Rush - The Spirit Of Radio 

And we got to exist at the same time he did.

Great comment

Thank you sir for an awesome perspective 💚 🤘🤘

Wow that’s powerful

Best thing i heard yet. Thank you !

Not to mention the text in memory of our brother... damn it's still tough to swallow

You weren't the ONLY one adam872!!!

I cried. True

We all did brother

Same here. RIP Professor.

🎉Happy Birthday ❤❤❤❤❤

Thank you 🎉🤘🏻😄​@@cheapskatepanic

It sure does. Still hard to accept. Rip Professor Peart. You were one of a kind and are deeply missed. Though I never met you, your words and drumming touched me (and many others) and influenced my teenage years (and beyond...I’m 47 now). Thank you Pratt, and Rest in Beats.

I got teary even before that when they showed him at the kit after the Le Studio sign. The end cinched it. Great job.

I started to tear up at Donna spinning the first album.

I’m a grown ass man and I am crying.

Yep.

Only 7👍. Was it really worth all that time and effort to virtue signal and over emote??

Dog I was listening to, I think Red Barchetta and it made me super sad. Limelight was in the shuffle after that and yeah I cried a lot. First time I cried in probably like 3 years.

I know the feeling man. I had a hard time listening to them for a little while after that. I never got to see them live, which is a damn shame. Rush has been a huge inspiration for me to keep improving on the bass, and it's sad to know that one of them is gone. I don't know what I'll do when Geddy passes man...

Same here

When I heard that he was gone, I felt a shadow cross my heart.

Isso acontece porque é muito bom ouvir Rush!

As you should do.

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Winner!!!

BEST COMMENT EVER!!!

Virtue signaling

He's now dining on honeydew and drinking the milk of paradise

Best video by rush still rockin in 2020

Jacob Harrison it’s actually a new video!

@@FreddySheinfeld You can clearly see how a comma makes difference

and there are those who missed out on Rush for far too long in their lives, but at least _did_ find them in the end. I'm one of those people. Better late than never, eh?

Amen

Nonagon infinity opens the door

Fuck yeah King Gizzard is the shit

my girlfriend hates RUSH...

There are so, so many little references thrown in. I can't imagine how much time they spent on this.

I just turned 40, and only really got into Rush in the mid/late 2000s. Was fortunate enough to see them twice - but I am hoping with you being 20 years my senior, you saw them many, many more times than I did. I'm always happy (and a little jealous) to hear how some folks discovered Rush in their teens. Cheers.

❤😊

I hear that just turned that myself...grew up on Rush,timeless.

Me too, 60 next birthday....they came into my life and changed it forever ❤

Plenty of upsides! You get to be old now in the worst era of all time debatably ! And got to live in your prime during the greatest era of all time!! Optimism you lived and wow what an era. I’m 34 😢😅

Who is niel?

@@livinindubai sweetie that's Neil Peart the drummer and lyricist of Rush 😊 and yes Neil is playing in 2112 8ths..

@@tetragrammatonghost5244 I dont know drumming or this band so kinda wondering why everyone is talking abt Neil in a good song like this

You win the comment section. Youre the winner

I understood one sixth of that

Why do you virtue signal and over emote for someone you never met nor knew?? Do you just do it for the dopamine rush of seeing how many likes you'll get?

blah blah I agree with all of them except philosopher. Most of the songs philosophical roots are cut and pasted from Ayn Rand.

Ryan Strohman so are you saying Socrates, Plato and Aristotle all came up with their own ideas? And if not, by your definition, they too would not be considered philosophers themselves. Even the greats get motivation elsewhere. Btw that "blah blah" line totally disrespectful, kid

@@sunglassshinpan1352 Thank God I am nothing like you. Do you even care about others' feelings ? I lost my friend to brain cancer last year. I then heard "Afterimage" and read how Neil mourned after his friend's death and wrote the song. Then after 3 months, his (my friend's) mother passed away of grief & cancer. Just a week later, Neil passed away to brain cancer as well. Neil was the person whose work consoled me during those times & made me feel I am not alone. And then he himself passed away , that too of brain cancer. He had already passed through hell after his daughter and wife had passed away. So yes I can feel others' sorrows & sufferings. And before tagging someone as "virtual signalling" or being "overemote" , kindly shut up & stop being a bully.

