@AirplayBeats reacts to Rush - Working Man (Live in Cleveland) Like comment and subscribe patreon.com/user?u=81569817 Airplay Beats 3609 Bradshaw Rd Ste H #337 Sacramento, CA 95827 Www.Airplaybeats.com
What makes this performance especially meaningful is that Cleveland was the first US market to play Rush on a regular basis, and this was the tune that got it all going for them. That was the launching pad for their FOUR decade ascension into the stratosphere of rockdom.
@Robert-tj3qq I think that epic road trip came before the end of the band. He lost his wife AND daughter in rapid succession 😞 and took to the road to be alone and heal. I'm no expert but that's what I think I know 😏
Not just the best technical band on the planet….but possibly the most humble, genuine human beings in rock and roll. They are one of the most highly respected by their peers. G.O.A.T! RIP Neil.
According to wiki… Donna Halper, then a disc jockey and music director at WMMS in Cleveland, Ohio, is credited with getting Rush noticed in the United States by playing "Working Man" on the air. The song proved particularly popular in the working-class city. The response resulted in a record deal for the band, which gave her special thanks for her part in their early history and dedicated their first two albums to her.
@@thorzzz1z they don't seem to know difference between best and popular, can easily name 10 better than SRV, so tired of seeing he's the goat that I don't even listen to him
The best part of this is…. It was a radio station in Cleveland that first played a Rush song in the states. It was this song. The DJ wax looking for a bathroom song: a song long enough to start, run to the bathroom , and get back in time before the song ended. It was a smash. The phones lit up wanting the new “led zeppelin song” !!!!! 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ So it is fitting that this amazing version was recorded in Cleveland. Its brilliant.
Best band ever!!! Seen them live so many times. This was a special show. They started with new song and went backwards through their catalog. Hence why Working Man was last.
This was filmed during the Time Machine Tour, in 2011. They went backwards chronologically on their R40 Tour in 2015. The last song they played during the R40 shows was an abridged version of a song named Garden Road, an unreleased single from 1974. Cheers! 🙃
I was at this show. Apr. 15, 2011. 30 rows back, on the floor. Alex-side. They made it back for the Clockwork Angels tour about 20 months later. For the best performance of *this* show, watch Freewill, which closed set #1. Of course, they do all of Moving Pictures to open set #2.
GREAT reaction gents! IMHO, Rush NEVER declined in quality...in fact, I think they got better with age (aside from Geddy's voice - it showed some 'strain' on the last tour, 2015 - but that's to be expected with a 40 year career, singing like he does!) - their musicianship got more fluid & fun, but ALWAYS tight & precise! This show is from 2011. 30th Anniversary of the Moving Pictures album - which they played complete. Working Man was the final encore of 2 songs - previous being La Villa Strangiato. So this was played after 2 1/2 hours of rocking the hell out of the crowd - still with gusto, energy & precision - there aren't too many groups, whose members were pushing 60 years old, that could rock out like this! Amazing group. Rush forever - RIP Neil Peart. Cheers all!
Superb musicians all the way through to the end. Nice to see them thriving again in their natural habitat. This was in 2010, and they wrapped it up in 2015 before Neil's illness took him from us.
Rush song Natural Science live at Molson Amphitheater in Toronto Canada. Best 3 man band ever. Luv to see everyone react to a band and bands that deserve to be listened too.Rush is Timeless. Grew up listening to Rush over the last 40 years and am so grateful to have seen them live a few times. Keep on Rockin
Love your reactions. On a personal note, id like to thank you for all of your music reactions. Rush has been such a large part of my life, and to have you (as well as other reaction channels) listen, appreciate and share their music warms my heart. I also get to experience their music for the first time all over again vicariously through you. What you do is very much appreciated. Cheers!
i went to the rock and roll hall of fame induction ceremony when rush FINALLY made it in,and when they were announced the place exploded with applause and cheers. i've never heard such an ovation before or since. rush fans are loyal to the core. it's their energy that the band fed off of that created such extraordinary live performances like this. RIP neil.
