Rush | This Band is Insanely Awesome! | By Tor, In The End, In The Mood, 2112 Medley Reaction 

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Three of the most talented musicians, ever.

RIP Neil Peart, the Professor. These guys are the masters.

2112 was basically their way of saying "stick it up your @$$" to record execs who were threatening to drop them after their third album if they didn't come up with more short, radio-friendly songs, and its success gave them the freedom to chart their own musical course. The instrumental part you heard at the end was Part 7: Grand Finale; if you'd like to see them perform all 7 parts, be sure to check out the 1997 performance at Toronto's Molson Amphitheater. Cheers from Toronto! 🎤 🎹 🎸 🥁 🎸 🐐 🐐 🐐

I was a 15 year old school band drummer in 1982 when I saw my first concert, Rush: Signals tour. My life changed that night and I was lucky enough to see them another 14 times through the years. R.I.P. Neil, gone but never forgotten.

Do you know why they're all great musicians? Because they made a conscious group decision that they were going to put in the work to get there. It wasn't happenstance, they made it happen.

When the guitar came in just after you stopped is the start of In the End; when the cowbell started is In The Mood then the Grand Finale of the song 2112.

Best band EVER!! Be well and God bless… from Texas!!

It's insanely awesome that this was your first exposure to Rush. 😎

It was called the Forum, which is where the Montreal Canadiens played. It was replaced in 1996. It was a distinct pleasure to attend the storied Montreal Forum in the 80's and 90's - a place that no fewer than 25 Stanley Cup champions called home from 1924 to 1993. PS - Rush had 18 studio albums and 11 live albums/DVDs.

Rush goes batshit on By-Tor, Rush gets heady on In The End, Rush gets cheesy on In The Mood, Rush goes batshit and raises 6 middle fingers to the establishment on 2112. Perfection.

The story of By-Tor and Snow Dog came from one of their friends (manager?) had two dogs, one was white, one was a "biter" and they decided to make up a story about them. Also, if you liked hearing Neil's use of percussion here, watch Xanadu from the same show. He puts every one of those things to use (masterfully, of course)

Alex started a new band, Envy of None, with Maih Wynn. (Probably spelled her name wrong) Alex has also been a guest guitarist on one of Rik Emmett's solo albums. (Rik Emmett of Triumph, another Canadian power trio, two of which sing)

Not only did Neil hit things better than just about anybody else, In later years he even had keyboard triggers on his drum kit. BUT he wrote some of the most intelligent inciteful lyrics in rock. Rush has distinct phases Metal/Power Prog (like you just heard), Prog (Tom Sawyer/Spirit of Radio are best known), 80s Synth is a lost era for many but there are great songs (Subdivisions/Distant Early Warning) and the later years where they came back to pretty straight ahead rock. If you want to see music mastery and how three musicians can sound like eight, check out Xanadu (Exit Stage Left)

🏆🏆🏆🏆! Great selection for a RUSH reaction. Brando was pretty accurate with his RUSH facts,( one small correction is that Geddy and Alex met in Middle School). Also, Neil was not the original drummer for RUSH. He replaced original drummer John Rutsey in 1974, after the release of their first album. Enjoyed this very much! More RUSH please.

Hey Ace, great choice of video, I saw RUSH in 1988, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada! RIP Neal Peart! (Drummer)

Attention all planets of the solar federation 😮we have assumed control

Listen to that freaking bass, it's just blowing during the solo part of Bytor.

Check out the Rio concert. The audience sings along EVERY tune, some 80,000 or so, an amazing experience. Xoxo

19 original work studio albums spanning 1974 to 2012 (band continued to tour through 2015 then retired. Neil died in 2020) and 1 60's classic rock tribute album to their favorite songs growing up, called FEEDBACK that was released in the mid 2000's. Several "greatest hits" album releases also between the two major record labels the were published through, Mercury Records and Atlantic Records and later through their own label Anthem, IIRC. Plus numerous album and multi-album live recordings and about a half-dozen live video performance recordings from tours spanning their career on media formats from the 70'/80's like VHS and Laserdisc, later on DVD and Bluray through the end of their career.

Ufffff cuánta música!!!! Cuánto talento!!! RUSH!! La mejor banda de rock progresivo!!! Lejos!!!!

Watch Neil's drum solo live in Frankfurt. The man isn't just a drummer and percussionist, he's a composer. Listen to his drum solo & tell me otherwise.

