I swear to all the music gods that there is literally no other vocalist in rock & roll history who could pull off singing these lyrics. The day these three guys came together should be noted and celebrated every year with festivals. Neil's early lyrics needed Geddy's voice, and Geddy and Alex needed Neil's lyrics and percussion around which to create and complete their magics.
Rush's road manager Howard Ungerleider came up with the title at a party. There were two dogs at the party, one a German shepherd and the other a tiny white nervous dog. Howard used to call the shepherd By-Tor because anyone that walked into the house was bitten. The other dog was a snow-dog (white). So from that night on Howard called the pair of dogs "By-Tor and the Snow Dog." The dogs belonged to Rush's manager. “We must have been high one day, imagining a song about these two dogs. And then Neil went ahead and wrote it. But the guys at our record company weren’t happy. They signed the band that was on the first album, and they said, ‘This is not the same - what is this By-tor shit? You were talking about Working Man and now you’re talking about this crazy stuff.’ It was a bit of hiccup in the plan they had for us. … The title of the first part of By-tor and the Snow Dog is a mystery to all three members of Rush. Geddy: “I don’t know what ‘tobes’ are. I assumed that Neil knew, and there must be such a place in mythology. I just went with it.” Alex: “I think the Tobes of Hades is kind of like the waiting room to Hell!” Neil: “Nobody know what it means - that’s what I love about it. But it’s something that my friend’s father used to say: ‘It’s hotter than the Tobes of Hades!'”-Geddy, Alex, and Neil, Prog Magazine, Issue 35, April 2013
Sometimes language gets abused and great things come of that? Could it have been a misheard or mistaken Tombs of Hades? Put a thick accent on it and could be?
Hey everybody! Sorry for the non existent thumbnail on this video. My power went out and I totally forgot to upload a thumbnail before! So I'll get to it once my power turns back on in a few hours. Hope you all still enjoy the reaction! And let's hope we all have a Snow Dog watching over us to make sure By-Tor doesn't escape from hell and try to hurt us. :)
I can hardly wait for your reaction to A Caress of Steele, 2112, and A Farewell To Kings. Once you hear that, you will have the crux of the Rush experience. Their later works are treasures, to be sure, but their earlier works define them and shaped their direction. I believe that A Farewell to Kings was the pivotal album that shaped their sound subsequently. You already heard Hemispheres. That album came right after A Farewell to Kings. So you can see the direction.
Peart’s mark on the band is indicative on this song as they will begin doing a number of long song forms for the next 3 or 4 albums. For this band to have the balls to lay out such a creative mindset and vision is really remarkable. By-tor makes his return in The Necromancer on Caress of Steel but this time he’s the hero.
There was a dog either owned by one of the crew or someone at the studio that was known to be a biter ( By-Tor) & that's how the character came about. It was their 1st attempt at telling a multi-part story. I believe they achieved By Tor's battle sound by distorting Geddy's bass through the amps somehow. On the Vapor Trails tour I think it was they played part of this with a funny animated film. God, I miss those guys.
Yes, one of their managers had two dogs and one was a biter and that was the inspiration for the song. There is a mighty battle going on between them and it does sound like dogs growling. This is where the prog transition starts, Neil was the missing piece to the picture that is Rush. Love his drumming in this! Check out the live performance of this song from the R30 tour. It is a shorter version but Geddy plays the part of Bytor and Alex is the Snow Dog. They have a lot of fun with it. Cheers
Hey, Mr. Slop, this is my first comment on your chanel... As you go climbing up Rush discography please don't skip their live records. It's great to hear how they pull it off with just guitar-bass-drums and no big budget, as they were in those first professionasl years. By-Tor and the Snow Dog live track, just wow
I was 12 in 1975....and from Canada ( 3 hour drive to Toronto )..so I was exposed to RUSH early !!!!......the feeling when you are young , hearing this for the first time sends shivers down my 5 ft. 2'' ...135 ib. body .....Can you imagine the feeling of seeing these guys live at 16 in 1979...Permanent Waves tour...at COBO HALL...in Detroit !!!!!! ...then the next year at Joe Louis Arena ...to see the Moving Pictures tour !!!!....It leaves an imprint in your mind....I'm 59 now....guess what , it makes you happy to see reactions to old RUSH..1970's RUSH.....It makes it all worth while !!!!
