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I'm going to be honest when i was a kid between 9-14 i hated Rush and all classic rock music up until i started playing Bass. My friend talked me into getting my dad to get me a bass so i could join his band and got me into listening to Nirvana, Type O Negative, RATM, and Tool maybe some punk and other grunge bands but that band was short lived, but my dad was like if your serious about playing the Bass check out Rush and u was like ahhh f no man those dudes are awful ....... Fast forward Rush is one if my all time favorite bands and major influence on me...
Neil said that playing percussion for Rush was like doing math while running a marathon. And he said that Tom Sawyer was the most difficult to play. Listening to it again is like hearing it for the first time.
@@AndrewRooneyDrums Ha! To see how legendary this percussion fill/riff/solo is, see this video at 2:35. We all grew up with it. The volume knob went up to 11 when Neil did this. ruclips.net/video/WJoTxywiRG0/видео.html
All three icons in their own right. A band with a great sense of humour too. I've seen them live with the washing machines; hilarious. Rush to me is synonymous to classical music. In a couple of centuries people will still listen to their music; their legacy is timeless. Often people have issue with Geddie's singing. I don't, I love it. But listening to them for about 45 years, I always missed the driving bass sound, not the play. I often wondered how they would sound with a lower bass (call it be-boppy) sound like for example Sting in The Police and nowadays somebody like Ale Villarreal in The Warning. Last Friday she played a concert that I saw live on YT and during that concert I thought of Geddy, because she really has a low driving wall of bass sound that supports the songs that well and gives some much space to vocals, guitar and drums. Let's hope they do a cover from Rush in the future. At the end of the day it will take nothing away of the genius of Neil, Geddy and Alex. Just three very nice Canadians that certainly won't block your bank accounts☺. Thank you very much Andrew for this great start and for your information recently Nandi Bushell did Tom Sawyer. Off course it cannot be perfect on the timing, but bloody hell she is already very quick with her fills. TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WATCH BUT DON'T CLICK THE S-BUTTON. THAT AIN'T FAIR. GIVE THIS ♠MAN A CHANCE TO REACH 100K.
Geddy now is not the same Geddy of the 1980's. (None of us are) He must also be heard in his prime, then it makes sense. My first Rush concert was 1976 (2112) in Fresno. I was 13 and my brother HAD to take me if he was going to use the car! You can't just watch a live video. They have to be there.
Besides the dolls already explained in the comments, and dinosaur figures, the stage props (the rotisserie chicken ovens, even a washing machine before this tour years back to make up for the fact Geddy by the late 90's no longer used large amps and preferred the PA system, thus he needed something to fill in due to Alex still needing his amps so Ged wouldn't feel awkward) is all about them just not taking things seriously and just having fun!
You should watch the video, “Dinner with Rush”. It’s essentially them having dinner and being their goofy selves. It’s well worth watching believe it or not. ❤️
They have often made fun of the lack of females at their shows...so the dolls are there as a joke....I think they have post it notes declaring their love for Alex attached, and I think you nailed the Stonehenge reference as being from Spinal Tap.
Alex is not even playing at some time and it seems more complex than 90% today's stuff :) Love Rush, I'm Canadian too, Quebec City, and Rush is a national treasure for me :)
Still shook up a bit by Neil's passing. Right now I'm going through a big band, jazz kit phase ala Neil. Not getting into trad grip but definitely trying to learn the jazz fundamentals and vocabulary. thought I'd share this too, I got to see Rush live during the Snakes and Arrow tour. During the encore of YYZ my dad said "we're leaving, let's beat the traffic out of here" I said "what?" "you've heard this song before..." LOL
i ddint see anyone mention it, but the little riff at the end (~9:33) is from cheech and chong's "Earache My Eye" off the album "Cheech and Chong's Greatest Hit"
Can't ever go wrong starting Rush week off with "Tom Sawyer" live! Thank you for your hard work that I know goes into making these videos! You're definitely a legend Mr Rooney! 🤘🏼🥁🤘🏼
Neat little Rush story at the beginning. I worked at a before school program (K/1st grade school) and would have music playing from my iPod. Had the usual stuff that kids knew like Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, ect...but I also had rock tunes play and I remember when one of the dads would drop off his son and he would hear Rush playing and he thanked me for playing that for his son to listen to.
Rush Week... woohoo You probably have your playlist picked for the week... but if not... Might I suggest you check out.... Rush - Best Intro EVER!!!!!!!!!! Its the opening of their 2004, 30th Anniversary World Tour. The R30 Overture (intro) consists of part of a song taken from each of their first 6 albums... Album 1... Finding My Way (Rush) Album 2... Anthem (Fly by Night) Album 3... Bastille Day (Caress of Steel) Album 4... A Passage to Bangkok (2112) Album 5... Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage (A Farewell to Kings) Album 6... Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres (Hemispheres) They then perform in entirety The Spirit of Radio form their 7th album (Permanent Waves). This might be a great pick to end your week... or on Day 8, as an Encore 🙂
The last part of the drum solo THE BASS. ..its DIFFERENT. Bump- Bu-Bu boom...its different ..the way it works out coming out of 7 ...Geddy hits it here live ..good thing the chickens were there to see it live.haha!
No its not Stonehenge, it is in fact an inukshuk, a stone landmark built by the first Nations of the Arctic in Canada . It was featured on the jacket of the Rush Album Test for Echo . Also used as logo for 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver
It's got to be LA VILLA STRANGIATO, LIVE IN CLEVELAND, TIME MACHINE TOUR .best wishes from the north east of England, you can't go wrong with the time machine tour. Another great song , outstanding live performance, i think 1 of Neil's all time greats from the snakes and arrows tour , great drumming great keyboards, MISSION. Outstanding vocals by geddy Lee.
I mean this in the "Nicest" way Andrew, ...... Yes you clearly Missed out on the Rush world, can you tell all of us how though ??? Rush has been one of the Top 5 Hard Rock bands for 40 yrs, how did you not hear about them ? What did you listen to growing up in life etc or is NZ that cut off ? And all the Great Classic Prog and Musicianship of the 70s ... Yes/ Genesis/King Crimson/Jethro Tull/ Pink Floyd/ Gentle Giant/ Nektar and more ... Please give us so insight on this Andrew !! : )
All three of the Guys Geddy, Alex & Neil are in Bass Player Mag, Guitar Player Mag, Modern Drummer's Mag Hall Of Fame (HOF) for winning their yearly polls more than 5 Times each !!!! You go in the HOF and can't win anymore to give other players a Bloody Chance !! Lol : D
🤣 The Groupies! 🤗 And they're holding signs up! 🥰 Rush always had fun stuff for us fans to soak up! 😏 Especially the close up of what the "signs & posters" say! Nice catch with the "Spinal Tap" reference! So fun watching you enjoy all the stuff we in the audience did! 😁🐰
Ok just some background the guys are a bit goofy especially Alex I mean he was in Trailer Park Boys show, they did a tour with washing machines on stage where they washed clothes during the concert....
The dolls had post it notes attached with weird sayings and other "stuff" on them done by the crew. Dinosaurs on the amps along with other animal figures......all just because.
