Here’s “Tom Sawyer”, the opening track for Rush’s 1981 magnum opus “Moving Pictures” captured from an original US pressing mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk and from the 2015 reissue mastered by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios.

You can click on the following time marks to quickly jump between pressings:

(00:00) Video intro

– (00:35) Original 01
– (01:12) Original 02
– (01:23) Original 03
– (01:45) Original 04
– (02:10) Original 05
– (02:34) Original 06
– (03:06) Original 07
– (03:44) Original 08
– (04:05) Original 09
– (04:25) Original 10

– (05:18) 2015 Reissue 01
– (05:56) 2015 Reissue 02
– (06:07) 2015 Reissue 03
– (06:28) 2015 Reissue 04
– (06:53) 2015 Reissue 05
– (07:17) 2015 Reissue 06
– (07:50) 2015 Reissue 07
– (08:27) 2015 Reissue 08
– (08:49) 2015 Reissue 09
– (09:08) 2015 Reissue 10

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