RUSH - Live from Opening Night of Test For Echo Tour (part 2) 1996/10/19 Knickerbocker Arena, Albany

[@Ram44]

This was the only Rush tour where we were so blown away by the end of the first set (2112 complete) that they could have ended the show and we would have been satisfied. I couldn't believe they still had an entire 2nd set to do. Great memories.

[@waynestrawbridge2025]

😢cum up

[@EquityCall]

I was there and it was amazing. When Neil got up and the drum set rotated, my 15 year old mind was blown

[@jackrivera3596]

I was there. The local radio station PYX 106 treated this as a huge event, and even after the concert they talked about it. I remember calling the radio station and all I could say was "The whole side one of 2112." Then they mentioned that it's been 11 years since Rush played Natural Science live, but all I kept saying was "The whole side one of 2112."

[@damnyankeefl]

I won tickets to that tour from a local orlando rock station. I'm not sure if I was the right caller, but I gave them the best ad. I just said when they picked up ' did I win did I win - this is gonna be amazing they are playing ALL of 2112 it's gonna be epic. . I was the 'right ' caller LOL

[@fed1up]

Time And Motion is a nice touch. My favorite thing on that album.

[@maziu27]

i dont know why but i really like totem

[@Jammer2112]

@@maziu27 Totem is a great and underappreciated song!

[@kjsdahl]

Very partial to The color of Right

[@fed1up]

Color of right has a cool riff

[@StickHits]

Very happy such a historic moment of Rush's history was captured so well. I would do anything to get my hands on a soundboard recording from this show. It's crazy that there are so many soundboard recordings and video recordings over the years, but you can count on half of one hand how many times both are from the same concert, so we can't sync them together in to what would be an incredible bootleg show. It drives me nuts.

[@maximilianodelrio]

Time and motion was done dirty, its by far their most underrated track

[@medmac2112]

I know! I’m really curious as to why they dropped it.

[@trenken]

@@medmac2112its kind of a deep cut. It didnt get any sort of attention that would warrant to keep playing it on future tours. This album in general didnt get much play from them in the tours that followed. T4E didnt get a great response from fans and is still trashed a lot online. Rush would have been aware at that time that people didnt love it.

[@medmac2112]

@@trenken Good point and I completely agree, but it got cut very early into its own tour as well. According to setlistfm it was only played 11 times! They chose to keep the other T4E songs for the rest of the tour so my main question was why they decided to drop that one. I guess they just weren’t feeling it or it didn’t get good enough vibes from the crowd.

[@trenken]

@@medmac2112 yeah i like it but its just a weird song. I like that its weird, it reminds me of old rush in a way, but Id imagine they either didnt like playing it much or didnt think the crowd was too into it.

[@ruthylopez]

It reminds me of "old" Rush as well. Alex's "tone" on that song sort of reminds me of Hemispheres for some reason. I really like Time and Motion. One of my faves on that album.@@trenken

[@jacobpflum566]

Came here to watch time and motion. Then saw the video transitions.....came to comments to see if others felt the same way. I was right haha to another bootleg we go!!

[@USAMehdi]

Good old boys in good old days... Thanks for sharing! Most awesomest trio in the known universe! I went to every Rush concert since 1980. Some twice. I saw this one in Dallas...

[@ebrawley6438]

i was at the dallas show !

[@malinwj1167]

Nice save by Alex coming out of the synth/bridge section of YYZ

[@brennanhouser2522]

I was at this show Road the train from Raleigh,NC to Albany,NY. One of the greatest Rush shows I ever saw.

[@ebrawley6438]

i was at the dallas show and out of every concert ive ever been to , this was the greatest show ever !!

[@ruthylopez]

I was at the Dallas show as well. Good ole Reunion Arena. Good times! This was back when you didn't even know the set list until you went to the concert. When they played Natural Science I almost passed out.

[@VoodooCrab]

This is so good. Brings back sweet memories.

[@Ram44]

The only show where Resist and Time and Motion were both played. They alternated after this (I saw Time and Motion twice - in Rockford and Milwaukee) before it was dropped permanently.

[@medmac2112]

Time and Motion is such a great tune, wonder why they dropped it so early in the tour.

[@dmannrocks]

By October 31 1996 they played virtuality instead of time and motion.

[@Theanarchist2112]

@@dmannrocksvirtuality was already being played since the beginning of the tour.

