RUSH - The Trees & Xanadu (live) 1981 - Moving Pictures Tour
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- Опубликовано: 17 апр 2018
- Date: March 27, 1981
Location: The Forum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Source: Rush "Replay x 3" (Disc 1: "Exit... Stage Left" DVD) released: June, 2006
The audio version of the above (with "Broon's Bane" Intro) is here:
• RUSH - Broon's Bane, T... 
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It was this moment... it was just this time... I fell in love with these guys!!!
I saw the video many years later ;)
"Exit... Stage Left" - The Best live album ever!!!
This is a total masterpiece concert for me,
especially the magic transition between these two songs....
It's just brilliant man, they were at their peak on this tour, wow! too bad i was a bit too young to see that...
Thanks for the good quality upload!
What City was this Concert played in ?
Ken S. This was filmed at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
My bad, it was actually the Montreal Forum
@@Pp-ss8yl I was there! What a great show. I never did find out what the riot outside was about.
In memory of my brother who passed away today - a diehard RUSH fan as myself - and in memory of Neil Peart who gave us so much - without challenge; the Greatest Band in the Galaxy!!! May their music forever echo into eternity and I hope to see you all on the other side because of all the love I saw here on this side.
Sorry for your loss. Your brother had great taste in music
Condolences sir.
Sorry for your loss
Salute to him and condolences to you my friend greetings from Buffalo New York
✌🏼❤️🥂
I had the distinct pleasure of meet Rush in 1984 in Toronto. I was 16. My dad worked for a company that did logistics for touring bands. I got to meet quite a few bands, but none ever came close for me than meeting Rush backstage at Maple Leaf Gardens. True story: when we were backstage in the dressing room area, people were milling about, then the Alex. Geddy and Neil made an appearance about 1 hour before show time. Alex and Geddy were meeting with people, so was Neil but wasn't to enthusiastic about it. As we all Neil is a very private person and doesn't really like a fuss being made about him. there were these 2 fuckheads (I actually knew them, but I didn't want to be seen with them at this point), acting like little girls making complete idiots of themselves. I was watching and I got so pissed off, i walked over to B**** - and said in a raised tone-not shouting - what the hell is wrong with you 2 jerks, just leave the man be, jesus. I just walked back to where i was standing, Neil was walking by to get back to the dressing room. He smiled and fist pumped me.
That's my story, i got a fist bump and a smile from Neil Peart. that has meant more to me than anything else.
RIP Neil, you were not only the best drummer ever, in my opinion, but a well spoken man who just wanted to live his life in peace. He endured a tragedy of the worse kind, yet came back to play us these magical songs, even though inside he was hurting.
The only consolation for us fans is that we got all that time with RUSH. So many musicians didn't make it into their prime and beyond. Marc Bolan, Jimi Hendrix,
Keith Moon, John Lennon - the list is long and very sad. How different music might have been if some of those tragic deaths never happened?
C.J. T thanks for sharing your story.
I'M so jealous of you right now!
Great story!
Thanks for sharing this incredible story, it must have felt like a dream in some ways, they all three were really just humble fellows making the music they loved, but when they stepped on stage, the sounds they created were truly larger than life, there will never be another band on the scale of Rush, forever in a class all their own,
@@targbroffman9297 well put! Rush forever.
To me this will always be the quintessential live Rush video. The shot during Xanadu where Alex and Ged are both rocking double necks and literally leaning on each other and laughing with Neil pounding away in the background is the recollection I will always have from seeing them live.
Nothing else compares.
My absolute fave visual too; sheer joy and ultimate friendship❣️🧡🍁💯🍁🧡
Agreed
Joe Louis Arena Detroit, 1981 🤟😔🤟
This is incredible. Sometimes hard to even believe just three guys could pull this level of music live. Mind blown!
ever hear of elp?
Another Canadian power trio.....Triumph, also from Toronto.
Agreed %100. 1st concert for me....unmatched
Yes , elp is another power trio
Foot pedals OP.
Xanadu: 40 years of listening to this song and CHILLS EVERY TIME
that Rickenbacker bass sound was the glue that cemented this band together. you can hear it in this video. wish he'd played it in recent years. devastated that Neils gone. the world has lost a giant.
Agreed, I miss the Rick too. Was very surprised when he didn't even use it with Yes, for the Squire tribute.
