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  • 3:17, EPIC TOM SAWYER FACE!!!!

  • LISTEN TO RUSH LYRICS AND YOU ARE LIKELY TO BECOME A WISER AND BETTER HUMAN BEING.

  • I AM A DRUMMER, AND THE FIRST TIME I HEARD NEIL PEART'S DRUMMING I HEARD A DRUMMER PLAYING BEATS THAT FOLLOWED AND CO-ORDINATED WITH THE TUNE OF THE SONG. NO DOUBT, THE BEST DRUMMER IN THE UNIVERSE, NOT FOR TECHNIQUE OR ANYTHING ELSE, BUT FOR SHEER UNADULTERATED, PURE, CREATIVE, PASSIONATE, AND HEARTFELT DRUMMING.

  • WHEN PERFORMING, THE KID IN ALEX LIFESON COMES OUT, AND THIS IS WHAT MAKES HIM CHARMING.

  • ALEX LIFESON, IS THE COOLEST, SIMPLEST, UNASUMING, BUT AT THE SAME TIME ONE OF THE BEST LEAD GUITARIST ONE WILL EVER SEE. DON'T EXPECT THE USUAL FROM HIM. THIS TRIO IS THE BEST TRIO IN THE WORLD. THEY WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR GENERATIONS TO COME, LIKE MOZART, BETHOVEN ETC.

  • Fuck that drummer is the nuts!!

  • Awesome!!! Wonderful!!! Fantastic Band!!!

  • I wish Geddy still looked like this now days, that mullet pony tail is bad-ass

  • That's me at 1:16 :)

  • @lauriemonk it's actually 1:18... but I didn't want you to miss it :)

  • Happy Birthday Mark Twain.

  • THIS IS THE FIRST QUALITY OF THE CENTURY. THANK YOU - THE THREE OF RUSH!!! BEST REGARDS FROM GERMANY

  • It's interesting to hear this particular live version of the song. Definitely using different keyboard sounds for the synthesizer tracks. Shows the limitations of the technology at the time.

  • Cannot Believe NO ONE has commented on Alex's AWESOME trick @ 4:40!!

    Rock on King Lerxst!! \m/ >< \m/

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  • A fucking n midnblowing masterpiece i call it!! How can someone ever think of something like this..shows equally the extra musical intelligence and skill of Geddy lee, Lifeson and Peart. WOW!!

  • Sweet Donald Trump hairdo Alex Lifeson has.

  • 1:17 OK! I can't believe no one caught that Alex Lifeson gave someone in the audience the finger or at least made a failed attempt to do so. Showing such unscrupulous behavior on stage is unprofessional, tasteless, etc. He's not evenb that much of a great guitarist. Get Brian May or Eddie Van Halen in there. God sakes, they're way more down to Earth and have less of an "Asshole" persona on stage than Lifeson. The End.

  • @daidi0121 You are an idiot for thinking that. Alex, Geddy and Neil are probably the nicest guys around.. And those guys you mentioned could not even compare to Alex's guitar work, so thats not even possible. Now please, keep the ignorance to yourself

  • @456jr Yea, you're a useless piece of crap. Now, ending with the insults. Eddie is a shredder. Brian is just an experimenting guitarist and he's known more than Lifeson. I bet you 100 dollars any day, I go up to someone and say, "Do you know Alex Lifeson?". Response, "Lifeson who??!!" So, shut the fuck up. Brian May, Eddie, Alex are all great. I just like Brian more. If Alex is so cool, why does he have an assault record in Florida? YAY ALEX!

  • @daidi0121 Being known by someone doesnt necessarily mean they are better. Take that drummer from slipknot for instance. Everyone knows him, but no one knows Neil Peart.. Does that mean hes better? No. Your still ignorant, keep thinking that dumbass is better is better than Neil.

  • @456jr I hate Slipknot. So, I end this. Good arguement and you provked a good conversation.

    I hate Joey Jordanson. "Yea, he's so cool because he has the pentagram behind him while he solos tilted.". That's probably cool for a bunch of people who like music with that goes 100 mph. It barely has any rhythm. I mean, Peart has rhythm, groove, and a complex style. Keeping an ethical drumline in that style as well, not to mention for a man his age. So, every chance I wear my Rush shirt with PRIDE!

  • @daidi0121 He got arrested for trying to stand up for his son. Security was called on his son Justin on New Year's Eve at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Naples and Alex pushed an officer or something? I know he touched an officer when he wasn't supposed to and he got his nose broken and was tased repeatedly, along with his song who was tased. It's not like he did anything horrible wrong so you can't really put him down for that. Look how many other celebrities and rock stars have gotten in trouble.

  • @BigLotz15

    Yeah, Alex is a really normal, down-to-earth kind of guy. All he was doing was protecting his son. Any of us would have done the same thing. Rather honorable if you ask me.

