@neilmyatt10 I beg to differ. The YF-14 developed in the late 50's, and later designated SR-71, Flew higher, faster, still holds more records than any other aircraft, including Concorde. It has never been bested and likely won't be. Aircraft can't reasonably be compared to Space craft. Two very different theaters of operation. The shuttle reaches 39 miles in altitude and 42 mile down range in 2Min 40 Sec and 6200 V/F/Sec after launch, Accelerating exponentially there after to 18 to 20,000 mph. .
@sudoLinux666 I know what you mean. I used to listen to Launch control by radio and watch the launch on T.V. The Network talking heads I found to be very annoying with their mindless banter and discussing subjects they clearly didn't understand. But, thanks to short sighted people the shuttle program was not continued. Humans most magnificent achievement, scraped by mere politicians. I will miss the launches. I was lucky enough to be in Florida to see this very launch. I will never forget it.
@GunBroker100 "Humans most magnificent achievement, scraped by mere politicians."
You're completely correct, and it's agitating to listen to these baffling idiots. There ignorance is absolutely jarring, and yet they have the political power and the power of the media to express their thoughts to the public.
@GunBroker100 I too, will miss these launches. Mine, and many others dreams of one day, maybe, being part of the crew that fly, prepare, and maintain this marvelous construction of the human race, has been crushed...
@sudoLinux666 I will hear you, you are not alone in your disappointment. Hundreds if not thousands of young Americans dreamed of flying in space. Myself included. Back when I was young, I too dreamed of adventures in space. The Liberty and Apollo missions captivated me. Armstrong walking on the moon made me think we would soon colonize the Moon, even Mars, perhaps. Now, we have to rely on the Russians to take our astronauts to the International Space Station. WTF?!?!
We'll miss the space shuttle everyone, but a legacy must end in order to become a legend. And that is what the space shuttle program is. Just like the Saturn V.
Its hard to accept that the shuttle program is now just history. It has shaped so many lives over the years and made for interesting pictures along the way. We raised our kids in Florida to it as it was almost an everyday thing. We will miss.
@angelkid79 I am perfectly man enough to admit I shed tears in my kitchen the morning of last landing. Joy the crew was safe, sadness to see the girls retired. Shuttle program is the most magnificent feat of humans. And now Progress fails? Our pants are down now.
This video was released and played many times on MTV...back when MTV was about music!!i! LOVE this song. I have seen every Rush tour since Perm. Waves. i now have 2 boys that are 13 and 11 and they too love rush. Not becauce I have forced it on them, but because they too appreciate great music. My oldes boy went to his first Rush show 3 years ago and had the time of his life. He talked about that show for weeks. My deepest thanks to Geddy, Alex, and Neil for a lifetime of memories.
NASA just woke the crew of Atlantis with "KOOL and the Gang's Celebration" Does anybody know if they've ever used this TRACK to awaken any other STS-Mission?? I sure wish that I could've been there to see and hear it. This being the very last misson, I think, would have been very appropriate to wake them up on the last day of the last mission, as this TRACK is about the first day of the first ever mission.... it would have brought this AMAZING journey full circle. We Will miss this!
Goosebumps at 1:07 Chopper Flying over... Is it RUSH? or my Bi-Polar nature? NE ONE else here get actual Goose Bumps listening to Rush songs, I do all the time... I was 14 in 1984 Great Times indeed...
My very first concert was Rush on the Power Windows tour.
The sound completely shocked me ... pristine sonic perfection... you could hear every little nuance played live, that was on the original record. This was before they started doing outdoor shows, before backing tracks, and MIDI wasnt even mainstream at that time.. their sound was just phenomenal.
Mike Fincke the astronaut on the shuttle Endevors last voyage may 25 2011 just had the astonauts wake up in their morning on the space station to countdown from Rush. I think NASA should make countdown one of their offical songs. Mike Fincke (Spanky) is totaly cool. Thanks Mike, and Thank you RUSH
I am in this video at the 2:23 mark along with my college roomates. We stood at Cocoa Beach Jetty Park the morning of April 12, 1981 to watch the launch. A helicopter flew by and the guy inside was waving at us so we waved back. When the video was released a couple of years later, I was watching MTV with friends describing that day - imagine my suprise when I saw myself waving into 'The Camera Eye'! Great memories - great band.
As a drummer since grade 6, I have long idolized Peart and the unrivalved precision and devotion the whole trio possesses. I never knew about this song until I was in college. Like most of their songs...no radio play (classic 'Spirit of Radio' syndrome haha). When I finally did it became an instant favorite. Intensely emotional and with NASA ppl on tape it builds and launches just like the shuttle blasting off...gives me wicked spine chills if I blast it with a good subwoofer ;)
As good as Moving Pictures is artistically, the bass sounds tinny most of the time, in particular on Red Barchetta. Live version is so much better, mostly because the bass sounds so much better, that punchy Rickenbacker 4001 cutting right though the guitar and drums!
Drush23...I had a similar experience when I saw this concert back in Detroit when I was 16. The crowd was in awe when the Discovery was about to take off and the stage started smoking. Back in those days is was unreal to see something like that in concert.
Thank you so much for posting this. I had no idea there was a video for this song which IMHO is simply one of their best. Very inspiring as well as kick ass.
Great video...from what I remember, they were @ the 1st launch @ Cape Canaveral, Irony is that the program is coming to an end now....Don't be surprised if Neil comes up with a song reflecting the shuttle program.
my mind always sky rocket while enjoying this classic timeless video from Rush. There is no description on the feeling i get while watching this video. Science and technology are no exactly solution for man's happiness but there is something there... i mean.. in the effort to expand your own horizons.... agree?
