This is the Holy Grail of live Rush broadcasts. It is the earliest known live broadcast of Rush and is the only known live recording to feature the original line up with John Rutsey on drums. This concert was filmed by CKCO-TV for the “Canadian Bandstand” program and televised on June 1st of 1974.
This is the only known live recording of “Before and After” and a earliest ever known live recording of their cover version of “Bad Boy,” described by legendary music journalist Stephen Thomas Erlewine as a “genuine Rock & Roll classics” and notes its popularity among 1960s British Invasion groups, such as the Beatles.
This broadcast also included the only known recordings of non-album Rush tracks, “I’ve Been Runnin’” and “The Loser”.
Specially remastered for vinyl. Limed to 1,000 units world-wide, with the first 500 comes in blood red vinyl.
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Side 1:
01 – Need Some Love
02 – Before And After
03 – Best I Can
04 – I’ve Been Runnin’
Side 2:
01 – Bad Boy
02 – The Loser
03 – Working Man
04 – In The Mood