On September 17, 1976, Rush rolled into the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena in Binghamton as the opening act — not the headliner — on a Blue Öyster Cult tour, part of a swing that took the bands through Syracuse, Plattsburgh, and Rochester within the same week. It’s a striking footnote given the timing: Rush’s own breakthrough live album, All the World’s a Stage, dropped less than two weeks later, on September 29, cementing a band that was, on this very night, still paying dues as a support act in Upstate New York. Fans in the Southern Tier caught 2112-era Rush before the rest of the country knew they were about to become headliners in their own right.
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