"this magic day when super science mingles with the bright stuff of dreams". It is hard to fathom the massive and awesome effort that went into the space shuttle program/launches. RUSH=precision=spacetravel. the song sends shivers down my spine
Awesome ..................Simply the greatest ---most influential rock musicians of all time-------------See them live in 2010 playing the entire moving pictures album.....they have finally given the true fans what they wanted ------- THE CAMERA EYE !!!!!!!!
@ataylor2112 YES YES YES The Camera Eye is it!! When this album came out all I listened to was side one-Tom,Red,YYZ etc then one day I turned it over SIDE TWO IS BETTER THAN SIDE ONE!!! Did I ever sit there "Grim faced and forbidding"
Neil's drums (namely, the toms) had such a distinct sound compared to the other records of this time period. I love the distortion on the bass guitar in this tune.
The 37-orbit, 1,074,567-mile-long flight lasted 2 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes and 53 seconds. Landing took place on Runway 23 at Edwards Air Force Base, California on April 14 at 10:21 a.m. PST. [1]
Columbia was returned to Kennedy Space Center from California on April 28 atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
NASA described the mission as: "The boldest test flight in history"
John Young STS1 Mission Commander: the only person to have piloted in space four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini spacecraft, Apollo Command/Service Module, Apollo Lunar Module, and Space Shuttle. Young also drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the moon's surface. He was the first person to orbit the moon alone (during the Apollo 10 mission), and was the commander of the first Space Shuttle mission in April 1981.
Crew of STS - 1 COLUMBIA:Maiden Voyage (Young/Crippen) are by far!the bravest men I ever heard of. This was , to this day, the first time a powered manned vehicle was put in operation without a test flight!! PLUS it marked the first time that solid-rocket boosters were ever used on manned flights! Upon return orbiter was so damaged, mission control said, would they have known about it after launch,.. the crew would have been asked to take the shuttle to high altitude and eject! before orbit....
@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO ... It IS, and MUCH more. It is all encompassing and devastatingly loud. I have been closer than where the press and family goes. Only people closer were the snipers in the marsh between us and the shuttle. Night launch is the best ... night turns to day!
I love the lyrical perspective of this tune, Peart displays a naivety but can still be descriptive. I remember hearing this tune when I was a young lad and totally getting goosebumps.
bands change and rush still can play 4 hours long live and these young bands make it 1and1/2 hours rush is in or near there 60's.and they still out rosck these punks
SO they are all close to 60...does it really matter?!?! They can rock out better than some of these bands that are out there today and they do FULL sets with a brief intermission....Gotta love 'em, even at their ages they kick ass!!!!
This is one of the songs from Rush that I thought was just "OK". With Signals and going forward, they never reached the same heights for me as they did in earlier years.
Yeah, I agree with you there, though I really like this one. They had some other bright spots post Moving Pics in the 80's, with stuff like Analog Kid, Kid Gloves, and The Big Money, but yeah, I agree that their 70's stuff (Fly By Night, Hemispheres, etc.) is a lot better.
I like a couple of the tracks you mentioned...and I really think Time Stand Still is a particularly good post-MP song (though it's much different than their early material). Oh well, Rush could have recored nothing but their flatulence for the last 25 years, and I'd still say they were one of the all-time best for what they did early on.
Rush DID release an album that contains nothing but their own bodily sounds and functions such as wolfing down thunder crunch chips, the squishy sounds made when eating Raisin Bran, breaking wind (in tempo), snorting, sneezing, choking on smokes, swilling Jack D, etc, etc. It was released a few years after Moving Pictures, at which point, like you say, it didn't matter what they produced for some schmuck was sure to buy it. The album title? (VERY) RARE RARITIES AND OTHER STUFF.
What about their stuff beyond Roll The Bones? Relative to their 80's output, since approx '93, they become progressively heavier, right up to their latest release. I see what you mean, though. I pretty well had it with them by Hold Your Fire and it wasn't until I saw the Rush in Rio DVD that I became an active fan again.
I never got into the post-80's albums. I bought VT and did not enjoy it at all. They did get heavier, but the songs came across as kinda flat to me. Not really "songs" the way they were in the older days. All that harmonizing of the mellow Geddy voice is annoying to me too. The overall Rush sound of recent years just doesn't click for me. I still think they're cool...and pretty exciting live. I saw them in '02 and '04 after many years without. They still rocked.
Yep. I haven't bought a studio record of theirs for over 20 years, but their live stuff is an exception (minus A Show Of Hands... too keyboardy and Ged's used that damn bass with its head cut off!), and I saw them in '87, '01 and '08.
LOL...I like you description of that Show of Hands era. I finally heard Rush in 1980 and saw them in 81,2,3,4,6 & 7 before taking a looong break. The thing is, Just as I was discovering their catalog in 1980-82, they were radically changing their sound, and by Signals I was already longing for what I had just missed a few years earlier.
Their music pretty much took a complete turn. I would say that Presto (1989) mainly started their hard rock, arena rock, and heavy metal stages. Although, if you want to get very specific, there was an even early change after Moving Pictures. The progressive rock era was mostly 1975-1981. Signals and Grace Under Pressure had a different tune, and it wasn't what you would call 100% "progressive" exactly.
Agreed. However, the Signals/GUP era may have at least been progressive (meaning pushing the envelope) w/respect to Peart's socially-conscientious lyrics in comparison to other, popular rocks bands of the time (think: Helix... GIVE ME AN R!!!... LOL!!!).
They are too versatile... they started heavy, adopted the synthesizers for years with more complex arrangements, then came back to a heavy sound... they are having fun, I suppose. :-)
Shivers up and down my spine at 5:00 - 5:16. This song still rocks after 24 years. I wish they would bring back the synth - those are my favorite Rush albums.
