I'll put up my hand and say that I much prefer R30 over Rio. Not only is the sound better, but the camera work is a lot better - it doesn't jump around so much as it does on Rio which, at times, can make feel a little nauseous.
True, the audience reaction doesn't quite reach the dizzy heights than the Rio crowd did but I think audience size has to be taken into account - I don't know what the ratio between the two were but I would say that, at a minimum, Rio had twice as many people there than R30.
My only real gripe is the lack of the full set list on R30. They proved it could be done on Rio so why the edit on 30 (I can understand it CD wise - keeping it to a double CD rather than a triple).
Personally, I much prefer watching my RCMH R30 boot as you do get the full set list.
I don't if anyone has had a look at the comments about R30 on
Prog Archives but I'm not sure what they're driving at with some of the criticisms:
H?t LICHAAM (Ren?)
Why oh why do artists have to speak in the language from the country they are performing? Most people don't understand it
I think its called common courtesy - it shows that the members of the band have made some effort to acknowledge internation differences instead of arrogantly assuming everyone speaks English.
bartok
a "b" setlist
AfanSpur (Clive Shell)
There are far too many weaker tracks on the list...
This is such a mediocre set...
Weaker songs!!!! Since when have Spirit of Radio, Animate, Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, Red Sector A, Earthshine, Subdivisions been
b setlist? Or is reference being made to some of the lesser known songs like Between the Wheels and Mystic Rhythms which, if you look at the majority of Rush board comments, were among the real crowd pleasers in the set list.
This DVD is for Rush junkies
Excuse me if I'm being very dense but I thought the whole point of the R30 DVD (indeed any release, especially a live one) is primarily aimed at the die-hard fan base with 'casual' buyers being a bonus (its the compilations that are aimed at the non-fan).