Rush in Rio

Rush in Rio is a three-disc live album by the Canadian band Rush, released on October 21, 2003. The album is also available as a two-DVD set. With the exception of the last two tracks on the third disc, the album was recorded at Maracanã Stadium in Rio [de Janeiro] on the final night of the Vapor Trails Tour. The other two tracks were taken from previous shows on the same tour. "Between Sun & Moon" was recorded at the Cricket Wireless Pavilion, Phoenix, Arizona, on September 27, 2002, and "Vital Signs" was recorded at the Colisée Pepsi, Quebec City, Quebec, on October 19, 2002.
The DVD has been certified 7× Platinum by the R.I.A.A. in the US, with over 700,000 copies sold as of September 2010. The track "O Baterista" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 2005, but lost to Brian Wilson's "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow".
Rush in Rio was the first live album released by the band that did not follow the pattern of releasing a live album after every four studio albums; every subsequent tour would receive a live album release. It was also the first to feature a complete setlist without any changes in song order, and the first that presents a single night's performance in its entirety. In an interview about the album and DVD, Alex Lifeson and James "Jimbo" Barton noted that it took an extended amount of time to mix the sound due to technical difficulties in recording the audio on primitive equipment.
At this concert, Rush played to 40,000, their second-largest crowd on the Vapor Trails Tour. In a rare departure from the band's practice of re-creating the sound of their studio work during live performances, the song "Resist" was rearranged into a stripped-down acoustic version featuring Lifeson and Geddy Lee, with Peart sitting out after his drum solo.

Track listing

All tracks written by Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart unless otherwise noted.

Disc One

Disc Two

Disc Three

Tracks 7 and 8 are bonus tracks.

Personnel

Rush

Geddy Lee – vocals, bass, acoustic guitars, synthesizers
Alex Lifeson – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals
Neil Peart – drums, percussion

Production

Produced and mixed by Alex Lifeson and James "Jimbo" Barton
Recorded and engineered by Brad Madix
Mastered by Adam Ayan
Directed and produced by Daniel Catullo

Additional Recording Studios: Icon Recording Studios, Hollywood, California.

Icon Recording Studios owner and Chief Engineer – Andrew Troy
Assistant Engineer – Aaron Kaplay
2nd Assistant Engineer – Pablo Solorzano
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