My first Rush concert and at the age of 13 I was blown away. They've been my favorite band ever since then. I still have my black/white Signals concert Jersey.
NASA should play this song before every shuttle launch. And they should invite Rush back next year for the first test flight of the Constellation spacecraft, so they can write another cool song about America's space program!
My first concert to Drush23, unbelievable and still lasting in memory to this day. Were you at Lakeland Civic center Florida? Rush...the story tellers and the facts of it put to music.
I have something to share with all you rush fans. My first rush concert was in 1982 and I was 11 years old at the time. They played this song in concert for the Signals tour. I could not believe with my youthful eyes what i was witnessing. This song was the best on the signals tours. I remember they had a huge screen in the background showing the space shuttle launching. I was in complete awe and just stunned in amazement. I remember this like it was truly just yesterday..rush RULES!!!!
@Drush23 I saw that tour also. I live in New Smyrna FL just down the road from KSC and saw many launches from there and I just have to play that song just prior to launch! I worked at KSC and had the thrill of driving by the shuttle(you actually drive under the Mobile Launch Platform as it overhangs the road)as it was on its 8 hour trip down the crawler path from the Vehicle Assembly Building to pad 39A. WOW,is all you can say when you see that machine! To bad those days are coming to a close.
You are one lucky bastage. My first tour was Power Windows even though I got in to Rush a few years before.
Have always loved Signals, the two favorites being Countdown and Subdivisions. I vaguely remember seeing both videos on MTV when they actually came out and were brand new. People bag on Signals because its a dark, mushy, weird album as a follow up to Moving Pictures.... that made it all the more interesting:) If there was any tour I wish I could go back and see it's Signals.
@Drush23 i can"t agree with you anymore man!!!! i honestly think and feel RUSH has surpassed led zeppelin by 2010 standards!! these 3 guys had better be put in the rock n' ro;ll hall of fame,or else i'm ripping someone's head out of there ass!!! RUSH FREAKING RULES!!!!!!!!!
@EXTIQUE Yes exactly!! Although Rush is too great for the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame itself they still should be recognized for their consistent and brilliant achievements!!
Actually, a lot of their '80s songs had keyboard solos, and they had a couple in the late '70's (the keyboard break in "The Trees" and the beginning of "A Farewell to Kings").
the first rush album to have keyboards is farewell to kings after that they all did.thats when geddy became the human octopus,playing his keys singin and rocking that bass.
I sware to God that every time I go on youtube to watch some Rush I get chills because they just rock so freakin' much man! Rush equals class and have and will always be such a great part of my life.
@tornadojack2112 - I am right there with you on this one! I have seen them there on every tour since the Vapor Trails tour and it is always an amazing show....especially when the mist blows in off of Zach Bay or the Ocean during the laser show...takes it to a totally different level!
I use to work on "The Cape" and have been to the top of both towers on pads-39a and b and this song often came to mind and was such a treat!! I live in New Smyrna Beach-33 miles north of the pads,during a night launch it lights the beach up like it was daylight!! AWESOME!!!
Great song, great rare video - I have a patch from this first shuttle launch (Young-Crippen), and can't help but think of this Rush song when I see it sometimes.
Both very fond memories from 5th grade - thanks for posting this!
A songs complexity or difficulty in execution has nothing to do with it's merits as a piece of art or it's emotional impact. Otherwise Dream Theatre would be considered the best band in the land rather than the souless note-geeks they are. Rush rule.
This was the beginning of Rush's appeal to the scientific youth of America! Break out your scientific calculators boys and girls! Just kidding! This song is very original if not cool, and was the very first thing I ever saw on MTV. By the way, the keyboard solo is easier to play than chop sticks, it's in the key of C, no black keys!
Neil with his traditional grip. AWESOME buildup during the intro. Wish it had more footage of Neil working in his "mission control center" :) Great video still...
Rush is brilliant. The combination of such a well thought out song, with that wonderful video is awesome. Those shuttle launches always need that accompaniment.
Most of Rush's music is timeless, although I would say Countdown is a song which you can age ;) Sounds like it's from the 80's..but I don't care. It's an amazing song.
Thank you very much for sharing this video. I remember seeing the first shuttle launch and remember this album commemorating it. Never knew there was a video as well.
this was never my favorite song off Signals. i always found the lyrics a tad corny "excitment so thick, you can cut it with a knife". still a good song tho. itsx from my 3rd favorite rush album. thanks for the upload!
called Vinyl, My best freinds brother bought it. I pleaded with him to let me borrow it, so I could make a tape. We all wanted to go steal a fire hydrandt. This album was ahead of it's time, that's is why it still sounds so fresh.
Thank you thank you thank you so very much for posting the video. I saw Rush perform this song on the Signals tour in Fall 1982. It was complete with three projection screens showing pre-flight work and the actual launch with smoke billowing from the underneath the center screen as the rocket took off. And boy, was it loud!!!! To this day it remains my greatest concert moment.
this is a great video rush rocks
shonna652 1 week ago
Oh, look at that: Another extremely under-rated Rush song.
hj7397 2 weeks ago
'Let him drive it'
itzjoeymac 1 month ago
The 3 coolest nerds ever
cjf7991 2 months ago
I think concorde was the greatest feat - built in the 60's there is still nothing to compare
neilmyatt10 4 months ago
@neilmyatt10 I beg to differ. The YF-14 developed in the late 50's, and later designated SR-71, Flew higher, faster, still holds more records than any other aircraft, including Concorde. It has never been bested and likely won't be. Aircraft can't reasonably be compared to Space craft. Two very different theaters of operation. The shuttle reaches 39 miles in altitude and 42 mile down range in 2Min 40 Sec and 6200 V/F/Sec after launch, Accelerating exponentially there after to 18 to 20,000 mph. .
