Rush - "Spirit of Radio" | 2013 Induction 

He could make the guitar talk

He is recognized by other guitarists as one of the greats.

Only from people who doesn't know shit about music

I totally agree

He is widely recognised by his peers. Also, you have to remember that the individual members of Rush are all so talented that being a member of the unchanged power trio lineup for four decades is a huge credit all by itself.

OMG, I hadn't caught that previously! Thanks for pointing it out. Makes this performance all the better for that moment.

Ha! I'm glad I read this comment before that point came up.

Beautifully put. Living well is the best revenge.

Thank you. This was the most genius band of all time indeed

Perfectly put , thanks for helping more people become aware of what we all had !

Thaty's what they said in an interview. They've played together for thirty years but are still best mates, leaving close one to another in Toronto (or is it Montreal ?), holding barbecues n'stuff…

They stayed normal people til the end yet played like something out of this world

even death doesn't change that........

@@pateris Alex & Geddy live not too far from each other in Toronto. Been band mates since '68. Neil (RIP) was the "new guy" on drums in ' 74. Toured together for 40 years. More consecutive gold & platinum albums than any other group, right after the Beatles & Rolling Stones. Lyrics always had meaning, no explicit profananity or sex in any of their songs. And the kicker that proves they're just genuine, decent Canadian guys.... they're still happily married to their high school sweethearts.

@@nobodyimportant6851 And they have a good sense of humour too !

Indeed!

So do I, and I usually dislike prog !!!

three of the best musicians rush rules forever rest in heaven mr peart miss your wonderful lyrics and drumming

ABSOLUTELY!!! Been listening to them since early 80's.

Magic Power by their Canadian brothers Triumph ain't to shabby either.

I agree ... Neil rules !!! ... Master !!

It was nice to see him grinning at some inside joke with Alex at about 2:15 or so. A less serious moment. Still miss him.

@@brianball6670 It's what Ged's singing at the moment, in the context of the venue. =D

@@LincolnCrisler Ahh! Good point!

Simply the greatest of all time RIP Neil

Yep, we never will again unfortunately. I know Neil is rockin it up in Heaven.

nah man don't despair. The internet is spawning young people that were like these guys and now they can find all this and absorb it learn from it. We are going to get some great stuff because the Lives and music of great Bands like Rush exist in perpetuity and easily available for everyone. Maybe we never get another as good But Mona Lisa is just one brilliant piece of art we wont ever see it again but we saw a lot of art that was influenced by it.

This is what I LOVE about Rush. It's a 3 man team putting out this incredible sound.

and you won't find three men with more love and respect for each other either.

@@Conn30Mtenor and what music we are all stuck with

Have to admit these guys are truly amazing.

Playing this song right there is irony in overdrive

I think they're just enjoying the music there, but the lyrics still rung true

They knew exactly what they were doing by plying this song. It was a great FU to the higher ups of the music industry.

@@ericwyatt3646Love the Born Again profile pic

The master of the art of percussion.

You don’t need to be Canadian to appreciate Rush. Somewhat proud American who credits Rush for making life a little easier

@@jims2987 well said my friend.

@@jims2987same! Lolz 🤘🏼✨🤘🏼♥️♥️🔥🔥🔥🔥

Im Mexican and also I Feel Proud to be Rush Fan!!

watch justin bieber and see how proud you are lol i am kiddin

👍🇨🇦

Relatable!

I saw them at The Spectrum two times- Power Windows and Grace Under Pressure. Absolutely wish I had seen them more times. Life always got in the way.

Check out Yoyoka Soma. She does a cover of YYZ along with many others ranging from Led Zeppelin to The Stray Cats. Oh BTW, she’s 10 years old and has cover videos from when she was 7.

Second greatest, John Bonham is #1.

Yep!.

@Sugar Shane whose the third?

@@lisahill3749 Keith Moon...

