The entire set is included as bonus material on R40, a six-BluRay disc compendium compiling of all of their live concert films from the past few years. There's 2003's Rush In Rio, 2005's R30, 2008's Snakes and Arrows Live, Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland and last year's Clockwork Angels Tour. This week, Radio.com is proud to host the premiere of "The Loser."

We spoke with bassist/singer Geddy Lee about the performance, the band's early days, and how he developed his on-stage banter. What went through your mind when you watched the footage of you guys performing in 1974?

Well, watching that is like an out-of-body experience for me. Because I remember it, and at the same time, it was so long ago, it's hard to know if it's a real memory, or a dream state memory. It's hard to feel like that same guy who was screeching on the stage back then in unusual clothing.

Alex Lifeson told us that the thing that stuck out in his mind is that the audience were seated the entire time, no one got up! That was a very Canadian response back then. Canadians, especially back then, were an almost self-conscious audience. Even if they were loving it, most of the crowd was quite quiet. That's changed, of course, over the years. Back then, you would play a small town in Canada or across the country, and you wouldn't be sure that they were loving it. When they actually were loving it, but they weren't very demonstrative about it. So, we'd come back from the U.S. and American crowds were famously exuberant, and then you'd cross the border and do some small town in Saskatchewan or something, the crowd would be not so exuberant. You'd feel like you were bombing, but afterwards people would come up and say, "Man, I loved your show!"

Was it bittersweet, watching the footage with John Rutsey? Yeah, it is sad in one sense, but it's also quite a nice thing that this footage is available, so people can see what we were like with him, and what he was like. I think in a way, it helps keep his memory alive. He's part of our history.

Back then, John was the guy in the band who talked to the audience from the stage. Did you prefer that you didn't have to take on that role? I was always the reluctant� everything. I was originally a guitarist, and the bass player in my old garage band quit, and they voted and I became the bass player. I was the only one that could sing, so I became the singer. I didn't really want to write lyrics, so in the early days of Rush, John wrote the lyrics. I was a very shy kid, I didn't really feel comfortable talking to the audience, so John did that. So I really kind of backed into my entire career.