  • @daidi0121 I didnæt try to show the finger... he simply played guitar, I do the same thing he did often as well, so basically you're complaining about how he plays. He did not give anyone the finger, he even has his ring and pinky finger out...

  • Catch the fish.. lol. Rush, y so good at instruments?

  • in Neil Peart's solo...camera shows to Geddy, Alex...but Neil?

  • Is it me or Alex Lifeson is always doing the fucker at Tom Saywer... xD

  • OH GOD THERE IS NO FUCKIN DRUMMER GREATER THAN NEIL PEART!!!

  • @cbcrog I'm now a rock drummer because of him :P

  • @cbcrog I'd say Taylor Hawkins is on the same level as Neil Peart.

  • @cadmus98 Taylor Hawkins is amazing. But I was more or less quoting family guy haha. But yes, Foo FIghters kick ass!

  • RUSH, ONE OF BEST ROCK & ROLL BANDS IN THE WORLD IT'S COOL

    YOU CAN'T GET BURNED OUT ON THEM JUST KEEP TURNING THAT ALBUM OVER.

  • that bass that geddy is using is awsome he used that same one a live video of freewill from the presto tour that bassline that he plays in the middle of that song was an eargasm as well as this vid ,oh yeah anybody notice geedy's singing with some authority YEAH YOU SHOW THAT HILLBILLY CON ARTIST WHOS BOSS

  • Geddy lee is my hero I play bass so he's my bassist hero along with nirvanas kris novislect that's totally spelled wrong but it's a hard name

  • ...the drummer is as cool as fuck!!!

  • Best live album.

  • fantastic

  • 3:05 .... CLOSE UP!!!

  • funny that the best band in the world are "white-boy nerd squares", they're like the anti-anti-heroes of rock, being cool and epic with stuff that shouldn't be cool if they weren't them.......it's like a lot of progressive and important music, it shouldn't work, but somehow they make it work....brilliantly i might add:P P.S. neil is a fucking god, thor don't have shit on perth.......

  • if you pause very quickly at 0:45 alex kinda looks like donald trump lol

  • They look like extras on the set of Miami Vice in this vid

  • Ged's voice is so good here.

  • Todays Tom Soy-Yee he gets high on you...

  • one of the best bands Ever

  • so is this band old or newish because i remember tom sawer on a guitar hero game i think gh 3 and the vid looks old but people say they are a newish band

  • @spartanlaser368 this band was started by alex lifesoin the very late 60s. their first album was in 74, aftet that, they grabbed neil peart. theyve stayed the same for almost 37 years

  • @spartanlaser368

    rush was playing in the 70s

  • Aaaaah I love his voice!!

  • I like the I love you man vertion allot better

  • ha, no showboating from rush...except for the looks on alex's face.

  • Here again, alex is using a "Signature." it is not as rich as Gibson ES......but great sounding. It is up the guitar player!!!!

  • just fucking amazing...

  • testing testing 123

  • @Rockywaves73 Rush actually was asked to play at the Olympics. They declined because the organizers required all the musicians to lip-sync to pre-recorded tracks. Kudos to Rush for keeping their integrity.

  • @drm310 They should have taken a page out of Muse's book and switched instruments! That would have been hilarious!

  • I need that voice!!

  • oh rush is just amazing, they're magnific, musical genius

  • Only a damn Obama voter would vote 'dislike' for this song/vid

  • @Rockywaves73 Apparently u havent watched the superbowl the past 5 years, Paul Mccartney, Tom Petty, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, and The Who. All of which are very good rock artists, and yes before paul mccartney they did only use pop/hip hop artists. And it is a shame they are having black eyed peas performing this year, i was starting to like the tradition of using these classic Rock acts

  • Catch the fish...... beautiful Geddy.  Beautiful

  • Rocky your wrong just wrong! they played the WHO just last year! Get it together with your misconceptions of how the masses think. It puts people into boxes that say w/people like rock and b/people like only rap!

  • i listened on high volume, and he really says fish :D

  • Just Perfect! Fuck Jay-Z!

  • I think this is their best live Tom Sawyer performance.

  • ... catch the spirit, catch the... fish?! That's too cool for school!

  • Slapp a da bass.

  • 3:22

    Fish?

  • @chitoryu12 he is tom sawyer bro!

  • @chitoryu12 It's wish ^^

  • @MrIronSlayer

    I've been listening to this song for years. That was definitely "fish".

  • @chitoryu12 they had a fish on an rc car go acros the stage at just tht moment, because they would torment neil with fish. he actually stopped sort of, and geddy's face says it all! haha

  • @chitoryu12 ALSO, you dont see neil stop cuz they switch between the first and second show so geddy is distracted by the fish, but i've yet to find legit footage of them stopping to laugh. (i got this info on rush faq i assume its legit)

  • At 1:10 he just sounds sweet and epic

  • How do 3 people make this much sound?Incredible.

