Test for Echo Tour

Test for Echo Tour

Tour by Rush
Associated album	Test for Echo
Start date	October 19, 1996
End date	July 4, 1997
Legs	2
No. of shows	68
Rush concert chronology

Rush's Test for Echo Tour was in support of the band's studio album Test for Echo. It was the band's first tour without an opening act, and was billed as "An Evening With Rush." The tour kicked off October 19, 1996 at the Knickerbocker Arena in Albany, New York and culminated on July 4, 1997 at the Corel Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. This was the only concert tour in which Rush played the song "2112" in its entirety. This marks the last tour until 2002 because of tragedies in Neil Peart's life.

Set list

Leg one

• Intro (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
• "Dreamline"
• "The Big Money"/"Wipe Out"
• "Driven" (from Test for Echo)
• "Half the World" (from Test for Echo)
• "Red Barchetta"
• "Animate"
• "Limbo" (from Test for Echo)
• "The Trees"
• "Red Sector A"
• "Virtuality" (from Test for Echo)
• "Nobody's Hero"
• "Closer to the Heart"
• "2112" (complete)

(-Intermission-)

• "Test for Echo" (from Test for Echo)
• "Subdivisions"
• "Freewill"
• "Roll the Bones"
• "Resist" (dropped 10/23,26,29/96 and 11/1,4,7/96)
• "Leave That Thing Alone"
• "The Rhythm Method" (drum solo)
• "Natural Science"
• "Force Ten"
• "Time and Motion" (from Test for Echo) (10/19-20, followed "Roll the Bones" on 10/23,26,29 and 11/1,4,7/96; completely dropped 11/9/96)
• "The Spirit of Radio"
• "Tom Sawyer"

(-Encore-)

• "YYZ"
• "Cygnus X-1" (teaser)

Leg two

• Intro (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
• "Dreamline"
• "Limelight"
• "Stick It Out"
• "Driven"
• "Half the World"
• "Red Barchetta"
• "Animate"
• "Limbo"
• "The Trees"
• "Virtuality"
• "Nobody's Hero"
• "Closer to the Heart"
• "2112" (complete)

(-Intermission-)

• "Test for Echo"
• "Freewill"
• "Red Sector A"
• "Roll the Bones"
• "Resist"
• "Leave That Thing Alone"
• "The Rhythm Method" (drum solo)
• "Natural Science"
• "Force Ten"
• "The Spirit of Radio"
• "Tom Sawyer"

(-Encore-)

• "YYZ"
• "Cygnus X-1" (teaser)

Tour dates

References

• Rush: The Complete Tourbooks 1977–2004. 2006 Anthem Entertainment, Toronto, Ontario