Rush - Vital Signs (Live In YYZ 1981 / Audio) 

Brings back fond memories, the sights, the sounds, the smells. I miss Neil. I miss the band.

Wow, I gotta tell ya, those guys ‘back in the day’, as they say. Geddy’s voice was so fluid and free - and that bass! Neil’s drumming was so precise and impactful, and Alex, playing flawlessly, even better than the studio version. I cannot WAIT to hear the rest of this show. What a gift!

Vital signs is one of the absolute best on moving pictures, easily their most underrated song on it!

the best band in the galaxy forever and the day. period. the end.

Geddy's vocals sound fantastic on this, as well as Neil's snare!

Bro I’m 14 and I found this band a few months ago, I love them

Best band in the world

I know I shouldn't be shocked given other live releases, but the level of sound quality on this is amazing.

Instantly feel like a teenager again when I listen to any old songs of Rush 🤘 The magic of music !

Everybody's got Vital Signs...everybody wants that SNARE...love the sound of Neil's "Old Faithful" Slingerland snare

If only a dvd of this whole concert would ever surface, that would be priceless

R.U.S.H. Really underrated song heros.

I’ve played Bass for 37 years and I learned every lick geddy played….pause rewind replay!

One of the most badass album closers of all time. Geddy’s vocal delivery of the final verses gives me chills.

This song is a shapeshifter, and it's also my mood lifter.

Wow it kinda got that feeling I use to get when I'd hear a new Rush album .. 🤘🤘

This live version’s tight!

3:13 bass bliss !! 3:54 RIP Professor~~

Holly cow I just realized this is a recording of the March 25th 1981, I was turning 11 years old this exact day!! 😅👍🏻

This song is so underrated but it will always live deep in my heart and soul. Rush makes me feel like I can fly sometimes. The guitar solo in this song makes me feel like I am about to have an out of body experience

This version sounds fantastic! 🤘

I don't care what people say 80s rush era is my favorite from moving pictures to power windows is when they hit their stride creatively for me.

Vital Signs is yet another testament to Neil's ferocious pursuit always to accuracy, details, and 100% explosive rock strong power. Remember that 1981 was the height of electronic robot drone drum machines to appreciate this live effort repeated throughout entire tours night after night. Love his books and plethora of lyrics, but his drumming was the power plant of Rush in the unique pantheon of drummers who command attention in concert by playing so damn well commanding high standards of play. And yes, you would hear Neil's drumming from the first 25 front rows far louder directly than over the loudspeakers....So incredibly epic to experience!

Wow! '81, I'm get'n old. Lol - Saw them at Warner Theater for 2112. 😜

Sounds very heavily inspired by The Police with the reggae guitar and somewhat-reggae drum beat. But I love how they take it and make it their own, giving it a computerized sound! Lee, Lifeson, and Peart were in a class by themselves above all others. Long live the Kings!

I was 16 when I first heard RUSH. They are still the best story telling music I've had the pleasure to grow up on. Nobody can play a Bass like Geddy Lee. When you see them LIVE! It truly moves your soul.

I love RUSH forever and ever!!! That's all !!!!

Love that Lerxst tone! The bass pops so well in the bridge too. This song really builds up beautifully towards the end. ✊🫡

When I'm laying unconscience on a hospital bed dying from a life well lived, connected to all kinds of tubes keeping me alive for just a little longer, there needs to be a radio in the room playing Rush. That way I can die a happy death.

I loved this so much, I have 3 copies in SHM Japanese format. Finally justice was done to this masterpiece in Rock History. Roy Daniels, we one like this for SIGNALS!!!

Vital Signs with the Rickenbacker!!!! YES!!!!

Playing in Toronto, YYZ! What a thrill for the hometown crowd. Rush rules!

There was no other band tighter then these three. ❤ The echoes of there music will resonate for centuries.

Probably one of the clearest renditions of this song live that I can recall. Geddy's bass really punches through. Grabbing my bass now to play along, just a great song and fun to play too! I still think Geddy's voice is still higher pitched here vs a year later...

One of the best songs ever recorded... The lyrics, the structure, the playing... God Bless Rush!!!

Ged's voice was so beautiful during this period. It's really what pulled me in to Rush in the first place. And they stuck with the Moving Pictures sound during that tour. I remember hearing bootlegs of that jaunt and loving the pace and song selection, so I can't wait to hear it mixed professionally. I also can't wait to get my Red Barchetta model either!!

In my next life I wish to be a RUSH roadie. Right there from the beginning up till the end. Love you guys!!!

Hell yeah bro I I've been listening to rush over 40 years bad ass there music is going to live on forever

I feel like crying everytime that i hear these incredible humans. No more Neil, No more RUSH. Thank GOD for the AWESOME memories from the radio, cds, tapes, blue ray, 8 track, DVD, VCR, and RU-vid. 😢 TEARS AND CHILLS. THANKS RUSH !!!

Love vital signs so underrated

Still as good today as it ever was. I love the anniversary editions,reliving the excitement of getting the original album but now with extra material to enjoy too. Time has flown by so quickly.

finally a complete moving pictures live set......this will be glorious

in 1989, at the peak of the bay area thrash explosion, when I was more or less convinced that was the only music worth listening to, I got my hands on a live album from a band I had not cared for much until then: Rush, Show of hands. Not only was it love at first listen, it was the best live recording I had ever heard and outclassed my favorites at that time, Priest's Unleashed in the east and Tokyo Tapes from the Scorpions. And together with those it opened the door to the world of 70's bands for me. I wish Rush had visited Europe more often. There were not many opportunities to see them on stage here.