  • @ryson1969 Because they are wizards from the future. They decided to spend their retirement here, on Earth. Ontario, Canada to be specific. :)

  • They were all so great at what they did. Rush was like a super band.

  • @ZeppelinClassics They still!

  • How does the camera not pan to Neil Peart during some of the greatest drum fills of all time?

  • Clearly homesick!

  • LOVE IT!!!

  • Rush, nós brasileiros amamos suas músicas! só três caras com idéias geniais, verdadeira química em termos de musicalidade,graças a Deus q temos internet para ver maravilhas como essa !!!

  • I was there! Birmingham NEC, UK. Awesome shows on all three nights. Remember it like yesterday - time stand still indeed.

  • If that song, specifically that version of that song doesn't blow your mind. Than F you bro! F you! Rush has been and will always be the real deal.

  • OH CADANA....

  • @camselle ... Cadana ? .. Canada dude .. lol .. sorry for being a spelling prick :)

  • Neil Peart is the fastest drummer on the earth making him the best drummer in human history

  • I'm so glad I saw them live for about 20 years ago here in The Netherlands..

  • This was the first song ever I heard of Rush many years ago, then they stole my heart forever!

    BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Finally found it, I was looking for it forever

  • Neil Peart is the greatest drummer in history

  • Just goes to show where technology is now, Geddy only has two keyboards live now! Compared to what looks like 4 back then.

  • Talk about blowing your eyebrows straight back!!!! Oh YEAH!!!!

  • Does anyone know what kind of guitar Alex is playing? It really sounds awesome.

  • @BillSteer99 I think a Garrason guitar?

  • @BillSteer99 yEAH, IT'S A SINGLE COIL SIGNATURE GUITAR, CUSTOM MADE IN TORONTO. i THINK IT SOUNDS LIKE SHIT, THANK GOD HE 'S GONE BACK TO PLAYING REAL GUITARS.

  • @BillSteer99 The guitar he's playing is a Signature .. it was a Canadian guitar company that Alex was supporting .. I had a friend who had a couple .. they were very well built guitars .. A lot of people said they sounded thin or jangly .. that was his Gallien Krueger amplifiers that gave him that tone .

  • @LifesonFan4Life Alex actually designed the signature guitars with one of his friend.I own a Signature Auracle for the past 23 years and still is my main guitar.You're right they don't sound thin..lol the auracle has humbuckers.What i love about signature guitars is that they sounded so clean and no humming or unwanted noise.

  • Geddy's baseline is disturbingly brilliant! I LOVE it!

  • i was there

  • I bought this album (Moving Pictures) when it was just released. 30 years later I still get goosebumps listening to this!

  • RUSH is probably the only band around where you can see the audience playing AIR GUITAR, AIR BASS, AIR DRUMS, AIR KEYBOARDS and singing along throughout the show. No other band's fans play all four "air" instruments. They might do two or maybe three but not all four!

  • always a pleasure

  • 1:33 -- check out the dudes playing air keyboard. i managed front row seats for the RTB tour at starlake ampitheater in pittsburgh and when they played tom sawyer i had to laugh out loud because me and *every single other person in the front row* leaned over the rail and started playing air keyboards during this part of the song...it was fucking awesome. greatest concert ever.

  • These guys should play in the superbowl next year!!

  • @HeyWakeUpPeople I was just thinking the same thing

  • @HeyWakeUpPeople I rarely post negative comments, but I'm sort of hyper and pissed off right now, which causes people like me to do crazy things, so... let me just spew out the negativity "MAN FUCK THE SUPER BOWL... it's for dumbass idiots who play gay ass sports. Nobody cares about athletics or sports. FUCK YOU!"

  • @hhfan21 Huh?...no one cares about sports?...what are you talking about, that's lame and wrong. Here's the real reason why Rush won't be playing the Superbowl...because they won't be asked. At events like that, they ask people like rappers and hip hop shit because they are considered "relevant to the audience"...they are what's hip today. I'm not saying Rush is not relevant, but they are not to teeny boppers and the goons who control the awful music industry. VH is another band for the superbowl

  • @Rockywaves73 Yeah, sorry about that comment. I was PMSing. xD Sorri......

  • @hhfan21 No worries...I particularly don't like curling or cricket...lol

  • @Rockywaves73 then why did the who play last year at the super bowl?