@@ryanstrohman7429 that's not true at all. Ayn Rand was a major influence on Neil Peart in his late teens and early twenties, when he joined Rush. Which is why, songs from Fly by night and 2112 contain her philosophies, for which she was even credited in 2112. But Rush & Peart started shifting from her views in the later 70's and you won't find any references to her philosophies from 1974 to 2012. In fact, their lyrics turned broadly libertarian. Critics blew the connection between Rush & Rand out of proportion. In 2012, Peart himself rejected Rand's views and claimed he was influenced only for a very short period of time and that he later turned into a "Bleeding Heart Libertarian". Neil Peart wanted to read all kinds of books ever written. He was a true philosopher.

I'm 62 and listen to Rush every single day. Saw them in concert in May of 1982. They were amazing live!!!

X-ers bro

Learn an instrument! Don’t ever settle for just listening! When your hands can do the majic for you

keep looking there is lots more where that came from.

I was 15 when i first saw them live, saw them live 13 times. Glad you've discovered their genius works.

I was that kid, and I can confirm this shit slaps

Right?!?

I’m that kid right now!!!! 🔥🔥🔥 I’m 35 but never mind 🙈🤣

So true, I am 38, I has a friend 15 years ago, he loves Rush, but I never got around to listening to it somehow. Before the last holidays tanks to Dave Grohl and the Hanukkah Sessions I finally arrived. This band was amazing, I was a fool.

you mean there are kids? rush is awesome

Great timing

There's no way Rush fans would ever let animators get away with faking it

I was thinking how tough that job must have been!

It’s more accurate than if you filmed me playing this song on drums

This is rotoscoped, which is when you take each frame of video and trace on top of it to make an animation, which is how that looks so accurate.

i wish heaven existed.

@@maziu27 No you don't. Eternal existence would be just awful, infinite suffering from boredom. Most people don't bother to think about the implications of f o r e v e r.* Here's just the start of discussion of this problem: aeon.co/essays/theres-a-big-problem-with-immortality-it-goes-on-and-on This life is all and enough, especially if lived well. Thank goodness there is no afterlife! Neil understood this, and Geddy and Alex do as well, and so do at least a billion other non-religious people in the world, as well as even many of those supposedly "religious" people who don't really know what they believe or don't really believe it. (Most "religious" people really are not believers; they just don't really realize that they don't believe...even "very religious" people have grave doubts, hence the retreat into "faith" which really just means intellectual dishonesty, irresponsibility, and childish irrationality: "believing" what you really know is not so). *And the many intractable problems with personal relationships and identity in a proposed afterlife: if a child dies, does he/she grow and develop in heaven? How, without basic life challenges and context (remember that in an afterlife worthy of wanting everything is perfect, everything anyone could ever hope for is provided, so it necessarily provides no challenges that are necessary for personal development)? Without their parents who are probably still alive? How is that fair to them or their parents? Grandparents? What if they are still alive as is often the case, or simply awful people who never made it into the afterlife (as traditionally conceived)? How is it fair to a kid to be permanently a child or raised without his/her parents (assuming any type of even semi normal development can be achieve in a totally unworldly context)? What about an adult that dies before his/her natural life expectancy? How can he/she accomplish things they wanted to in life: personal relationships ranging from long term romantic relationships to having/raising children (and living long enough to see them grow up and accomplish the things they want and enjoying experiencing that), career achievements, life long friends, long term goals, etc. Same for any child that dies and somehow "grows" in an afterlife into adulthood: now what? How are they to accomplish adult level things or develop and grow without challenges or wordily context? And on and on with these problems: how is it fair for a person to have to live for (earthly) decades without his/her loved one(s)? Such as a couple torn apart by an early death? Both will suffer until reunited, and even then one of them, at least, will be a stranger to another after decades of independent growing/development without the other...and what happens if that person found someone else to love? Is the other who has waited to be reunited with the other, either in an afterlife or on earth, supposed to forget about them if the other has developed a romantic relationship with someone else either on earth or in an afterlife (assuming there can even be any meaningful relationships at all in an afterlife). Suppose they both are reunited in an afterlife and somehow fall in love again despite a long time of being apart and independent development of self on the part of at least one of them...what happens to the ones they were with romantically either in an afterlife or on earth, the ones they found to enter into new romantic relationships with? Are these "2nd replacements" to be rejected now for their initial life partners? How is this fair to them, especially given that they may have spent a longer time in a romantic relationship than the preexisting relationship? An afterlife is only to be hoped for by those who are at the end of their natural life expectancy and have accomplished everything they (reasonably) wanted to without any devastating earthly tragedies (both romantic partners die in close time to one another not decades apart, children don't die before their parents and accomplish the important things in life that gives it meaning and purpose so that the parents can experience this since they live long enough, etc.) And even then you have the problem of f o r e v e r. The reality is that everything that makes life meaningful and worthwhile is inexorably bound up with time and earthly existence, including the finitude of our existence. Permanent cessation of self (death) is exactly what gives life its meaning, it purpose, its worthwhileness. Philosophers have been showing this for millennia; here's a new statement of it: "This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom" by Martin Hägglund