It was great when this came out to hear such wildness and since I have always been a fantasy reader it was great to hear a band write songs that were mythical or fantastical. I was reading about all the various mythologies at the time it all fit right in. :) My favorite part is the quiet build-up right before the 2nd guitar solo and then Alex sings it through the fretboard for us. Perfection in music as far as I'm concerned.
Song about two warriors fighting. There's a wonderful, real-world origin story to this btw. Check out the 40th anniversary Permanent Waves Live version of this that just came out. That bass in that version is the best I've ever heard.
These guys are the best bro. You have just really begun your RUSH journey. It's to bad you never saw them in concert. I've seen them 39 times in concert. Every one was absolutely awesome...
That's how I felt when I was 13 years old By tor and the snow dog blew my mind air drumming and guitaring to RUSH seen at least 15 times starting with Farewell to kings tour gotta love the vintage RUSH
I think you’re really gonna like “Caress of Steel”. Talk about storytelling!! Glad your feeling better, I just got over COVID, myself! Be well and God bless… from Texas!!
Their first real longer concept song and boy howdy, is it a GOOD one!! Love the "All the Worlds a Stage" version" live! Holy smokes, the crowd!! Your reaction was priceless during "the battle" sequence. Rinse and repeat 6 times and you will start seeing things like you never have seen them before! Congrats, you get a SUB, today! Great to see younger ones discovering this music. These were the foundations of today's music. Rock and Roll makes you move from its power of that guitar. Hair Metal and Shred came after this, during this time there is no "Autotune" musicians HAD to be VERY GOOD! RUSH was able to pack this perfection up and take it, on the road. The fact that just three people are producing music better than most 5-piece bands, puts RUSH, easily in my Top 3! Great Vid, Thanks
Rush had already been playing a lot of these riffs in live shows before this song was recorded, but I am 100% convinced this song was composed in the studio after somebody in the band brought the new studio album by Yes and listened to Gates of Delirium.
🤗 It was the 70's! 🎶 Everyone was starting to "experiment" with music.... 🤫 and other things. 🤭 Had to do something to 🤷🏿♀️ get thru Darkside of The Moon & Ziggy Stardust. 😂 Ijs 😁🐰
Neil worried about creating patters, percussion parts, which suited perfectly with the band ideas! Besides being a top notch drummer, he was also a great percussionist and an incredible lyricist!!! That's why people call him: THE PROFESSOR!!!
Unfortunately, this is one of "those" songs that resulted in Geddy's voice receiving negative opinions from too many a reviewer. Though it represents both the amalgam and the clash of personalities, the melding and the mashing of influences, yearnings, ambitions and experiences, By-Tor established the fundamental equality within the trio. Skills having been demonstrated to be of matched levels, an inevitable collaboration ensued. The rest, as they say, would give the world a RUSH such as it hadn't previously experienced. Lucky world...
This album lost Rush some of their early fans who were hoping for more "Working Man" or "In the Mood" type stuff, but gained them a bunch of new ones. Their next album would confuse a lot of people, but the faithful would be amply rewarded a year later with their next after that. At the time critics were mostly not fans of Rush's work. Some were offended by the Rand-inspired libertarian lyrics on "Anthem". Some just didn't like prog rock. Quite a few couldn't come to terms with Geddy's voice.
This was the first album I heard by Rush and my introduction to the band. They have been my favorite band since then. I was 14 years old. I've seen them live 9 times and got to meet Geddy at a Toronto Maple Leafs game back in the 80's. Wait till you listen to Caress of Steel. They got very progressive on that one and pissed off the record company. 2112 came out next and the rest is history.
In the song By-Tor and the Snowdog are warrior adversaries. One is good , and one evil. There is a sequel in Caress of Steel where By-Tor is the hero. You should follow this up with the Necromancer.
