Snakes & Arrows Tour

This tour differed from previous Rush tours in an increase of new material played (nine songs compared to the more usual four or five) and the reintroduction of songs that have not been played for decades (for example "Circumstances", last played when the band was touring for 1978's Hemispheres, and "A Passage to Bangkok", which was last played in its entirety on the Moving Pictures Warm-Up tour and included as a cut on 1981's double-live album Exit... Stage Left). The first leg also marked the first time "Entre Nous" from Permanent Waves was performed live. Some of the older songs (e.g. "Digital Man" from Signals) were shortened. Neil Peart's drum solo underwent changes. The big band ending, which on previous tours featured Peart's performance of "One O'Clock Jump" by Count Basie, instead incorporated a portion of "Cotton Tail", a song he recorded with the Buddy Rich Band on the tribute Burning For Buddy, Vol. 1. The marimba section from "Pieces of Eight" and the tribal excerpt piece from "Scars" were also dropped. ==2007 leg setlist==

Set 1 • "Limelight" • "Digital Man" • "Entre Nous" • "Mission" • "Freewill" • "The Main Monkey Business" • "The Larger Bowl (A Pantoum)" • "Secret Touch" • "Circumstances" • "Between the Wheels" • "Dreamline" Set 2 • "Far Cry" • "Workin' Them Angels" • "Armor and Sword" • "Spindrift" • "The Way the Wind Blows" • "Subdivisions" • "Natural Science" • "Witch Hunt" • "Malignant Narcissism" • "De Slagwerker" (Neil Peart drum solo) • "Hope" • "Summertime Blues" or "Distant Early Warning" (alternated starting on July 4, 2007, and permanently added to the setlist for the entire European leg) • "The Spirit of Radio" • "Tom Sawyer" Encore: • "One Little Victory" • "A Passage to Bangkok" • "YYZ" ==2008 leg setlist==

Set 1 • "Limelight" • "Digital Man" • "Ghost of a Chance" • "Mission" • "Freewill" • "The Main Monkey Business" • "The Larger Bowl (A Pantoum)" • "Red Barchetta" • "The Trees" • "Between the Wheels" • "Dreamline" Set 2: • "Far Cry" • "Workin' Them Angels" • "Armor and Sword" • "Spindrift" • "The Way the Wind Blows" • "Subdivisions" • "Natural Science" • "Witch Hunt" • "Malignant Narcissism" • "De Slagwerker" (Neil Peart drum solo) • "Hope" • "The Spirit of Radio" • "2112"I."Overture"II."The Temples of Syrinx" • "Tom Sawyer" Encore: • "One Little Victory" • "A Passage to Bangkok" • "YYZ" == Tour dates ==