1979

and it echoes in the sound of salesmen

@@BobSmith-mg6iz I mean, the album came out on January 1st, 1980, but I guess 1979 is TECHNICALLY correct lol

@@bmxboxter Written in 79, tour started in 79. Saw them play it in Chicago August 1979.

Yes, they HAD to play this song at this ceremony. Freedom of Music!

🙏amen. Ask my oldest; Desiree Nicole RUSH Boehm, what they meant to me.

What's a turntable??? Imma Gen Z'er...

They used some autotune in the 80s but this performance is raw.

@@nahiyanalamgir7056 you sir are wrong, they didnt use autotune in the 80s, as it was invented in 1997, they did have CD and audio recordings enhanced before they hit the markets. They have stated that they don't use it.

@@jamesjoy742 They used vocal enhancements and pitch correction I believe. I didn't mean autotune as an audio processor created in 1997; my bad.

Damn right

@João Piza bass guitar.....

You do know they're using some backing tracks here, right? Who's playing the piano at 4:34? Kind of disappointing.

@@Simonchez There are no backing tracks. Geddy is playing the "piano" with his right foot on the Taurus pedals (You can see it briefly at 4:40-4:41).

@@Simonchez dude! Getty plays keyboards and/or bass through a pedal. Alex will share some of the pedal duties too. They're the GOATS!

@João Piza sung*

I remember first hearing Tom Sawyer in a delivery van I drove back then. It's was just released that day.

Can you imagine Geddy trying to sing Fly by night or even Bastille Day.

Last time I saw Rush playing live was back in 2013 at Festival d’été de Québec and I remember clearly that the musicianship was outstanding, but that the vocals were hard to witness. I love Rush but I think they should have got a new singer at least for live performances many years ago. Ok Rush is a 3-men band but Geddy’s has aged and their early work is too hard (which is perfectly understandable). Some people age and remain able to sing their earlier stuff without too much trouble (thinking of Sting and Rodger Hodgson), but others can’t and it’s ok.

The production team melodyned it (tried to fix it) after the fact and badly mangled the vocal. I’ve recorded vocals for years on various projects, so I know the sound of these bad melodyne jobs. Someone was incredibly lazy in the mix down office and completely destroyed this one. Geddy most certainly sounded much better than this at the actual show.

@@photoniccannon2117 I just told you that he does not lol. He has aged and he cannot sing his work from the early albums, it's perfectly understandable. That's all. No magic, no trickery, no wrong mix.

