Rush Guitar Cover Afterimage Grace Under Pressure

[moderndaywarriar]

wussup Dawg?



[daleywhaley]

So well done! why can't all guitar vids be this clear?

[bluesman71]

I really enjoy the Years of Rush that you cover. Thanks

[RCAvhstape]

I like the audio clip at the end, from ATWAS, right? As for buying this album, I have the CD, and more importantly, I have it on vinyl, bought it new in 1984, the year I saw my first Rush show! Still have the concert program, too. Such a great song from such a great album, best sound of the 80s. And a great job you've done on the guitar, man, top notch.

[cashman156]

Great Vid and music man!

I'm @ the O2 arena next May to see um.... maybe see u there! If u stick snowdoguk on yer shirt I'll stick cashman156 on mine and shake your hand Lol

[snowdoguk]

@cashman156 Yeah I'll be there :)

[10oooo01]

Love it!!! One of my favourites. I wanted to learn this one so badly many years ago but didn't have the skills. Now I have the skills and found this....and now I can play it...after 10 minutes!!!! Thanks so much dude. Excellent playing and sound. Cheers.

[nljuggalo]

Nice.

[Pauliewanna]

Mike, just a fucking awesome job! Man, I gained a new appreciation for guitaring (yeah, I mad that word up) by watching this vid. I'm going to find a way to jam with you and andre one of these days!

[buminbeer2]

Wow, everytime I watch this video, I feel I have to turn around and start playing my keyboards with you and I do. Great guitar player with all the feel of a true musician. Rock on my friend, rock on....

[southport97]

You come very close to playing like Alex.

[Stinkerstien]

Your the master. OUTST %$^% Standing!! A + A+ A+ Please review and post your sound gear.

[swalter70]

Excellent guitar work!! Nice video! I love the swells you put in there. Funny how everyone on here plays this song a little differnt than the next, Alex is the chord master. I really enjoyed your video,your spot on... If you get time check out the solo I did to AfterImage...Again, great job on this one. Keep em coming!!

[BillF1967]

You know, I worship Rush and I would like nothing more than to rip you a new one for butchering a great song by my favorite band.

Alas, I can't. Great, great job. You're fantastic! Keep on rockin'.

[oogaboog12]

awesome

[mandalay71]

Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!! Hope to see you play again sometime!!! Good night!!........

[Zeppelinfan25]

The rhythmic solo in this tune is awesome

[ksbigler]

GuP is the greatest Rush album...love it from start to finish. Fabulous

[funkerus]

Excellent!!!! THE best song/video of all time!!!! I wish you came to Oregon you ROCK!!!!

[DoNieThA]

perfect !!!!

[blueforce10]

You have incredible talent. It's amazing how much you sound like Alex. I was wondering if the neighbors complain about the loud music. If they do, they don't know how lucky they are. I wish my neighbor's would play Rush....... :)

Great choice in songs.

[gibsonplayer8]

Great job!

I notice all your videos have excellent sound quality. What kind of video camera do you use?

[snowdoguk]

@gibsonplayer8 The camera is a sony handycam but I don't record using that anymore (earlier vids were done by recording from the Line 6 POD XT Live directly into the camera) but now I record the video with the cam, but record the audio via a digidesign mbox2 to the PC using ProTools. Thanks for stopping by to watch and listen :)

[idigcars]

I love how Al uses so many chords in his solo and doesn't just go off into wankery. Great job as usual...

[alara974]

You Are the man, that's all I can say. Totally awesome. Keep up the great work!! From Tony in San Antonio, TX USA

[fkridge]

fuckin dope!!! you are the man!!!!

[vmkSAVAGEGUY]

FANTASTIC!

*****

[saturnfive]

Really nice playing - solo sounds dead on.

[405fooman]

Nice! One of my favorite Rush songs - especially the guitar solo.

[JWissemes]

It's visible audio artwork watching you play my friend.

