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Night Visions Live (2014)

Where the lyrics of Night Visions Live take you, and where it was really made.

Lead singer Dan Reynolds sang this night with a broken hand, injured by punching a drum at an earlier May 2013 show.

Key places

One night at Red Rocks, May 2013 (2013)

Recording site Red Rocks Amphitheatre — The album was recorded during the Night Visions Tour performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on May 16, 2013. The venue holds just under 9,500 people and sold out for this one-night show. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Night Visions Live: second live album by American rock band Imagine Dragons
• Recorded live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Denver, Colorado, on May 16, 2013
• Recorded during the Night Visions Tour
• Released February 25, 2014 by KIDinaKORNER and Interscope Records
• Physical editions include the 2012 documentary The Making of Night Visions
• Physical editions also include music videos made during the Night Visions album cycle
• Later included on the super deluxe expanded edition of Night Visions, released September 9, 2022 for the album's 10-year anniversary

Background

• Night Visions released in 2012 to commercial success
• Night Visions Tour: year-long tour starting early 2013 and ending mid-2014
• Tour spanned over 170 dates across North America, South America, Europe and Oceania
• Denver show was one of many recorded on audio-visual during the tour
• Recorded show was the band's second live album, after Live at Independent Records, also recorded in Denver

Recording

• Venue holds just under 9,500 people
• The one-night-only performance sold out
• Setlist did not reflect the album's track listing
• Audio recorded by Matt Cropper, Kevin Clock and Jesse O'Brien
• Show filmed in order of the setlist, with some songs left out of the video
• Performance itself lasted under two hours

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Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Imagine Dragons is an American pop rock band formed in 2008 and based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Dan Reynolds met drummer Andrew Tolman at Brigham Young University in 2008; the two recruited other members to form the band.
• The band's lineup changed several times; Wayne Sermon and Ben McKee completed the core line-up by 2009.
• The band released their first EPs in Las Vegas and signed with Interscope Records in November 2011.

Members

• The current lineup consists of lead singer Dan Reynolds, guitarist Wayne Sermon, and bassist Ben McKee.
• Daniel Platzman joined as drummer in 2011 and was later absent from the band; Andrew Tolman served as touring drummer.

Career

• Debut album Night Visions (2012) peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200; the single "Radioactive" topped the Hot Rock Songs chart for 23 weeks.
• Smoke + Mirrors (2015) became the band's first album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
• Evolve (2017) produced the chart-topping singles "Believer", "Thunder", and "Whatever It Takes".
• Origins (2018) debuted at No. 2 in the US; Mercury – Acts 1 & 2 (2022) and Loom (2024) followed.
• The band has sold more than 74 million albums and won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance for "Radioactive".
• Critical reception of their albums has been mixed, though the band remains commercially successful.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Westword: A.H. Goldstein of Denver alternative weekly Westword described the show as a well-honed, big-budget stageshow
• Goldstein wrote that the show would have fit any stadium or glitzy room in its native Las Vegas
• Album released February 25, 2014 by KIDinaKORNER and Interscope Records

Records

• Release on KIDinaKORNER and Interscope Records in February 2014
• Included on the 2022 super deluxe expanded edition of Night Visions for the 10-year anniversary

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Dan Reynolds was recovering from a broken hand that he had injured by punching a drum at an earlier May 2013 show.
• This was the second live recording made while Reynolds had a medical condition; the first, Live at Independent Records, was made while he recovered from throat surgery.
• The video followed the setlist in chronological order but left out several songs, including Hear Me, Radioactive and Stand By Me.
• The Night Visions Tour opening night on December 30, 2012 at The Joint in Las Vegas was later used for a live video of Radioactive and for parts of the Demons music video.
• The performance itself lasted under two hours.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

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