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  • still lovin' this

  • oh yeah

  • Pure genious at 3:40 and on!! Soooooooooo Awwwwwwwwwwesome!!! Thanx for this upload man....made my day!

  • ditto mine too;classic finale in la viila strangiato

  • All rush songs are on the same album of their lives with a break between every 6-12 songs with a title for each. All Rush is great to them and is to every true fan with ,of course, a favorite or two!!!!! Right now Counterparts,Fly By Night , and Snakes and arrows are tied for #1

  • Caress of Steel - Hemispheres are the best. Though Rush, Permanent Waves, and Moving Pictures are absolutely amazing as well. If that makes those amazing, there aren't words great enough to describe Caress of Steel - Hemispheres.

  • Geddy was at the top of his vocal screaming game - I think this is one of the best recordings of Hemispheres that I've ever heard. Many, many thanks - this was the first piece of music that I EVER bought, back in 4th grade!

  • @dmso12 wow my first 'tape' was duran duran , you win!

  • you can hear geddy straining to hit the notes. Now before you guys start flamming. I love this band. But they talked about how they recorded the song before actually singing it and realized it was recorded to high for him to sing it and he had a hard time with it. Proubly by the time he did this show he was really burned out

  • you can hear geddy straining to hit the notes. Now before you guys start flamming. I love this band. But they talked about how they recorded the song before actually singing it and realized it was recorded to high for him to sing it and he had a hard time with it.

  • Some of the most beautiful words I've ever heard set to music..

    I have memory and awareness

    But I have no shape or form

    As a disembodied spirit

    I am dead and yet unborn

    I have passed unto Olympus

    As was told in tales of old

    To the city of immortals

    Marble white

    And purest Gold

  • Thank you!!!!!!

  • 2112 through to moving pictures sounds about right.

  • sweet upload....thx !

  • i'm trippin'

  • lastbefore1st:

    I believe it is a line mix from the sound board.

    No doubt a great many shows are recorded and floating about. I have several " bootlegs " from the test For Echo tour and R30.

    I don't really know how they get them. They being Dead Heds.

    Those guys are always swapping shows. I asked my buddy if he had any Rush stuff, live and he asked, " what tour would you like. "

  • @yerded1 I would like some rush please!

  • thanks for the post, can imagine im there, were u band, crew, or crowd recording this?

  • I love Youtube...thanks man, made my afternoon!

  • I've cried on my keyboard.

  • I would definately say that Rush peaked in the late 70s, they were at their best. I also love the 80s stuff but ultimately, being a prog rock fan, the late 70s will always be the best Rush era (for me)

  • The guys are too good for the hall of fame, i mean come the hall of fame indicucts hacks like madonna into the hall of fame.

  • 5:23 (in this particular video) has always been my favorite part of the song. Gah... I can't even describe how much I appreciate this band and their music. I love Rush.

  • @guitarmaniac327 no words to describe the love...only rush fans get it

  • A Farewell To Kings & Hemispheres are Rush's finest pieces..... as is 2112 ... it's too bad Neil Peart thereafter strayed from this path... the next era was Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures which were good but not great ... and it's been downhill after that .... although Hole Your Fire was a classic...

  • Hemispheres is probably my favorite Rush album. This recording is just incredible. No one writes songs like this anymore, period!

  • @taznaz I couldn't agree more! What a great album, and a great recording!

  • They are not is the Rock hall of fame? That's bullshit! We need to give these guys a better push to get in the Rock Hall of fame.

  • Rush in the "Pop, Disco, Rap Hall Of Fame" There's more of these artists than Rock bands. The Fame is filled with a bunch of liberal-acid-taking freaks. Rush doesn't fit into that junk heap called the RORHOF. Madonna? RUN DMC? Even Rap artists. As Lifeson said, it's a joke. Rolling Stone Mag is just mad that Rush did it on their own with kick-ass music and no media outlet (i.e., RS Mag is useless). RS by inducting them would be confirming they (RS) are insignificant for a band's success.

  • awesome!!

  • We will call you Cygnus; the god of balance, you shall be

  • " She get's Nothing" Thankyou Hem-i-spheres

  • for nonthere, whose to know the afterlife, its the story, an epic. I believe

  • I wish there was a recorded live version of this...possibly my favorite Rush song, hell, favorite song period. I'ma find a way to snag this off youtube.

  • Great, great band. The only thing I don't get is the story. A guy flies into a black hole (why? Is he bored or something?). It fucks him up (duh). Manages to make it through and finds some massive war going on that should've been in the movie HeavyMetal. Screams a little girly scream. And they make him a god? Just for showing up? How about: "Whoa, who the fuck is this guy?"."Don't know, but he's interrupting the war. Let's blast him out of the sky."