[ryincasco]

Very cool ! I've been wanting to learn this song, and this will help. Very well played. Nice job.

[abstrus]

brilliant!

[oogaboog12]

Michaelangelo! Very nice work! It's amazing how much you sound like Alex! Really enjoy your videos! Your website looks great too! Keep up the great work!!!

[earthshine2k]

Fortunately, he doesn't know that I have the bobble heads, too. They're in the box out in my garage. I played in a Rush wannabe' band back in '99-'00 with a drummer that played and LOOKED like Neil. Our bassist was a Steve Harris disciple, but picked up Geddy Lee, remarkably, in a snap. That left me devouring the Rush Tablature Project home page for guitar tabs and I worked my tail off to keep up w/ them. We just practiced individually all week and got together on Sundays to play. Awesome.

[earthshine2k]

It all came together one afternoon. We had all been working on Afterimage, but none of us were sure we could pull it off. So, we just went for it. Tape rolling. The bassist had some really cool synth effect going that sounded just like the synth bass line. The drummer locked in, and I had an out of body experience on the axe. It was cool, because we knew it was happening and we just sort of went with it. The playback in the car on the way home was unbelievable. We just needed a vocalist.

[earthshine2k]

My little boy is 4. He, for whatever reason, loves Afterimage by Rush. So, when he asks me to play it, I go to YouTube and he insists I play this clip of the song. No joke. Keep on rockin'.

[snowdoguk]

What a cool story :) Are you sure it's not the Bobbleheads he likes to watch? Thanks very much for sharing that.. Best Wishes to you..

[jigar12346]

This is a different perspective for me, since I usually play attention to the drumming when I listen to this song. Pretty cool.

[042368090868]

This is excellent. Very well made and performed. Nice creative touch with the bobbleheads. I will check out your other stuff- Brent Elliott Lincoln NE

[rflammi1]

Sos muy bueno. Congratulations !!! I played this song with my drums for years but my peers could not played so I had no one to play it with.... was very frustrated to put the LP and play it on it

[esrb]

This is really F A N T A S T I C ....!!!

Regards from yer peruvian fellow.

[timdoog42]

Love this song Mike.Ive lost someone dear to me and when I miss her i play this song and rock out. You never get over something like that so you kinda become friends with it .:)

[snowdoguk]

I feel for you... but she'll always be there in your heart..

[ProgressiveMachinery]

another great song from another great musician !!!

5 and fave *****

[rushnut4ever]

Michael,

There is NO ONE who can do RUSH cover songs like you..........I enjoy listening and watching you play! I'd pay to watch you all play a concert of nothing but RUSH cover songs! Thanks for giving me the inspiration to keep working on my guitar techniques.............you nailed it on this song!!

[chefhockey]

Bravo snowdog, if ever a show where Alex cant perform, I do hope he gives you the quick call. Keep up the good work and love what you do with your individual as well as Virtually Rush projects!

[1977fender]

just excellent..you nail the midsection so well...as the tone is great with what sounds like not much equipmt. How did you get that delay/reverb so close without losing the clarity and definition? I love that GUP tone. One of my fav alex solos.

[lucilius54]

this tune brings back great memories of my childhood - great work, snowdoguk! you capture the "feel" of Rush with great clarity and dexterity, man!!

[darthvadersship]

love afterimage-very meaningful to me...

[timdoog42]

That was fucking AWESOME MIKE!!!!!. You are so good. Dam I hope I can play like that some day.

[snowdoguk]

Cheers Tim!!!!

[mRtReMeLo]

This was my favorite track up until my hearing of Territories. Amazing job, I've probably watched all your vids and loved 'em all/ You are an amazing talented musician, and I'm glad to see another appreciate Alex as I do. He's underlooked. C''mon, without Alex things just would sound glued together right. Can I ask for a request for the greatest band ever? Can you maybe possibly do Territories (Power Windows)?