I remember being a kid and my brothers friend left his portable radio at the house and moving pictures was in the tape deck and I walked around the block blasting Tom Sawyer over and over until I broke the handle on the radio lol. Have been a fan ever since.
Know I’m late to the comments, and this has nothing to do with anything, but I had a dream once that I played a game of D&D with Rush and it was awesome lmfao
One thing to note about Rush live, everything is rehearsed to the point of perfection. The drum part to this one has basically been unchanged since '81 as well, including those fills out of the guitar solo, which is why they're so tight on those hits (Seriously, the 3rd drum fill is FIVE sixteenth notes into the first crash on the "e" of 1, everyone hits it on the money). Also the guitar solo section (and outro) are in 7/8, with the synchronized hits in measures of 13/16 (15/16 for the last one). Alex is also playing pedals (bass notes over the 7/8 keyboard line), and two pedals at the end (bass note over keyboard and that droning "E" over everything else).
Nice one Andrew..a few things..they were actually quite serious in the early days, concentrating on the complex songs.As they matured and became more comfortable, their humour came out with many self-deprecating jokes.From Alex's dolls (Rush audiences were all-male it used to be said), the Spinal Tap reference, the model dinosaurs on Alex's amps (they were accused of being dinosaurs), before the chicken rotisseries were washer/drying machines (Rush never washed their dirty linen in public...so they then did lol! The T-shirts in them were handed out to audience members)...In your own time , I really suggest (as many others have) you sit down to watch the 'Beyond The Lighted Stage' film about them. It will fill in so many gaps for you and really is an entertaining watch...cheers
I'm late to Rush -- I'm 68 but late in really appreciating them. The weird thing about them is they ARE "down to Earth." Lifeson and Peart are just goofy guys, which is interesting because they are so damn good. Off stage, they snort, pick their noses, wear flannel shirts, and eat pork bellies. Geddy is a bit more cerebral and probably the cement. But as people off-stage (from what I've seen), they are just guys who like to fish like people I used to know in Minnesota (strong Canadian cultural similarities). And they ARE friends. I liken Lifeson to Rick Wakeman -- just so easy to be so good. And Wakeman is a goofy guy, too (a professional stand-up comic at times). They are both just enjoyable and down-to-Earth offstage (from the stuff I've seen).
I'll state an unpopular opinion among Rush fans, but while I enjoy every era of the band, Geddy learned to sing much better in the 80s than he had sung in the 70s. He brought his register down most of the time, saving the high notes for when they are appropriate. This also means the later songs sound better in concert as he aged. This song originally came out just when he started to make the transition. You'll note that when this live performance was recorded, he really has to strain to hit the high notes, even though he alters the phrasing in places to make it easier to sing. I love 80s Rush for other reasons as well. Neil talked about how putting Geddy on synthesizers made him focus more on Alex's work. Of course, bass and drums traditionally are the "rhythm section," so it's natural for them to work together, which left Alex on the outside. He's a fantastic guitarist, obviously -- the standard complaint that he's under-rated has been said so often that it's no longer anywhere near as true -- and contributed to the songs, but that's just it. He was contributing *to* them, weaving his parts into the Neil and Geddy dynamic. Once Geddy started providing the atmospheric effects with the synths (while still playing phenomenal bass parts), the interplay between Neil and Alex took on new life. Neil also became a more sophisticated lyricist in the 80s. I still listen to the early stuff, but back then he depended too much on his influences: warmed over Coleridge, warmed over Ayn Rand. I don't blame him, but he became a much deeper and more nuanced thinker as he got older, as he happily acknowledged. None of us should be judged by the deepest thoughts we could come up with when we were 24, because, as Fitzgerald wrote, "the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions." Compare "2112," "Free Will," "Working Man," "Xanadu," or "The Trees" to "The Analog Kid," "Red Sector A," "Witch Hunt," "The Enemy Within," "Big Money," "Alien Shore," "Middletown Dreams," "Far Cry," or "The Garden." The later songs are just on an entirely different level lyrically. As for Neil's drumming, as you know, he kept studying and getting better. Even the casual Rush fan knows he studied with Freddie Gruber in the 90s. At the same time, age and chronic tendinitis did gradually bring him down just slightly from his peak. Rush fans can argue about the exact moment when the combination of physical ability and technical brilliance was at its highest. This video is definitely after it. Personally, I think the mid-90s to the mid-2000s is the Platonic ideal of Peart's drumming, though sadly we lost some of those years due to the tragedies of his daughter's and wife's deaths. Thanks for continuing to return to Rush. Your insights improve my understanding of what I love about Neil, which inevitably means you teach me to love his playing more.
More Rush fans than you'd think understand how good the 80s and 90s material really is. Power Windows is arguably their strongest all-around album - they're at the physical peak of their playing and the lyrics and songwriting are about as good as they ever got. I will argue that Presto was actually Neil's best lyrics, but they were really good from Moving Pictures through Counterparts, briefly weirdly bad on Test For Echo, then great again on the final 3 albums.
@@ischmidt I generally agree with what you say here. Power Windows is great, though it's hard for me to choose an absolute peak anywhere between Moving Pictures and Counterparts. I could put that whole sequence on a loop, hit "play," and be a happy man. Test for Echo has moments, but you're right -- it's not an album I go back to often. Still, I think many Rush fans -- the kind who think 2112 is their peak and Caress of Steel just behind it, and you know they're out there -- routinely discount the 80s as too synth-heavy and resented the occasional experiments like having Aimee Mann (whom I also love for her songwriting and lyrics -- Neil, Geddy, and Alex had superb taste) sing back-up, or the aforementioned rap on "Roll the Bones," completely ignoring how Rush had always experimented, such as brilliantly incorporating reggae elements in earlier songs. By the way, I think this is a common thing. Fans like to pull out the "I was a fan before most of you newbies had even heard of" whomever card. R.E.M. fans are notorious for this, but it's true of a subset of most groups' fans: Zeppelin, Metallica, Jethro Tull, and so on. And it's only occasionally justified (early Yes is better than late Yes, early J. Geils is better than 80s J. Geils, early Genesis is better than later Genesis, Terry Kath Chicago is infinitely better than 80s Chicago). Rush's final three albums, especially "Vapor Trails" and "Snakes and Arrows," are a little more hard-rocking, not quite stripped-down but more conventionally power-trio-ish. To me, they reflect how the first listen to a Rush album always surprised me. The only expectations they fulfilled were that they would surprise me and I would be glad they did. Cheers.
You ought to check out The Charismatic Voice 's analysis of Rush, Tom Sawyer. I find it a bit odd that you don't yet appreciate Geddy Lee's voice. But I understand. Fly by night was my first album so I have about fifty years of being wowed by these guys. Lucky enough to catch them live five times. I love that voice. He is such a expert at what he does. I still get chills hearing songs like Fountain Of Lamneth and 2112 to name a couple. Thanks for Rush week. I like your work.
You MUST invest in "Taking Center Stage" 3 DVD and book set. You will see and learn Neil from his own words and videos. He breaks down fills and tracks then they play it in slow motion. Mind blowing!!! Must see viewing.
