It’s always nice to switch up on the second leg and make it a little different. We’d be loath to drop them to add more of Clockwork Angels, at least on the first leg. There’s still a lot of older stuff we want to do, and we’ve got some great songs lined up from the past. I think our intention is probably to prepare the whole thing whether we’ll do it or not we’re still not sure, especially on the first leg of the tour. There’s a great deal of pressure on us now to do the whole record, which we don’t anticipate. “We’re dropping and replacing songs constantly, and that’s the way it always goes before we get into rehearsals. “The set list is quite fluid these days,” Lifeson says.
I would say that it’s an evolutionary extension of what the Time Machine Tour was, but we are definitely freshening it up, and there’ll be a lot of new video stuff going on.”Īnd, of course, Lifeson and bandmates Geddy Lee and Neil Peart expect to dedicate a considerable amount of stage time to Clockwork Angels, a concept album that will be followed by a novel co-written by drummer-lyricist Peart and Kevin J. The new novel Clockwork Angels begins with the line: The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect lifeand someone who realizes that it can’t possibly be enough. It’s new staging, new lighting - everything is new and fresh about it. Lifeson says the production is “still in a planning stage” but promises that “it’s a whole new show. “I think his intention is to use these musicians he’s been working with for a long time, who he trusts, and once they’re settled in, he doesn’t have to be around all the time and he can come out whenever he feels like it.” “Certainly in the beginning he’ll be out for a bit,” the guitarist says. 7 in Manchester, N.H., and likely will appear at some of the shows as well. Lifeson says Campbell will be writing arrangements for the tour, which kicks off Sept.
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