To anyone has ever seen Rush live, their opening "movie intros" followed by their hard-hitting opening songs/medley were a definite rush to the senses (pun intended) of "the party is starting"!!!
I saw them in Glasgow back in the 2000s. They had a wee cartoon guy come on at the end to say “thank f*** that shite’s finished”. Captured the Glaswegian patter perfectly 😄
@erkbrothers 80 - When I first heard of Stiller's passing I was like, "I have no idea who he was!?" (other than Ben's dad, obviously), but then suddenly this here intro popped into my mind :-)
Of all the tours I saw them on, when I saw THIS I damn near lost my mind. To OPEN the show with a medley instead of close with, absolutely brilliant. The crowd was so pumped up, and the band looked like they were having a ball. I bet it was Alex's idea, because he really shined.
I live in St. Catharines, just a stone's throw from Lakeside Park. What an honour it is to live in the backyard of one of the greatest drummers the rock n' roll world has ever known.
I got Caress of Steel as my second RUSH LP after ESL and loved it well before I heard about the criticisms. I still genuinely do not understand why anyone could find a single issue with any of the tracks, it remains one of my top RUSH albums to this day. Too be fair they are all my top RUSH albums. Except Echo.
@@Roll_the_BonesWhile Caress of Steel is my least favorite of all of Rush's albums, that doesn't mean that I think it is a bad album. By no means, I like all the tracks on it. And I'll listen to CoS over 99.9898% of all the albums that have come out in my lifetime (I was born in 1971).
So privileged to have seen this show in England all those years ago! And i finally FINALLY met Geddy last year at a book signing.. If you're a Rush fan (you wouldn't be watching this video I guess!) You would understand how happy that made me.. Been a fan since 1986
I saw this tour in 2004 at Radio City, NY. This opening salvo blew us away. (my other half was with me). I was up in the 1st row of the Balcony. For those that know Radio City, amazing place for a show. Can't believe that was 18 years ago.
One of the all time best rock trios to grace a stage one of a kind band never to be duplicated ever bin following them since highschool I'm now 65 I'm also a drummer so Neil was a great inspiration for me
Saw the band many times over the years, a few times in Toronto. The first time I saw them there I was in the balcony, Alex side, Maple Leaf Gardens, and of course there were ushers all over. The one nearest us was up there in years, a white-haired gent, and wasn't paying very much attention to the crowd (there wasn't much going on). He was paying attention to the band and head-bobbing right along with the music. It was really fun to see him getting into it. I was in my twenties, he had to be pushing 70.
From 2:49-3:20. You seriously could not ask for a better intro to a concert than that. That A chord Alex hits in the first note is out of this fucking world
I haven't been listing to a lot of Rush lately since I'm not commuting anymore thanks to Corona. It's cool to hear the power and precision of this band again. This little session is EPIC!
This was my 3 kids first concert ever. They were so young. To see the wonder & amazement in their eyes as the band opened up. Took me right back to an early April evening in Syracuse NY's Carrier Dome 1983 for my first concert ever. Signals
I was at exactly the right age in high school in Brighton Ontario when Rush came out. I followed them carefully their whole career. Started in the 70’s and kept going. I see them taking a tiny step back in with South Park. But this intro is amazing and makes me cry for Neil.
I got this for Christmas one year on DVD. Best part was it was after my dad hooked up his surround sound present. We jammed to this like a real concert. I didn't go to R30, but I loved R40 slowly watching the stage and music go back in time. R40 was incredible, and made even more unforgettable as their last. Thanks for the memories Neil!
Saw them 9 times live, always a great show, especially in the 80s when they used a lot of laser lighting. Forgot where my car was after one of their shows.
Sent shivers down my spine ! I can't put into words how these tunes make me feel ! Tearful actually ! My youth , my middle age , and now my old age ! Thanks guys ; )
I have been listening too and loving this band since I was first introduced to them while partying in the marine corps in 1980. Lots of great memories and outstanding music.
I got up to Passage To Bangkok, then unaccountably, my eyes started leaking. Could it be because I know I'll never see them perform it live? Such a badass song, the live crowd really appreciated it.
Genuine brilliance from all three for 30+ and yet I can still hope that my children could have the same...love and experience that we we've gone through blessed. Peace and love
A blink-and-you'll-miss-it performance for the ages. Could only be pulled off by a band as masterful as Rush (a trio nonetheless). And kicking things off with Spirit of the Radio RIGHT after?!?! Sheeeeesh this crowd must have been transcending to another dimension.
I can only speak for myself, but, there are many possible choices for the second best rock band of all time. There is only one for the best. Thanks gentlemen. I've been a fan since album # 1.