GunBroker100 4 months ago
What pisses me off, I'll never hear the radio chatter from another mission.
sudoLinux666 5 months ago
@sudoLinux666 Wait, trust me.
superunt43 5 months ago
@sudoLinux666 I know what you mean. I used to listen to Launch control by radio and watch the launch on T.V. The Network talking heads I found to be very annoying with their mindless banter and discussing subjects they clearly didn't understand. But, thanks to short sighted people the shuttle program was not continued. Humans most magnificent achievement, scraped by mere politicians. I will miss the launches. I was lucky enough to be in Florida to see this very launch. I will never forget it.
GunBroker100 4 months ago
@GunBroker100 "Humans most magnificent achievement, scraped by mere politicians."
You're completely correct, and it's agitating to listen to these baffling idiots. There ignorance is absolutely jarring, and yet they have the political power and the power of the media to express their thoughts to the public.
sudoLinux666 4 months ago
@GunBroker100 I too, will miss these launches. Mine, and many others dreams of one day, maybe, being part of the crew that fly, prepare, and maintain this marvelous construction of the human race, has been crushed...
USA, look at yourself. A good, hard look.
sudoLinux666 4 months ago
@sudoLinux666 I will hear you, you are not alone in your disappointment. Hundreds if not thousands of young Americans dreamed of flying in space. Myself included. Back when I was young, I too dreamed of adventures in space. The Liberty and Apollo missions captivated me. Armstrong walking on the moon made me think we would soon colonize the Moon, even Mars, perhaps. Now, we have to rely on the Russians to take our astronauts to the International Space Station. WTF?!?!
GunBroker100 4 months ago
We'll miss the space shuttle everyone, but a legacy must end in order to become a legend. And that is what the space shuttle program is. Just like the Saturn V.
Great song.
sudoLinux666 5 months ago
Its hard to accept that the shuttle program is now just history. It has shaped so many lives over the years and made for interesting pictures along the way. We raised our kids in Florida to it as it was almost an everyday thing. We will miss.
angelkid79 6 months ago
@angelkid79 I am perfectly man enough to admit I shed tears in my kitchen the morning of last landing. Joy the crew was safe, sadness to see the girls retired. Shuttle program is the most magnificent feat of humans. And now Progress fails? Our pants are down now.
superunt43 5 months ago
Its hard to believe that STS-1 was over 30 yrs ago.
My favorite Rush song and video!
rivotrich7 6 months ago
This video was released and played many times on MTV...back when MTV was about music!!i! LOVE this song. I have seen every Rush tour since Perm. Waves. i now have 2 boys that are 13 and 11 and they too love rush. Not becauce I have forced it on them, but because they too appreciate great music. My oldes boy went to his first Rush show 3 years ago and had the time of his life. He talked about that show for weeks. My deepest thanks to Geddy, Alex, and Neil for a lifetime of memories.
Indybowhntr 6 months ago 2
@Indybowhntr my sentiments exactly-im 42 now my kids are wild and as crazy as i over our band.
foxxy969 5 months ago
@Indybowhntr great speech, congrats! Pls go to my channel & watch a new WITCH HUNT performance I did. Thanks!
KingTabor 2 days ago
the last of the atalantic
smokey11able 6 months ago
NASA just woke the crew of Atlantis with "KOOL and the Gang's Celebration" Does anybody know if they've ever used this TRACK to awaken any other STS-Mission?? I sure wish that I could've been there to see and hear it. This being the very last misson, I think, would have been very appropriate to wake them up on the last day of the last mission, as this TRACK is about the first day of the first ever mission.... it would have brought this AMAZING journey full circle. We Will miss this!
thatguyfromImpanema 6 months ago
@thatguyfromImpanema Yes, they have used this song several times to wake up the
astro's as recently as the last mission. Thanks for the memories, NASA.
superbulldog81 6 months ago
Venting vapors like the breath of a sleeping white dragon. Now that's bad ass!!
braincrisp1 6 months ago 2
I've listed to this song a million times and I'll listen to it a million more. Top notch lyrics by the Professor.
braincrisp1 6 months ago
rip NASA.
flybywire09 6 months ago
They really did a good job in capturing the feel of a liftoff with this song...
FLTlingit 6 months ago
Goosebumps at 1:07 Chopper Flying over... Is it RUSH? or my Bi-Polar nature? NE ONE else here get actual Goose Bumps listening to Rush songs, I do all the time... I was 14 in 1984 Great Times indeed...
scottenman2005 6 months ago
Thanks Obama for canceling the Shuttle program. Job well done!
dansmd 7 months ago 2
countdown has one of Rush's coolest fade outs they ever done imo
dwilmer7 7 months ago 2
My very first concert was Rush on the Power Windows tour.
The sound completely shocked me ... pristine sonic perfection... you could hear every little nuance played live, that was on the original record. This was before they started doing outdoor shows, before backing tracks, and MIDI wasnt even mainstream at that time.. their sound was just phenomenal.
dwilmer7 7 months ago
Classic Rush.
ollieskins 7 months ago
NEIL IS A FRICKING GENIUS SONGWRITER ONLY HE COUCOMPOSE A SONG ABOUT A SPACESHUTTLE AND MAKE IT AWESOME
ufcliddel32 8 months ago
i have seen this band about 7 times and everytime i see this band they kick more ass rock on rush and god bless yea
SHS854EVER 8 months ago
Mike Fincke the astronaut on the shuttle Endevors last voyage may 25 2011 just had the astonauts wake up in their morning on the space station to countdown from Rush. I think NASA should make countdown one of their offical songs. Mike Fincke (Spanky) is totaly cool. Thanks Mike, and Thank you RUSH
newworld772 8 months ago 2
How this clip can have only 42k views. It is one of the best music videos ever.
