This is truely an anthem for radio technology and the music industry. RIP Neil, you were certainly ahead of your time with the help of your other two brothers…

I have to say, it's refreshing to see a reactor to Neil Peart offer something more than "wow...he's great!" Love to hear it picked apart in such detail. Subscribed!

You helped me hear some patterns on the drums that I have not heard before despite listening to this song 1000 times. What a gift! Thank you.

I've seen this so many times and I never realized until you paused it that Getty's guitar neck is a radio dial!!! In one of the channels is 2112! Love all the Easter eggs in here! The first time I saw the drums at the end I teared up too.

The reason there are so many different styles of songs in this song is to represent the switching of channels on the radio

I still cry pretty much daily since we lost Neil. Didn't know I could miss someone that I've never met SO MUCH!! FUCK GRANDMA! RUSH is the reason I made it this far. (&cats)🥴

Since you are going back the 80s, check out "She Sheila" by The Producers. One of my favorite drummers from the early 80s.

The inukshuk came from the front cover of their 1996 album Test For Echo. As Geddy describes it in his book My Effin' Life, "Our snowbound recording sessions were accurately represented by the Test For Echo cover art, which shows a lonely inukshuk standing vigil over a barren, snow-covered landscape with nothing but a row of satellite dishes in the background, but the title of the album was really about technological isolation. Social media was burgeoning, we were well into the Age of Information, but were the most important signals of human connection getting theough the noise? 'Is this mic on? Is anybody out there?' Test For Echo, the song itself, was asking what is relevant in a 500 channel universe. Everyone was up to their necks in technology, but was anybody listening?" My top pick from this album is Driven, which they performed during their show in Rio, so I hope you have a chance to see it along with that clip of YYZ. Happy New Year from Toronto! 🎤 🎹 🎸 🥁 🎸 🐐 🐐 🐐

The intro guitar reminds me of the RKO sound!

New to your channel! I’m a bit older and I realized, years later after listening to this song a million times, was that this intro was mimicking radio waves. To me anyway. Then, even more years later I imagined that the crazy scattered part that takes you into the song was them mimicking the sound of spinning the radio dial. I had an old Panasonic receiver that had a sweet heavy tuning knob that, when you spin it quickly, would scan through all the stations and slowly come to a stop. And it sounded like this part in the song! Or close anyways. I could be wrong, but this is what that reminds me of!

The first time I saw Rush was in Atlanta at the old Omni. We had terrible seats but we brought binoculars. When Neil started his drum solo, I let the drummer in the group have them or he would have probably tore off a body part snatching them from me! I went on to see them 12 more times over the years!

Oh, nice one! Grew up to this on the radio, no pun intended. Very experimental for the times. 👻📻

@DRUMNERD

7 ай бұрын

Hahaha fabulous pun there. It’s such a great tune. I’ll do my best to join the chat, quite busy with family but will do my best. Be well.

Like the technical breakdown you do. There is so much subtle mastery in what Neal does. I would love to hear you react to this live DRUM CAM performance of Subdivisions. I think this song perfectly highlights one of the aspects of Russia’s music that you alluded to - development. When they repeat parts, they don’t play the same thing twice. The music changes, and develops along with the feel of the song. Just the cymbal work alone is worth the price of admission on this one. Cheers! kzread.info/dash/bejne/hm1hxMpym9DWh84.htmlsi=8g0MhX9kn5sou9PH

I hope the greatest success for your channel. If you want the most dynamic examples from Rush , don’t listen to Rush fans . They will suggest the same 4 songs. Xanadu Subdivisions Tom Sawyer Frankfurt Drum solo Ask me instead. Here’s a freebie>>> Freewill 1981

@MJS-ON

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely nothing wrong with the 4, actually all great but, yes, Free Will, is great and the live ‘81 version is 🔥

@Indo1030

7 ай бұрын

YYZ in Rio

I know it's a reaction videos, but TOO much comments dude! Save some for the end 🤦