And the devil a soul just saying
Danny Carrey from TOOL is a better drummer then Neil but if it weren't for Neil Danny I think wouldn't even play drums you can hear Neil's influence if your a RUSH fan you've gotta appriciate TOOL!
What cemented this band together was their manic love for music, unity and devoted loyal fans!
Timing and accuracy. Neil's the best.
Timing and accuracy.
one can never get tired of such phenomenal track as "Xanadu"
Or The Trees as a warm up
@@scottshields113 Yes, itkojecockot and Yes, Scott. They go together like English Muffins and Butter. (I can't come up with the best tune for the jelly; La Villa?). ;-)
I saw them on this tour at Stafford Bingley hall..Happy memories.
Recall reading that Xanadu was recorded in one take ... the first time they played it in the recording studio.
One of the best all time as far as I'm concerned.
I remember the first time I put in my Exit... Stage Left cassette, with my door open, on a damp California night with the Sea in the distance and lights off. When the beginning of Xanadu come on, that was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with Rush.
iamjnelson that must have been a great experience......I would’ve been transported to another level!
I can feel that 100%, but in the NE US : )
The whole "Broons Bane/The Trees/Xanadu" trilogy is a treasure.
It’s magic my brother traveler!
I had just smoked a bowl of Afghanistan Hash age 15 ( the real Stuff 1984 ) and threw n the headphones and turned the light off as Rain fell on a Dark damp Vancouver Fall Night. I just right into the Exit Album. Had 2 get up too flip the Vinyl and seemed like I was walking on Mars. I’m sure the Opium they put in that OG Hash helped but no matter what I was instantly a Rush Fan 4 Life.
God, we were so young then. Myself almost out of high school and these guys not yet on the doorstep of middle age. Much time has passed, much life's been lived and though one of us is gone, the love continues on.
Seth Winters my introduction to this band began in my precocious pre-teen years. This album and tour cemented these 3 in my musical lexicon for this lifetime. It still shows up on occasion in my RUclips feed but it’s like reuniting with a long lost friend every time, and brightens my day
Take me back please.....
They themselves were but kids of about 28 here.
Amazing.
Love is Eternal
This video catches Rush at their peak. Old enough to have become master musicians but young enough to still have the passion and the swagger.
RIP to one of the greatest lyricists in history. Miss you, Neil.
@Seba Tarth Red Barchetta is brilliant, as is The Trees, 2112 is considered a rock opera masterpiece.
Well technically Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote Xanadu.
@@jimgeary technically, the commenter asked for songs written by Peart. To which the answer "Xanadu" is a correct and true reply. So, in the context of the subject at hand, I am right and you are wrong.
Ayn Rand. Huge Neil influence. Changed the direction of the band
@@sebatarth162The Pass, Subdivisions, Freewill
I have to say that is the best live performance of a song by any band I have, or will ever see in my lifetime.
For me it’s a tie between this Xanadu performance and Pink Floyd’s “Pulse” performance of Comfortably Numb.
I totally agree!!
Perfection
Check out Oliva Newton John's version. Yea!
While I grew up with ESL and it’s a flawless album, there’s other songs that have surpassed it for me: “High Voltage” from If You Want Blood and “Tearing” by Rollins Band from The Only Way to Know For Sure. But the live performance of “Red Barchetta” is from this is breathtaking. This record is probably one of the top three live recordings I’ve personally heard.
EPIC! No matter how many times you see it.
There is absolutely nothing like the way they played the Xanadu prelude on this tour. Complete perfection!!
Never will we see the like again sadly, amazing band live studio and in person.😉
@David Eddolls - Especially now that Neil has left this World, too! :-(
I swear I could die of old age reading all the love in the comments for this band! And that would be only the beginning if one would read all the comments of the love for this band in all the videos posted of them especially since Neil passed. Never forget - there were only three guys in this band; and they did all of this and then some! There never has been a band like this before them - and I seriously doubt there will ever be a band like them again. Long live RUSH! May your music forever echo into eternity!
3 incredible geniuses in one band: God I love Rush. RIP Neil.....
In the Hall Of great Trios. Right along Cream And The Police
@@kyles6813 YES KYLE, uh S!! Great, Epic groups. The Police grew on me. Didn't like them at first, love them now. Cream: loved them from day 1. (I'm 57). :-) Mr. Turner X, you know Neil will be missed by 10s of Millions of people. Rock, Jazz, Big Band, Lyricist...he did it all, and managed to create drum parts in between! That Geddy and Alex were put together with Neil has to be Divine Intervention. What a Dynamic Group.