SkyyCaptainn 8 months ago
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Love to hear a 2011 version ...that would be awesome
spiritofradio 8 months ago
Love to hear a 2011 version ...that would be awesomr
spiritofradio 8 months ago 2
It is sad that we will no longer see the shuttle fly.......
SFCISME 8 months ago
I am in this video at the 2:23 mark along with my college roomates. We stood at Cocoa Beach Jetty Park the morning of April 12, 1981 to watch the launch. A helicopter flew by and the guy inside was waving at us so we waved back. When the video was released a couple of years later, I was watching MTV with friends describing that day - imagine my suprise when I saw myself waving into 'The Camera Eye'! Great memories - great band.
mcadkstar 9 months ago
3 people are very small.
twosixteen 10 months ago
I first went to a Rush concert in Oklahoma City in 1983 and I was blown away! This song gave me goose bumps then and still does today!
lima82 10 months ago
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lima82 10 months ago
As a drummer since grade 6, I have long idolized Peart and the unrivalved precision and devotion the whole trio possesses. I never knew about this song until I was in college. Like most of their songs...no radio play (classic 'Spirit of Radio' syndrome haha). When I finally did it became an instant favorite. Intensely emotional and with NASA ppl on tape it builds and launches just like the shuttle blasting off...gives me wicked spine chills if I blast it with a good subwoofer ;)
whitliggett 11 months ago
Maybe on their "farewell" tour (hopefully not anytime soon) they can pull this one out of the vault!
jjcjammer 1 year ago
25 years ago today... played this song all day long after the Challenger disaster.
kegowland 1 year ago 6
Only one question comes to mind after listening to Rush: who's the second best band of time?
IKilled007 1 year ago 2
@IKilled007 good question!!!! ,,in my opinion,,either led zeppelin or the police or van halen!!!!
EXTIQUE 11 months ago
"Technology high"... great lyrics - so true!
GoodyBob 1 year ago
3 people didn't make it in time to push the like button before the countdown was over cuz they were distracted by the music.
MegaCrusher99 1 year ago
Fidelity-wise, Signals album is their best.
As good as Moving Pictures is artistically, the bass sounds tinny most of the time, in particular on Red Barchetta. Live version is so much better, mostly because the bass sounds so much better, that punchy Rickenbacker 4001 cutting right though the guitar and drums!
MrWTFNJ 1 year ago
I had no idea this song had a video....
JustinC721 1 year ago
Geddy's bass is thick & sick on Signals and this song especially. Great song.
paublo84 1 year ago
Drush23...I had a similar experience when I saw this concert back in Detroit when I was 16. The crowd was in awe when the Discovery was about to take off and the stage started smoking. Back in those days is was unreal to see something like that in concert.
StratGT 1 year ago
BOMB YEMEN!!!!!!!!!!
RUSH1200 1 year ago
my 1st was 2112 loved it still do.
ramiii4418 1 year ago
I fuckin love this song(:
holycrapitsalex2112 1 year ago
For Mr Richards
nmalcolm 1 year ago
This rather gREAT!! in fact in kicks large amounts of BUTT
ELONut 1 year ago
Man this song has ALWAYS given me goosebumps!
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RUSH1200 1 year ago
Wouldn't it be awesome if they brought this song back to the stage next year since the program is winding down? Countdown in 2011!
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RUSH1200 1 year ago
Thank you so much for posting this. I had no idea there was a video for this song which IMHO is simply one of their best. Very inspiring as well as kick ass.
SecretAgent068 1 year ago
Great video...from what I remember, they were @ the 1st launch @ Cape Canaveral, Irony is that the program is coming to an end now....Don't be surprised if Neil comes up with a song reflecting the shuttle program.
truckie449 1 year ago
my mind always sky rocket while enjoying this classic timeless video from Rush. There is no description on the feeling i get while watching this video. Science and technology are no exactly solution for man's happiness but there is something there... i mean.. in the effort to expand your own horizons.... agree?
ferrucciog 1 year ago
The Greatest Band in the fucking universe! Even extraterrestrial life loves rush. Rush RULES! \m/
Crackfav 1 year ago 7
"this magic day when super science mingles with the bright stuff of dreams". It is hard to fathom the massive and awesome effort that went into the space shuttle program/launches. RUSH=precision=spacetravel. the song sends shivers down my spine
ThymePeace90 1 year ago
Awesome ..................Simply the greatest ---most influential rock musicians of all time-------------See them live in 2010 playing the entire moving pictures album.....they have finally given the true fans what they wanted ------- THE CAMERA EYE !!!!!!!!
ataylor2112 1 year ago
@ataylor2112 YES YES YES The Camera Eye is it!! When this album came out all I listened to was side one-Tom,Red,YYZ etc then one day I turned it over SIDE TWO IS BETTER THAN SIDE ONE!!! Did I ever sit there "Grim faced and forbidding"
BytorSnowDog1 1 year ago
Neil's drums (namely, the toms) had such a distinct sound compared to the other records of this time period. I love the distortion on the bass guitar in this tune.
malinwj 1 year ago
what was the other video on the tape?
n2112bytor2112p 1 year ago
5:05-end is one of the greatest moments in Rush history. Their excelence is so great, it's almost tangible.
superhomsar2112 1 year ago
Nice Shuttle facts drbypass! Even better is a Canadian band singing about American victory. RUSH Nation!!!
randall21122112 1 year ago
DAMN!