[snowdoguk]

Many thanks for the comments... Territories is a fantastic song, as are all of the Power Windows songs.. I'll see what I can do :-)

[rockthewalk]

great work! love it...i will check out your others.

[GeddyBre]

Oh yeah Brother! My fav Alex solo ever and you nailed it!

Two guys with the most taste and sensibility in their solos Alex and David Gilmour... both guys I can not imagine anyone else tackling their solos and hitting the same tone and feeling... until you nailed this one, and my fav to boot... props SDUK

[snowdoguk]

Hi Geddy :-) many thanks for the Kudos... I love this song.. it's so intense

[nopast68]

This is the kind of Rush stuff that seems so easy when you listen to it then watch this and you realize how incredibly brilliant and underrated Alex is!

[adam872]

Fantastic stuff again. That is a great, great song.

[WizXX]

Such a beautiful song. I couldn't have worded the description of it any better. A+ job!

[salami124]

Excellent job ! much better than some of

those bands that have been posted

having their try at this gig.

[Shazma33]

Great job!  Love RUSH and loved the video.

[sykochikn136]

awsome! you have the tone and everything perfect xD

[BigBobboBump]

Bloody good job, man.

Great song, great cover! Bravo!

[Petrushi2112]

Thanks for made this (your) channell.I´m very rush`s fan.Sorry but I don´t speak English.I Only want to say you...BRAVO!!!!!

ALL YOUR RUSH'S COVER EXCELLENT!!!GREAT!!!

OLE!!!!!!!!

MAGNIFICO!!!!!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

[tseekr379]

Snowmutt, as always, your videos get better each and every time, and let me add, not only does the quality of each presentation improve, but your playing is equally impressive.

Thanks to you, I've been inspired to learn yet another rush song, complete with an awesome video tutorial!

Kudos on the awesome chord solo by the way ;)

Keep rocking dude...

[xyz321123]

Very Nice, nice mix, pleasing to the ears..

:)  What amp are you using?

[snowdoguk]

Hi xyz...  I don't actually use a real amp for these videos, I use a modelled amp from a Line 6 POD XT Live. I feed the output of that directly into my camera mic. input.

[lupine73]

Excellent performance of an awesome song.

Personally, I think P/G is one of their most underrated albums.

[vela75]

Awesome job!!! Note for Note! :) One of my all time favorite Rush songs.... and one of my favorite Rush albums!!! Thanks.

[0958829175]

good guitar skills

[daydreamin498]

Snowy! You are so unbelievably talented! Totally awesome!!!

[snowdoguk]

thanks very much daydream :-) nice to see you again ...

[feliceyyz]

alright, I'm jealous !!! I wish I had some white blinds covering up a blank wall at my place-oh, by the way, very nice chops on this one- you must have alot of patients( or is it patience ) 1st to learn it that well and then record a video so nicely.

[snowdoguk]

actually Ben it didn't take that long to learn and the more you use the video software the easier that becomes too... one of these days I may just show you what is behind that blind... ;) thanks for your comments, always welcome

[vineyardedge]

Man this is just too awesome!

[UltimoGuitarist2]

ultimoguitarist2 is basspops in disguise.

[UltimoGuitarist2]

LOVE the job you guys did on Mission. We can't wait to record this. Keep them coming guys!!!

[Dilanadu]

your guitar playing is amazing, and the way you edit your videos keeps it much more interesting and fresh. Most cover videos are just one person in the same spot and angle for the song and it bores me after a while!

Even my cover videos are like that and I wish I could have more than one camera going lmao.

Amazing job!

[snowdoguk]

That's a really satisfying comment to receive because it was one of my goals from the outset, to produce videos that are (hopefully) as interesting to watch as they are informative on how to play the tunes. Each video should improve on the last and if you go back and look at my earlier attempts, you will see a huge difference in visual and audio quality. Many thanks for such a cool comment :-)

[kalisota]

hey mike,i love everything you do,I WANT YOUR BOBBLE HEADS!!!!!! LOL

[snowdoguk]

The bobbleheads are mine...all mine .... mwahahahahaha.. Hi Dave!!! Thanks for coming by to watch and for leaving a comment... much appreciated :-)

[constantine2112]

Snowdog, You nailed it. Parts of the solo I never herd before until I watch you play it. Outstanding job. I could not believe my ears and eyes.