@@kyles6813 And Motorhead
I saw them on this tour in Bismarck North Dakota while I was in the Air Force, I’ll never forget being amazed that only 3 guys could sound like that.
You know you have a massive drum kit when you can stand up and move around to different percussion instruments RIP Neil peart one of the greatest ever.
Saw them at McNichols for moving pictures. Walked around the venue behind the stage and could look down on Neil's kit from the walkway. That set up was huge, like the size of a livingroom.
@@maxpower92 I did the same, but stayed behind the stage for the entire concert. Being a drummer, there's nothing better, a 2 hour plus drum lesson from the " Professor".
I wish that more people in this cruel world, who would of had the smarts to listen and realize the real meaning to Rush music.
We are a different breed folks. I sometimes feel so alienated at my age of 61. A true heart and soul will connect you to the knowing, but few. We will pass someday knowing that we were more above everyone else who did not have a true being in smarts and intelligence as Rush themselves. . Bless all Rush fans, and remain strong until you pass from this cruel earth. At least, i had pleasure seeing them live, and all who did.👍👍👍
17 min of perfection. NO ONE today can do this even with computers.
I seen the Fawell to Kings tour when I was 17. Even now just short of my 60th birthday....its gives me chills.
Xanadu was mind blowing then and still is.
Amen,best show i ever saw......18th row center seats........well one of the best.....i saw them 11 times&theres so many moments
Dream Theater can with ease. They have way more technical songs that are played with computer precision.
@@jskypercussion true, but there are five of them playing….
That was my first concert also. January 18th 1978, Checkerdome, St. Louis,MO. Then Hemispheres December 13th St. Louis,THEN FRONT ROW for the vaunted "Spirit of the Airwaves" concert which I believe was the finest bootleg live album ever. They were so fucking on that night I wish every Rush fan could have been there. How'd I get those tickets? I skipped school with Moms permission and on an old rotary phone was the first caller taken by Dial-Tix and the rest is history. Been to a lot of concerts. Nothing ever matched that one. Never have been married to my cell phone but oh how I could have used one with a good camera that night
Not true yes could do it
In 1981 I saw Rush live for the first time. Just a freshman in high school. I remember the slight delay of roaring applause due to the stunned amazement of the crowd. We could not believe what we had just seen . So much time has passed , yet they still have the same effect on the new generation. Aspire to this example young people. RIP Neil . You set the bar so high that it is unlikely it will ever be touched .
Happened to me in ‘84… I’ll never forget it!
Got you both beat! Saw them in 75. Never heard of them. They backed up Aerosmith. I went out the next day and bought Rush's first album.
My kids love Rush! Never gets old. Always fresh.
'83 show did it for me. I saw close to 60 concerts in the 80's. That one is top three.
Me too! Moving Pictures tour. I was freshman too…seen them at the international amphitheater in Chicago now torn down. History. Amazing stuff. To thi k this actually happened. The smells. The sounds. The experience must have been great! RUSH! And ummmmmm RAMMSTEIN TOO!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻
Neil's percussion and drumming in Xanadu could be the best ever. He was so on with his performance that night.
thank you Rush ... your song Xanadu is one of the reasons why my daughter chose to study anthropology ... cool
Talked to a client who was wearing a Led Zeppelin shirt today, and saw that his license plate said "ZEPPLIN"! We mourned the loss of Peart and Bonham, and I mentioned the plot of "Hemispheres" with Apollo and Dionysus fighting for control over mankind and I asked "Who writes epic songs like that these days?".
I was at 1 of the 3 Maple Leaf Gardens shows ... I was 16 ... 54 now and still get goosebumps ... EPIC !!!!
I was @ the March 23 & 25, 1981 shows @MLG...18-1/2 then.
You lucky so and so! I "only" saw them three times, all here in the UK, in 89, 2011 and 2013. I own Exit Stage Left on DVD and it is still after many watches spine-tinglingly good. They made it all look so effortless...
Man, I am so envious of all the millions of Rush fans who witnessed their magnificent genius LIVE. Many of us liked the hits throughout the decades but never saw them Live. Never realized how brilliant they were.Hopefully Alex and Geddy aren’t done making great music. RIP Neil Peart.