Honestly, couldn't care less about the 'Moving Pictures' remaster, I bought a copy of this set on CD for 'Live in YYZ.'

Such a natural flow instrumentally. Fav band….

Rush, Masterpieces

Love the ghost notes Neil articulates on his snare.

Outrageously good playing and audio production. So clean, so accurate, so Rush.

A-MA-ZING!!!! Flawless performance and sound! Wish the audio on R40 sounded like this.

Can’t wait for the vinyl release

Vital Signs has ALWAYS BEEN my favorite song! As a 15 year old, listening to Moving Pictures for the first time... VITAL SIGNS spoke to me. Yes, I have been deviating from the NORM ever since!!!!

Fitting song for the current events

Awesome! I wish I had been old enough during this time to see some of these early to mid 80s tours. I think this was the peak of Geddy's vocals. He could still do all the old material but his melodies really improved so much during this time with these 80's albums.

I wasn’t lucky enough too them live. This is the biggest regret in my life.

Yeah. Yeah. Professor we love you and look forward to NOT bothering you for a picture in Heaven.

I love this song... specially the bass

For a while back in the day, this was my fave tune from Moving Pictures. I loved the studio video. This is a great recording, so true to the album version.

I will never not feel sad that I never had the chance to see Rush live and in person. Too late did I realize that this band was so much more than just a few radio hits.

I am not sure how these guys managed to perform so extremely close to the studio versions - every single night. I've got wild amounts of respect for the work they put down.

I was 15 - just getting my fingers around guitar and this is the song that really pulled me into playing bass, especially the solo. First time I heard it, I kept picking the needle up an dropping it back on the record. First I picked it out on guitar, then on a friend's bass since I didn't own one yet. I still love playing this song on bass.

What an awesome version of an awesome song!😊

Wow! Fantastic remix! I saw Rush in San Diego in 1981 during this tour. It was my first time seeing them live. A concert that still plays in my mind. They were on fire!! All 3 aspects of this band. RIP Professor....

Unstable condition!... Love Vital Signs

I really prefer the sound of these earlier live shows--guitar and bass tones especially--compared to how they sounded from the late 1990s on. In the name of sounding heavier they wound up sounding overly distorted and sludgy.

Love this. Looking forward to the full recording of the show.

Pure perfection. 👌🏻♥️

Ahhhh my boys!!! Our three Canadian Masters!!! My life would not be the same without you all.... I grew up at Danforth and Pape Ave!!!! Cheers 🍻

Still can't believe I'll never see the boys again.

The Exit Stage Left we should’ve gotten. If only there was video footage of the stuff too!!

Heck yeah some new Rush content! Hope we get to see that unreleased YYZ music video one day! Edit: They actually have, the one on the MP40 bluray is bundled with in the limited edition is the same animated music video of YYZ here on the official channel.

I saw a stop on this tour (Portland), the first of my seven times seeing Rush live

I love that in this recording you can hear the ghost notes on the snare in the chorus.

A psychedelic classic! Best appreciated while shrooming 🙂

I spent many hours during Covid lock down riding my mountain bike through the woods listening to random Rush concerts from the '80s on RU-vid. Always brings me back to good times...

Everybody gotta deviate frooom the norm. can't wait for more 40th anniversary content to release.

Side B of Moving Pictures is where the good stuff is.

Debuted in my weekly personal music charts on March 20, 2022 edition :)

ESL, as a bassist of 30 years is their best sounding record.....Geddy's tone is flawless. (IMO)

The Professor working that hi-hat though!!

Such a pristine sounding live recording. Rush are an awesome Canadian band. Cheers! ✌️🇨🇦

So good. So perfect. The greatest band of all time, period.

Such a powerful version, wow!! With that album/tour they were at their very best imo...

I remember seeing this concert in Hollywood,South Florida. At the Sportatorium, epic show. This is one of my favorite albums of all of them.moving pictures.

At their pinnacle

Went right to my Playlist 👍

A like isn't enough to express my gratitude for listening to this intelligent music when I was younger.

Eternal Peart!!

So excited for this release. So happy for the other 40th anniversary releases. And hopeful about the prospect of more to come.

Vital Signs. My favorite from MP and the perfect transition into Signals

Saw this tour in either Fort Wayne or Toledo, might have been my first of twelve Rush concerts. I wish my memory was better but damn this is 41 fucking years ago now. I just turned 60.

This snare is MAGIC!!!

Rush in full flow, once again managing to even better the studio version. The ending is so heavy and mesmeric. Leave all lazy comparisons to other bands or labels of prog rock, my friends: these 3 Canadian gents were in another league and I will cherish their music forever.

Thank you for deciding to release the full show!!!!

jesus what a band... my favorite for years when i discovered them back around 1985, and listening again, they just nailed it. wish i'd managed to see them live...

Never gets old listening to live Rush. Such a great live band.

I think I can hear neil's snares vibrating during the intro :-)

A haunting 4th entity of existence.

CAN NEVER GET ENOUGH OF “RUSH” 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

The 1st time I heard this it BLEW ME AWAY!. I used to listen to 2112 and then RUSH pulls this out of the musical genius hat. Moving pictures, and they just kept getting better and better. So glad I was alive to witness it..(¤ ¥ ¬)

この時代の我らがラッシュは、ライヴで奏でるサウンドと、レコードで聴く音が本当に同じで、ライヴで再現出来ない事はレコードではやらない、又はレコードで作ったサウンドは必ずライヴで再現する、と言うポリシーを固く守ってらっしゃる様に思われて、マジでこの人ら凄い！！！って感動してたなあ〜〜〜😆😆😆