@@Ogilla I don’t disagree with you my friend. Just sharing the results of my own research and my experiences with these tools. I have likewise noticed that Geddy’s voice has definitely changed, but it sounds quite different on their own DVDs than it does here. This particular video was was the HOF’s production team and was very likely not managed by Rush. This is probably not something Rush or their producers would have ever done themselves. And like you, I cut him slack as well. He maintained most of his range all the way to the very end. It’s impossible to maintain his 30’s level physical stamina all the way into his 60s. He did an impressive job given his age, but nobody could deny he’s had more trouble these days than in the past. And you said it well. It’s totally understandable. Geddy still did better than many other rock singers his age, and for that we give him credit and cut him slack on the rest. (He was a phenomenal singer really. Never got the credit he deserved for it.) But with tools like Melodyne, they are VERY common in the industry and at minimum, 80-90% of the songs on the radio have used them. These tools have a characteristic sound if misused. We are quite used to hearing it so we don’t easily notice the artifacts anymore, but the very rapid pitch shifts and shadow notes (the underwater feeling) is VERY characteristic of Melodyne. Rush was unusual in that they did not use magic for his vocals or treat them. Most bands can’t say the same. Essentially, these tools try to detect two things: pitch and formant. But singers never hit a note dead on, and they never transition without a ramp up to the new note. As a result, the detection algorithms have to have parameters on how quickly they will jump to a new note. If this timing is too fast, it sounds artificial and robotic. If it’s too slow, it doesn’t do any corrections. This is why a lot of manual input is required when using these tools, and it’s how they can sound so transparent and totally invisible. But it literally has to be done by hand for good results. (I’ve had to correct some pretty bad vocals before. A professional could probably elaborate better than I could, but safe to say, it’s definitely tedious.) It sounds like what happened here was that someone didn’t do this process manually and relied on the built algorithms to try to detect the original and “correct” notes. When it thinks it detects a note and it’s off from the root/correct pitch, it will try to correct it in place, and it also shifts the formant while it’s at it (making the note sound “deeper” or “higher” as if it was sung at that actual pitch. It does this seamlessly if it’s correcting to the right pitch, but has some pretty funny-sounding results if the algorithm is wrong.) But when these notes are detected in a choppy way without manual input, the algorithm is always trying to force notes that aren’t actually incorrect into places that they aren’t supposed to be. And while it’s at it, it does so very fast, often bouncing rapidly between several notes before actually settling. And it even tries to correct the “ramp up” transitions between notes. These ramp up transitions are where the washy underwater feeling comes from. It’s trying to force a note where there is none. And it can totally mangle an otherwise decent vocal because those transitions aren’t actually natural. The end result is that very characteristic strained, glassy, washed out/underwater sounding vocal. That’s exactly what seems to have happened here. It’s very different from the sound of their official DVDs or any of their live shows (or anything Rush themselves ever released). But I have to give Rush immense credit. They stayed away from these tools and released honest live albums even into their 60s. It’s rare in the industry. I respect it and have always enjoyed Geddy’s vocals. The only album where production ever really used these tools was TM (you can hear the difference from the cellphone recordings vs. the DVD. They weren’t overdubbed. They were just treated properly.) I have a feeling that the rock and roll hall of fame producers probably did this one. this whole thing doesn’t sound like something Rush would do. I have to say it’s still phenomenal recording/video. And it’s Rush. Any rush show is always over the top. Best regards my friend, and cheers to a fellow Rush fan.

Rush has taught us to be perfectionists. Don't be messing song titles up, not with the Holy Triumvirate

You got that right!

Yep, this is one time you Canadians beat us Aussies, we had nothing quite like Rush.

Hard to believe we lost two Grandmasters. Eddie Van Halen in the same year. 2020 sucked.

If you want to know what it is that they're smiling about, go to the top of the comments section. It's perfectly explained.

@@mtlnascarfan Can you point to that post? I can't find it.

@@482jpsquared "878787random 7 months ago (edited) Neil Peart was a magician on the drums, and an extraordinary soul with an incredible gift for lyrics and storytelling. The world is lesser without him. The great moment in this video starts at the 2:06 point, where Geddy sings the epic line "one likes to believe in the freedom of music, but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity." Behind him, Alex and Neil smile mischievously at each other as they share the inside joke: they are (finally) singing these lines at - of all places - the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the center of the establishment music industry that had improperly rejected them for so long. Living well is the best revenge - and Neil certainly did that for as long as his body would let him. RIP.

Right on. The only reason I even watch these RRHOF videos is because they commemorate Rush giving the finger to the machine. Alex Lifeson's acceptance speech was exactly what the HOF deserved.

but is the HoF deserving of THEM? 🤔

Doesnt mattter they were Canadian, the greatest 3 man band ever !!!

Them and their wives. The RUSH ladies are pure class

"All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted." This class also had Heart, Public Enemy, Donna Summer, Randy Newman & more. You may not like these other genres or acts, but Rush literally sings about appreciating the creative journey. It's OK to dislike an artist without discounting their vision.

That was something special. I saw about 30 Rush concerts over the years and hardly remember ever seeing them do that.

I think they were amused at Geddy's voice. Other commenters said Geddy was singing with a cold. They were probably surprised he pulled it off. :)

You mean right as Ged was singing the line that Neil wrote, "But glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity"? At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? While they were getting inducted? After years of being ignored by the Rock and Roll hall of fame and Rolling Stone? I love these guys, just the best band ever.

A reworking of a line from The Sound Of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel that said: "And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls And tenement halls" And whispered in the sound of silence"