That's amazing! I was in middle school when Moving Pictures was released and fell in love with them. I got to see them on their Signals tour thereafter and it blew my little mind. It's really great they released more live tracks from the MLG shows on the 40th anniversary edition of MP. Cheers!
My first concert as a 15yo. Changed my life forever. Never missed a tour for the next.30 years. THIS is why. Greatest band ever. Thank you!
so many techniques Alex uses you see in later indie & rock bands. such a brilliant guitarist
Hanging out w Rory Gallagher couldn't hurt😝🎉
Alex is my all round favorite. So versatile, innovative and always with the best guitar sound. No one has influenced me more.
it usually takes a few years to the Rush newcomers to understand the importance and underrated genius of Alex within this band of geniuses.
myself... i got it the first time i heard Red Barchetta, it is the guitar that plows the story that you hear.
always has been.
R U S H
rules
One of the best guitarists to ever play!
I completely agree, notice the way he goes from the 12 to the 6 so seamlessly.
I’ve played for close to 45 years and Alex’s music is about all that can really challenge me.
He was only 28 years old here, it just blows my mind
This is not a song, it is a timeless, dare I say perfect, composition that flows seamlessly, telling an incredible story both lyrically and musically, evoking unforgettable imagery throughout. Though Geddy's voice was changed, this piece was still just as amazing, if not more so, when they played it during the R40 tour as when I first heard it on ESL. Though my boys (3 and 5) will never get the chance to see them live as their old man did, they have already heard most of the Rush library and it gives me a great thrill when they say "dada play the milk and paradise song" on the way to school in the morning. Thanks to the trilogy for all this remarkable music and their dedication to their craft. While they sadly may be retired their legacy will live on. Thanks again Rush for all the memories.
Nothing more, nothing less 👍
OMG, “play me the ‘milk of paradise’ song” just melted my heart.... sounds like something one of my nieces or nephews would say. What a treasure.... it’s so sad that the next generation of Rush fanatics will never see them live, because it is an experience unlike any other concerts you can go to.
I have seen so many legendary bands in concert since the 1970s, but none compare to Rush live. I was fortunate enough to first see Rush in 1980 on their Permanent Waves tour and never missed another tour since, the last one being Clockwork Angels. They are the only band I never missed when they were in town. My little brother was 11 years younger than me. I took him to his first concert for Presto, and he never missed another concert afterwards.
He has been to many more concerts, in general, than I have since he became a producer for a radio station and could get tickets for any bands in town, but even he admits that no other group he has ever seen live come close to the holy trinity, Rush.
He also says no other band, no matter how many members, sounded as full as Rush. I think the biggest thing that hits you at their concerts is how full the sound that comes off that stage is. No musicians ever worked as hard as these three and it is so sad that Neil never got to enjoy time to rest and reflect back on his contribution.
His last three years had to be misery. I know, because I have an incurable cancer (Multiple Myeloma) and have been through treatment after treatment, including a bone marrow transplant, but you fight with all you have. RIP Neil, you’ll never know just how important your contribution was to musicians, like me, and music in general.
A flying eargasm of cosmically charged sound and fury!
@@RoarOfWolverine Fighting the good fight! May your days be as good as you’ve made mine today
You're right, this is not a song. It's TWO songs!
The Fantastic Three
Press used to call them the "Terrific Trio" in the day
@@generoberts9151 I don't remember that but it fits!! Historic accomplishments.
The Holy Triumvirate
So hard to think of a time when Moving Pictures was their 'new' album
Not really. Those were some good times.
Powerful in your face Prog Rock with graceful melody = RUSH
Please fill up the hot tub time machine
What a time then.
As wonderful now as it was then. Never get tired of their music. Sadly, doesn't look like another act will be this great and this unique again.
You're right. It will never happen again. With the way the world is today, there is not a time or atmosphere to foster and create these kinds of musical genius's.
And they did it night after night. Just incredible musicianship by three geniuses. Still hard to believe it's only a trio. RIP The Professor.
'Nobody played like RUSH, NOBODY'!
Thanks for One Hell Of A Library.
Love you all.
...Really miss you Professor...💖
I saw show 3 at Maple Leaf Gardens just a few days before or after this. I think it was my second concert at the Gardens, and I was around 14. Incredible memory, even if some of it was a blur. I think I decided then and there that I wanted to be PART of this, somehow. Took up guitar, but ultimately became a live sound engineer, then a tour manager. Still at it 35 years later, and in a way it’s bands like Rush who inspired me to start, but also have inspired me to keep going, so like them I’ll retire from the only industry I’ve ever worked in.
