This song brings back teenage memories to when it first came out. It was around the same time Bon Jovi's Runaway was out and I'd listen to them again and again in my Ford Pinto, in the front yard or driving around town scoping chicks at the mall. Wow, what a memory.
I was lucky enough to see them live in Amsterdam in the eighties. Brilliant show! I have about 10 cd's of Saga and they still perform! Very underrated band.
The Saga boys were from my neighbourhood so this was required listening growing up. I saw these guys a bunch of times in the 80s and I saw them again last summer at the El Macombo. Still mega chops and sound amazing.
When this song came out i was in 8th or 9th grade and went out and bought the album because i had never heard anything like it. I was the only one in my high school with this album. But then again, in a town of 1000 people... There were only 23 in my graduating class.
SAGA was one of those bands from the eighties where you thought hey man are these dudes from Germany? Switzerland? France? didn't they open up for U2? Just a great Canadian band that had some killer music. I like how the bass player is trying not to laugh, LOL
They demonstrate you can be prog without weird time signatures, and still write catchy tunes. I love 70s lengthy artsy prog, but i totally see why people could hate it, but like this
I saw them in 1992 in Germany, while in the Army, too. But I knew of them before,. Their first 4 albums each had two songs that were sub-title with a chapter name. If you connected the songs in chaper order. They told a story... a saga. Hence their name.
Good tune. They had two singles from the Worlds Apart album, On The Loose and Wind Him Up. Personally like the latter of the two tunes. Both great tunes, though.
Rush were the masters of the drums, Saga were the masters of the keyboards. Amazing band. "Wind Him Up", "Scratching The Surface", "Don't Be Late", "Help Me Out", "Humble Stance" all amazing songs
You two missed it, but right as you paused it toward the end, a loose panel of the stage tipped when he stepped off of it, right before he sand "heading for a fall." The footage is from a live gig, and that coincidence wasn't planned!
My rule of thumb is that when a supposed live session sounds exactly like the studio recording down to the last particular, what you're actually witnessing is a lip-synch.
"Prog" refers to Progressive Rock which started in England in the '60's. It has no political connotations at all, anyone who says otherwise needs their head examined because they don't know what they're talking about.
As cool as that song and video are (I love them both) looking back I can see that it was staged to look like a real concert. Unless someone can testify to being at that exact concert that will be my take from here on out. Back when the song was out I just assumed that it was from a live show. I did understand that the audio wasn't live, but I don't think the footage was real either. Despite all that I still love this song.
Someone dubbed the album version to this live concert. I used to be able to find it with the original audio, but it's hard to find now. It was a multi band concert where Todd Rundgren was among the other performers.
Deserved a better fate. Extremely talented, but never found their niche or success in North America. I kid you not, they are playing at my local bowling alley for a concert.
...and Baumi saw em live in Dortmund in a four bands concert: Saga, Foreigner, Spliff (german band) and Meat Loaf in the 80ies. That concert was really long and I was DEAD after it, believe me. We went there for Foreigner, but got out as Saga fans lol...
You have totally botch this reaction. Not listening and looking at stuff that don't matter made me quit. I usually like your reactions, but this one is crap