Kinda new to the channel, so forgive me if I am behind the curve...it seems like you are taking the full trip with Rush, every track on every album reacted to in order, yes? If so, I really hope that you will include all the live albums as part of your journey, they contain many of the best tracks ever laid down by the band. In particular, the most amazing version of this song they ever officially recorded...the epic 12 minute long rendition WITH extended psychedelic solo by Alex that Rush recorded live for their All the World's a Stage album from 1976. I think this track may be the greatest live performance that Rush ever officially recorded...full stop...but I am definitely biased. LOL
Great reaction, John! I was 14 when I first bought this album way back when the Egyptian pyramids were built, and I instantly knew that RUSH would be my favorite band for life (I was hoping they would release more albums)!
This album was not a critical success. Critics wrote Rush off as derivative and were pretty brutal with reviews. No shame in that fact because the critics hated Led Zeppelin most of their career too. This was stoner rock at it's finest to everyone I hung out with. Rush was one of those bands that you got turned onto by someone cause they didn't get a ton of radio play either. They got popular by word of mouth . They earned the most dedicated and loyal fan base in rock and roll because they always delivered quality . You never listen to a Rush album and get the feeling they phoned it in.
You got it... they made up a story about two dogs battling each other. The two dogs were a biter (By-Tor) and a white one (Snow Dog). As you read, the characters are based on real life dogs, but the song is pure fantasy. Only Rush...:)
This song blew my 10 year old mind in 1975 when I first heard it. I kept thinking, what if it were true & the world was being saved by a white dog fighting a hell hound? Love the guitar sound representing By Tor & the Snow Dog snarling.
And to thank the record label almost dropped them not long after this, they're nuts, they wanted Rush to do radio hits, well they wouldn't get that for another 5 years when Permanent Waves was released
But wait………it gets better with the next album & gets even better on the album after that. Bytor is only the beginning of “epic masterpieces” crafted by the bed band that ever lived……. Buckle up!! It’s going to be a hell of a ride!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Great song! Not one of my fav's but your observation is very astute! I agree that this is where they began to explore a little farther afield in their creative sensibilities! Good call.
To most people back then, people were put off by Rush. Rush didn’t start becoming popular til Permanent Waves / Moving Pictures era. Before then they were very Progressive. My favorite stuff!
😂 Cause Neil couldn't just see 2 Dogs! Naaaah, had to get epic about 2 puppies 😒 cause that's the way his brain works! 🤔 Ditto Lerxist with the guitar battle solos. 🤯 A peek into the future.... 😳🐰
You mentioned Genesis you need to check out Suppers Ready by them its unreal And to think there were in there early 20s when they wrote it amazing Its over 20 min. long and worth every min.
Listen to Farewell to Kings and Xanadu if you want more of this. Also, 2112 is a great album. Oh, by the way Caress of Steel (The Necromancer) if you want more of this greatness
And the instrumental (f not in the comments already), represents By-Tor (Geddys crazy bassline) and Snowdog (Alex chaotic beautiful guitar) their battle for good and evil. someone else posted bout ByTors return in The Necomancer on the next album, but this time he's coming to save the people from a Necromancer. I think that the story of By-Tor and Snowdog are more telling of people. There's is good and bad in all of us. Having balance and whatnot and that sort of thing.
I kind of think it is also about night and day fighting for supremacy as the world turns and also which road is taken in decisions (good vs. evil) as well as the noble doggos. I think By-Tor is just the opposite of Snow Dog - one cannot exist without the other. But I am most definitely going to get a black dog and a white dog and namedthem By-Tor and The Snowdog.❤
hi John. I'm a 60 year old long time Rush fan. Getting a kick out of your responses to this . Check out IMAGES AND WORDS by Dream Theater. They are 5 monsters on caliber with Rush, in my humble opinion enjoy life young man
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I swear to all the music gods that there is literally no other vocalist in rock & roll history who could pull off singing these lyrics. The day these three guys came together should be noted and celebrated every year with festivals. Neil's early lyrics needed Geddy's voice, and Geddy and Alex needed Neil's lyrics and percussion around which to create and complete their magics.