They were awesome on that tour. Just so much fun. “Tom Sawyer” - their most popular song - is such a strange, amazing song. Neil always said he loved playing it every night because it was always a challenge, and whenever he performed it to his standard it made him feel good. The drum & bass parts under Alex’s guitar solo are very complex, and then the fills coming out of that section are incredible. Neil co-wrote the lyrics with another Canadian songwriter, Pye Dubois, who wrote lyrics for Max Webster.
Now @Andrew Rooney Drums... Max Webster is a band you should check out. Quirky lyrics, amazing musicianship, visually amusing with lead man Kim Mitchel (who sings and shreds the guitar) and Gary McCracken the original drummer was amazeballz. They co-wrote/performed Battlescar with Rush on Max's album Universal Juveniles.
Andrew, sorry to interrupt the very awesome and relevant Rush Week, but I know you are a Snarky Puppy fan: can you be a trail blazer amongst reactors and try the "Ground Up" or "Tell Your Friends" sessions? I am not sure why reactors don't venture into these equally awesome recordings.
The dolls are all the adoring females at the show. 😁😁 The joke is that few females are at a Rush show. (Not quite true...). Sorry you missed them for years. Saw them 20 times, met Geddy and Alex (on the tour you just watched), and I love if all. I miss Rush...
Rush never really got airr play in the United States until their cult like following in Canada slowly filtered. Down into the States. One of the first stations to ever play any Rush song was a Northeast Ohio station maybe WMMS I can't remember which but once they started getting some air play it was like a blitz. For anyone not familiar with the Ohio music scene. Chrissy Hynde of the pretenders is from Akron, Dave Grohl is from the Warren area, John Popper of Blues Traveler is from Coshocton. There are a lot of other names as well. So for a station from Northeast Ohio to bring Rush to the states makes sense.
To see exactly how down to earth they are, you should watch the Rush documentary Beyond The Lighted Stage. One of the best rock band documentaries I’ve ever seen. You will love them even more as people after watching this. Shit…now I’m gonna go watch it again 😊
I'm always a bit surprised when versions are chosen / suggested from the latter years of Rush when it's evident that Geddy's voice isn't quite what it was in his prime. ..it's just my opinion, but I feel he struggles with the higher notes here. The live version from Sarstock is much better surely? Even so, Rush remains one of the greatest bands ever imho.
I think one of the main reasons the band and the fans have bonded so deeply is that we've pretty much 'grown up' together. They were so young at the beginning (about 20 when the first album came out and 21 when Neil joined) that most of the fans were of a similar age. Those of us who were younger then (became a Rush fan at 6 y/o with Fly by Night) sort of saw them as the older brother/cousin types. As we all matured the sci-fi, fantasy lyrics that fired our imagination as kids, changed to life lessons about integrity, perseverance and being true to yourself. It's been a very symbiotic relationship. Our support gives them the freedom to create this amazing music, and that music gives us the support we need to get through life.
Barbie dolls at Alex’s feet, because there weren’t a lot of female Rush fans. Dinosaurs on the amps because Rush is old. Rotisserie chickens to give Geddy’s bass a “crisp, warm sound” because he removed the amps from his side of the stage and they needed to visually balance the stage.
I watched some type of guitar interview where a guy did a video chat with Alex. That man is so calm and has so much fun and has so much left in him. He would be one of the guys you would really not want to see Angry LOL.
Geddy Lee's vocal range at this time period wasn't what it was in the earlier years, especially before their first album was released. There are videos on RUclips that show Rush playing live before they released their first album. Tom Sawyer is one of those songs that fades on the album/cd, but they made up an ending for the live performance. Their endings on fade songs aren't necessarily the same from one tour to the next.
My brother lives in Wellington and is a Rush fan, of course we're Canadian too😊. So there are at least 3 Rush fans in New Zealand not including you now.
You need to check out "Rush - Best Intro Ever" !!!!! Over 11 minutes of just mind blowing, LIVE, incredible, timing that sounds absolutely AMAZING !!!!!
On this tour Alex had a number of Cindy dolls around his pedal board and the crew would write various comments on post it notes each night which were then held up by the dolls and Alex would read them, I have a photo of him doing this from the Newcastle show on the UK run of the tour, I was in the front row just in front of his mic stand, he is just incredible to watch live and so much fun.
Thanks to listening to Neil Peart,playing drums to,"The Camera Eye." Very first song I've ever heard RUSH AND NEIL PLAY. I became a drummer and never turned back!! THANK YOU NEIL🤟🤘🤙 R.I.P
Hello @Andrew Rooney 👋👋 I think that you've asked several times about (why the washers,dryers,and all of the dolls and other characters) sitting by Alex and Geddy?!?! I watched an amazing biography video all about RUSH'S Neil,Getty and Alex. Everything from how they began,there back ground growing up. Basically covering everything. The figurines of,everything from Bugs Buddy to South Park figures, first started when one of there roadies put a figurine somewhere on all 3 of Neil,Alex and Gettys instruments are an amp?? (I'm not sure we're they put the figurines, but after that. All of RUSH'S fans started handing the figurines out to the roadies and they would set them up on,"a certain place around them." And that's how all of the figurines started. And while watching many different tours. They would have so many,that the Roadies would separate different one's for each show. The washers,dryers,and rotisserie's,I'm not sure about how they started, but i think that it's just part of there humor?? Alex is definitely the jokester of the 3!! So I'm guessing that they was Alex's idea??? Thank you again for all of your Reactions to RUSH!! Neil Peart always delivered a perfect performance just like Alex and Getty! Sincerely A Huge RUSH fan foe life,who was inspired by Neil's Drumming,"like millions of other Drummer's!!!!!
The washers, dryers and rotisseries were added in after Geddy started plugging his bass guitar into the arena's sound system, and they needed something to balance all the amps on Alex's side of the stage; the washers and dryers in particular were apparently added in response to a critic who'd said that watching one of their shows was about as boring as doing his laundry.
Sorry you missed out on all this great music while they were touring! They put on a GREAT 3 hour show!! You have plenty of time to catch up and plenty of choices!! LOL! “Bravado” was one you mentioned yesterday in the medley.. check it out! Also, I think you’d like “ByTor and the Snow Dog -studio version” Be well and God bless…. From Texas!
So here's a question for you....how is it possible that you haven't reacted to them doing "Working Man - Live in Cleveland"???????? I'm having problems comprehending that. One of the most mind-blowing performances I ever saw, and the ending w/ Neil is too funny when he get "angry" at Geddy & Alex speeding up at the end.