There will never be another band like RUSH! I can’t believe it’s over, never going to see them live again. I’m so selfish over a 100 concerts and it’s not enough! A lifetime of memories. Rip Neil 🙏
I'll I got to see them once, it was their 30th anniversary tour, and it just so happened they came to Dallas on my birthday. made it so special
@@bryanlasermagiktyler3132
I met Geddy and Alex for my 30th birthday. I saw them 4 nights in a row in Madison square garden and I met them the second night. March 8th 1994. Counterparts tour was my record tour, I saw that tour 26 times! I LOVE ❤️ Rush!! I never saw them in Texas! Glad you got to see them live!!
In the early days. They opened for kiss. Still a laugher for those of us who witnessed it
That "children", is what's called "Tearing it up & putting it back together in precise order".. Untouchable!! ❤️😇
I was 16 in '81 and one of the geeky girls in love with Rush
I wore this VHS tape out back in the early 90's when I discovered Rush as a teenager. Every few years I come back to it and am blown away. It's progressive but yet it rocks hard...before them, nobody had put it together like that. They found a middle ground between Zeppelin/Who/Cream and Yes/Genesis/Floyd, while still evolving with the times...and it still holds up.
plinn2112 Well said❗️
I've been alive for going on 59 years and had what I believe was the greatest intake of music...EVER! Think about what was released between 1967 and 1977. Beatles, Stones, The Who, Zep, Heart, Aerosmith, Boston, Foreigner, Kansas, Hendrix...my God, it never ends. And then in 1983, while on a 7 month cruise to the Persian Gulf, I had the 2112 cassette tape and a Walkman. Rush hits you but not in a violent or mean spirited way. They can make you think about things. Three men, just three. Look, The Beatles are the greatest band or Artist or whatever but, Rush is my all time favorite band. They didn't act like idiots. No hard drugs that I can recall. No smashing up hotel rooms. Three guys who loved to jam and loved doing it together.
Neil Peart is the greatest drummer, ever. Ged is a Freak; badass bassist, Taurus Pedals, Moog and he does all of the singing. Alex is a master of drone and ghost notes as well as augmented barre' chords. Bar none, there are no musicians that are in the class of these guys. I was devastated when we lost Neil Peart and Chris Squire. Just wrecked. I have Neil's books in my Kindle and I really miss the Ghost Rider. Being my age comes with a major downside and that is losing those I've grown up with and who influenced me. It's a Blessing and Curse. I tell you this; there will NEVER, EVER be another music output like I've witnessed. There's a reason that Rush has the most devoted fan base in the world. Grohl made that perfectly clear. Blah blah blah blah.
Right there with you brother. Same age, as I saw it all as it happened live. There will never be another time in music like there was from 1964 to about 1985, NEVER !!!!!!!!
It's just incredible how much sound came out of just these three amazing musicians!
these "tree" amazing musicians 😊
I am fortunate enough to have witnessed this tour in Seattle at the ripe old age of 18. It was the first of five RUSH shows.
It was epic and certainly one if not the best arena sized music event I ever attended. If only surpassed by the 84 and 86 shows...
That said, I wish I'd have ventured to R30 at the very least.
But I'm so grateful for them and all they did. This video reminds me why!
I fear not Death, for I saw Rush Live in 81! It was my heaven on earth!
Spoken like a dude that has witnessed Rush firsthand.
It's so nice to know there are countless people who truly get the unrivaled brilliance of a trio that are
virtuosos with their respective instruments. Combined, Rush is magic, in my humble opinion.
Led Zeppelin were amazing...in the studio. Rush performed their songs live as tremendous as they are on vinyl. Forever striving for perfection. God bless you Mr. Peart
This. Was. Recorded. Live. I repeat: LIVE.
It was better live in person
Blows my mind as well. Saw them 11 times and never saw a less than stellar performance from these guys. My highlight was hearing Camera Eye live. It’s my favorite vocal line from Geddy.
Good GOD! I’m watching this in 2024 awestruck at the quality of Geddy’s vocals in 1981! I saw them in Detroit for this tour over on Alex’s side of the stage and my jaw hung in my lap thru the entire show! I was eighteen. Such gratitude for the privilege to be able to see them!