Had the honour privilege and absolute joy of seeing RUSH twice in two days on this tour the Sunday was Neil’s birthday.I cried for joy then and I cry for the same joy now.I cry with sadness too but I was there and nobody can take that away from me.❤️🤍❤️🇨🇦🇬🇧
That was one of the funnest things I have ever watched on RUclips. And to see Jerry being a big fanboy during the "Bangkok" snippet was too cool. Thank you for posting this!
As many concerts that I went to, especially back in the 80s, I can't believe I never saw Rush live. I've been going down the Rush video rabbit hole lately -- amazing musicians.
I wish I appreciated this more at the time. They're relaxing into the groove of each tune in the meddley and that's cool. All I could think about in the years around when it was released is how Neil got rid of his awesome set, the kind I had a relatively faithful duplicate of in my house.
Takes me back to Cleveland in the 70's, best F'in show + the Rapid engineer was hitting our joint & taking swigs off the bottle of Jack on the way back to Brookpark station!
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Jerry is in heaven watching Neil Peart do a playthrough of Bangkok right now
Interesting photo of Alex at 8.41 giving the 666 one eye look, is he pooling the piss or something else?
Who's watching this in 2024?
ME
I watch on phone & sit on lazy chair wife bring beer soon empty ashtray
ME!!
I go to see R30 R40, best concerts ever...so me, I am watching it in 2024. 😊
Meeeeee
Best rock intro. Ever.
Indeed!!🤘🔥
To anyone has ever seen Rush live, their opening "movie intros" followed by their hard-hitting opening songs/medley were a definite rush to the senses (pun intended) of "the party is starting"!!!
I saw them in Glasgow back in the 2000s. They had a wee cartoon guy come on at the end to say “thank f*** that shite’s finished”. Captured the Glaswegian patter perfectly 😄
Yes I have, & yes they do! ✨👏🏼😎✨
Yes, Denver McNichols in 1986. Opened with 2112. Followed up with Limelight.
Yup, it was their party trick! Lul the audience into a sense of bemused confusion, then SMACK! Sucker-punched, right in the face!
Yes many times 😮
I was in the 9th grade when my stoner neighbor introduced me to their music. Never looked back.
RIP Professor and Jerry Stiller. Both extreme masters of their craft. Serenity now!!! 🤘😎🥁
@erkbrothers 80 - When I first heard of Stiller's passing I was like, "I have no idea who he was!?" (other than Ben's dad, obviously), but then suddenly this here intro popped into my mind :-)
Festivus for the rest of us....."I got a lot of problems with you people!".
Now more thenever
Festivus for the rest of us!
Hoochi mamma !
The Best Band of the World!!!! Forever!!!!!!!!!
Best band in the Universe. Neil Peart wasn't just a drummer he was a percussionist. Rip.
Alchemy
You spelled 'perfectionist' wrong :)
THE Greatest intro to a concert EVER!
This intro alone would top most concerts.
Watching greatness never gets old!,
Of all the tours I saw them on, when I saw THIS I damn near lost my mind. To OPEN the show with a medley instead of close with, absolutely brilliant. The crowd was so pumped up, and the band looked like they were having a ball. I bet it was Alex's idea, because he really shined.
There will never ever ever be a ROCK band (or ANY band) that comes even REMOTELY near the greatness of RUSH!!! ✨👏🏼😎✨
Precision
Never mind the amazing musicianship, I love seeing crowds before smartphones actually living in the moment at a concert
Cellphones existed but, who needs one other than to relive this event?
My 1st experience was the Hemispheres tour in 79'.
Nothing but Zippos lit the room 😎✌🤘
I live in St. Catharines, just a stone's throw from Lakeside Park. What an honour it is to live in the backyard of one of the greatest drummers the rock n' roll world has ever known.
Fenwick here......and yes what a bonus
I got Caress of Steel as my second RUSH LP after ESL and loved it well before I heard about the criticisms. I still genuinely do not understand why anyone could find a single issue with any of the tracks, it remains one of my top RUSH albums to this day. Too be fair they are all my top RUSH albums. Except Echo.
@@Roll_the_BonesWhile Caress of Steel is my least favorite of all of Rush's albums, that doesn't mean that I think it is a bad album. By no means, I like all the tracks on it. And I'll listen to CoS over 99.9898% of all the albums that have come out in my lifetime (I was born in 1971).
30 people don't like this: are you from another planet? This is the best opening ever from the best band ever, no discussion
Holy shit...unfuckingbelievable...perfection...RUSH is the GOAT...
Never gets old. Actually it gets better every time i listen.
I can't count how many times I have listened to this...
I was at the R 30 show at The Hollywood Bowl killer Show
No other band could slip multiple songs into a medly like this with so much ease and precision as rush.