You HAVE to listen and watch the original video of that song. It was recorded in there studio, located in Morin Heights in the Laurentians in Quebec. It was called Le Studio and this is where they recorded all there albums from the late 70's up to the early 90's. Here's the link: ruclips.net/video/auLBLk4ibAk/видео.html
I wasn't a fan when I was younger what a naive little shit I was. Incredible band all 3 nice guys achieving legendary status. Lifeson is a legend in his own right a proper down to earth and funny guy (Check him out on Trailer Park Boys) Peart amazing drummer. Music fans these days will say his drumming isn't all that but by christ listen to what he plays and his grooves are still talked about to this day. It's not all about blast beats and double kick. He definitely paved the way for drummers these days. Damn shame these greats are no longer with us anymore, the likes of Porcaro and Peart to just name an iota of talented musicians that are no longer with us. Would've loved to have seen what else they would've done if they were still here now. Thank you Andrew for your channel! 💯🤘🏼
@@AndrewRooneyDrums The Porcaro family are all very accomplished musicians. 💯 great to hear you had Steve on. I'll have to see if I can find the podcast and listen to it.
Andrew there are about 3 specials out there on the web about the history of the band and their lives and friendship etc, Please search them out and watch them. You'll Love them and care about the band so much, and for you it's a great time to catch up on all the great music of the band !! Except some of the late 1980s and early 90s which they lost their classic sound abit !! DVD specials.... "Rush- Beyond the Lighted Stage"/ "Time Stands Still"/ "Rush-Rise of the Kings" Best Live DVDs .... "R40"/ "Time Machine 2011 Live in Cleveland"/ "R30"/ "Clockwork Angels Tour"/ "Exit Stage Left- 1980s" I hope this helps Andrew : )
The "stonehenge" on the keyboards, I believe it's a Inukshuk. Search for the Test for Echo album cover and you will see the reference! But basically, Inukshuks are a thing in Canada HAHAHAHA
As far as Alex's "Dolls" on his pedalboard", Alex is an absolute Joker. LOVES pranking People!! There is a 1973 movie called "Come on Children", which Alex plays a role in. It is roughly about ten teenagers live on a farm experiment, type movie. It may be worth a look.
When I was a kid in the 70's, I didn't "get" Rush...or "prog rock" in general. I only remember thinking that this band had 2 drummers. LOL! By the mid-late 80's, when I got to college, I learned to appreciate Rush much more and saw them twice (in 1990 and 1992). Their fanbase is rabid as hell. It's unfortunate that many folks in Europe and Australia/NZ didn't get the exposure but they weren't a "radio friendly" band. This was probably their most "popular" "radio" song.
Hahaha!!! So many people comment on Getty's voice, even canadians! It IS unique... Ya can't say you've heard a similar voice lol. Peart (rip) IS the best drummer ever, I don't gaf what Rolling Stone said (placing him 3rd). Alex can shred with the best of them, only with more articulation and timing! Who switches timings flawlessly, multiple times better than Rush??? No one! Rush rocks!!! And yes I'm from Canada 😂👊
Every time I see Geddy's "Blah Blah Blah" t-shirt, I'm reminded of Alex's acceptance speech when they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2013; it's guaranteed to leave you ROTFL!!
I haven't read all the comments but I think?? the dolls are sort of an acknowledgement that Rush were called out by Gene Simmons of KISS and others as being home bodies and boring kind of book worms (Neil especially) on tour. They didn't really go in for the "rock star" party life on the road. So, I think those Barbie dolls are Alex's "groupies."
Rush Week! Yay! Sorry, if this was already answered: The dolls in front of Alex - Rush has been ragged their entire career for having few female Rush fans. It's become an inside joke. Hence, the Barbie dolls. LOL Can't recall when the dolls became a "thing". Maybe the Test For Echo tour (1996)??? Anyway, the crew would write out different "groupie" signs for the dolls to hold up every night to make Alex laugh. They even showed up in the outtakes of the videos they were making that would play during their concerts because the band is....basically demented. LOL ruclips.net/video/E8m0PGz_dfw/видео.html
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I can’t remember if you already did Rush - Xanadu live. But there is a Neil Peart Roll that you have to watch his stick height on. Just amazing.
I'm going to be honest when i was a kid between 9-14 i hated Rush and all classic rock music up until i started playing Bass. My friend talked me into getting my dad to get me a bass so i could join his band and got me into listening to Nirvana, Type O Negative, RATM, and Tool maybe some punk and other grunge bands but that band was short lived, but my dad was like if your serious about playing the Bass check out Rush and u was like ahhh f no man those dudes are awful ....... Fast forward Rush is one if my all time favorite bands and major influence on me...
Geddy's "BLAH BLAH BLAH" shirt is a direct reference to (quote of?) Alex's comments during their introduction into the rock hall of fame. :-)
Check out "Nandi Bushell's" recent amazing rendition of T.S.
I'm on board, sir!
Yes please, More Rush!
Jam On, my friends! : )
Aside from their musicianship, the thing I love most about Rush is that they clearly like each other and are having a blast - for decades.
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The most powerful trio in rock history!
Love the passion Edgar!
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Undeniably true! 🙏🥰
Do not forget the Top, with the ZZ..
@@flipflopninja5853 all ZZ songs sound the same.
Neil said that playing percussion for Rush was like doing math while running a marathon. And he said that Tom Sawyer was the most difficult to play. Listening to it again is like hearing it for the first time.
I love that description Herschel
@@AndrewRooneyDrums Ha! To see how legendary this percussion fill/riff/solo is, see this video at 2:35. We all grew up with it. The volume knob went up to 11 when Neil did this.
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We might have watched the same video(graphs?)?! He also said that he very often misplays it; so difficult it must be.
Part of the difficulty is No 2 measures are the same
The mini Stonehenge and the ending were nods to Spinal Tap, excellent performance! All 3 of the members are on a whole other level.
All three icons in their own right. A band with a great sense of humour too. I've seen them live with the washing machines; hilarious. Rush to me is synonymous to classical music. In a couple of centuries people will still listen to their music; their legacy is timeless. Often people have issue with Geddie's singing. I don't, I love it. But listening to them for about 45 years, I always missed the driving bass sound, not the play. I often wondered how they would sound with a lower bass (call it be-boppy) sound like for example Sting in The Police and nowadays somebody like Ale Villarreal in The Warning. Last Friday she played a concert that I saw live on YT and during that concert I thought of Geddy, because she really has a low driving wall of bass sound that supports the songs that well and gives some much space to vocals, guitar and drums. Let's hope they do a cover from Rush in the future. At the end of the day it will take nothing away of the genius of Neil, Geddy and Alex. Just three very nice Canadians that certainly won't block your bank accounts☺. Thank you very much Andrew for this great start and for your information recently Nandi Bushell did Tom Sawyer. Off course it cannot be perfect on the timing, but bloody hell she is already very quick with her fills. TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WATCH BUT DON'T CLICK THE S-BUTTON. THAT AIN'T FAIR. GIVE THIS ♠MAN A CHANCE TO REACH 100K.
Geddy now is not the same Geddy of the 1980's. (None of us are)
He must also be heard in his prime, then it makes sense.
My first Rush concert was 1976 (2112) in Fresno. I was 13 and my brother HAD to take me if he was going to use the car!
You can't just watch a live video. They have to be there.
Besides the dolls already explained in the comments, and dinosaur figures, the stage props (the rotisserie chicken ovens, even a washing machine before this tour years back to make up for the fact Geddy by the late 90's no longer used large amps and preferred the PA system, thus he needed something to fill in due to Alex still needing his amps so Ged wouldn't feel awkward) is all about them just not taking things seriously and just having fun!
