![]() As he dies, another planetary battle begins resulting in the ambiguous ending "Attention all planets of the Solar Federation: We have assumed control." (This spoken section was created by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reportedly "messing around with a tape recorder".) ![]() Upon awakening he becomes distraught and commits suicide. He goes into hiding and dreams of a world before the Solar Federation. When he goes to present this to the priests of the Temples, they destroy the guitar. By 2112, the world is controlled by the "Priests of the Temples of Syrinx", who determine the content of all reading matter, songs, pictures - every facet of life.Ī man discovers a guitar and learns to play different music. In the year 2062, a galaxy-wide war results in the union of all planets under the rule of the Red Star of the Solar Federation. These masters have significantly less dynamic range compression than the 1997 remasters and the "Sector" remasters by Andy VanDette.The 2112 suite Main article: 2112 (song) The high definition master prepared for this release was also made available for purchase in 24-bit/96 kHz and 24-bit/192 kHz formats, at several high-resolution audio online music stores. All the World's a Stage is included in the Sector 1 set.Īll the World's a Stage was remastered for vinyl in 2015 by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios as a part of the official "12 Months of Rush" promotion. The album's original triple gatefold artwork with concert pictures is included with the remaster.Īll the World's a Stage was remastered again in 2011 by Andy VanDette for the "Sector" box sets, which re-released all of Rush's Mercury-era albums.Prior to its release, the same live version of "What You're Doing" was included on the compilation Chronicles in 1990. By 1997, however, advances in recording technology had increased that maximum time to 80 minutes the missing song and chatter are included in the remaster. The original CD omitted "What You're Doing" and the post-show chatter due to recording length constraints (CDs could hold only 75 minutes at the time).All remasters from Rush through Permanent Waves are like this. The tray has a picture of the star with man painting (mirroring the cover art of Retrospective I) with "The Rush Remasters" printed in all capital letters just to the left.In Canada, Gold certification came on December 1, 1976, and platinum on August 1, 1978. ![]() It was certified platinum in the United States in 1981 after the release of Moving Pictures. Reception Īll the World's a Stage was Rush's first US Top 40-charting album and went gold, alongside A Farewell to Kings and 2112 on November 16, 1977. This lasted until 2003, when the band released a live album and DVD of each subsequent studio album's tour.įellow Toronto band Max Webster was the opening act for all 3 Massey Hall performances recorded for the album. While the entirety of "Discovery" would be performed during the A Farewell To Kings tour of 1977-78 and Hemispheres tour of 1978–79, Rush would not perform the entire suite live until the Test for Echo tour of 1996–97, as documented on the live album Different Stages.Īlternate recordings of "2112" and "Something For Nothing" from the June 11–13 performances were released as part of the 2112: 40th Anniversary box set in 2016.Īccording to the liner notes, All the World's a Stage marks the end of the "first chapter of Rush" and would begin a trend of Rush releasing a live album after every four studio albums. ![]() Although the final 32 seconds of "Discovery" are played as a lead-in to "Presentation", the liner notes and track listing do not indicate this. However, due to technological limits of approximately 20 minutes per side on vinyl, the positions of "Lakeside Park" and "2112" were swapped with "Fly By Night / In The Mood" and "Something For Nothing".ĭue to stage time restraints during the 2112 tour of 1976, this performance of the song "2112" omits the "Discovery" and "Oracle: The Dream" sections of the studio recording. This album captures the entire setlist that was regularly performed during headlining shows of the 2112 tour. Content Īccording to lead vocalist and bassist Geddy Lee, the release of a live album in late 1976 "was definitely something we used to buy us more time" as Rush worked on the studio followup to their commercial breakthrough album 2112, released earlier that same year. The title of the album alludes to William Shakespeare's play As You Like It, which would again be referenced by Rush in the 1981 song "Limelight". The album was recorded at Massey Hall in Toronto on June 11, 12, and 13, 1976, during the band's breakthrough 2112 tour. All the World's a Stage is a double live album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1976.
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