Legs 2
Shows 58
Rush tour chronology
Vapor Trails Tour
(2002)		 R30: 30th Anniversary Tour
(2004)		 Snakes & Arrows Tour
(2007)

Rush's R30: 30th Anniversary Tour was a concert tour which celebrated a milestone for the Canadian progressive rockers. It also resulted in the November 2005 R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour DVD which was recorded September 24, 2004 at the Festhalle in Frankfurt Germany. The tour was staged in amphitheaters in North America and arenas in Europe. Of note was a video role of comedian Jerry Stiller as an introduction to each performance.

The setlist was consistent throughout the entire world tour for the first time since the 1987 Hold Your Fire tour. The released product saw the omission of songs "Bravado", "One Little Victory", "By-Tor And The Snow Dog", "La Villa Strangiato", "YYZ", "Red Sector A", and "Secret Touch" as these tracks were already featured on the Rush in Rio DVD, a full concert in Brazil on the last night of the band's 2002 Vapor Trails Tour. This was done to eliminate redundancy. This modified set-list is heard on both the 30th Anniversary Tour DVD, as well as a deluxe edition that included the performance on a dual CD soundtrack.

Tour routing saw Starwood Amphitheatre, in Nashville, Tennessee to start with on May 26, 2004 and Sportpaleis Ahoy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands to finish on October 1 of that same year.

Contents

[edit] Setlist

[edit] Set One

New opening film with imagery from each album and a band introduction by Jerry Stiller.

[edit] Set Two

Darn That Dragon film

[edit] Encore

Concert ends with another quick Jerry Stiller "dream sequence" film.

[edit] North American Tour dates

Date City Venue
May 26, 2004 Nashville, TN Starwood Amphitheatre
May 28, 2004 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
May 29, 2004 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
May 31, 2004 Pittsburgh, PA Post-Gazette Pavilion
June 2, 2004 Columbus, OH Germain Amphitheatre
June 4, 2004 Noblesville, IN Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
June 5, 2004 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
June 7, 2004 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheatre
June 8, 2004 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
June 10, 2004 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Centre
June 12, 2004 St. Louis, MO UMB Bank Pavilion
June 13, 2004 Bonner Springs, KS Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
June 23, 2004 Dallas, TX Smirnoff Music Center
June 25, 2004 San Antonio, TX Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
June 26, 2004 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
June 29, 2004 Denver, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
June 30, 2004 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheater
July 2, 2004 Auburn, WA White River Amphitheater
July 3, 2004 Ridgefield WA The Amphitheater at Clark County
July 6, 2004 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl
July 7, 2004 San Diego, CA Coors Amphitheater
July 9, 2004 San Francisco, CA Shoreline Amphitheate
July 10, 2004 Concord , CA Chronicle Pavilion
July 12, 2004 Sacramento, CA Sleep Train Amphitheater
July 14, 2004 Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
July 16, 2004 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Pavilion
July 17, 2004 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena
July 29, 2004 West Palm Beach, FL Sound Advice Amphitheatre
July 30, 2004 Tampa, FL Tampa Bay Amphitheatre
August 1, 2004 Atlanta, GA HiFi Buys Amphitheatre
August 3, 2004 Bristow, VA Nissan Pavilion
August 4, 2004 Camden, NJ Tweeter Center
August 6, 2004 Hartford, CT Meadows Music Theater
August 7, 2004 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion
August 9, 2004 Saratoga Springs, NY SPAC
August 11, 2004 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
August 12, 2004 Boston, MA Tweeter Center
August 14, 2004 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
August 15, 2004 Buffalo, NY Darien Lake
August 18, 2004 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall
August 19, 2004 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall
August 21, 2004 Montreal, PQ Bell Centre
August 22, 2004 Toronto, ON Molson Amphitheatre

[edit] European Tour dates

Date City Venue
September 8, 2004 London, England Wembley Arena
September 9, 2004 London, England Wembley Arena
September 11, 2004 Birmingham, England NEC Arena
September 12, 2004 Manchester, England Evening News Arena
September 14, 2004 Glasgow, Scotland SECC
September 15, 2004 Birmingham, England NEC Arena
September 17, 2004 Oberhausen, Germany König Pilsener Arena
September 19, 2004 Stuttgart, Germany Schleyerhalle
September 21, 2004 Milan, Italy Mazda Palace
September 22, 2004 Munich, Germany Olympiahalle (Canceled)
September 24, 2004 Frankfurt, Germany Festhalle
September 25, 2004 Prague, Czech Republic T-Mobile Arena
September 27, 2004 Hamburg, Germany Sporthalle
September 29, 2004 Stockholm, Sweden Globen Arena
October 1, 2004 Rotterdam, Netherlands Ahoy

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