Two of the best RUSH songs in one. Oh, how I wish I were there.
The most amazing and IMPORTANT recording in the history of music ever recorded which will be listened to 300 or so years from now ....if we exist.
A thousand years from now, the human settlements on Mars and Europa, Titan and Venus will still be listening to, and enjoying the glorious music of Rush. It will be studied for generations, and Cornelius Ellwood Peart will be remembered more largely, and intergalactically, than Shakespeare.
Alex Lifeson continues to rise in my opinion as one of the best, if not THE best, rock guitarist ever. I can't think of any other rock guitarist (and yes, that includes Clapton, Hendrix, Page, Beck, Blackmore, Gilmour, Schenker, Iommi, EVH, Malmsteen, SRV, Gibbons, etc.) who had the complete package like him. None of them could do what he does so effortlessly in this video. Someone like SRV, for example, could riff endlessly on blues scales, but that's really all he did. Lifeson is definitely the best rhythm guitarist ever, as other guitarists have noted. Flawless playing - jumping effortlessly from rhythm playing to a blazing solo, and then back to rhythm playing without missing a beat. I've never seen any other guitarist play like that - he made it sound like there were at least two guitarists in Rush. And then to pair him with Neal Peart (best drummer ever - yes, better than Bonham) and Geddy Lee (best bassist ever) - wow! Never have three musicians created such a wall of symphonic sound. Glad I got to see them in concert once in my life - wish I could have seen them more.
Feel the power of those toms/bass drums at the beginning of Trees...earth quaking young Neil. WOOOOOWWW
It just never gets old. It never will. You watch it over and over but the fascination and power and joy and depth just never fade.
Good luck to you Jerry
An older neighbor invited me over to his house and put on the newly released "2112" album. I was mesmerized. "A Farewell to Kings" was a most excellent follow up.
This performance of Xanadu is so inspiring, I have watched and listened over and over at many different times & stages of my life, just absolute perfection!
I was at that show! I’ll always remember The Trees was such a stand out for me. When Geddy’s bass comes in after Alex’s guitar interlude...Howard’s light show was right in sync...absolutely amazing and I’ll never forget it! And Xanadu...chills every time!!!❤️
Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens
"The question we tend to ask most often is...what if?"
I remember my Brother and I got to walk to the front of stage after the show and we heard the drum angels singing as we looked upon the most beautiful Drum kit
We had ever seen. The cymbals and hardware shined like glass
GOD DO I MISS THESE GUYS
THE BEST 3 MAN BAND PERIOD!
Greatest band EVER.. full stop PERIOD! RIP Professor :(
Amen. Forever, amen.
Maybe Danny Carey will sit in for Neil? No one else could.
The memorials live on. RIP Neil. A man among men with the talent and intelligence to write lyrics of depth and meaning.
WOW! Just WOW! I hear this, and I fall in love with them again all over! Everything you need to know about Rush is on display here, their incredible, and unrivaled musicianship, their friendship, and yes, the greatest drummer of all-time, Neil Peart.
Man after all these years since day one I've loved these 3 dudes from the great white north. I still get goosebumps from these tunes like when I was 17 -18 years old discovering it for the first time . That's power I love music I love RUSH
It's inevitable that we leave this world sometime later. Please play this for everyone at my departure,I am going there!!!!!
The tone of every instrument is perfect and this is live! Just amazing. R.I.P Neil
Pure genius at work brilliant band.
There’s no angrier and more intense song about trees.
That's what you get for reading Ayn Rand. Fortunately, Neil said the "Objectivism spell" was quickly broken when they got past her fictional "Fountainhead" and "Atlas" characters and read her non-fictional screeds and discovered what a sociopath she actually was.
Fuckin' trees.
From what I understand the trees was about a cartoon
Intense..I'll concede that one But angrier? I don't get that at all from the song.. I always found this song to be light. It's a fun song but with a warning; we can all bicker but should realize our mutual fate and subjugation to law and death.
This music encouraged me to want to become a better human being. Rush gave me parental guidance when I had no parent to guide me.
God bless u Geddy & Alex. RIP Professor Neil.
I Am Forever Grateful.
After all those years I still love that band !
This period was one their best and so powerful and energy !
Always inspired listening to these 3. Even after 40 years of listening.
Thank you RUSH!!!!!!!!