collartrance 1 year ago 2
The 37-orbit, 1,074,567-mile-long flight lasted 2 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes and 53 seconds. Landing took place on Runway 23 at Edwards Air Force Base, California on April 14 at 10:21 a.m. PST. [1]
Columbia was returned to Kennedy Space Center from California on April 28 atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
NASA described the mission as: "The boldest test flight in history"
drbypass 1 year ago
John Young STS1 Mission Commander: the only person to have piloted in space four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini spacecraft, Apollo Command/Service Module, Apollo Lunar Module, and Space Shuttle. Young also drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the moon's surface. He was the first person to orbit the moon alone (during the Apollo 10 mission), and was the commander of the first Space Shuttle mission in April 1981.
drbypass 1 year ago
Crew of STS - 1 COLUMBIA:Maiden Voyage (Young/Crippen) are by far!the bravest men I ever heard of. This was , to this day, the first time a powered manned vehicle was put in operation without a test flight!! PLUS it marked the first time that solid-rocket boosters were ever used on manned flights! Upon return orbiter was so damaged, mission control said, would they have known about it after launch,.. the crew would have been asked to take the shuttle to high altitude and eject! before orbit....
drbypass 1 year ago
alex lifeson said of the noise of the shuttle taking off, "it was louder than a Van Halen concert!!!"
BLUESMANRONCHICAGO 1 year ago 7
@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO ... It IS, and MUCH more. It is all encompassing and devastatingly loud. I have been closer than where the press and family goes. Only people closer were the snipers in the marsh between us and the shuttle. Night launch is the best ... night turns to day!
TimmyCrackCorn 7 months ago
You fuckin gotta love Rush!
timewarped2the80s 2 years ago 4
Classic RUSH!!!!
am2boni 2 years ago 22
@am2boni How is this classic RUSH? This was the end of coolness!
SciMasterGeneral 8 months ago
2:56.
BDizDaBest 2 years ago
I love the lyrical perspective of this tune, Peart displays a naivety but can still be descriptive. I remember hearing this tune when I was a young lad and totally getting goosebumps.
xyz321123 2 years ago
I found a DVD of "Through the camera eye" in a record store in Santa Barbara. I havent seen my VHS copy since 1990!
SRTST51 2 years ago
Neil hits the goupies as hard as them drums.
terrabletruth 2 years ago
A classic!!!!
am2boni 2 years ago
bands change and rush still can play 4 hours long live and these young bands make it 1and1/2 hours rush is in or near there 60's.and they still out rosck these punks
mdelair420 2 years ago
@mdelair420 -
Neil Ellwood Peart
Born September 12, 1952 (1952-09-12) (age 57)
Gary Lee Weinrib
Born July 29, 1953 (1953-07-29) (age 56)
Alexandar Zivojinovich (Aleksandar Živojinović)
Born August 27, 1953 (1953-08-27) (age 56)
SO they are all close to 60...does it really matter?!?! They can rock out better than some of these bands that are out there today and they do FULL sets with a brief intermission....Gotta love 'em, even at their ages they kick ass!!!!
truckie449 1 year ago
This is one of the songs from Rush that I thought was just "OK". With Signals and going forward, they never reached the same heights for me as they did in earlier years.
ruleta74835 2 years ago
Yeah, I agree with you there, though I really like this one. They had some other bright spots post Moving Pics in the 80's, with stuff like Analog Kid, Kid Gloves, and The Big Money, but yeah, I agree that their 70's stuff (Fly By Night, Hemispheres, etc.) is a lot better.
indi626 2 years ago
I like a couple of the tracks you mentioned...and I really think Time Stand Still is a particularly good post-MP song (though it's much different than their early material). Oh well, Rush could have recored nothing but their flatulence for the last 25 years, and I'd still say they were one of the all-time best for what they did early on.
ruleta74835 2 years ago
Rush DID release an album that contains nothing but their own bodily sounds and functions such as wolfing down thunder crunch chips, the squishy sounds made when eating Raisin Bran, breaking wind (in tempo), snorting, sneezing, choking on smokes, swilling Jack D, etc, etc. It was released a few years after Moving Pictures, at which point, like you say, it didn't matter what they produced for some schmuck was sure to buy it. The album title? (VERY) RARE RARITIES AND OTHER STUFF.
gorillabelly1 2 years ago
What about their stuff beyond Roll The Bones? Relative to their 80's output, since approx '93, they become progressively heavier, right up to their latest release. I see what you mean, though. I pretty well had it with them by Hold Your Fire and it wasn't until I saw the Rush in Rio DVD that I became an active fan again.
gorillabelly1 2 years ago
I never got into the post-80's albums. I bought VT and did not enjoy it at all. They did get heavier, but the songs came across as kinda flat to me. Not really "songs" the way they were in the older days. All that harmonizing of the mellow Geddy voice is annoying to me too. The overall Rush sound of recent years just doesn't click for me. I still think they're cool...and pretty exciting live. I saw them in '02 and '04 after many years without. They still rocked.
ruleta74835 2 years ago
Yep. I haven't bought a studio record of theirs for over 20 years, but their live stuff is an exception (minus A Show Of Hands... too keyboardy and Ged's used that damn bass with its head cut off!), and I saw them in '87, '01 and '08.
gorillabelly1 2 years ago
LOL...I like you description of that Show of Hands era. I finally heard Rush in 1980 and saw them in 81,2,3,4,6 & 7 before taking a looong break. The thing is, Just as I was discovering their catalog in 1980-82, they were radically changing their sound, and by Signals I was already longing for what I had just missed a few years earlier.