I love it Reinhard
You should watch the video, “Dinner with Rush”. It’s essentially them having dinner and being their goofy selves. It’s well worth watching believe it or not. ❤️
Also, they are drinking a lot of good wine, and all three are just a bit tiddly by the end. LOL
OMG YES THAT VIDEO ♥️♥️♥️
Watched that more then once…pure comedy!
Saw that and it felt like dinner with friends!
They have often made fun of the lack of females at their shows...so the dolls are there as a joke....I think they have post it notes declaring their love for Alex attached, and I think you nailed the Stonehenge reference as being from Spinal Tap.
They used to joke in interviews that their wives never worried about them sleeping around on tour lmao
This has MADE MY DAY!
AMAZING
Thank you Peter
@@AndrewRooneyDrums not stonehenge an innukshuk a symbol seen all over canada having to do with the innuit people
@@robertoblin795 No. That is from Test for Echo. This is a reference to the 18" Stonehenge from Spinal tap.
and dinosaurs in back
The musicianship is sublime. RIP Neil. Drum royalty.
Amazing performance by the Three Guys Orchestra. Best band ever!
three Canadian guys orchestra. just thought i'd add to t hat
100%
Best band ever, indeed!
They should have the guy from acdc fill in now that Neil is on vacation
Dffdd deo
Alex is not even playing at some time and it seems more complex than 90% today's stuff :) Love Rush, I'm Canadian too, Quebec City, and Rush is a national treasure for me :)
EXCELLENT!
This is an older band at this point with this song over 20 years ago, so the vocals are tougher but it still holds strong.
Still shook up a bit by Neil's passing. Right now I'm going through a big band, jazz kit phase ala Neil. Not getting into trad grip but definitely trying to learn the jazz fundamentals and vocabulary.
thought I'd share this too, I got to see Rush live during the Snakes and Arrow tour. During the encore of YYZ my dad said "we're leaving, let's beat the traffic out of here" I said "what?" "you've heard this song before..." LOL
i ddint see anyone mention it, but the little riff at the end (~9:33) is from cheech and chong's "Earache My Eye" off the album "Cheech and Chong's Greatest Hit"
Can't ever go wrong starting Rush week off with "Tom Sawyer" live! Thank you for your hard work that I know goes into making these videos! You're definitely a legend Mr Rooney! 🤘🏼🥁🤘🏼
Thank you!
SO MUCH FUN watching you DISCOVER this!!! I am smiling so much. Do more first-time listens of other icons that you've missed. :)
Thanks for watching Jason!
In canada, we refer to them as lunch box boys. They show up, get to work and get it done!
Neat little Rush story at the beginning. I worked at a before school program (K/1st grade school) and would have music playing from my iPod. Had the usual stuff that kids knew like Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, ect...but I also had rock tunes play and I remember when one of the dads would drop off his son and he would hear Rush playing and he thanked me for playing that for his son to listen to.
Neil said he'll never grow tired of playing Tom Sawyer because it's difficult to play and it feels good when you play it right.
Neil famously said this was the hardest piece to play for him. But he made it look effortless.
Thank Donna Halper. DJ. WMMS 100.9 Clevelands Home of the Buzzard. For discovering this band.
True story
Rush Week... woohoo
You probably have your playlist picked for the week... but if not...
Might I suggest you check out.... Rush - Best Intro EVER!!!!!!!!!!
Its the opening of their 2004, 30th Anniversary World Tour.
The R30 Overture (intro) consists of part of a song taken from each of their first 6 albums...
Album 1... Finding My Way (Rush)
Album 2... Anthem (Fly by Night)
Album 3... Bastille Day (Caress of Steel)
Album 4... A Passage to Bangkok (2112)
Album 5... Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage (A Farewell to Kings)
Album 6... Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres (Hemispheres)
They then perform in entirety The Spirit of Radio form their 7th album (Permanent Waves).
This might be a great pick to end your week... or on Day 8, as an Encore 🙂
The last part of the drum solo THE BASS. ..its DIFFERENT. Bump- Bu-Bu boom...its different
..the way it works out coming out of 7 ...Geddy hits it here live ..good thing the chickens were there to see it live.haha!
Love seeing a new fan go down the Rush rabbit hole 🇨🇦
Lovin' it William!
Its morr like a giant ant hill.
No its not Stonehenge, it is in fact an inukshuk, a stone landmark built by the first Nations of the Arctic in Canada . It was featured on the jacket of the Rush Album Test for Echo . Also used as logo for 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver
Great info. Thanks Todd
I've been mispronouncing that man's name for 40 years. A name that doesn't deserve to be mispronounced. 😔 Rest well, Mr. Peart.
RIP
It's got to be LA VILLA STRANGIATO, LIVE IN CLEVELAND, TIME MACHINE TOUR .best wishes from the north east of England, you can't go wrong with the time machine tour. Another great song , outstanding live performance, i think 1 of Neil's all time greats from the snakes and arrows tour , great drumming great keyboards, MISSION. Outstanding vocals by geddy Lee.
So good Philip!
I mean this in the "Nicest" way Andrew, ......
Yes you clearly Missed out on the Rush world, can you tell all of us how though ???
Rush has been one of the Top 5 Hard Rock bands for 40 yrs, how did you not hear about them ?
What did you listen to growing up in life etc or is NZ that cut off ?
And all the Great Classic Prog and Musicianship of the 70s ... Yes/ Genesis/King Crimson/Jethro Tull/
Pink Floyd/ Gentle Giant/ Nektar and more ... Please give us so insight on this Andrew !! : )
All three of the Guys Geddy, Alex & Neil are in Bass Player Mag, Guitar Player Mag, Modern Drummer's Mag
Hall Of Fame (HOF) for winning their yearly polls more than 5 Times each !!!! You go in the HOF and can't win anymore to give other players a Bloody Chance !! Lol : D
🤣 The Groupies! 🤗 And they're holding signs up! 🥰 Rush always had fun stuff for us fans to soak up! 😏 Especially the close up of what the "signs & posters" say! Nice catch with the "Spinal Tap" reference! So fun watching you enjoy all the stuff we in the audience did! 😁🐰
If I had a time machine, I would go to every Rush concert.
Absolutely Thomas
Ok just some background the guys are a bit goofy especially Alex I mean he was in Trailer Park Boys show, they did a tour with washing machines on stage where they washed clothes during the concert....
The dolls had post it notes attached with weird sayings and other "stuff" on them done by the crew. Dinosaurs on the amps along with other animal figures......all just because.
Lots to enjoy from these three playing iconic song. Favorite part is the instrumental break in the middle where all three GO OFF.
Not bad for guys in their 60's those are dinosaurs on top of his amp, making fun of themselves for how old they are.
HAHAHA
to quote RUSH "we take our music seriously, we don't take ourselves seriously" which was always the case live as you have seen.
Love that philosophy Andrew
I remember being a kid and my brothers friend left his portable radio at the house and moving pictures was in the tape deck and I walked around the block blasting Tom Sawyer over and over until I broke the handle on the radio lol. Have been a fan ever since.