{Dream Theater enters chat}
Peart forever (1952 - 2020)
So privileged to have seen this show in England all those years ago! And i finally FINALLY met Geddy last year at a book signing.. If you're a Rush fan (you wouldn't be watching this video I guess!) You would understand how happy that made me.. Been a fan since 1986
Likewise, a fan since '86 and I too managed to catch the R30 tour, Birmingham NEC 2004 :)
Respect mate.
Kick ass band!!!
RUSH is the only band that would precede a song medley with an album cover medley.
I’ve seen Rush on R30 tour in Prague, 26.09.2004. I’ve seen Three Kings in their prime!
Who else could take 6 songs, and make them transition into each other so smoothly? Why the masters of the transition, of course. RIP Jerry!
And even they acknowledged the difficulty of doing so. But they also never backed away from a challenge.
Nobody ever
Well, the Grateful Dead could too tbh.
g f u
@@charlieraffaniello4867 yeah they were masters of that & sometimes did it without anyone in the band knowing what song they'd end up turning it into
I saw this tour in 2004 at Radio City, NY. This opening salvo blew us away. (my other half was with me). I was up in the 1st row of the Balcony. For those that know Radio City, amazing place for a show. Can't believe that was 18 years ago.
Alot can get close , but NO ONE will ever duplicate the master ... this is why Alex & geddy will never play as rush ...
One of the all time best rock trios to grace a stage one of a kind band never to be duplicated ever bin following them since highschool I'm now 65 I'm also a drummer so Neil was a great inspiration for me
Alex blazing away on a PRS is the best sound and tone he ever got .
Jerry Stiller opening a Rush show. AWESOME! R.I.P Mr. Stiller you will be so missed. Great person I hold dear to my heart.
There is no denying the individual and collective musicianship of this legendary trio... Long Live Rush!
Saw the band many times over the years, a few times in Toronto. The first time I saw them there I was in the balcony, Alex side, Maple Leaf Gardens, and of course there were ushers all over. The one nearest us was up there in years, a white-haired gent, and wasn't paying very much attention to the crowd (there wasn't much going on). He was paying attention to the band and head-bobbing right along with the music. It was really fun to see him getting into it. I was in my twenties, he had to be pushing 70.
From 2:49-3:20. You seriously could not ask for a better intro to a concert than that. That A chord Alex hits in the first note is out of this fucking world
This has got to be the most magnificent intro I have ever heard in my life. Thank You RUSH!!!
I haven't been listing to a lot of Rush lately since I'm not commuting anymore thanks to Corona. It's cool to hear the power and precision of this band again. This little session is EPIC!
This was my 3 kids first concert ever. They were so young. To see the wonder & amazement in their eyes as the band opened up. Took me right back to an early April evening in Syracuse NY's Carrier Dome 1983 for my first concert ever. Signals
You're raising your kids right!
I was at exactly the right age in high school in Brighton Ontario when Rush came out. I followed them carefully their whole career. Started in the 70’s and kept going. I see them taking a tiny step back in with South Park. But this intro is amazing and makes me cry for Neil.
I could literally put this on a loop and listen to it for the rest of my life.
When they do Hemispheres, massive goosebumps!
Rush has a great sense of humor! At some point of every Rush concert, you couldn't help to laugh.
It really was unfair to concentrate so much talent into one band.
I got this for Christmas one year on DVD.
Best part was it was after my dad hooked up his surround sound present. We jammed to this like a real concert.
I didn't go to R30, but I loved R40 slowly watching the stage and music go back in time.
R40 was incredible, and made even more unforgettable as their last.
Thanks for the memories Neil!
Amazing band live. So much music from 3 musicians wow 🇨🇦🫶
Can't get enough of this!! Greatest intro I have ever heard!!!
Saw them 9 times live, always a great show, especially in the 80s when they used a lot of laser lighting. Forgot where my car was after one of their shows.
Sent shivers down my spine !
I can't put into words how these tunes make me feel !
Tearful actually !
My youth , my middle age , and now my old age !
Thanks guys ; )
What an opening! Greatest band ever
I have been listening too and loving this band since I was first introduced to them while partying in the marine corps in 1980. Lots of great memories and outstanding music.
I got up to Passage To Bangkok, then unaccountably, my eyes started leaking. Could it be because I know I'll never see them perform it live? Such a badass song, the live crowd really appreciated it.
Present. Never gets old and never will.
Genuine brilliance from all three for 30+ and yet I can still hope that my children could have the same...love and experience that we we've gone through blessed. Peace and love
Amazing … We all so miss this incredible band.
That drummer is one of the best. Rush is amazing.
Neil Peart. RIP
Loved this intro…saw it at the Hollywood Bowl and all the famous RUSH nerds were there 😅
The medley of songs they blend in here is a thing of musical mastery..so much creativity and versatility..
No other band sounds like Rush.They were something special! Flawless!