ruleta74835 2 years ago
Their music pretty much took a complete turn. I would say that Presto (1989) mainly started their hard rock, arena rock, and heavy metal stages. Although, if you want to get very specific, there was an even early change after Moving Pictures. The progressive rock era was mostly 1975-1981. Signals and Grace Under Pressure had a different tune, and it wasn't what you would call 100% "progressive" exactly.
stallionplaya52 2 years ago
Agreed. However, the Signals/GUP era may have at least been progressive (meaning pushing the envelope) w/respect to Peart's socially-conscientious lyrics in comparison to other, popular rocks bands of the time (think: Helix... GIVE ME AN R!!!... LOL!!!).
gorillabelly1 2 years ago
They are too versatile... they started heavy, adopted the synthesizers for years with more complex arrangements, then came back to a heavy sound... they are having fun, I suppose. :-)
saulocpp 2 years ago
bring this one back
SpiderDrummer24 2 years ago
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Shivers up and down my spine at 5:00 - 5:16. This song still rocks after 24 years. I wish they would bring back the synth - those are my favorite Rush albums.
TrickyGap 2 years ago
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TrickyGap 2 years ago
Sept. 9, 1982. Omaha Civic Auditorium.
My first Rush concert and at the age of 13 I was blown away. They've been my favorite band ever since then. I still have my black/white Signals concert Jersey.
MrQuestionAuthority 2 years ago
NASA should play this song before every shuttle launch. And they should invite Rush back next year for the first test flight of the Constellation spacecraft, so they can write another cool song about America's space program!
Greenandscaly 3 years ago
I Love this song!! best band ever
rushrocks96 3 years ago 4
Venting vapors like the breath of a sleeping white dragon!
sos1001001 3 years ago
My first concert to Drush23, unbelievable and still lasting in memory to this day. Were you at Lakeland Civic center Florida? Rush...the story tellers and the facts of it put to music.
castleafb 3 years ago
rush is the best band ever! I'm going to their concert! i am so excited! :)
rushrocks96 3 years ago
I have something to share with all you rush fans. My first rush concert was in 1982 and I was 11 years old at the time. They played this song in concert for the Signals tour. I could not believe with my youthful eyes what i was witnessing. This song was the best on the signals tours. I remember they had a huge screen in the background showing the space shuttle launching. I was in complete awe and just stunned in amazement. I remember this like it was truly just yesterday..rush RULES!!!!
Drush23 3 years ago 55
Rush does rule, they are truly one of the best!
viper5225 3 years ago 3
Thanks for sharing! 1982 was a great year to me, but I was far from knowing Rush, which did happen only in 1994.
epleite1000 3 years ago
@Drush23 I saw that tour also. I live in New Smyrna FL just down the road from KSC and saw many launches from there and I just have to play that song just prior to launch! I worked at KSC and had the thrill of driving by the shuttle(you actually drive under the Mobile Launch Platform as it overhangs the road)as it was on its 8 hour trip down the crawler path from the Vehicle Assembly Building to pad 39A. WOW,is all you can say when you see that machine! To bad those days are coming to a close.
BytorSnowDog1 1 year ago
@Drush23 hey buddy, I also remember that tour, it was awesome,, Rush forever,,
jmnero 1 year ago
@Drush23
You are one lucky bastage. My first tour was Power Windows even though I got in to Rush a few years before.
Have always loved Signals, the two favorites being Countdown and Subdivisions. I vaguely remember seeing both videos on MTV when they actually came out and were brand new. People bag on Signals because its a dark, mushy, weird album as a follow up to Moving Pictures.... that made it all the more interesting:) If there was any tour I wish I could go back and see it's Signals.
mandingo9999999 1 year ago
@Drush23 i can"t agree with you anymore man!!!! i honestly think and feel RUSH has surpassed led zeppelin by 2010 standards!! these 3 guys had better be put in the rock n' ro;ll hall of fame,or else i'm ripping someone's head out of there ass!!! RUSH FREAKING RULES!!!!!!!!!
EXTIQUE 1 year ago 2
@EXTIQUE Yes exactly!! Although Rush is too great for the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame itself they still should be recognized for their consistent and brilliant achievements!!
Drush23 1 year ago
@Drush23 dude,,you were lucky to witness "the professor" in action!! lucky you!!! RUSH RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!
EXTIQUE 11 months ago
@Drush23 my second rush concert....this song was so FFFFFF'n good live
HAIDARAVEN 8 months ago
I've been waiting forever to see this video.
Is this the only Rush song with a keyboard solo?
GrayLeader2184 3 years ago
Actually, a lot of their '80s songs had keyboard solos, and they had a couple in the late '70's (the keyboard break in "The Trees" and the beginning of "A Farewell to Kings").
indi626 2 years ago
the first rush album to have keyboards is farewell to kings after that they all did.thats when geddy became the human octopus,playing his keys singin and rocking that bass.
mdelair420 2 years ago
Don't forget the foot pedals!
gorillabelly1 2 years ago
Check out Geddy playing keys & bass simultaneously at 3:33-3:35. Amazing
rivotrich7 3 years ago 4
I sware to God that every time I go on youtube to watch some Rush I get chills because they just rock so freakin' much man! Rush equals class and have and will always be such a great part of my life.
rushpete 3 years ago
Ditto. I can't wait for they Indy show!
