A Show of Hands by Rush

Pros: Great performances by Rush. Superb camera work, lighting effects and concert 'feel'.
Cons: Limited selection of songs - mostly from 3 albums. But that's not necessarily bad :)

For those of you keeping tracks, it's been a couple of weeks since my last Rush-related review. With so few Rush-related topics left to cover, I've been taking my time carefully crafting each remaining review.

But this is one review I was...

Pros: Excellent performances. Strong, powerful music. Good representation of their 80's works.
Cons: A little too polished at times for a live album.

Pros: Excellent concert footage--fantastic sound, great lighting, superb camera footage
Cons: Missing a few of their best 80's era songs

In 1989, the Canadian power trio Rush released this concert video to represent their 1988 "Hold Your Fire" tour. To compliment the video, Rush also released the third live album of the their career also titled "A Show of Hands." While the CD features...

Pros: It's Rush in concert. That says it all.
Cons: Mostly an 80's catalog of songs.

To start off, this is the only full concert tape of Rush available to the general market that you wont pay $40 or more for. That alone makes it worthwhile. Also, it's Rush in all their bad-self splendor. What else could anyone ask for?
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Pros: Great songlist, well produced.
Cons: CD songlist differs from video.

Finally a live show you can actually blast on your TV. I've seen some bad live ones. How about Led Zeppelin's "Song Remains the Same"? Did Peter Grant home record a live show and throw it in stores? A Show of Hands actually sounds like the audience is in...