Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson will be reuniting later this year to celebrate 50ish years of Rush. Taking advantage they have announced yet another new box set of Rush tunes. This time featured around their 1984 album Grace Under Pressure. It was their 10th studio album and Geddy Lee said:
“Our songwriting had taken us to a different musical place. An expansion of our soundscape with a range of new technologies, not just keyboards and samples, but electronic drums too.”
Available in multiple configurations, the Super Deluxe Edition includes four CDs, one Blu-ray, and a 52-page hardcover book.
The first CD contains the album’s original 1984 stereo mix newly remastered from the original analog stereo master tapes.
Although Grace Under Pressure was the first Rush studio album not produced by Terry Brown, the second CD features his brand-new stereo mix of the album, as created from the original studio album’s analog multi-tracks.
Brown says he “suggested it to Alex and Ged by saying to them, ‘Let me do a couple of tunes. If you love it, we can move forward.’ As it turned out, they did love it. I had to give the guys something they would be excited about, so I went for a little more detail, different reverbs, and a larger footprint, all while maintaining the integrity of the original record.”
And spread over the third and fourth CDs is the first-ever complete set list of their show from September 21st, 1984 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
The Blu-ray contains the video of the Toronto concert, remastered in HD with the audio in Dolby Atmos, Dolby TrueHD 5.1, and PCM stereo options, all newly mixed by Terry Brown. Its previous incarnation as 1986’s Grace Under Pressure concert home video and CD was somewhat incomplete, and this new full concert experience features 37 minutes of unreleased performances.
Also on the Blu-ray is Grace Under Pressure in Dolby Atmos, Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and PCM stereo, and Terry Brown’s new album remix in PCM stereo. You will also find the videos for “Distant Early Warning,” “Afterimage,” “The Enemy Within,” and “The Body Electric,” all of which have been visually remastered in HD.
If that wasn’t enough Rush, with it being winter, let’s revisit a time when Geddy Lee taught us all to Toboggan properly. Taken from a Rush episode of the Mercer Report, which was a popular Canadian television show, Geddy Lee shows us how to toboggan in the series “Celebrity Winter Advice.”
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