Know I’m late to the comments, and this has nothing to do with anything, but I had a dream once that I played a game of D&D with Rush and it was awesome lmfao
HAHA! Awesome Derek
One thing to note about Rush live, everything is rehearsed to the point of perfection. The drum part to this one has basically been unchanged since '81 as well, including those fills out of the guitar solo, which is why they're so tight on those hits (Seriously, the 3rd drum fill is FIVE sixteenth notes into the first crash on the "e" of 1, everyone hits it on the money). Also the guitar solo section (and outro) are in 7/8, with the synchronized hits in measures of 13/16 (15/16 for the last one). Alex is also playing pedals (bass notes over the 7/8 keyboard line), and two pedals at the end (bass note over keyboard and that droning "E" over everything else).
In addition to the talent, they’re as quirky, funny, and nice as you could hope them to be.
That's the real kicker isn't it.
You want your hero's to be nice people
The Cheech and Chong reference at the very end was hilarious 😂👏🏻
Nice one Andrew..a few things..they were actually quite serious in the early days, concentrating on the complex songs.As they matured and became more comfortable, their humour came out with many self-deprecating jokes.From Alex's dolls (Rush audiences were all-male it used to be said), the Spinal Tap reference, the model dinosaurs on Alex's amps (they were accused of being dinosaurs), before the chicken rotisseries were washer/drying machines (Rush never washed their dirty linen in public...so they then did lol! The T-shirts in them were handed out to audience members)...In your own time , I really suggest (as many others have) you sit down to watch the 'Beyond The Lighted Stage' film about them. It will fill in so many gaps for you and really is an entertaining watch...cheers
Geddi's (Gary's) parents were both in Auschwitz, we are unbelievably lucky they both survived and created Geddi, this man was destined to be great!
The Professor at his finest. There are no substitutes. All killer, no filler.
NICE
Ok. I subscribed. Grew up in Canada. I found them when I was 12 in 1975. By far my very favorite band.
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Don't forget these are old men we are watching here. Good to see them having fun.
I'm late to Rush -- I'm 68 but late in really appreciating them.
The weird thing about them is they ARE "down to Earth." Lifeson and Peart are just goofy guys, which is interesting because they are so damn good. Off stage, they snort, pick their noses, wear flannel shirts, and eat pork bellies. Geddy is a bit more cerebral and probably the cement. But as people off-stage (from what I've seen), they are just guys who like to fish like people I used to know in Minnesota (strong Canadian cultural similarities).
And they ARE friends.
I liken Lifeson to Rick Wakeman -- just so easy to be so good. And Wakeman is a goofy guy, too (a professional stand-up comic at times). They are both just enjoyable and down-to-Earth offstage (from the stuff I've seen).
Awesome info Richard.
Yup they come across as fun music nerds. Great to have a conversation with I bet
Welcome to the club. It's almost 50 years old.
Glad to be here!
I'll state an unpopular opinion among Rush fans, but while I enjoy every era of the band, Geddy learned to sing much better in the 80s than he had sung in the 70s. He brought his register down most of the time, saving the high notes for when they are appropriate. This also means the later songs sound better in concert as he aged. This song originally came out just when he started to make the transition. You'll note that when this live performance was recorded, he really has to strain to hit the high notes, even though he alters the phrasing in places to make it easier to sing.
I love 80s Rush for other reasons as well. Neil talked about how putting Geddy on synthesizers made him focus more on Alex's work. Of course, bass and drums traditionally are the "rhythm section," so it's natural for them to work together, which left Alex on the outside. He's a fantastic guitarist, obviously -- the standard complaint that he's under-rated has been said so often that it's no longer anywhere near as true -- and contributed to the songs, but that's just it. He was contributing *to* them, weaving his parts into the Neil and Geddy dynamic. Once Geddy started providing the atmospheric effects with the synths (while still playing phenomenal bass parts), the interplay between Neil and Alex took on new life.
Neil also became a more sophisticated lyricist in the 80s. I still listen to the early stuff, but back then he depended too much on his influences: warmed over Coleridge, warmed over Ayn Rand. I don't blame him, but he became a much deeper and more nuanced thinker as he got older, as he happily acknowledged. None of us should be judged by the deepest thoughts we could come up with when we were 24, because, as Fitzgerald wrote, "the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions." Compare "2112," "Free Will," "Working Man," "Xanadu," or "The Trees" to "The Analog Kid," "Red Sector A," "Witch Hunt," "The Enemy Within," "Big Money," "Alien Shore," "Middletown Dreams," "Far Cry," or "The Garden." The later songs are just on an entirely different level lyrically.
As for Neil's drumming, as you know, he kept studying and getting better. Even the casual Rush fan knows he studied with Freddie Gruber in the 90s. At the same time, age and chronic tendinitis did gradually bring him down just slightly from his peak. Rush fans can argue about the exact moment when the combination of physical ability and technical brilliance was at its highest. This video is definitely after it. Personally, I think the mid-90s to the mid-2000s is the Platonic ideal of Peart's drumming, though sadly we lost some of those years due to the tragedies of his daughter's and wife's deaths.
Thanks for continuing to return to Rush. Your insights improve my understanding of what I love about Neil, which inevitably means you teach me to love his playing more.
Thank you Richard!
Yes every band ends up lowering keys live as they age.
Some of this Rush stuff is very high
Well said man 🎵
More Rush fans than you'd think understand how good the 80s and 90s material really is. Power Windows is arguably their strongest all-around album - they're at the physical peak of their playing and the lyrics and songwriting are about as good as they ever got. I will argue that Presto was actually Neil's best lyrics, but they were really good from Moving Pictures through Counterparts, briefly weirdly bad on Test For Echo, then great again on the final 3 albums.
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I generally agree with what you say here. Power Windows is great, though it's hard for me to choose an absolute peak anywhere between Moving Pictures and Counterparts. I could put that whole sequence on a loop, hit "play," and be a happy man. Test for Echo has moments, but you're right -- it's not an album I go back to often.
Still, I think many Rush fans -- the kind who think 2112 is their peak and Caress of Steel just behind it, and you know they're out there -- routinely discount the 80s as too synth-heavy and resented the occasional experiments like having Aimee Mann (whom I also love for her songwriting and lyrics -- Neil, Geddy, and Alex had superb taste) sing back-up, or the aforementioned rap on "Roll the Bones," completely ignoring how Rush had always experimented, such as brilliantly incorporating reggae elements in earlier songs.
By the way, I think this is a common thing. Fans like to pull out the "I was a fan before most of you newbies had even heard of" whomever card. R.E.M. fans are notorious for this, but it's true of a subset of most groups' fans: Zeppelin, Metallica, Jethro Tull, and so on. And it's only occasionally justified (early Yes is better than late Yes, early J. Geils is better than 80s J. Geils, early Genesis is better than later Genesis, Terry Kath Chicago is infinitely better than 80s Chicago).
Rush's final three albums, especially "Vapor Trails" and "Snakes and Arrows," are a little more hard-rocking, not quite stripped-down but more conventionally power-trio-ish. To me, they reflect how the first listen to a Rush album always surprised me. The only expectations they fulfilled were that they would surprise me and I would be glad they did.