🤗 Subbed for Rush! 🙋🏿‍♀️ 40 yr fan here. 😒 Went to a KISS Concert in JHS 🤩 and fell in love with the opening act, Rush and never looked back. 😂 Just know I only got a job so I didn't have to ask mom for $ for shows! 🥺 Unfortunately I had to sit thru class watching kids do the 'Jimmy Page Point' singing Zeppelin cause they were at the MSG show! EVERYBODY played Madison Square Garden, The Coliseum, Giant Stadium, The Meadowlands or Atlantic City! In NYC 🤯 you could literally see 3, 4 major acts perform in a week, then spend weekends at CBGBs as the Ramones, Blondie, Joan Jett were becoming more & more famous ever day. 🤭 They called us #ClubKids. We were different from the #BridgeAndTunnelCrowd cause we actually lived in Manhattan. Everything was a 15 minute bus/train ride away. 😏 We didn't have Internet, so we would just hang in front of the Dakota to see John & Yoko go in-and-out trying to identify who was with them. Same with Andy Warhols Factory. 😁 Just hang across the street waiting to see Lou Reed with Sweet Jane (😏 she was a REAL person). 😳 Then things got weird as the group split and sides were chosen. 😒 We stayed at CBGBs & didn't go with the 'Crazies'. Probably why I'm alive today. (See the Movie, Party Monster with Seth Green who did an AMAZING job). It wasn't always like that. 🤗 Hoping for more Rush and 🤔 maybe Steely Dan. About to check what you have on your Channel as I'm new to it! 🤦🏿‍♀️ Retired folks like me genuinely have too much time on our hands these days! 😂🥰🐰

At RUSH's peak they would sell out the arenas in the biggest US cities 3 nights straight.

This example of Bytor is the best example of their musicianship of any song from Rush . Nothing surpasses this song.

this trio that sounds like a sextet always impressive live. kudos

ByTor & the Snow Dog was the first tune. It was just finishing when you took your first chat break. Afterwords, the next four song 'chunks' came fast and furious, starting with In the End. Speaking of your first chat, both Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee used pedals to trigger sounds they couldn't play simultaneously with their guitars. Alex even had his own set of keys for their second-last tour in 2013. There was also a three year period when they stopped recording and touring, by the way. It was between 1997 and 2000, in the wake of twin tragedies suffered by Neil Peart (first, his daughter died in a single car crash on the way to university, with her mother, his common law spouse, dying just 9 months later from cancer). At the time, it was completely up in the air whether Neil would ever play again. Oh, and they basically dropped the fantasy oriented songs by 1979.

All that sound from 3 guys!

Check out Rush's "Best Intro Ever"...for a medley of songs that ends with Spirit of Radio.

Cool reaction!! Rush was formed in 1968 and officially retired 2018. They have 19 studio albums not including the live albums. Also have 24 gold albums,14 platinum albums and 3 multi-platinum albums. There are known as the most humble, funny and respected bands out there. Once again cool reaction!!

Xanadu off exit stage left is astounding … and you get to see NP hit other stuff other than drums too

This is the old Montreal Forum, home of the Canadiens hockey team where Rush played two nights in a row to a 15000 crowd. Try Xanadu live Exit Stage Left 1981, same show as this. 🍁🔥🇨🇦🎉🤯🌈

Best live Rush performance ever: Working Man in Cleveland, please check it out!

I know practically everything about Rush. I wish I was in this conversation.

Each of these songs is not only better on the studio versions, but also better on ATWAS too.

Bloody hell that went on for ages. Didn't particularly enjoy it but didn't hate it either.

The crazy Bass and Guitar duet is supposed to represent the battle between good and evil (By Tor vs. The Snow Dog). Difficult to hear live because they can't represent it the same as they did on the album. I would highly recommend you listen to the album version. "They are very into medieval and nerdy sci-fi." Early in their career they were but as soon as Neil realized he was able to just write about whatever issues were on his mind it opened a whole new world for them.

Natural science - (Studio version)

Xanadu live 1982... incredible

Check out YYZ Live from Rio. Just remember thats 120,000 Brazilians singing a song that has no lyrics

Neil Peart wrote all the lyrics. 2112 is the name of the album but the song is one whole side of the album and what you heard in this medley was just the very ending of that side of the album

Exit Stage Left album, 1981. You guys should try All the Worlds A Stage. They are around 25 years old here. The medley on R30 is great too. Rush were masters at time sig changes, making them sound cohesive. Rush was always a fav for me.

Other song suggestions?? Anything from Moving Pictures, The Spirit of Radio, Free Will, Natural Science, Subdivisions, 2112, Cygnus X-1 Books 1 & 2, La Villa Strangiato, and the list goes on, and on,.......

RUSH Argentina!!!!

Rush never tried to be like Zeppelin but because of Geddy"s voice they were always compared to and people thought they were copying Zep. I like "Lessons" by Rush-another earlier song by them. 74 is when they came out with their first album with John Ruxon?on drums.

You should check out: Rush: By-Tor & The Snow Dog (Lyrics) Don't watch the live version, because they cut half the song. The song is about the producer's two dogs: a German Shepherd nicknamed By-tor (biter) and a poodle nicknamed Snowdog - the song is about the two dogs playing in the snow. You can hear a representation of the Shepherd growling and the poodle yipping - it is hilarious. Neil Peart created an entirely new mythology with the lyrics of this song. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a1vlx2a_aDE.html

1528......... notice Geddy plays that quick lick with only his index finger of his right hand.

My fav version of Bytor

They were inspired by YES

Picked up on RUSH in 75 three great musicians but Neil Peart is your favorite drummer's drummer

Its bytor and the snowdog

if youre going to go down this hole ,please react to studio first. thats the way they wanted it. your life will change