RUSH - New Life for Test For Echo Concert DVD; "Complete" R30 Release To See Light Of Day?
February 24, 2006, 18 years ago
According to RUSH fansite 2112.net, in the March issue of the Dutch Heavy Metal magazine Aardschok, Geddy Lee states that the long shelved Test For Echo concert film, originally intended for release as the Different Stages DVD, may eventually be released as soon as later this year (the project was shelved in 1999 when it was discovered there were problems with the sound recording). Later in the interview, Lee states that the band made a mistake not releasing the full Frankfurt concert on R30, and that the show may be reissued in the future in its entirety.
"Alex Lifeson has made (the DVD reissues) his personal project. Some of it will be the recordings we just discussed, but we have other things in the vault as well, such as a concert that we recorded on the Test For Echo tour, with which we weren't satisfied at the time, but that's been replaced by its historical value. The lion's share will come out in 2006. Some of the songs were dropped from R30 due to technical reasons but also we didn't want to have too many similarities with Rush In Rio. Why not? Well, I think now that it was a dumb decision of ours. In fact I regret not having put the whole show on those disks. But I promise you, all those songs that were cut will eventually see the light of day, in some shape or form."
