Backstage Secrets: On The Road With The Rock Band Rush

This is the best behind the scenes with RUSH. Shows and explains everything there is to know about setting up the stage, rigging lights, sound checks, etc etc etc. Each chapter on the dvd is a solid hour long! Will take a while to watch all of it, so this is by far more than worth it for RUSH fans world-wide. Makes you not only appreciate the band more but the crew that sets the show every night. Its truely amazing to watch. This is a MUST for any RUSH fan!!!!

I am a huge fan of the rock band Rush so naturally I wanted this DVD set. I’ve always wondered what goes in to putting on a major concert event. This DVD set goes into very great detail about what it actually takes to put on a large scale Arena rock show. Yes, it’s focused on my favorite band, but the information is still the same for any large rock production. I found it very informative And it helped me appreciate all of the people in the background who make concerts such a pleasure! Well worth the purchase.

Great DVD! I worked on road crews for 10 years, this documentary captures the road life perfectly. Possibly the best documentary about concert production ever! First saw part of the documentary on You Tube but the video quality was very low, glad I bought the DVD, video quality is standard def but shot beautifully by a professional crew.

"This has been one of the best behind the scenes documentaries that I've seen! Goes behind almost every aspect of setting up a big rock concert. This is a must for RUSH fans and for any music fans interested in behind the scenes. Thanks for making this available.Buyers: Real deal here...Silver pressed DVDs. Get them here and not from Amazon. "

The Backstage Secrets is very similar in structure to a little known, but fascinating documentary done by NFL films of the Journey Frontiers tour many years ago. This video has a great structure in that the individual components of the total production are broken out into chapters, each approx. 1 hour long and covering specific aspects of the concert production. If you are a Rush fan, the bands appearance and on stage performances are very minimum, but very candid and interesting. If you are a musician, and have been on the road, or a roadie, this is a must watch and very, very interesting. I am an automation engineer and an ex-professional musician many years ago. I found this video, which appears to be a multi-episodic documentary, probably produced for Canadian Public TV, interesting from the technical side to the extreme. The explanations of the setup, the magic of the rigging, the incredible talent and creativity of the road crew, and the relationship of men who must work together for months in demanding conditions are all presented with a great sense of light comedy. The cast of odd characters is entertaining, and the devotion to their work at the cost of their personal situations is sobering. This video isn't for everyone, but if you are a rigger, electrician, pipefitter, mechanic, roadie, basement musician, or aspiring band manager, get it and you will enjoy it immensely. And for you Rush fans, you can even figure what the dinosaurs and Barbie dolls are all about!

Informative...not the best recording quality, but still awesome if you love Rush!

It's longer than 5 hours! Did you know that? This is not a good thing.It's ridiculous. They don't have any "secrets." All they did was chase, with a camera, 5 different people who were setting up a Rush show: the lights guy, the sound guy, the effects guy, the instruments guy, and the road manager. I simplify a bit, but that's basically it.Do we really need to hear about how the road manager arranges hotels for Rush tours? Sheesh. Or what vegetables Geddy's personal chef is making for him? Documentaries about the influences on and development of their music are one thing, but if your level of interest in the band extends to wanting to know who among the road crew considers himself "Geddy's friend" and who doesn't, then I suggest you have psychological problems.I've always considered myself an enormous Rush fan, but this is the limit. It would have been much more interesting if they had edited it down to an hour, an hour and a half. But five hours! You're gonna be completely sick of this by the time you're done watching it. It's longer than Bondarchuk's "War and Peace"!

The band ought to sue the makers of this video for what a crappy job they did on it. And to think that RUSH allowed them to use their band name on the front cover. I have never seen video production this bad. These guys need to go back to school and re-take "DVD 101" all over again. It's simply disgraceful. Then, they use stock music (monotonous, bad stock music) throughout all five hours. Uggh! No Rush music. It's cool if you want to see what it takes to get a rock show up and running (although this documentary could have been about ANY band), but that's about it. I wanted desperately to give this only one star, but gave it two only because it has something to do with RUSH! Do yourself a favor: DON'T waste your money on this horribly produced monstrosity. Save the cash and go see RUSH this summer!