I love this group. Nothing like them...they are each so gifted in their own right. Pearts Herculean drums and his amazing lyrics....Geddy the miracle music maker man with the killer bass and voice ...and probably the heart and soul of the group...Alex with his creative impassioned guitar, and delicious melodic instincts....come together so atuned to each other as to form one entity. For decades they were looked at as a fringe eclectic type of group....not really thought of as serious rock...but something else. And they are...something else. When all the others have faded into a dated folder of nostalgic....they are still relevant and producing great music. Although I'm sad they have retired...I fully respect them for doing so. After 41 yrs of making great music....they have more than deserved it. I wish them each the very best in these older years. And who knows...with RUSH....never say never, aye?
S Kirk this is how I'm able to nearly any styles of music on the drums
S Kirk one of the best bands in the world
Live and breathe rush
I know exactly what you mean. They are a study. You don't just turn them on ...tap your feet...and go onto the next thing. They get inside you. After seeing them live...you feel like you've had a life injection. They aren't dark...but they are serious...but positive..humorous...yet deep. The music is multi layered and you don't just listen while doing something else. They require your attention. Not to see a show...although it's great to watch them....but to listen to the mastery of the interchanges and structure...Pearts lyrics and the passion and fluidity....Geddy's bass lines....Alex's passionate guitar full....The time signatures. They totally stand on their own and cannot be compared. They aren't formulaic. They are free...but structured. A miracle combo was created as the stars lined up perfectly for these three men to cross paths to create a delicious chemical reaction. It requires intelligence to appreciate the full scope of the skill, talent and beauty involved. You can only grow exponentially as a musician. To appreciate Rush you have to have something more to you as well. I applaud your taste as well as your ability to recognize excellence ...especially in this day and age of mediocrity. That you connect with them as well speaks to your own innate depth. Awesome.
S Kirk Very well said! Thank you for those excellent words of wisdom. Been a rush fan since my first moving pictures concert. 26 times later from California to Madison square garden until there last concert. I love these guys as musicians and much more as a society of decency. RUSH FANS ROCK THE WORLD IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE CAN IMAGINE. Thank you all for being a fan like me. WE ARE ONE!!
Beautiful sound! Love from Argentina! Rush forever ❤
I can't escape the overwhelming feeling of regret every time I listen to this song. I should have sold my soul to see this group perform live when I had the chance. I was 8 years old the first time I heard Xanadu and it punched me straight in the brain. 40 years later and it still can't shake it. It's my all-time favorite. Wish I had been born 10 years earlier so that I had the means to see them.
For the first time I meet someone who would like to be 10 years older ;) Thanks for a great post :)
You can experience Rush stories here, and there are 40 years of Rush' s fruit to listen to.
Was a sad day to here of the passing of probably the greatest drummer ever. Though I never knew you, and few ever did, you spoke to me with your music and your lyrics. Thank you for the memories and all the treasures you left behind. I cant help but think the next time i see the clouds preparing for battle, that distant overture is just Neil up there warming up for another performance. RIP.
Thank you for this. It moved me. Cheers
Very well said.
This is the version I've be waiting for. The two songs blended (with Alex, on the classical guitar).
WiperHunter Rush album “Exit...Stage Left”. Start at “Broon’s Bane”
You’re life will never be the same...
40 years later and I’m still rocking to this 👍
Brett Allgood Broon’s Bane -> The Trees -> Xanadu is the biggest 1, 2, 3 punch in concert rock.
Best audio I’ve ever heard of this. RIP NEP
I was Fortunate to have Experienced this Same Tour in 1981 in Denver Colorado USA and they had a Poster Contest and everyone walked on the floor showing their Posters and I followed along and found a seat Fifth row. Amazing show for me at 17yo. Seen them 5x since 1981. My all time Favorite Bassist,🎸, and Drummer 🥁.
From a special done by the CBC. I watched this when it first came out in '81. I was in highschool and this was my favourite band at the time. Saw them for the first time on the Subdivisions tour. RIP Neil Peart. There has been too much air drumming to your unique talent.
Cool man. SIGNALS tour
That tour was also the first time I got to see them.
Man, I miss 'em greatly ... Alex and Geddy with their double necks in beautiful sync, and the Professor just assaulting his kit. 😢
Since my senior year in HS , where we studied the lyrics of Xanadu based on Samuel Coleridge’s Kubla Khan…. Jamming to it in English class still resonates with me today all those almost 40 yrs ago!! Nothing compares! Thanks Pratt, Dirk and Lerxst!!
