- Rush Concert Set Lists -

Overall Tour Attendance: In excess of 15,042,112
Total Confirmed Dates: 2,566 (with 42 cancelations and 4 rescheduled dates)
Total Number of Songs Performed: 46,640 [estimate]

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Pre-Tour Supporting "SIGNALS"

The Deep South Spring Training Tour (aka Tour of the Nadars)
April 1st, 1982 through April 12th, 1982

Overall 'Signals' Tour Attendance: In excess of 925,000
Total Dates: 119 with 1 cancelation

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Continuing their pattern of road-testing material, Rush's Deep South Spring Training Tour previewed "The Analog Kid" alongside "Subdivisions" within their familiar Moving Pictures framework. However, the subsequent New World Tour in support of Signals brought a massive set list overhaul that fully embraced their synthesizer-heavy era. The band dismantled their sprawling 70s closing medleys, opting instead to open the show with "The Spirit of Radio" and pushing staples like "2112" and an abridged "Xanadu" to the back half of the set. The new material dominated the night, featuring "Digital Man," "New World Man," "Countdown," and playful multimedia injections like a "Three Stooges" audio intro and a "Count Floyd" video preceding "The Weapon." Set list fluidity remained prevalent as well; "YYZ" and the drum solo were dramatically shifted to serve as the encore, while rotational cuts saw "The Camera Eye" dropped during German dates and "Chemistry" completely removed from the show by the spring of 1983.

Main Performance

2112 (“Overture” and “The Temples of Syrinx”)
Freewill
Limelight
Cygnus X-1: Book II: Hemispheres (“Prelude”)
Beneath, Between, & Behind (abridged)
Subdivisions (pre-release version)
The Camera Eye
YYZ (with drum solo)
Broon's Bane
The Trees
The Analog Kid (pre-release version)
The Spirit of Radio
Red Barchetta
Closer To The Heart
Tom Sawyer
Vital Signs
Working Man (with reggae intro)
By-Tor & the Snow Dog (abridged)
In The End (abridged)
In the Mood (abridged)
2112 (“Grand Finale”)

Encore

La Villa Strangiato (with electric guitar intro)

Disclaimer: The tour dates and set list variations presented here have been rigorously researched and validated using a wide variety of sources, including published biographies, historical tour advertisements, online databases, and direct fan input.

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