Cheers.
And they end with Cheech and Chong’s “Earache my Eye”
Welcome to the rabbit hole go in head first best live band seen in my life
Glad to be in the rabbit hole!
The stuffed animals are from his grandkids.
You ought to check out The Charismatic Voice 's analysis of Rush, Tom Sawyer.
I find it a bit odd that you don't yet appreciate Geddy Lee's voice. But I understand. Fly by night was my first album so I have about fifty years of being wowed by these guys. Lucky enough to catch them live five times. I love that voice. He is such a expert at what he does. I still get chills hearing songs like Fountain Of Lamneth and 2112 to name a couple. Thanks for Rush week. I like your work.
I never said I'm not a fan of his voice did I?
You MUST invest in "Taking Center Stage" 3 DVD and book set. You will see and learn Neil from his own words and videos. He breaks down fills and tracks then they play it in slow motion. Mind blowing!!! Must see viewing.
Sounds great Steven!
They were awesome on that tour. Just so much fun. “Tom Sawyer” - their most popular song - is such a strange, amazing song. Neil always said he loved playing it every night because it was always a challenge, and whenever he performed it to his standard it made him feel good. The drum & bass parts under Alex’s guitar solo are very complex, and then the fills coming out of that section are incredible. Neil co-wrote the lyrics with another Canadian songwriter, Pye Dubois, who wrote lyrics for Max Webster.
Thanks for the info Mark
Now @Andrew Rooney Drums... Max Webster is a band you should check out. Quirky lyrics, amazing musicianship, visually amusing with lead man Kim Mitchel (who sings and shreds the guitar) and Gary McCracken the original drummer was amazeballz. They co-wrote/performed Battlescar with Rush on Max's album Universal Juveniles.
Andrew, sorry to interrupt the very awesome and relevant Rush Week, but I know you are a Snarky Puppy fan: can you be a trail blazer amongst reactors and try the "Ground Up" or "Tell Your Friends" sessions? I am not sure why reactors don't venture into these equally awesome recordings.
Can't wait to get to more Snarky Puppy!
The dolls are all the adoring females at the show. 😁😁 The joke is that few females are at a Rush show. (Not quite true...). Sorry you missed them for years. Saw them 20 times, met Geddy and Alex (on the tour you just watched), and I love if all. I miss Rush...
Brilliant. Thanks for sharing Jason
Rush never really got airr play in the United States until their cult like following in Canada slowly filtered. Down into the States. One of the first stations to ever play any Rush song was a Northeast Ohio station maybe WMMS I can't remember which but once they started getting some air play it was like a blitz. For anyone not familiar with the Ohio music scene. Chrissy Hynde of the pretenders is from Akron, Dave Grohl is from the Warren area, John Popper of Blues Traveler is from Coshocton. There are a lot of other names as well. So for a station from Northeast Ohio to bring Rush to the states makes sense.
Thanks for the info Tim!
To see exactly how down to earth they are, you should watch the Rush documentary Beyond The Lighted Stage. One of the best rock band documentaries I’ve ever seen. You will love them even more as people after watching this.
Shit…now I’m gonna go watch it again 😊
I will watch it!
I'm always a bit surprised when versions are chosen / suggested from the latter years of Rush when it's evident that Geddy's voice isn't quite what it was in his prime. ..it's just my opinion, but I feel he struggles with the higher notes here. The live version from Sarstock is much better surely?
Even so, Rush remains one of the greatest bands ever imho.
Snakes n Arrows live show DVD. Funny video shorts with the band including chicken guy. During the live show a chicken comes out to baste his friends
HAHA!
Awesome Phil
Neil Peart totally amazing so smooth everything just Glides right into each other it's just unbelievable
Yes Joseph!
Hoping you revisit Nandi Bushell this week and her cover of Tom Sawyer. Seeing a 11 year old do this is just as crazy.
I hope to get to it!
I think one of the main reasons the band and the fans have bonded so deeply is that we've pretty much 'grown up' together. They were so young at the beginning (about 20 when the first album came out and 21 when Neil joined) that most of the fans were of a similar age. Those of us who were younger then (became a Rush fan at 6 y/o with Fly by Night) sort of saw them as the older brother/cousin types. As we all matured the sci-fi, fantasy lyrics that fired our imagination as kids, changed to life lessons about integrity, perseverance and being true to yourself.
It's been a very symbiotic relationship. Our support gives them the freedom to create this amazing music, and that music gives us the support we need to get through life.
Barbie dolls at Alex’s feet, because there weren’t a lot of female Rush fans. Dinosaurs on the amps because Rush is old. Rotisserie chickens to give Geddy’s bass a “crisp, warm sound” because he removed the amps from his side of the stage and they needed to visually balance the stage.
Absolutely brilliant Steve
I watched some type of guitar interview where a guy did a video chat with Alex. That man is so calm and has so much fun and has so much left in him. He would be one of the guys you would really not want to see Angry LOL.
Sounds good!
Geddy Lee's vocal range at this time period wasn't what it was in the earlier years, especially before their first album was released. There are videos on RUclips that show Rush playing live before they released their first album. Tom Sawyer is one of those songs that fades on the album/cd, but they made up an ending for the live performance. Their endings on fade songs aren't necessarily the same from one tour to the next.
Thanks for the info John
My brother lives in Wellington and is a Rush fan, of course we're Canadian too😊. So there are at least 3 Rush fans in New Zealand not including you now.
HAHA!
My point exactly
Excellent analysis, a genuinely nice way to learn about music. One margin note: The video audio is to high, can't hear your comments!
Thanks Julio!
You need to check out "Rush - Best Intro Ever" !!!!! Over 11 minutes of just mind blowing, LIVE, incredible, timing that sounds absolutely AMAZING !!!!!
Thank you!
@@AndrewRooneyDrums
ruclips.net/video/YSToKcbWz1k/видео.html
Hey where did the south park intro go?
Glad you picked out a "RUSH" song out of the air!!!!
Thanks Ronnie!
On this tour Alex had a number of Cindy dolls around his pedal board and the crew would write various comments on post it notes each night which were then held up by the dolls and Alex would read them, I have a photo of him doing this from the Newcastle show on the UK run of the tour, I was in the front row just in front of his mic stand, he is just incredible to watch live and so much fun.
Loving it, Rush week. 👍🏻
RUSH WEEK!
Thanks to listening to Neil Peart,playing drums to,"The Camera Eye." Very first song I've ever heard RUSH AND NEIL PLAY. I became a drummer and never turned back!! THANK YOU NEIL🤟🤘🤙 R.I.P
Awesome Butch!