He also left a wife and daughter here. Let's not forget that.

​@@dHolbach77 although I 100% agree with you, you're either preaching to the choir or preaching to a brick wall. 99% of religious people believe bullshit simply because they have never thought it through and never care to, ignorance is bliss for a reason. its called feelings over facts, if believing Neil is in heaven with his kid makes them feel good, they'll believe it even against rational thought. As Neil himself would probably agree, these people are just comforting themselves. But I assume you know all of this already and just wrote it anyways. At least nice to see rational people still exist in the world.

I’m not sure once you die it’s dark and you don’t know nothing cause your DEAD!

if its any consolation im not pregnant and also a grown man and it had the same effect. "Emotional feedback on timeless wavelengths, Bearing a gift beyond price, Almost free”

This video is so beautifully made, with so many important and fun references from the band. The empty drum kit at the end is such a classy tribute to the one and only Neil Peart. All the best for your pregnancy and keep Rushing on from Exeter, UK.

And as seen, Alex goes through all of them, alluding to Rush's influence across the world and music industry as they takeover the airwaves.

Caught my eye when it showed 95.5! They had a special love for KLOS, where Jim Ladd & Bob "BC" Coburn DJ'd (both also depicted beautifully in the video), and Neil was actually a good friend of Ladd's.

Also, Rush once had the record for number of appearances on Rockline (BC's long-running live, nationally syndicated call-in show), tied with Ozzy Osbourne, I believe.

Anyone else see the 21.12?

@@ashtabet3450 Several times, such a great video

"A brilliant red barchetta"

@@freedomNLG From a better vanished time.

That hit me like a sledgehammer and made me bawl.

@@freedomNLG when I first heard Red Barchetta, I thought Geddy was saying "A blue and red barchetta"

The whole video is emotional but that bit kills it for me too

"Emotional Feedback, on a timeless wavelength..." sensational lyrics! Saw Rush 49 times - I'll get my 50th in Heaven RIP Neil

Everyday is a new day baby

It still doesn't feel real...💔. ❤🎼🥁The World without "The Professor" doesn't seem right .

It wasn't real

See god just needs more musicians for music lessons and maybe all of them are jamming in heaven right now

Don't forget red Barchetta is another awesome song 😊🤘😎

They just now need a video for red Barchetta

@@harvestmoonlight9650 wouldn't that be something, if they're planning more videos for their best songs?

He DOES Sound CONVINCING! Absolutely! 😂 ❤

The best rock bassist in the world, the best drummer in the world, and the best melody guitarist to ever play.

I agree they did a great job, but probably coulda done Geddy's bass better at 3:56, still tho excellent work. You can tell their main focus is on Neil as it should be

Some of the playing is CLOSE to right!