If Neil Peart isn't your favorite drummer, he's your favorite drummer's favorite drummer
“Did not expect this masterpiece…”
Wait until two albums from now.
From such a deep cut
2112
Definitely a masterpiece.
Rush's road manager Howard Ungerleider came up with the title at a party. There were two dogs at the party, one a German shepherd and the other a tiny white nervous dog. Howard used to call the shepherd By-Tor because anyone that walked into the house was bitten. The other dog was a snow-dog (white). So from that night on Howard called the pair of dogs "By-Tor and the Snow Dog." The dogs belonged to Rush's manager. “We must have been high one day, imagining a song about these two dogs. And then Neil went ahead and wrote it. But the guys at our record company weren’t happy. They signed the band that was on the first album, and they said, ‘This is not the same - what is this By-tor shit? You were talking about Working Man and now you’re talking about this crazy stuff.’ It was a bit of hiccup in the plan they had for us. … The title of the first part of By-tor and the Snow Dog is a mystery to all three members of Rush. Geddy: “I don’t know what ‘tobes’ are. I assumed that Neil knew, and there must be such a place in mythology. I just went with it.” Alex: “I think the Tobes of Hades is kind of like the waiting room to Hell!” Neil: “Nobody know what it means - that’s what I love about it. But it’s something that my friend’s father used to say: ‘It’s hotter than the Tobes of Hades!'”-Geddy, Alex, and Neil, Prog Magazine, Issue 35, April 2013
Somehow, I’ve never read about the Tobes. That’s great!
hahahah great that Hades part
Sometimes language gets abused and great things come of that? Could it have been a misheard or mistaken Tombs of Hades? Put a thick accent on it and could be?
Hey everybody! Sorry for the non existent thumbnail on this video. My power went out and I totally forgot to upload a thumbnail before! So I'll get to it once my power turns back on in a few hours. Hope you all still enjoy the reaction! And let's hope we all have a Snow Dog watching over us to make sure By-Tor doesn't escape from hell and try to hurt us. :)
I can hardly wait for your reaction to A Caress of Steele, 2112, and A Farewell To Kings. Once you hear that, you will have the crux of the Rush experience. Their later works are treasures, to be sure, but their earlier works define them and shaped their direction. I believe that A Farewell to Kings was the pivotal album that shaped their sound subsequently. You already heard Hemispheres. That album came right after A Farewell to Kings. So you can see the direction.
I love how Lerxt's solos tell the story of the battle.
I like how the bassy vocal growls count 1234 at the end of the battle
Been a Rush fan since day one. When I first heard this song I saw where they were going and couldn't wait for more.
Bytor and the Snow Dog is the result of 3 musical geniuses smoking some killer herb and then watching 2 dogs playing in the yard. 😁
Nailed it
One of the many Rush greats! 👍🇬🇧❤🇺🇸
Peart’s mark on the band is indicative on this song as they will begin doing a number of long song forms for the next 3 or 4 albums. For this band to have the balls to lay out such a creative mindset and vision is really remarkable. By-tor makes his return in The Necromancer on Caress of Steel but this time he’s the hero.
There was a dog either owned by one of the crew or someone at the studio that was known to be a biter ( By-Tor) & that's how the character came about. It was their 1st attempt at telling a multi-part story. I believe they achieved By Tor's battle sound by distorting Geddy's bass through the amps somehow. On the Vapor Trails tour I think it was they played part of this with a funny animated film. God, I miss those guys.
There is an Easter Egg on the Rush in Rio DVD of the animated movie that plays during the song.
There was actually a white dog too, nicknamed Snow Dog
yes. their manager's 2 dogs.. lol
How I miss these guys too. There will never be another band like them. Greatest band ever!
Yes, one of their managers had two dogs and one was a biter and that was the inspiration for the song. There is a mighty battle going on between them and it does sound like dogs growling.