  • @JackRemeta I'm not condemning Rush..their one my fave bands. A band like Rush will probably never be asked to play the Superbowl because certain people don't consider them "mainstream", The Who's hits are better known they would say. Rush is mainstream to me, to you and plenty of others, but the powers that be don't feel the same way. Why wasn't Rush asked to play the winter Olympics last year?...because the stupid ass organizers thought someone else/bands were better to represent Canada.

  • @Rockywaves73 and there songs are too long for a 12 minute show...

    thats like one song for them lol

  • @HeyWakeUpPeople Rather the Grey Cup 2011:)

  • @HeyWakeUpPeople one year later lol

  • @HeyWakeUpPeople HELL YEAH!!!

  • Man I love Rush they just get bettter and better 30 plus years and still great!!!!!

  • the way these guys play there instruments together its surreal, just awesome

  • 2:30 to 2:56 =beauty

  • The way the drums provide a backing, and at times accentuate the guitars and lyrics is awe inspiring. Something I feel has seldom been achieved as well as Rush has done, and certainly not in today's music. Bravo!

  • @12bartola Lol wtf

  • Best Rock vid I've seen! Rush was...is Great!!

  • the synth sounds much more different than in the original track.. I like it!

  • The more distortion they put on this song, the cooler it gets!

  • FISH

  • @UrSkulled my bad on thumbs down wrong button. but FISH=WIN

  • CATCH THE FISH!?!?

    I LOVE IT

  • i like to go bass fishing

  • the music in your perfect stage.

  • dam that's a nice bass that Geddy's using

  • It's a Wal bass

  • ghetti rokz the house

  • what bass is geddy using?

  • WAL bass no longer being made

  • Actually Wal just barely started production again. They were out of business for a while, but they're back in the game now!

  • Awesome maybe now i can grab one

  • I'm watching this instead of doing college work, I love Rush

  • Right there with ya.

  • Catch the fish!

  • uno de los mejores grupos de la historia...

  • even if he broke 3 strings he could still play ^^

  • I just knew the band from the movie "I Love you Man" ahah it's cool though

  • I'll have to say that Rush being in that movie was its only redeeming feature.

  • with those synthesizers stacked up there, Geddy looks like a wizard in a castle!

  • wow... AWESOME \m/

  • GO RUSH!!!

  • I'm feeling the Rush! Do you? : )

    Great performance!

  • rush is a lot like the police but way more talented

  • it's a mistake to relate talent with musical complexity. Police's musicians are very talented, playing together and in the contributions they have made to numerous artists.

  • the police have not recorded anything in 25 years- they recently toured (briefly) on their 25 yr. old glories ( which are formidable)

    they are a fine group but, they are not close to Rush in Stamina, experimentation, work ethic and like-abilty

    Just my opinion

  • What's cool about Rush is that they are a 70's band but there music is like the sound of today...even therecordings are clean...It's really amazing, progressive bands are the best...also check on Pink Floyd and Tool another great band...

  • CATCH THE FISH

  • Oh what lovely bass sound. I love that guitar sound too, so unique. I wonder what happened to Ged's twangy Wal bass he played here. I love his signature Fender Jazz, but that Wal was bad ass!

  • During the Moving Pictures tour,%Proxy-Connection: keep-alive

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    the roadies were playing pranks on Neil Peart by leaving dead fish on his drum kit and in his dressing room and stuff. So Geddy started using "catch the fish" in Tom Sawyer. Thus is the legend of the great "Catch the fish."

  • Rush Is The Greatest Canadian Band Ever To Walk The Planet

    If You Agree With Me, Give Me A Thumbs Up!!!

  • Yeh man i agree Right on

  • No. They're the best band to walk the planet.

  • Why Canadian? What about best ANYWHERE

  • @LetsDoSomeRush your so F'ing wrong. There the Greatest Band Ever to walk the planet.

  • @LetsDoSomeRush Shit....THESE three wise men OWN Canada!!! XD

  • @LetsDoSomeRush

    Only Canada?

  • What an awesome performance! Truly's one of Canada's greatest bands... if not THE greatest.

  • @gasmmusic is there more to the comment? the greatest on the planet!!

  • there only great band

  • @gasmmusic no deff the greatist

  • i used to hear this on the radio when I was young, and it always stood out from the rest of everything else the radio was playing. The keyboard riff is a classic, the guitar solo is the wierdest thing i've ever heard! And the fact that its in 7/8 is insane

  • You're right about that solo.I've been playing variations of that monster for almost 20yrs.I'm STILL not quite sure about what key that motherfucker's in.

  • My guess is that Tom Sawyer is in the key of A major, but I could be wrong

  • wrong, E major. I have absolute pitch and I know.

  • Yeah, I found out when I saw the preview video for the lessons on Tom Sawyer on Guitar by Alex Lifeson (himself), he mentioned it was in E major.

  • No, it's Lee Majors.

  • ha funny i get it

  • YAY