[@matthewmcdaniel3853]

I saw them 10 days later at The Palace of Auburn Hills, first rush show

[@kippsguitar6539]

Wonderful, thanks so much

[@MykeLewisMusic]

I have a VHS copy of this show that I bought from a record store in 1998 for about $60. Who knew KZbin was gonna be able to save me so much money on live concert bootlegs! 🤣

[@mattsmith9471]

You could have gotten it from the source, like I did, for much cheaper.

[@curtis1976smw]

thanks for up load very nice,thanks again.

[@TheAnalogueKid]

Brilliant stuff,never saw this live ,as in Europe,but thanks for the share.

[@maggieanaya1114]

Awesome! Love it!

[@damnyankeefl]

saw this one twice, including mansfield ma where they recorded 2112 for different stages. when the lights came up I didn't move for a couple solid minutes. and told my wife sorry but that was better than sex....

[@pryt86]

Damn do I wish they would of played time and motion again. They only played it in the beginning of this tour then cut it. Then was never played again.

[@apieceofdirt4681]

Personally I’m glad they stopped playing any song from T4E. It’s probably their most weakest release.

[@shadydayspecialofficial7767]

@@apieceofdirt4681 I don’t know, driven slaps, and some of the others are decent. But yeah probable bottom five at least

[@lisaharrison1031]

Awesome man!!! 🤘🤘🤘

[@siosio6935]

Don’t know why they stopped playing Time and Motion. It’s a really cool song

[@wycliffite]

sounds like they were a bit off on Freewill at about 14:25. who cares. best band in the universe.

[@larrylar2112]

Neil played the second chorus, not the first, which is where they were ... shit happens.

[@damnyankeefl]

opening night. i'm a drummer and we all have brain fades sometimes. very very seldom with these guys....

[@Firearrow5235]

Alex also came back in wrong on YYZ. It happens. As a musician I actually like it when there's mistakes. I get a sense of A: Been there and B: See? It's okay to make mistakes. No one either notices or cares.

[@Pearljam313]

I was there!

[@otaviosouzaprazeres]

Goodbye Rush

[@anthonyalvarez2805]

Just shows that while Neil is a god on the drums, he is still human...Freewill blunder.

[@zadtrax]

55:58 Too many corny video transitions during Time and Motion. I may have a seizure.

[@maximilianodelrio]

it looks like a shitpost haha

[@adrianbiankin]

14:22 Freewill mistake

[@medmac2112]

What is that black line across the stage? You can see it in many places but 39:09 is an example.

[@broussard41]

Black Lines Matter … George Floyd meets Tom Sawyer… Jacob Blake meets The Anarchist … Justin Trudeau? More like Bust In Trudeau and the three guys take turns shooting Canadian ropes across Trudeau’s face.

[@shaunsteele8244]

I was at the San Diego show about a month later... any footage of that one?

[@badmonkey2222]

Knickerbocker arena?!! Lol

[@Tumamagringa1]

Next day at buffalo arena....f

[@apieceofdirt4681]

Where’s Neil?

[@broussard41]

You really want me to answer that?

[@scissors656]

alex has gained some weight since then

[@nashvillevaper5239]

***** Hey, me too! I'm 6 1/2 years younger than Big Al and like to eat as much as him. :-)

[@timyo6288]

Ur mom gained some weight since then

[@ziskokid1]

Alex looks like a little schoolboy here with his new haircut....lol

[@jami_veret118]

1:14:35 Alex is a bit too early but that's the only mistake of this whole show

[@VoodooCrab]

I thought he sounded a little rusty on the first couple of songs. 😆😆

[@ellavaderknows]

This was their first tour with in-ear monitors, instead of stage monitors. They're definitely a learning curve, getting used to them. Maybe that was part of the issue?

[@palooza1]

14:25, neil comes in wrong. should've been right before the 2nd verse, but he came in as if it was after the 2nd chorus

[@drzoidberg1987]

​@@ellavaderknows afaik, the Roll the Bones tour was the first with Alex and Geddy using IEMs - they still had wedges, but gradually phased them out as they got used to what was then pretty new technology. Neil didn't switch to IEMs until the Vapor Trails tour. He still had the big wedges mounted on stands behind the drum riser.

[@sgtpepper1138]

I wasn't a fan of the sample Neil used for his MalletKat, it was very harsh sounding, almost out of tune with itself (two pitches with one very sharp). Awesome performance though, as always.

[@toddstein74]

Some sound man lost his job after this show.

[@dmstewart66]

Neils kit sounds pretty awful here... But great performance non the less