This is where the prog transition starts, Neil was the missing piece to the picture that is Rush. Love his drumming in this! Check out the live performance of this song from the R30 tour. It is a shorter version but Geddy plays the part of Bytor and Alex is the Snow Dog. They have a lot of fun with it.
Cheers
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Hey, Mr. Slop, this is my first comment on your chanel... As you go climbing up Rush discography please don't skip their live records. It's great to hear how they pull it off with just guitar-bass-drums and no big budget, as they were in those first professionasl years. By-Tor and the Snow Dog live track, just wow
I agree, check out this track on All the World's a Stage or for a video version, By-Tor from Exit Stage Left.
They do live records every 4 th one
This was the first Rush song that i fell in love with in 78 i think it was and have been a fan for life since
Wait until the next album Caress of Steel, it'll blow you away
This is why Rush wi be studied for centuries...Who writes a guitar solo battle? I mean this is next level. Not a band at the time was even close.
I was 12 in 1975....and from Canada ( 3 hour drive to Toronto )..so I was exposed to RUSH early !!!!......the feeling when you are young , hearing this for the first time sends shivers down my 5 ft. 2'' ...135 ib. body .....Can you imagine the feeling of seeing these guys live at 16 in 1979...Permanent Waves tour...at COBO HALL...in Detroit !!!!!! ...then the next year at Joe Louis Arena ...to see the Moving Pictures tour !!!!....It leaves an imprint in your mind....I'm 59 now....guess what , it makes you happy to see reactions to old RUSH..1970's RUSH.....It makes it all worth while !!!!
So good!!... can't wait to see your reaction to the full 2112 album...so encouraged how Rush is nourishment to your musical soul.
It was great when this came out to hear such wildness and since I have always been a fantasy reader it was great to hear a band write songs that were mythical or fantastical. I was reading about all the various mythologies at the time it all fit right in. :)
My favorite part is the quiet build-up right before the 2nd guitar solo and then Alex sings it through the fretboard for us. Perfection in music as far as I'm concerned.
I think back to my 12 year old mind hearing this for the first time. And then over and over again because I couldn't get enough of it. Still can't.
The best song about dogs ever. What story tellers. Very unique in rock.
Battle! i was 15 when this came out. Changed our musical lives where i was from.
Song about two warriors fighting. There's a wonderful, real-world origin story to this btw. Check out the 40th anniversary Permanent Waves Live version of this that just came out. That bass in that version is the best I've ever heard.
My first Rush exposure was in 1977 when I heard the song Fly by night, the song brought me to Rush and the song by tor and the snowdog kept me there
These guys are the best bro. You have just really begun your RUSH journey. It's to bad you never saw them in concert. I've seen them 39 times in concert. Every one was absolutely awesome...
John,
You’re just taking off 🚀🚀🚀 … hold your fire … 🔥 🔥🔥 and go for the ride with the GOAT’s … 🐐🐐🐐!!!
That's how I felt when I was 13 years old By tor and the snow dog blew my mind air drumming and guitaring to RUSH seen at least 15 times starting with Farewell to kings tour gotta love the vintage RUSH
I think you’re really gonna like “Caress of Steel”. Talk about storytelling!! Glad your feeling better, I just got over COVID, myself! Be well and God bless… from Texas!!
Their first real longer concept song and boy howdy, is it a GOOD one!! Love the "All the Worlds a Stage" version" live! Holy smokes, the crowd!! Your reaction was priceless during "the battle" sequence. Rinse and repeat 6 times and you will start seeing things like you never have seen them before! Congrats, you get a SUB, today! Great to see younger ones discovering this music. These were the foundations of today's music. Rock and Roll makes you move from its power of that guitar. Hair Metal and Shred came after this, during this time there is no "Autotune" musicians HAD to be VERY GOOD! RUSH was able to pack this perfection up and take it, on the road. The fact that just three people are producing music better than most 5-piece bands, puts RUSH, easily in my Top 3! Great Vid, Thanks
Rush had already been playing a lot of these riffs in live shows before this song was recorded, but I am 100% convinced this song was composed in the studio after somebody in the band brought the new studio album by Yes and listened to Gates of Delirium.
