Rush-Exit…Stage Left

A great live album from their most Progressive period. The songs were recorded in Scotland and Montreal. This 1981 album was one of the few I bought when I was living in Havre de Grace with my wife before we were married. After living at the third floor efficiency apartment for six months we moved to a furnished apartment in an alley with a living space and kitchen on one floor and the bedroom and bathroom on the second floor. There was a record store on route 40 towards Baltimore that I bought it at. This record was played quite a lot and is pretty scratchy. The bands playing is much more refined on the longer tracks like “Xanadu” and “La Villa Strangiato”. “YYZ” is a great instrumental with Neil Peart’s drum solo. Radio friendly tunes “Freewill”,”Tom Sawyer” and “Limelight” are also played as well as “Beneath,Between

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