RUSH — Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland (review)

RUSH — Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland album cover Live album · 2011 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
2.5/5 ·
Warthur
Time Machine is perhaps one of the more inessential live Rush albums. They'd put out enough of these at this point that most devoted fans will have multiple live versions of much of this material already, and they hadn't put out a new studio album between this and Snakes & Arrows so there's significant overlap with Snakes & Arrows Live. The audience is also too prominent in the mix - almost as though to prove that this was recorded live rather than just consisting of studio runthroughs - which is a problem which also affected R30 and Rush In Rio.

But on top of all that, this captures the band on an off-night! Geddy Lee apparently had a terrible cold, but bravely performed anyway, and whilst that was nice for the people live in attendance at the same thing I feel like it should have prompted them to cancel the recording and just record a different gig on the tour instead - or, even more sensibly, just tape several gigs on the tour and pick the best one. And if they did the latter and decided that this was the one to release live anyway, that's mildly embarrassing to say the least.
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