So true, so true Dag.

Middletown dreams probably hits close to home for you, i know it does for me

Ian Seymour one of my faves!

They are so underrated!!! Best band ever!! I don't care what anyone says to that, they are the BEST, period!!!

In the mid 70s Rush was my personal secret because in high school I was the only one listening to them. They were an unknown band at that time.

Oh yeah...those cassettes. Never recorded this though.

@@tiktokplaza517 actually I recored this on a cassette...

Iam 58. Thems were the days!

I had almost forgotten those times, thx for the reminder

❤️

Isn’t it a Barchetta?

Barchetta is the word for that class of two seat open top car. He’s specifically illustrated driving a Farrari 166MM. So yes, and not quite. Either way, it’s a heartbreaking sequence 😢

timestamp please

@@rachaeltownend6872 Thank you! I never knew that. For the last 35 years I assumed "Barchetta" was a fictional name for a futuristic car.

16voyeur so nice of you to say! I’m always happy to contribute! It actually means ‘little boat’ in Italian, which kinda makes sense if you think about it...

I would pay 5 bucks a video to a crowdfunding for that.

Have you seen still kickin’s videos? The Camera Eye is my favorite Rush song and the video he(?) made is just amazing.

I just need more Rush Melvin, and MooseHead in Central Ga.were squeal like a pig Budweiser on every street corner store is offered

YES!!!

A fellow Indian who loves Rush? Fucking finally.

On the same theme I saw them in the 80's in Brighton, UK - Geddy changed the lyrics to "Jacob's Ladder" to "Light streams down in Brighton..."

The irony is the D'Backs didn't exist then.

This was the Signals tour. he sang the "Baseball" line every night on that tour and ONLY that tour. SUper jealous. I saw Rush for the first time in 94, when I turned 18, coincidently in PHoenix. saw every phoenix show from then till R40

Something may have happened to Blue Jays that year.

Yes that was definitely the Signals tour and Geddy did it at both Madison Square Garden and the Nassau Coliseum. I believe he also thanked Mrs Field's for her cookies, which were just starting to become popular in the NYC area 🗽

Better late than never!

Welcome to the party my friend. Check out the 'Moving Pictures' album.

Try deep purple child in time

2112 start to finish

CHECK OUT RUSH ' ARCHIVES ' GREW UP WITH THEM . AC/DC SABBATH MOTOR HEAD DEEP PURPLE BLACK SABBATH UFO METALLICA ZEPPELIN

Hear hear! Today's music just repeats 3 words over and over with a few whoas thrown in here and there. Compare that with the amazing lyrical content in this.

Ye ye ye

@@ryansetzer694 Do you think we're the first generation to say that? What do you think people were saying about rock in the 70s? There is more art and more fantastic art being produced today than at any point in history, of course a lot of it is awful, and a lot of rush contemporaries were awful too, so were a lot of the Beatles contemporaries, elvis', sinatra's. We only remember the good art from the past, we have to live within all of the art of the present. The theme song to vietnam was not CCR, we only think it was in retrospect. I'm certain the last thing rush would want any of us to do is deride people pouring their souls into music today, as that certainly is not in keeping with the spirit of radio.

@@curtmacquarrie If you think that Drake or Beiber are "pouring their souls" into that shit they release and call music then that's your opinion. There is no popular music from today that will ever be considered classic.

Ryan Frostad Like it or not, it will. This is the exact same mindset parents of the 70s and 80s said and guess what? That music became classic. Sure you don’t have to agree with other people’s music tastes, but you can’t just outright call it bad. Music is supposed to bring joy and make people happy, if that’s what they like, let them be.

Personally I can't pretend a stranger is a long-awaited friend.

I feel the same way. I didn't until after he died. I always loved the music, but after he passed, I started reading some of his books, Especially "Ghost Rider." Absolutely amazing person.

wow. cool dad indeed!

Your dad is one of a kind. Spend as much time with him as you can!