A blink-and-you'll-miss-it performance for the ages. Could only be pulled off by a band as masterful as Rush (a trio nonetheless). And kicking things off with Spirit of the Radio RIGHT after?!?! Sheeeeesh this crowd must have been transcending to another dimension.
Expectacular ok
Rush, masters of the signature change mid song, and you would never notice!! Love their music, always have.!!
RIP NEIL
RIP, Jerry Stiller.
I can only speak for myself, but, there are many possible choices for the second best rock band of all time. There is only one for the best. Thanks gentlemen. I've been a fan since album # 1.
so glad they performed "bastille day"!
Me too !!
Love this band... Just a great 3 man band that never stopped delivering...
Had the honour privilege and absolute joy of seeing RUSH twice in two days on this tour the Sunday was Neil’s birthday.I cried for joy then and I cry for the same joy now.I cry with sadness too but I was there and nobody can take that away from me.❤️🤍❤️🇨🇦🇬🇧
Saw them in 74 twice in 3 nights. Was deaf for 3-4 days after. Worth it
@@johnegli1308 Amen to that!
I saw my first Rush concert in 1986
I also was there for the final show in 2015
I saw R40 and...
I LOVE R30!
Were was the final show in 2015???
@@williamthurman9082 Los Angeles Forum in Inglewood California USA
August 1st 2015
That was one of the funnest things I have ever watched on RUclips. And to see Jerry being a big fanboy during the "Bangkok" snippet was too cool.
Thank you for posting this!
So thankful I was able to see them back in 2013. One of the greatest shows I’ve ever been to. No opener. Just 3 hours of RUSH
As many concerts that I went to, especially back in the 80s, I can't believe I never saw Rush live. I've been going down the Rush video rabbit hole lately -- amazing musicians.
Get Rush in Rio DVD, R30 and R40...you won't be disappointed
Rush was the only band I'd pay to see play live, and I did, many times.
Seen rush 3 times in little rock, unlike most rock bands they ain't drinking and drugging, their practicing
Glad I saw them a couple of times even way back to 1977. They are sublime.
I wish I appreciated this more at the time. They're relaxing into the groove of each tune in the meddley and that's cool. All I could think about in the years around when it was released is how Neil got rid of his awesome set, the kind I had a relatively faithful duplicate of in my house.
Jesus, a perfectly arranged medley of classic rush
9:10 If that doesn't give you goosebumps then you have no central nervous system.
When that riff kicks in its game over ...excitement overload
I've seen Rush so many times that when ever they would announce tickets were on sale automatically I planned to go buy them.
R.I.P. Professor
First concert i ever attended without parents was Rush on Signals Tour. What a memory!!
I was at the NEC gig in Birmingham UK, front row seats too, absolutely phenomenal!
Absolutely spectacular! The Boys live, a winner every time.
What a RUSH....Incredible to see and listen to this again, sound quality is spot on. Incredible.
This is my more than 100th times listening to the intro. I bet I would listening to it until my twilight years
I am sincerely glad you find enjoyment like that, in it. Rock on.
farewell to kings toronto '77 ?, 3rd row track seats , unbelievable !!!! fan for life !!!
Love Geddy's "check-in" at 5:24.
Happy birthday, Geddy..... Mine tomorrow... Wish it was a day earlier
RIP Neil..... The greatest band ever. Big love from soggy England
Thank you for all the years of great music. RIP Neil, and for Alex and Geddy...keep playing because the world needs you! ❤
Takes me back to Cleveland in the 70's, best F'in show + the Rapid engineer was hitting our joint & taking swigs off the bottle of Jack on the way back to Brookpark station!
best band ever
still get the goosebumps watching this now then when live way back when
One just can't be limited to three hours of Rush music. A live show MUST be the entire catalog.
Great music is timeless.
Three genius musicians.
I miss them so mush and my dream days in Toronto.
Can't wait to crank this on my next road trip! The best ever!! RUSH 'til the end of time!! Oh Ya!!!!!
Thanks for posting this. Rush is the greatest and this video is awesome. Great inclusion of Jerry Stiller. May he rest in peace.
Love that reverb on anthem 😊😊😊😊
I don't need to watch R30 here I own it 😀😀😀
It is AWESOME😀😀😀 It's my favorite of the DvD's😀😀😀
Nice. Me too, obviously. Well, I guess not so obviously, but that is the source. Rock on!
Love this into. A 10 minute intro before the real song begins. Nobody else can do it like Rush!!
Greatest opening ever!
What a memory rush......ohya
I love how they never stopped evolving, never stopped improving, and just got cooler over the years.
I love Rush concerts so much. Inspiring to see 20,000 old dudes all air drumming at the same time (i am one of them)
Still the best show.
Medford Oregon.
Armory max capacity maybe 2000.
Kiss. Rush fly by night. Tour.
$3.50. Festival
1975 ???