    Tremendous music!

  • Nonthere, do you want a real answer?

  • Sure, why not? Just don't get all mad, it was just tongue in cheek. But yeah, why did they make the guy a god just for showing up?

  • Well, I'M not mad, just want to make sure I'm not wasting my time or yours. I have a Rush video bio where the commentators had the same attitude, no real analysis.

  • The story uses Greek myths and Nietzsche's THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY to tell a story of reason versus emotion (Apollo vs. Dionyus.) "The Battle of Heart and Mind" rips the world into "sorry hemipsheres." (Brain hemispheres.) Cygnus comes from an outside place, sees the division, and brings them balance between the two, hence the godhood. Neil took some liberties with mythology. So it's a condensed version of a very common topic in pschology and philosophy.

  • Well, I got all that (and thanks). But when you say condensed you ain't kidding. But then Neil couldn't go into some long exposition in the lyrics so naturally it's going to come out a bit disjointed (but the transition was nice 'dead but yet unborn'. Not bad, actually). What confuses me though is why he called the traveller's ship the Rocinante. Is that why he went into the black hole, to tilt at windmills? His qualification for godhood is thus suspect and Apollo less judgement than I thought.

  • Well, Rocinante...ask Neil, but probably; Cygnus X-1 does have a guy flying into a black hole, so there is something foolhardy there, and I do believe Hemispheres took the wind out of the band...The name Cygnus comes from the black hole, so they called the traveler Cygnus, from where he emerged... Ah well, it's poetry, doesn't have to make THAT much sense...

  • rocinante was the horse of don quixote. wasnt he like an explorer in the book

  • That's right. But Don Quixote was addled. Rocinante was a beat-up old nag. So the Don got his lance, mounted up and charged some wind mills thinking they were giants. If you name your ship Rocinante then it must be some rustbucket. So why would you go into a black hole in that? (Actually, it hardly matters, you're still fucked). I'm sure Neil got all that, so it must be some kind of irony he was shooting for. Apollo: "Dude, why would we make you a god? Look at that piece of shit you came in on!"

  • Yeah, there's never been another mysterious or non-plausible story in rock music before....

    Come on, Neil is a storyteller, he was taken by astronomy, black holes and the mystery of where that matter goes, and obviously the power of mythology, not to mention his own struggles with balance. Be glad it's not just "Hey baby, it's a quarter to eight..."

  • Relax, I was just having a little fun. I was always a big fan and thanks to Neil I bought a set of used roto-toms (they sucked and I sold them off, but that's another story). And i like In the Mood. Back in the day songs off the first album were the only ones I could get my band to learn. "I get up at seven..." One...More...Time...

  • lol, high school garage band I was in specialized in early Rush, they taught me to play also (Geddy that is, bass guitar, later keys)...it is all good.

    Love that 6-note chromatic descending bass solo in Working Man, so cool when you're 15 and think you've mastered the world...

    btw I'm relaxed, had to defend Neil's myth making tho

  • I tried to get my band to play La Villa Strangiato. In the words of my bass player: "Get the fuck outta here."

  • Dude, that's hilarious (the part about Geddy's lyrics from the eponymous record)!

  • this is true art

  • my respects for rush, they have two songs of 20 minutes i love rush

    LONG LIVE GEDDY

    LONG LIVE ALEX

    LONG LIVE "THE PROFESSOR" NEIL

    LONG LIVE RUSH

  • three if you consider this to be the second part of one song, cygnus x-1.

  • This is magic brought back, not enough 500 characters to talk about my favourite band for the last thirty years, and I'm 42 ...

  • This was my favorite band growing up and considering their longevity, quality of albums and that the same three guys have been together for over 30 years I would have to say that RUSH is the best rock band ever. In a way they have transcend the rock and roll hall of fame. Thank for posting this great song.

  • I saw Rush in Toledo, Ohio the night after this show and they were phenomenal. Golden Earring opened up and they were also very good. Brings back a lot of memories.

  • Wow that is SICKNESS! So rare I'm sure the whole 18 minutes performed this was so amazing RUSH more and more PROG ROCK! This was fucking great!

  • i have memory & awareness but i have no shape or form

  • these guys are great. seen them 15 times, can't wait for 16.

  • wondrous,underestimated stuff,considering all the shite thats on show nowadays,can any band play stuff like this nowadays? especially with 3 musicians,the music says it all really....

  • lol... the "music" nowadays.

  • You need to see  them live to understand.

  • now i have heard this,i can die a happy contented man...