Sept 30 1974....bought a ticket to see Billy Preston. He was THEE studio keyboard player with a few hits of his own. He was also known as the 5th Beatle. Anyhoo.....there were two other band on the ticket. Two bands I had never heard of. Kiss and Rush.....yeah....they opened for Billy. Rush was first on stage with Alex doing the opening riff for Working Man.....Rush blew everyone away. Neil had only been with the band a couple of months at the time.
Friend asked their parents if I could go with her to see KISS in Jersey (😏 on the REAL Jersey Shore. Lol) & I left a Rush fan. Been 1 ever since 7th grade. ☺️ She also saw them open for Manfred Mann around that time too. Couldn't wait until I started babysitting so I could pay for my own tickets to shows. 🤯 Especially since EVERYONE played my local Venue, MSG. 😏 I still put up with Knicks Banners in my way from nosebleed seats.... And I'm now 60! 😁🥰🐰
U must hear Neil P drum solo on this song on ALL THE WORLDs A STAGE ALBUM!! Lee says " Ladys and gentlemen the professor on the drum kit" then the best drum solo ever!!!
Thank you for this reaction guys, I never get tired of watching this performance. I saw them during this tour in Str. Louis. This whole concert recording, (R30 in Cleveland) is incredible - Rush at their high energy best. This finale is at the end of a 3 hour concert and they are in their late fifties - such dedication to their craft. A power trio that will never be equaled. Love your channel!
Julie I noticed Neil's drumkit and concert is not R30. Reason that I know of is because it is Rush's Time Machine tour in Cleveland in 2011. Bass drum has clock on the front. I went to this tour when they stopped in West Palm Beach, Florida in Oct of 2010. Cleveland has been a hotspot for Rush because of local rock station, WMMS aka The Buzzard back in mid 70's when other stations didn't play their songs at 1st.
@@MrTech226 My bad I was thinking one thing and wrote something different. I saw R30 in the St. Louis area and got an commemorative baseball jersey. For R30 I was in Denver. Good catch.
Being a teen from the Midwest in the 70's, this is the first song that pulled me in way back when it came out and I never looked back. First saw them live during the "2112" tour when they were young and I can say without a doubt they never lost a step over the years. They went out the masters they came in as!
That's three guys in their late 50s showing the youngsters how it's done! For another hot performance, I recommend Caravan from this same show. Cheers from Toronto! 🎤 🎸 🥁 🎸 🔥 🔥 🔥
The best nights of my life were the awesome concerts I went to in the 70’s and 80’s…so lucky…saw Rush 4 times and each show was unique…thanks, for once again, triggering some awesome memories…respect…
I was fortunate enough to have seen Rush twice live back in the 80s(I obviously have been around for a while) but I wish I had seen them one more time before we lost Neil. Neil was a tremendous force just on his own, but those three bandmates were beyond a force. They were the best progressive rock band ever! There is nothing like seeing these guys live and there is nothing like seeing them twice at Madison Square Garden live. I am fortunate enough to have had music from the 60s, 70s and the 80s. I may be old, but I got to see all the cool bands, and I still go to see the cool bands. I have been a concert goer for 46 years and counting and I will rock til I drop😎
Gotta thank Airplay Beats for bringing this Cleveland concert forward. The Rush catalogue is very well represented on this amazing DVD/Blu-ray/CD live recording. Rush wore the audience out in Cleveland with "Working Man" finishing the night and the audience off. The playing by these guys, coupled with their musical arrangements for this tour, are, in my opinion, the best of Rush. It's my go-to Rush stuff. Thanks guys.
This shows what absolutely great musicians they are - Working Man as Reggae at the beginning? So cool! And then the speed up. Only absolutely top musicians with a very loooong experience can master this perfect togetherness of improvisation. A pity I never saw them live - missed the Rio (THE!) concert by a few weeks when living in Brazil.
This was 1 of 2 encore songs. The other ine right before this may be just as insane. You should check that out as well. La Villa Strangiato. What a way to finish.