🤗 It was the 70's! 🎶 Everyone was starting to "experiment" with music.... 🤫 and other things. 🤭 Had to do something to 🤷🏿♀️ get thru Darkside of The Moon & Ziggy Stardust. 😂 Ijs 😁🐰
Neil worried about creating patters, percussion parts, which suited perfectly with the band ideas!
Besides being a top notch drummer, he was also a great percussionist and an incredible lyricist!!!
That's why people call him:
THE PROFESSOR!!!
Remember when it came out to so so reviews..😳bought ASAP👍and saw on tour in Toronto 76’ 😌😁
I remember my brother buying this album when he was 14. I was 8
Unfortunately, this is one of "those" songs that resulted in Geddy's voice receiving negative opinions from too many a reviewer. Though it represents both the amalgam and the clash of personalities, the melding and the mashing of influences, yearnings, ambitions and experiences, By-Tor established the fundamental equality within the trio. Skills having been demonstrated to be of matched levels, an inevitable collaboration ensued. The rest, as they say, would give the world a RUSH such as it hadn't previously experienced.
Lucky world...
This album lost Rush some of their early fans who were hoping for more "Working Man" or "In the Mood" type stuff, but gained them a bunch of new ones. Their next album would confuse a lot of people, but the faithful would be amply rewarded a year later with their next after that.
At the time critics were mostly not fans of Rush's work. Some were offended by the Rand-inspired libertarian lyrics on "Anthem". Some just didn't like prog rock. Quite a few couldn't come to terms with Geddy's voice.
This was the first album I heard by Rush and my introduction to the band. They have been my favorite band since then. I was 14 years old. I've seen them live 9 times and got to meet Geddy at a Toronto Maple Leafs game back in the 80's. Wait till you listen to Caress of Steel. They got very progressive on that one and pissed off the record company. 2112 came out next and the rest is history.
You have to hear this on the 1st live album
Bytor Live version 1981 is the gold standard….
It's hard to believe Alex was 19 or 20 when they wrote this.
More like 21!
To me this is the most compact and succinct of the epic rush songs ...and my favorite
Not an unneeded extra note ot bridge
By tor is alex on the guitar and geddy is snowdog on the bass guitar and they battle as to who the better player is
Other way 'round. Geddy is By-tor, Alex is Snow Dog ...
I hope you do all the albums except the covers album in order. My fav song is Hemispheres
In the song By-Tor and the Snowdog are warrior adversaries. One is good , and one evil. There is a sequel in Caress of Steel where By-Tor is the hero. You should follow this up with the Necromancer.
My understanding is that this song was conceptualized after watching a dog playing in the snow with a toy
Kinda new to the channel, so forgive me if I am behind the curve...it seems like you are taking the full trip with Rush, every track on every album reacted to in order, yes? If so, I really hope that you will include all the live albums as part of your journey, they contain many of the best tracks ever laid down by the band. In particular, the most amazing version of this song they ever officially recorded...the epic 12 minute long rendition WITH extended psychedelic solo by Alex that Rush recorded live for their All the World's a Stage album from 1976. I think this track may be the greatest live performance that Rush ever officially recorded...full stop...but I am definitely biased. LOL
Great reaction, John! I was 14 when I first bought this album way back when the Egyptian pyramids were built, and I instantly knew that RUSH would be my favorite band for life (I was hoping they would release more albums)!
This album was not a critical success. Critics wrote Rush off as derivative and were pretty brutal with reviews. No shame in that fact because the critics hated Led Zeppelin most of their career too. This was stoner rock at it's finest to everyone I hung out with. Rush was one of those bands that you got turned onto by someone cause they didn't get a ton of radio play either. They got popular by word of mouth . They earned the most dedicated and loyal fan base in rock and roll because they always delivered quality . You never listen to a Rush album and get the feeling they phoned it in.
The story continues on the next album Caress of Steel with the song The Necromancer.