  • First off all, I want to know who the hell rated this lower than 5 stars. Second, AMAZING! I never knew they played more than the Prelude and The Spheres live before. My favorite Rush song ever. If they would play this today, I wouldn't care if I'd die driving home. My life would be complete man. HEMISPHERES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

  • There's a bootleg of a show where they play Cygnus X1 and Hemispheres side to side and complete, I can't remember the name right now...

  • The recording I was referring to was "A Desert Passage". I don't know where to get it, though. Google it and good luck!

  • A desert passage is awesome, RUsh at their absolute peak and oneof  the greatest set lists ever

    another great one is 1980 St Louis

    Their avaialbel for download at toreent sites

  • love the old anolog synths , looking back this was rough live certin parts hard to reproduce, still , totally great, Isaw this in chicago in 1980, my first rush show , they sold out 4 nites, iwas there the 2nd nite

  • People say that "2112" through "moving pictures" was their best work. I think that "Rush" through "Snakes and Arrows" is their best work.

  • LOL. (for those of you who don't get it: "rush" through "snakes and arrows" is every single album.)

  • i agree with the first part, but i like fly by night too. i also like some of the albums after pictures but its not the same rush to me.

  • @fanofthemusic1090 yeah the only album i can say i like the least in power windows but i still like it becuase goddamn it's rush

  • @zackjp

    This is a great bootleg. I miss Geddy's Ric. The fender he uses now sounds badass, but I mean... it's a RICKENBACKER!

  • @fanofthemusic1090 yeah also i have a poster of them playing a hemispheres song live with the 12 string guitars but in the cd pictures geddy has 6 string bass which confuses me it which on is right but i definatly think it's a 12 string bass

  • Who remembers the projection screen video during this live performance of Book II: The Spheres? I saw it in Dallas and remember the little rocket ship sailing through space, the shimmering metallic man falling through shimmering colored space, also at the end they had two brain hemispheres slowly coming towards each other above some clouds in a blue sky and when the hemispheres came together, the song was at its end. Wow. What do YOU remember about the film. Help me out here!

  • Sounds awesome.

  • Great! Thanks for posting this.

  • How the hell did u get hold of this. This is truly epic! Brilliant Album!

  • Takes me back to may the 7th 1979 Hammersmith odean london ... for my first Rush gig !!!!

    I was fourteen at the time ... A band called Max webster .. supported them !!!! What a night !!!!!

  • what ever happend to Max webster?

  • They kinda faded. The singer, Kim Mitchell went solo.

  • ok gonna check him out

  • Fantastic :) ... that takes me back , sitting on a parafin heater in my wee chilly Scottish bedroom as a spotty 15 year old ... lost in Hemispheres / 2112 ..... On a wee mono record player !!! kids today dont know their born :)..... Great times , A musical education , thanks

  • 2 cents

  • 5:23 is so amazing...

    "and only when the chaos ceased..."

    <3

    <3

    <3

  • Thanks so much for posting this...I saw them do this piece in it's entirety many years ago. It is truly incredible. I've been waiting 30 years to hear a decent version live...you made that possible. Thanks so much again!!!

  • at my schools marching band we are doing part of this song in our show this year, it's sweet...

  • ha, nick it's Jake

  • stalker!

    haha

  • In my church bell-ringing group we do this in its entirety, preceded by Cygnus. It wakes up the good G*d-fearing folk for Sunday mass yes-siree sir it does!

  • Post it!

  • does your school have any vids of this?

  • There are a lot of bootlegs out there, if you can obtain one, you can easily go around and trade for some of the most rare findings ever. Its a strong business for those who are fanatics

  • To whomever posted this. Thank you, thank you. I didn't discover rush until a few years after this but I wish I could've been able to attend one of these earlier shows. We are fortunate to still be able to see these guys play live, with a high level of musicianship, in 2008. They just don't make'em like Rush anymore.

  • I saw this tour and it was great...and believe it or not, I actually now own the actual acoustic guitar he plays at the end of the song. To hear it being played live is an incredible treat for me. THANKS SO MUCH!!!!

  • This is a real treat! I am glad to hear this. It's a good thing to have a recording of this 1978 live show.

  • That would've been awesome to have seen them on the "Tour Of The Hemispheres." Alex's guitar tone is the shit.

  • Hiwatt! Think The Who. Townshend was using Hiwatt and Rush were a big fan of The Who. Such a great, sweathog (Zappa coined that term) midrange type guitar sound that sounds like it's parametric sweepable midrange, unlike Marshall's which are passive EQ. It would have been great to see them but I was only 12 years old at the time and hadn't even heard Rush for another couple of years.

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