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R30 Review: It gets an 'A'

Thu, Jan 5, 2006@8:12AM | comments removed/disabled

[A good way to 'Rush' in 2006]

The Charleston Post and Courier gives Rush's R30 another very positive review; it gets an 'A'. Here're some excerpts:

These days, with the marketing machine being what it is, it seems that a lot of record companies will use any excuse to release a greatest hits collection for a band, even if another "best of" collection had just been released the previous year. ... How nice then that the classic rock band Rush decided that if it was going to celebrate a career milestone, in this case its 30th year as a band, it was going to give fans a package that would top anything they had done previously. That wouldn't be easy. Rush released an excellent 2-DVD live release, "Rush in Rio," just two years ago. ... "R30" is every bit as good as the "Rush in Rio" DVD set, and features Rush band members Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart performing songs from the band's 30 years together. ... To set itself apart from the "Rush in Rio" DVD, not only does the "R30" set contain 2-CD and 2-DVD versions of a concert filmed in September 2004 in Frankfurt, Germany, but also a slew of extras, ... The extras were really unnecessary, what with the quality of the concert presented in this package. ...

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