If you read this blog regularly, you would notice that I started collecting Kiss Tour Books and this is a very recent thing. As a result, I have suddenly had numerous Tour Books fall in to my lap almost literally. First were a couple of Bon Jovi Tour Books and now I stumbled across not 1, not 2, not even 3, but 4 Rush Tour Books. It is like the Tour Book Gods are speaking to me. I grabbed all 4 as the prices were really great and made it worth owning. This here is the first of the 4 Rush Tour Book posts that coming. The place I found these was Hardy Boy Records in Mint Hill, NC. I always seem to find some cool stuff from him as I have found numerous Kiss Bootlegs at his shop. His shop is quickly becoming my favorite place to go.
This Tour Book for Rush is covering the tour for the album ‘Power Windows’. The tour ran from March 10, 1985 to May 26, 1986 and covered 75 dates all across the U.S. and there home country of Canada. And the setlist was pretty impressive…
SETLIST
Intro (“Three Stooges Theme”)
The Spirit Of Radio
Limelight
The Big Money
New World Man
Subdivisions
Manhattan Project
Middletown Dreams
Witch Hunt
Red Sector A
Closer To The Heart
Marathon
The Trees
Mystic Rhythms
Distant Early Warning
Territories
YYZ
Drum Solo
Red Lenses
Encore:
Tom Sawyer
2112
Overture
The Temples Of Syrinx
Grand Designs
In The Mood
The Tour Book, however, isn’t as impressive. First, this one is a little rough around the edges. Second, their art director was not very creative, imaginative, or inspiring by any stretch of the imagination. Compared to the Kiss Tour Books around this time, this is as basic and lifeless as it comes. Still cool to have it though. Let’s get started.
Inside to kick things off, you do get a 3 page essay by the legend himself, Neil Peart…
Then unlike a lot of programs I have seen, you get the credits and then some band pictures. Usually those credits are one of the last couple pages…
And then it is straight in to the individual band member pictures with comments from each member…
And then it is page after page of band pictures. You will notice a very simple theme. White background, one to maybe a handful of pictures with no cool formats, background, etc… Pretty basic.
I will interrupt briefly to point out that this a real band mentality. No one member is monopolizing the pictures. Rush equally distributes the face time among all 3 members. Not all bands do this (Bon Jovi…cough…cough)…
Now we are to the final pages and the one page has all the album pictures listed and I believe the original owner was tracking which albums he had plus a few extras written in at the bottom. Oh well, they all can’t be perfect…
And now the end…
Thanks for hanging out for a little while and I hope you enjoyed. The next one should be up in about a week.
2 Loud 2 Old Music 
Love Power Windows. Thanks for the reminder. Grat little article.
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Thanks. The books get better so come back next week for the next book.
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Man I love Ged’s Davie Crockett hair cut, and Alex’s Duran Duran top. Look at all Ged’s different keyboards on page 5! INSANE!!!
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*Davy Crockett. Of course referring to the fact that it looks like he has a live raccoon on his head. The ’80s ruled.
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I might’ve even had one of those hats as a kid.
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It is a cool book for seeing the retro Rush look of the 80’s. I did enjoy that. They did date themselves with those looks.
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Power Windows is a great album. Neat you got this tour book and thanks for sharing the pics in it, I guess maybe it’s the color that makes it look a little stale in appearance. Still, a cool piece of rock history to own.
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This one is a little dull compared to the other ones. It is so basic and simple and little thought in to impactful presentation. They do get better.
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Power Windows isn’t my favourite Rush but I love the look of this book. I really like how the pictures don’t favour any single member. Think Bon Jovi tour books are like that?
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Oh no! Bon Jovi would never share equal pages with the other members. That is why Rush is a band and Bon Jovi is a solo project.
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He said it, folks! Bon Jovi is a solo project. Now you can leave me alone!
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SOLO PROJECT!!!! NOT A BAND!!! I have no issues saying that. It stopped being a band years ago (if it ever was one).
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Nice spread! Did good getting all the photos in. Yes, Rush is pretty simple compared to KISS. I actually dromt have this one.
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Well they are out there. Mine wasn’t expensive which is why I bought it.
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Was the setlist the same every night on the tour?
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I don’t think so. This set list was the average set list throughout the tour
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I love the checklist! I actually look forward to those kinds of things. I have an Eric Clapton LP where someone worked out their monthly expenses in the inner sleeve. $75 for rent!
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I can’t think of a better place to do your budget. Makes perfect sense. 🙂
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The set list became a playlist on Spotify.
I’ve always kept a list of albums I need in my wallet because I didnt want to tarnish the page that had the albums from either a tour book, a CD or vinyl album or magazine
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I keep a list on my phone now of the holy grail albums and then i keep of list of the Kiss bootlegs I have so if I see one in the wild, I can quickly check if I have that show in some format.
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