Yeah, what an energy. Cool to see your spontaneous reaction, you are not types that normally show a lot of emotions. But Rush got you guys further now than normally 😂
Riding out with the brothers again! It makes me happy to see you guys really enjoying music that a few years ago you would have never listened to. The fact that you guys know music so well definitely helps ,also that you've experienced the mighty Zeppelin!! You guys are great, my favorite reaction channel hands down! Please try to do more Clapton, there are great live tracks with him and BIlly Preston. Check out River of tears! It's 🔥 🔥
They are talking about going out on the road again if they can find a drummer that's right for them Neil passed from brain cancer. Peart died from glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, on January 7, 2020, in Santa Monica, California. He had been diagnosed three and a half years earlier, and the illness was a closely guarded secret in Peart's inner circle until his death. 3 guys blowing the roof off the dump and no one use of AUTO-TUNE.
The thing is they were having so much fun! you could tell after all these years they were still into it.. not just putting up some BS but going for it all the time. Thanks you guys for doing this
🥹 I have so many feels right now! 😍 I wuv you guys! 🥹 I'm not crying, you're crying! 🤯 Everyone at MSG when they started the song off like this.... 😔 Dang I miss these guys! 🥲🥰🐰
Thank God for records, concert footage, etc. Future generations will be just as awestruck as those of us who lived through those times and now memories. RIP Neil
I'm glad y'all reacted to this one! One of my favorites. I'm not sure if you've reacted to "Xanadu" (exit stage left) yet but I highly recommend that one!
Rush, as instrumentalists, were that band that actually got better over time. The Rush of my favorite era, the one from 1977 until 1987 or so, was a phenomenal band in term of creativity and performance. That same band in 1997, 15 years removed from their critical and commercial zenith, was actually better as instrumentalists. Even as Geddy Lee's vocal abilities diminished, his instrumental playing and studio singing remained exquisite. The trick? These guys practiced, and they practiced hard. A word about Cleveland. I grew up in the Great Lakes area, always loyal Rush country, but Cleveland was at another level. When Lee called this the "best audience ever", he wasn't pandering. He's recognizing that without Cleveland and its radio stations 40 years before, Rush would be nowhere hence.
Don't know if anyone brought it up, but Rush blew up after they initially released Working Man in Cleveland. It immediately got into back to back rotations on some channels. Back then, Cleveland was a steel, car, and salt production city famous for round the clock shifts. Apparently the working culture was well known. There are cool stories out there with interviews of the DJ that played it first. Lore is pretty strong that Cleveland launched Rush - probably why they gave them such props at the end. Thanks for sharing this live version.
🤗 OMG! Everyone at MSG exploded when they hit those 3 (Bum, Bum Bah, Bum, Bum Bah) notes 😁 then Alex let's loose! And for a second it got so loud in MSG, you would have thought you were at a Ranger-Islander Game yo! 😂
They played this (along with 2112 Overture & YYZed) at the Taylor Hawkins tribute with Chad Smith filling in on drums. They may have close to 70 and had not played together for 7 years but they were rocking harder than everyone else.
Y'all did it "right!" Same way we heard it when they first came out in chronological order: studio version first, then the live version. This is full circle... final song of their debut album in 1974. Last song EVER (Final song - of their final tour date - on their final tour) - in the City (Cleveland) that put them on the map for US audiences in 1974, now back performing live in 2015. R40 baby! They do a nice tip of the hat to Cleveland, Ohio's Donna Halper, program director at WMMS, who first put them on the air in the US, in the animated version of their official "The Spirit of Radio" music video. That vid also has a moving tribute to Neil at the end. RIP Professor.
I give credit to this song for keeping me half sane for the god-awful 3 1/2 years in Hawaii. NOT an 808 fan. A band that played at a nearby bar/nightclub would play this and nail it. Giving me a reason to live. When they saw me roll in, they knew they were going to be "Working Men".
If you haven't already, make sure you check out the 1974 live performance of this song with original drummer John Rutsey from the Bandstand, Laura Secord Secondary School, St. Catharines.
We saw that tour, named the Time Machine tour, with our daughters s at the Gorge Amphitheater. If you find a woman who loves Rush as much as you, marry her.