I've never seen this video before. Powerful song from a powerful album.
tk0173 3 years ago 2
Hey I was @ the Indy Show!!! 7th row. Middle.
gotbass33727 3 years ago
I've said before and I'll say again, Rush is the
only band on the planet that could write a song
about the space shuttle and actually pull it off. One of their coolest tracks period.
xyz321123 3 years ago 2
This song and video really inspires me, and I cant wait to see Rush at jones beach this july!
tornadojack2112 3 years ago 2
@tornadojack2112 - I am right there with you on this one! I have seen them there on every tour since the Vapor Trails tour and it is always an amazing show....especially when the mist blows in off of Zach Bay or the Ocean during the laser show...takes it to a totally different level!
truckie449 1 year ago
forgot how cool this tune/video is...no i didnt. RUSH rules
senorhappy01 3 years ago 4
Cool track..still got the vinyl here
gawlerpete 3 years ago 3
This is my favorite RUSH album! "Signals" rule!
mandalay71 3 years ago 2
Allow me to put it eloquently... Fucking awesome! RUSH rules
biped19 3 years ago 4
one of Rush's raddest songs! Never knew they made a video for it. Love Geddy's bass line.
gregorixo 3 years ago 4
I use to work on "The Cape" and have been to the top of both towers on pads-39a and b and this song often came to mind and was such a treat!! I live in New Smyrna Beach-33 miles north of the pads,during a night launch it lights the beach up like it was daylight!! AWESOME!!!
roushracing1 4 years ago 4
I love the synthesizer solos in this song
Kkat644 4 years ago 3
same here
signals222 4 years ago 2
As a member of the cosmos...this should give you chills.
b111791 4 years ago
"chills" or rather goosebumps.:-)
b111791 4 years ago
Ajam69 .........You are right .if you listen carefully you will hear some amazing Bass work in this song ......WOW
MemMan47 4 years ago
Rush is the best band ever
JavateamAndre 4 years ago 2
this song makes me cry. Oh...the drama!
djlucy1 4 years ago 2
Great song, great rare video - I have a patch from this first shuttle launch (Young-Crippen), and can't help but think of this Rush song when I see it sometimes.
Both very fond memories from 5th grade - thanks for posting this!
buffalomroz 4 years ago
A songs complexity or difficulty in execution has nothing to do with it's merits as a piece of art or it's emotional impact. Otherwise Dream Theatre would be considered the best band in the land rather than the souless note-geeks they are. Rush rule.
Darrylizer1 4 years ago
I agree Rush is the best band ever!!!!!!! Dream Theater#2
Brydude66 4 years ago 3
hell yea
ilovinrocknroll 4 years ago
The genius of mankind.
macknife330 4 years ago 2
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GrayLeader2184 3 years ago
VERY nice! Love this song. Thanks for posting!
rushfan729 4 years ago
This was the beginning of Rush's appeal to the scientific youth of America! Break out your scientific calculators boys and girls! Just kidding! This song is very original if not cool, and was the very first thing I ever saw on MTV. By the way, the keyboard solo is easier to play than chop sticks, it's in the key of C, no black keys!
SciMasterGeneral 4 years ago
Listen to that bass line, tone, and the skills on the keyboard. That final keyboard solo is the best part by far. Geddy you are amazing.
AJAM69 4 years ago
I love this song ^_^
BuddhaBot 4 years ago 2
Neil with his traditional grip. AWESOME buildup during the intro. Wish it had more footage of Neil working in his "mission control center" :) Great video still...
TiramisuHappy 4 years ago 4
"We enjoyed the music, Bob, Thank you"
Flanyker 4 years ago
"Ah, we enjoyed it! We just wanted to share something..."
buffalomroz 4 years ago
rush is really awesome
cristobaldominguez 4 years ago
Rush is brilliant. The combination of such a well thought out song, with that wonderful video is awesome. Those shuttle launches always need that accompaniment.
aajoeyjo 5 years ago
Most underrated band ever.
RKSJo 5 years ago
Most of Rush's music is timeless, although I would say Countdown is a song which you can age ;) Sounds like it's from the 80's..but I don't care. It's an amazing song.
ZondaFSR 5 years ago
LONG LIVE RUSH!
skeeter2112 5 years ago
Ged playing bass and keyboards at the same time.
Cool keyboard solo.
Alex's tie.
BonoPeart 5 years ago
geddy has those cool white shoes!
malinwj 5 years ago
Thank you very much for sharing this video. I remember seeing the first shuttle launch and remember this album commemorating it. Never knew there was a video as well.
whoopassernie 5 years ago
Never even knew Rush made a video for Countdown until now. Thanks for posting!
Sushi227 5 years ago
this was never my favorite song off Signals. i always found the lyrics a tad corny "excitment so thick, you can cut it with a knife". still a good song tho. itsx from my 3rd favorite rush album. thanks for the upload!
LouDawg808 5 years ago
Seeing this video turned me on to the music of RUSH.
1bigd68 5 years ago
It was interrupted on 1:15 MINUTES!!! I don't know why...
kachava 5 years ago
MAN! I haven't seen this video in 22, 23 years! This group is SOOO COOL! Thanks for posting & Sharing this video!
LSMFT321 5 years ago
I remember this album like it was yesterday. Thanks A million for posting this. I was 12 years old and this album was my rock bible then.
misterreality 5 years ago
Mr. Reality, I could not agree with more.
I also remember when this came out on a thing
called Vinyl, My best freinds brother bought it. I pleaded with him to let me borrow it, so I could make a tape. We all wanted to go steal a fire hydrandt. This album was ahead of it's time, that's is why it still sounds so fresh.
djazz33 4 years ago 2
I own this record. I found it in a box under the stairs i was amazed to find it.
signals222 4 years ago 2
Never seen this one. Thanks for sharing!
ytserob2112 5 years ago
Thank you thank you thank you so very much for posting the video. I saw Rush perform this song on the Signals tour in Fall 1982. It was complete with three projection screens showing pre-flight work and the actual launch with smoke billowing from the underneath the center screen as the rocket took off. And boy, was it loud!!!! To this day it remains my greatest concert moment.
bobbypepper 5 years ago