I saw Rush on the UK leg of this tour with my sister who just passed this weekend. Wonderful memories! 🥲
I love how @ 9:00 mark, during a complex riff, Geddy is like “hey… I just thought of something funny”. Alex cracks up and they continue to shred the riff😁😁😁
Rest in Power Neil. Thank you for the memories.
Hemispheres was my first Rush album back in the late 70s. What an introduction to a band. Hooked ever since.
I was privileged to see this exact show, but a week earlier before they made the recording in Canada, in upstate New York at the Glens Falls Arena. I felt sorry for the girl I took to she show because I don't remember even acknowledging her throughout the performance I witnessed, I was too captivated. I took it for granted at the time being only 17 I would enjoy this experience for years on end, and I saw these guys on a dozen or more tours until the end in 2015, but this one was the iconic moment for me in retrospect as a guitar player. All I can say is thank you Neil, Geddy and Alex, there will never be another group like Rush.
Dont worry she was numb too.
Probably one of the greatest performances of all time!!!!!!!
RUSH is the absolute #1 GREATEST ROCK BAND IN HISTORY! ✨👏🏼😎✨
When I was sixteen my older sister came home for a visit and she brought me an odd acoustic guitar that was from Spain. It came in a vinyl case like a tennis racket. I wasn’t into the acoustic guitar at all, but this thing sounded fantastic. It had such a rich, melodic tone that I started getting really into it. She got it from Alex Lifeson. The funny thing is that she didn’t even know who he was. I played the intro to The Trees quite a few times I tell you
Saw these guys for the first time in Toledo, OH in April 1981. When they played Jacob's Ladder I met God. Might have been the weed, but a mystical gift nonetheless. A memory seared into my being.
Live at the Montreal Forum🏒.
I was there and still have the ticket stub as I do for all my concerts. Bought the tickets 4-5 months earlier and waited in anticipation....No Much Music or MTV... just listening on the headphones and dreaming about what the song says... Music with a meaning lives no more ✨
You were and are an extremely lucky man and well done for keeping the ticket stub. I was only introduced to this incredible band in 89 and here in the UK. Eternally grateful to a schoolfriend for playing me a bit of A Show of Hands. Would have loved to catch them in 80 or 81. They made this complexity look effortless and still visibly had fun on stage.
Tonight....Neal has found the sacred River......Alph....He walks with Kubla Khan... in the caves of Ice...he's dining on honey Dew. the fruit of life.... and drinks the Milk of Paradise.....
The greatest rock group there's ever been...
I'm 56 and I'm thankful I got to grow up with RUSH, YES, ELO, and many more of the like ! So sorry that the music today doesn't come close to these talents !!! Thanks Geddy,Alex, and Neal for all the memories and killer songs !!!!
I remember buying this album back in 1982. We literally wore it out! To this day it's one of my favorite live albums - Exit Stage Left
I got through 3 copies I think....
my favourite era of RUSH before Geddy went all keyboards....
RIP Neal! My first Rush show was 12/21/81 in Hartford. Took a Greyhound bus up from NYC to catch them on this tour. It was such an amazing show!
I got this cassette film this stoner friend at work after I told him I was listening to Rush FTK which a girl left at my house and I thought that it was the best album and band i ever heard.
Then my mind got totally blown with this tape!! It's all I listened to for months. I was a drummer, so it was totally an oh o,m,g, I can't believe what I'm hearing.... that was in 1983. Still, the best rock band and musicians ever.
It still amazes me to this day in 2023 that only 3 humans made so much music. I get an eargasm every time I hear them!
Masters of progressive rock
Unbelievable!Makes me cry..
Greatest band 💯💯💯💯just 3 guys living life!! No technology Taylor swift no TMZ circus clowns 🤡 just Rush with 20'000 close friends living in the moment! This tour was my first Rush concert I was 14 year's old! Long live rush RIP the professor 🥁🥁🥁🥁 u are missed everyday 💯❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love the Trees. It has a bit of everything in it. Rush is more than a rock band. More like a 3 man symphony. Prog rock is hands down the thinking man's rock and roll. Thank God for Rush
Prog is one of those genres that physically can never die. Even nowadays, we have bands like TOOL and Greta Van Fleet keeping it alive in their own special ways
@cherrypepsi2815 I'm greatful for both of those bands. Everything is too techy now. Too complicated.