A band for us weirdo's who wanted more.
Yep, that's how Neil's brain works. No "off" button for imagination. 2 dogs = epic story of good over evil
You got it... they made up a story about two dogs battling each other. The two dogs were a biter (By-Tor) and a white one (Snow Dog). As you read, the characters are based on real life dogs, but the song is pure fantasy. Only Rush...:)
This song blew my 10 year old mind in 1975 when I first heard it. I kept thinking, what if it were true & the world was being saved by a white dog fighting a hell hound? Love the guitar sound representing By Tor & the Snow Dog snarling.
They're getting really creative and weird, I love it! Lol! Hilarious!
And to thank the record label almost dropped them not long after this, they're nuts, they wanted Rush to do radio hits, well they wouldn't get that for another 5 years when Permanent Waves was released
I ordered chicken and you gave me fish.
But wait………it gets better with the next album & gets even better on the album after that.
Bytor is only the beginning of “epic masterpieces” crafted by the bed band that ever lived…….
Buckle up!! It’s going to be a hell of a ride!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Great song! Not one of my fav's but your observation is very astute! I agree that this is where they began to explore a little farther afield in their creative sensibilities! Good call.
To most people back then, people were put off by Rush. Rush didn’t start becoming popular til Permanent Waves / Moving Pictures era. Before then they were very Progressive. My favorite stuff!
Neil Peart completed the holy trinity of prog rock!
😂 Cause Neil couldn't just see 2 Dogs! Naaaah, had to get epic about 2 puppies 😒 cause that's the way his brain works! 🤔 Ditto Lerxist with the guitar battle solos. 🤯 A peek into the future.... 😳🐰
You mentioned Genesis you need to check out Suppers Ready by them its unreal And to think there were in there early 20s when they wrote it amazing Its over 20 min. long and worth every min.
Hi John great reaction thanks so much... Please idlove to see another reaction to Kate Bush..
Listen to Farewell to Kings and Xanadu if you want more of this. Also, 2112 is a great album. Oh, by the way Caress of Steel (The Necromancer) if you want more of this greatness
And the instrumental (f not in the comments already), represents By-Tor (Geddys crazy bassline) and Snowdog (Alex chaotic beautiful guitar) their battle for good and evil. someone else posted bout ByTors return in The Necomancer on the next album, but this time he's coming to save the people from a Necromancer. I think that the story of By-Tor and Snowdog are more telling of people. There's is good and bad in all of us. Having balance and whatnot and that sort of thing.
The only time Geddy used a talk box
I kind of think it is also about night and day fighting for supremacy as the world turns and also which road is taken in decisions (good vs. evil) as well as the noble doggos. I think By-Tor is just the opposite of Snow Dog - one cannot exist without the other. But I am most definitely going to get a black dog and a white dog and namedthem By-Tor and The Snowdog.❤
By Tor is a classis
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The music industry execs hated RUSH from the beginning.
hi John.
I'm a 60 year old long time Rush fan.
Getting a kick out of your responses to this .
Check out IMAGES AND WORDS by Dream Theater.
They are 5 monsters on caliber with Rush, in my
humble opinion
enjoy life young man
John Rutsey wanted to be more Bad Company, Lee and Lifeson wanted to be more Genesis and Yes. Enter Peart. Guess who won?!? 😎
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By-Tor / Bi-ter
Wait until 2112
This is just as great , just different.
A lot of knowledge about the title's creation,
But what in holy hell is the sign of Eth?
First thought I had was ether/ aether, but that's already air already so..
Eth was a word used in Old English and Nordic areas!
@@Katehowe3010 Meaning? Give me a sign...
@@jmpsthrufyre Just type in what is the sign of eth Rush into your keyboard.
@@Katehowe3010 tried that
Natta
But my keyboard is from 1978 too so
@@jmpsthrufyre Use your phone.
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No more baby Rush, eh?
The 1981 version doesn’t have the annoying gimmicky garbled sound. Again, it’s just me pointing out the facts oblivious to the everyday Rush fan….
Pretty amazing huh?