Keep up the great playing.

[ChiliFan06]

Absolutely fantastic work once again, this is one of my all-time favourites and you completely nailed it. The tone is spot on as always, I'd never even realised that those swells in the middle were Alex's guitar, I thought it was synth. Great job on the solo as well, one of Alex's best and incredibly satisfying to pull off.

Any ideas for what to do next? You seem to have the P/G tone down, how about DIstant Early Warning?

[Rendclaw]

Its simply amazing how you can get so close to Alex's sound, and that's not all just in the equipment... I salute thee once again.

[RollTheFemers]

Nice! A new video! Great job! :-)

[Johnsgotwood]

Excellent choice of song and very well executed. I have to agree the sound was the real deal. Well done again mate!!!

[snowdoguk]

thanks John

[medwards8820]

The sound is spot on, cant believe u got it to sound like that.

[ega95jch]

Snowdog, you are the man!

[vineyardedge]

Look into my eyes! HAHAHAHAHAAAA

[esrb]

Cheers from Peru...again an awesome job.

[RISENTOFALLEN]

Talent! Pure and simple, great stuff!!!

[vineyardedge]

Awesome as always! I love the Bobbles...lol.

[snowdoguk]

Hail the Bobbles !!! Thanks Val :-)

[zonman]

Really well done!

[HubAndre]

Wonderful Mike!

[snowdoguk]

Cheers Andre!!!

[byron361]

Very good! How did you get your delay sounds?

[snowdoguk]

I think you mean the guitar swells? I use a Line 6 POD XT live, it has a pedal on it. If the camera was aimed a bit lower you would see some leg movement as in some of my other videos

[luckyspirit07]

simply awsome again.

fantastic played as usual :-)

[Docca3]

wow - the best yet I think ... 25*

[UltimoGuitarist2]

Man you're the only other Rush guitar cover artist on youtube worth commenting on in my books. AMAZING job on this one. Just wanted to give you a small pointer though. At 2:16 when you do that part back and forth on the G and A, make sure you fully bar the A the second time and backpick the E and B strings. Listen for it on the album. You can barely hear it but it's there.

[snowdoguk]

I've seen that in a tab somewhere and I didn't play it because I don't think it contributes anything to the part, the keyboard is so dominant and as you say, you can hardly hear it. The riff itself is difficult to get right in sound and feel, I looked at tabs for it but didn't use any of them, preferring to use the octave and mute combination. This gives a heavy feel and is polished off by use of the whammy. Best Wishes to you BASSPOPS

[KingXanadu]

You remind me of Mr. Bean. I guess it's your funny mannerisms! Awesome playing as always. Looks like you've almost covered the whole GUP album now. Awesome.

[snowdoguk]

You're the second person to say that :D

I guess it's just the way I express myself while playing, I'll see if I can find Teddy to include in my next one LOL.. thanks for dropping by to watch KingX :-)

[biped19]

Superb playing. Once again, top notch editing. Thank you for sharing snowdoguk.

[wnils]

Another great one snowdoguk.......exceptional feel.

[snowdoguk]

thanks crafty...yes a truly great band

[ednaplate]

I've said it before and I'll say it again - simply outstanding

[snowdoguk]

thank you :-) nice to see you again.... hope you liked the Bobbleheads ...

[Blobblob22]

One of my favourite Rush numbers.

Sounds great, middle section is particularly good.

Like the bit from the End of 'All The World's A Stage' at the end!!

[snowdoguk]

I've always loved that end from "All the World's a Stage". Thanks for dropping by to watch :-)