EXIT STAGE LEFT (CD) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Label: Mercury – 314 534 632-2, Anthem (5) – 314 534 632-2
Series: The Rush Remasters
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country: US
Released: Jun 3, 1997
Genre: Rock
Style: Prog Rock, Hard Rock

1        The Spirit Of Radio    5:11
2        Red Barchetta    6:46
3        YYZ    7:43
4        A Passage To Bangkok    3:45
5        Closer To The Heart
Written-By – Peter Talbot
3:08
6        Beneath, Between & Behind    2:34
7        Jacob's Ladder    8:46
8        Broon's Bane    1:37
9        The Trees    4:50
10        Xanadu    12:09
11        Freewill    5:31
12        Tom Sawyer
Written-By – Pye Dubois
4:59
13        La Villa Strangiato    9:37

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Mercury Records
Copyright © – Mercury Records
Copyright © – Anthem Entertainment
Manufactured By – Mercury Records
Marketed By – Mercury Records
Recorded By – Mobile One
Recorded By – Le Mobile
Recorded By – Record Plant Mobile Studio
Mixed At – Le Studio
Mastered At – Gateway Mastering
Published By – Core Music Publishing
Pressed By – PMDC, USA
Art Direction, Graphics, Cover [Concept] – Hugh Syme
Bass, Vocals, Synthesizer, Synthesizer [Bass Pedal], Rhythm Guitar – Geddy Lee
Drums, Percussion – Neil Peart
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Synthesizer [Bass Pedal] – Alex Lifeson
Engineer [Le Mobile / Record Plant Mobile] – Broon* (tracks: 1 to 3, 8 to 13)
Engineer [Mobile One] – Andy Rose (2) (tracks: 4 to 7)
Mastered By – Bob Ludwig, Brian Lee
Mixed By – Paul Northfield
Photography By – Deborah Samuel
Producer – Terry Brown
Written-By – Alex Lifeson (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 13), Geddy Lee (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 9 to 13), Neil Peart (tracks: 1 to 7, 9 to 13)
All tracks recorded live during Rush's 1980 and 1981 world tours.
Tracks 1 to 3, 8 to 13 recorded in Canada (1981) by Le Mobile, and by the Record Plant Mobile.
Tracks 4 to 7 recorded in the UK (1980) by Mobile One.

Original double album release in October 1981.

Disc has a clear center and a stack ring.
Barcode (Printed): 7 314-534632-2 6
Barcode (Scanned): 731453463226

Rush: Geddy Lee (vocals, synthesizer, bass); Alex Lifeson (guitar, bass pedal synthesizer); Neil Peart (drums, percussion). Personnel: Geddy Lee (vocals, guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, bass guitar); Alex Lifeson (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, synthesizer); Neil Peart (drums, percussion). Audio Mixer: Paul Northfield. Recording information: Canada; England. Photographer: Deborah Samuel. Unknown Contributor Role: Ian Melhuish. Rush was planning on releasing a live album after the Permanent Waves tour, but manager Cliff Burnstein convinced the group that they were peaking musically and should go straight back into the recording studio -- resulting in their finest album, 1981's Moving Pictures. So after the tour wound down, their postponed live album was finally assembled, released as Exit...Stage Left the same year. The album turned out to be the polar opposite of its predecessor, 1976's raw and direct All the World's a Stage; in fact, the performances often sound identical to the recently released studio versions. The contagious energy that helped make All the World's a Stage such a success is muted, replaced by workmanlike renditions that border on the uninspired. There's no denying the high quality of the songs selected -- "Spirit of Radio," "Tom Sawyer," "Xanadu," "The Trees," "Closer to the Heart," "Jacob's Ladder," etc. -- it's just that the performances rarely catch fire. Compared to Rush's three other concert albums (the aforementioned All the World's a Stage, 1988's A Show of Hands, and 1998's Different Stages), Exit...Stage Left is probably the weakest. [Exit Stage Left was re-released in 1997 and added a bonus tracks, "Passage to Bangkok."] ~ Greg Prato

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Detail: CD
• Format: CD
• Genre: ROCK
• Format Type: CD
• Released: 07/01/1997