Hello @Andrew Rooney 👋👋 I think that you've asked several times about (why the washers,dryers,and all of the dolls and other characters) sitting by Alex and Geddy?!?! I watched an amazing biography video all about RUSH'S Neil,Getty and Alex. Everything from how they began,there back ground growing up. Basically covering everything. The figurines of,everything from Bugs Buddy to South Park figures, first started when one of there roadies put a figurine somewhere on all 3 of Neil,Alex and Gettys instruments are an amp?? (I'm not sure we're they put the figurines, but after that. All of RUSH'S fans started handing the figurines out to the roadies and they would set them up on,"a certain place around them." And that's how all of the figurines started. And while watching many different tours. They would have so many,that the Roadies would separate different one's for each show. The washers,dryers,and rotisserie's,I'm not sure about how they started, but i think that it's just part of there humor?? Alex is definitely the jokester of the 3!! So I'm guessing that they was Alex's idea??? Thank you again for all of your Reactions to RUSH!! Neil Peart always delivered a perfect performance just like Alex and Getty! Sincerely A Huge RUSH fan foe life,who was inspired by Neil's Drumming,"like millions of other Drummer's!!!!!
I love the stage props!
AMAZING
The washers, dryers and rotisseries were added in after Geddy started plugging his bass guitar into the arena's sound system, and they needed something to balance all the amps on Alex's side of the stage; the washers and dryers in particular were apparently added in response to a critic who'd said that watching one of their shows was about as boring as doing his laundry.
Sorry you missed out on all this great music while they were touring! They put on a GREAT 3 hour show!! You have plenty of time to catch up and plenty of choices!! LOL! “Bravado” was one you mentioned yesterday in the medley.. check it out! Also, I think you’d like “ByTor and the Snow Dog -studio version” Be well and God bless…. From Texas!
So here's a question for you....how is it possible that you haven't reacted to them doing "Working Man - Live in Cleveland"???????? I'm having problems comprehending that. One of the most mind-blowing performances I ever saw, and the ending w/ Neil is too funny when he get "angry" at Geddy & Alex speeding up at the end.
Oh I thought I did that!? Maybe on the next Rush week!?
@@AndrewRooneyDrums I'll look at your RUSH playlist, but I don't remember you doing the Live in Cleveland version. Edit: Nope, I don't see it.
Neil is playing with cancer at this time...just something to consider.
Ouch. Thanks for the info
You HAVE to listen and watch the original video of that song. It was recorded in there studio, located in Morin Heights in the Laurentians in Quebec. It was called Le Studio and this is where they recorded all there albums from the late 70's up to the early 90's. Here's the link: ruclips.net/video/auLBLk4ibAk/видео.html
Thank you!
My pleasure 🙂
I wasn't a fan when I was younger what a naive little shit I was. Incredible band all 3 nice guys achieving legendary status. Lifeson is a legend in his own right a proper down to earth and funny guy (Check him out on Trailer Park Boys) Peart amazing drummer. Music fans these days will say his drumming isn't all that but by christ listen to what he plays and his grooves are still talked about to this day. It's not all about blast beats and double kick. He definitely paved the way for drummers these days. Damn shame these greats are no longer with us anymore, the likes of Porcaro and Peart to just name an iota of talented musicians that are no longer with us. Would've loved to have seen what else they would've done if they were still here now. Thank you Andrew for your channel! 💯🤘🏼
Porcaro is my guy. I had his brother Steve on my Podcast
@@AndrewRooneyDrums The Porcaro family are all very accomplished musicians. 💯 great to hear you had Steve on. I'll have to see if I can find the podcast and listen to it.
Andrew don’t analyze. Just bow. Can’t even dream of coming up with this music. Just like Milford Sound . Can’t explain the waterfalls . Just enjoy. 🇨🇦
Rush fans= biggest cult band ever.......you want subscribers, offer up Rush!!! 😃
Neil always said "playing Tom Sawyer live was most challenging". One of his toughest plays.
Right on!
Subbed for Rush!! Working Man Live in Cleveland, please. Very fun....
Andrew there are about 3 specials out there on the web about the history of the band and their lives and friendship etc, Please search them out and watch them. You'll Love them and care about the band so much, and for you it's a great time to catch up on all the great music of the band !! Except some of the late 1980s and early 90s which they lost their classic sound abit !! DVD specials.... "Rush- Beyond the Lighted Stage"/ "Time Stands Still"/ "Rush-Rise of the Kings" Best Live DVDs .... "R40"/ "Time Machine 2011 Live in Cleveland"/ "R30"/ "Clockwork Angels Tour"/ "Exit Stage Left- 1980s"
I hope this helps Andrew : )
The "stonehenge" on the keyboards, I believe it's a Inukshuk. Search for the Test for Echo album cover and you will see the reference! But basically, Inukshuks are a thing in Canada HAHAHAHA
Andrew..you made my day!! Xo
Great Michelle!
As far as Alex's "Dolls" on his pedalboard", Alex is an absolute Joker. LOVES pranking People!! There is a 1973 movie called "Come on Children", which Alex plays a role in. It is roughly about ten teenagers live on a farm experiment, type movie. It may be worth a look.
When I was a kid in the 70's, I didn't "get" Rush...or "prog rock" in general. I only remember thinking that this band had 2 drummers. LOL! By the mid-late 80's, when I got to college, I learned to appreciate Rush much more and saw them twice (in 1990 and 1992). Their fanbase is rabid as hell. It's unfortunate that many folks in Europe and Australia/NZ didn't get the exposure but they weren't a "radio friendly" band. This was probably their most "popular" "radio" song.
Neil said in a documentary this is the hardest song he played…… enjoy! ❤️🎼❤️
Hahaha!!! So many people comment on Getty's voice, even canadians! It IS unique... Ya can't say you've heard a similar voice lol. Peart (rip) IS the best drummer ever, I don't gaf what Rolling Stone said (placing him 3rd). Alex can shred with the best of them, only with more articulation and timing! Who switches timings flawlessly, multiple times better than Rush??? No one!
Rush rocks!!! And yes I'm from Canada 😂👊
Just listening to them you'd think they were a five or six piece band. But you'd be wrong, they were only a three piece
Amazing Aaron!
@@AndrewRooneyDrums Indeed :)
Three things everyone knows about Canada: Hockey, Maple Syrup, and RUSH!
Every time I see Geddy's "Blah Blah Blah" t-shirt, I'm reminded of Alex's acceptance speech when they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2013; it's guaranteed to leave you ROTFL!!
I haven't read all the comments but I think?? the dolls are sort of an acknowledgement that Rush were called out by Gene Simmons of KISS and others as being home bodies and boring kind of book worms (Neil especially) on tour. They didn't really go in for the "rock star" party life on the road. So, I think those Barbie dolls are Alex's "groupies."
Rush Week! Yay! Sorry, if this was already answered: The dolls in front of Alex - Rush has been ragged their entire career for having few female Rush fans. It's become an inside joke. Hence, the Barbie dolls. LOL Can't recall when the dolls became a "thing". Maybe the Test For Echo tour (1996)??? Anyway, the crew would write out different "groupie" signs for the dolls to hold up every night to make Alex laugh. They even showed up in the outtakes of the videos they were making that would play during their concerts because the band is....basically demented. LOL ruclips.net/video/E8m0PGz_dfw/видео.html
Let's get this channel to 100k so we can get another week of Rush.
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My brother in law took his Mom to a Rush concert… she said, God rest her soul, “How can three guys do that?” Love Rush!