Performance Changes
This tour differed from previous Rush tours in an increase of new material played (nine songs compared to the more usual four or five) and the reintroduction of songs that have not been played for decades (for example "Circumstances", last played when the band was touring for 1978's Hemispheres and "A Passage to Bangkok", which was last played in its entirety on the Moving Pictures Warm-Up tour). The first leg also marked the first time "Entre Nous" from Permanent Waves was performed live. Some of the older songs (e.g. "Digital Man" from Signals) were shortened.
Neil Peart's drum solo underwent changes. The big band ending, which on previous tours featured Peart's performance of "One O'Clock Jump" by Count Basie, instead incorporated a portion of "Cotton Tail", a song he recorded with the Buddy Rich Band on the tribute Burning For Buddy, Vol. 1. The marimba section from "Pieces of Eight" and the tribal excerpt piece from "Scars" were also dropped.
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