Well, you were 32 at the time and he felt sorry for you

Thats cool as Shit! My dad would have told me to shut it off, you know I never once seen him listen to a radio, Years ago my mom said he liked country music. No one in the house liked country music My Mo loved stuff like Cat Steven's Moody blues she listen to anything and she was born in the 30's My kids They grew up with Pink Floyd Rush Degarmo and Key White heart and so on. I'll listen to some of what they like but seriously I can't deal with some of it. Rap I don't mind as much but Dance type modren music I can't stand. I can't tell you how many Rock and roll cd's my kid took to use.

Today on things that never happened

You know what. They are the best. They know where they came from and did a tribute to those that helped them get to where they are. God damn rock n roll gods. I’m proud to be Canadian and proud to love rush.

@@myblueextremes1526 Welcome to the Rush family! Trust me as you start to work through their catalog you will become a fan. There's a reason why they're known as the biggest cult band in the world.

I thought the same thing! Loved "seeing" Bob Couburn & Jim Ladd in there

@Your Dad i first heard of them on trailer park boys and have been a fan since :)

Their friendship with Donna Halper is so inspiring! Love them

“Thanks, Neil”? _He’s_ responsible for those lyrics?

@@viniciusgmachado1204 he is responsible for almost every Rush lyric

@@riaingalligan8461 Amazing! I guess Neil really _was_ the glue that held the band together.

@@viniciusgmachado1204 Yeah, he was a genius.

I was reading that just as he was singing those words lol.

those dislikes

Definitely machine gun kelly fans

i'm 13 and i JUST found them. this is one of the best songs i've ever heard.

@@joeking5610 people grow, they too.

@@joeking5610 shut up ok

I think the "pirate radio" reference was to Radio Caroline: a boat anchored off the east coast of England in the 60s, and broadcast rock music without a licence from the government.

Brilliant; a true Rush fan for sure! Also, very helpful to identify who did what to help the band in the early days😃

Wow, great comment! I noticed a couple, but didn't realize so many were crammed in there!

Marconi was a shameless hack.

4:20 the guitar's fretboard is a radio dial.

That day was iconic for sure. Kudos to Donna

@1:54. (As a DJ), "Donna is credited with discovering the progressive rock band Rush while at WMMS in Cleveland in 1974" - Wikipedia

Just saw this video come up, and saw Donna Halper an amazing radio historian!!! I smiled and smiled, what a great video, a great song and a great band! (And a great era.)

tony bernardo I loved it too!

The amazing, REALLY amazing thing is that there were only three of them! They are the only band in the world that were able to make that type of music with only three people. They were definitely geniuses when it came to their music.

My favorite was the red Barchetta.

@@tacituskilgore3314 love Red Barchetta 😎🤘

Wasn't that Marconi in the Villa Strangiato?

@@3felinesstudio Marconi was right at the beginning and yes I think so...so many references in this video for Rush fans holy crap

dd

First album I had as my own was Moving Pictures. Christmas gift. So many spins!

He's not dead.

@@sezrekahneldar4058 January 7th. Yep.

@@-inkoll-867 i believe he means he lives on in all of us

neil inspired me to do this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-alEQuclcLZs.html

@@-inkoll-867 Legends never die!

I saw them in 90s Sacramento, my first show. Roll the bones tour

I just discovered rush days before Neil died

i was born in 96 but got to see rush twice

@MEE excellent. I have faith in our youth after all.👍

Anyone can grow up listening to Rush tho... :/

Neil's playing: beautiful

I'm just glad people are still doing it. I'm kinda surprised at that.

It was a bad day that day. Wish I got to see them live, must've been awesome!

Neil is now on heaven. RIP Legend.

Check out the Mr Blue Sky animation on ELOs channel, its incredible

Was literally just thinking the same thing. This is proof that any band of any generation can re-release music from any era with new visuals to either re-fresh/evolve/continue old material. I love it and really hope it becomes a thing.

Very much so. I find the visual interpretations based on the music that inspired such visual artists renditions, to be very groovy indeed. These insights of their perspectives. Your guitar, is a good listener.

