R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour
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| Video by Rush | ||||
| Released | 22 November 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 24 September 2004 at the Festhalle Frankfurt | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, progressive rock | |||
| Length | ≈130:00 | |||
| Label | Anthem, Atlantic, Eagle Vision (for the Blu-ray edition) | |||
| Director | Pierre Lamoureux | |||
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R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour is a live DVD by the Canadian rock band Rush, a DVD that was released on November 22, 2005 in Canada and the US, and November 28, 2005 in Europe. The DVD documents the band's R30: 30th Anniversary Tour, and was Recorded September 24, 2004 at the Festhalle Frankfurt, Germany.
The DVD was released in both a standard and a deluxe set. The deluxe version features two additional audio CDs of the DVD content, as well as various interviews, and extra live footage.
To reduce redundancy, the DVD release omits the Frankfurt concert's eight songs: "Bravado", "One Little Victory", "By-Tor And The Snow Dog", "La Villa Strangiato", "YYZ", "Red Sector A", "The Trees", and "Secret Touch", since those songs had appeared on the 2003 Rush in Rio DVD, which featured the full concert in Brazil on the last night of the band's 2002 Vapor Trails Tour.
The reduced Frankfurt set-list is what is featured in the R30 standard DVD set, as well as in the R30 deluxe DVD edition, on both the video DVDs and the audio CDs.
Five of the missing Frankfurt songs: "Red Sector A" would later be released on the Snakes & Arrows Live DVD; "Secret Touch" was featured on the Retrospective 3 compilation DVD released on March 3, 2009; "One Little Victory" was released on the live compilation Working Men; and, "Bravado" and "YYZ" were included as bonus features for the DVD release of the 2010 documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage.
The R30 track "Der Trommler" is a drum solo by Neil Peart. The track "R30 Overture" is an instrumental medley of six early Rush songs, one from each of the first six studio albums, with flashes of the band's history appearing in the background at the concerts. The R30 releases also feature four songs from the band's 2004 "cover" EP Feedback.
A Blu-ray version of R30, containing the complete concert, was released on December 8, 2009 in the US, and in late 2013 in Europe.
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