@@yepalright624 It's a one way ticket to midnight, and the call it, heavy metal. ThinkFloyd61 deserves to be mentioned here, of which there are and will be so many more of those as time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, into the future according to Meestor Steve, while Boston says don't look back, it would be interesting to see dynamic A.I. visual interpretations of music that it dialed in, perhaps maybe sooner than later though definitely somewhere in time. Rock on.

It's our debt with them to keep them alive until the end of times.

The fact that your pfp is a South Park character is cracking me up

Excelllent!

Geddy Lee - vocals, keyboard, bass Alex Lifeson - guitar Neil Peart - drums, percussion

6 pairs of arms on drums!

Until I saw a picture of the band I genuinely thought that they had 5 or 6 members.

@@vickyannpaintingwithoils the mythical drum octopus. Only a couple have ever existed.

The 1980 laughing scene just before with Alex goofing in the horror mask, then that - brilliant.

Emily Alex recently said that he hasn’t really played since he died. Very sad.

Nah music doesn’t have a expiration date 😉

Well said Emily!

I agree. This is an *awesome* video! This is among my favourite songs by Rush.

@Nathan Guerrette dit Latulippe RTB had good to great songwriting but the sound/production was way too soft and polite. No power or grit whatsoever. Clockwork was a hot dense mess of brickwalled noise and questionable songwriting. I blame Nick R for most of the results. Great example of why hiring a fanboy as a producer is a bad idea. He's not going to put his foot down and tell anyone when something is not working

Edwin, I agree. Some albums are better then others but a bad RUSH album is better then another bands best album. If I listed my 20 top favorite albums, the only non RUSH one would be Fragile by YES.

radio gave spirit to our moods along the days

You're just not looking.

I'm over 40 and strongly disagree. In fact, I never listened to radio much, even with many good stations to choose from in a major metro area (one actually played Rush frequently in the 90s!). Most of the stuff they'd play was what I termed "generic radio rock": it was average at best, or if good played to death (including the same old Rush songs over and over). Many of the better tracks from good bands were never played, just the popular ones. Early on I relied on CD's at home and in my car so I could listen to the material I wanted to. And there are literally thousands of great bands producing great music today: its just that most are unheard of. Here's just some of the ones for this week: www.allmusic.com/newreleases I find worthwhile new music weekly, so much I can't keep up with it and the classics, whether they are well known or were "under ground".

@@joeking5610 That's one line of the song directly after the verse beginning "all this machinery making modern music can still be open hearted... its really just a question of your honesty" within a wider narrative that is broadly "isn't this little box that can connect you with so much artistry such a wonderful, nostalgic thing". The line there is expressly a foil to the wider song that says "man, there sure is a lot working against great art, but isn't it special that there's still so much great art despite this?" This is of course my subjective opinion, but I think it is objectively clear that this line is not in reference to their own careers or choices.

@@joeking5610 That's a bit out of context. It was about the experience of radio on our lives, complicated as it was. Did you actually read the rest of the lyrics?

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As always!

ettorebrasil indeed!

22 morons

They dislike this because they are sad about Neils death. The people that likes it are happy that neil is now on a better place.

Some folks just don’t get it. unfortunately.

Sadly, Rush had an unfair amount of detractors. Mostly stupid reasons. There's always going to be people with poor taste. Such is life.

Maybe my dislike is like your like because of that I'm from the other side of the globe? And I don't like your like because it's like a dislike on my hemisphere?

It has a warmth to it that cannot be duplicated.

Fucking A Kas, best words I heard all day!

Beeg Yoshi

I feel that way about their whole catalog.

Beeg Beeg Yoshi

We are crying

Seriously......

What is the green mask about near the end there?

@@jlperron4702 That's just my bois having fun. Ever see Dinner with Rush?

WMMS in Cleveland.

@@cbr416 The Buzzard. 100.7.

YES!!! Thanks to MMS, Home of the Buzzard!!!

R.

@@cbr416 k

The best music in the world. Period.

Same with me, when my Little one asks me to play Tyger by Tangerine Dream😊

Raising them right