wow, when neil peart was known as neil pert. this playing is what made him a household name in drumming. so much energy. not to say anything about his playing now, but, there is a world of difference. a shame we all have to age. also, that rock and roll hall of fame should be at the bottom of lake earie where it belongs........
What you are watching here is just how Neil Peart got his name and how he became a household name. His solos from 76-91 were just something of a spectacle. He has since become quite bland and slow and boring. I appreciate him trying to be different but this is what made the man special. Not trying to be a jazz drummer in a rock band like he is now...just doesn't fit. He is a rock drummer...always will be and he should be comfortable with that instead of hanging out with jazz guys 24/7.
I can clearly see that you don't know what you are talking about. If you really understand what the nature of Rush, you know that evolving and getting better has always been very important to those guys. You have all the right to not like it, but please don't denigrate jazz drummers, who are generally very skilled.
Right Ace...whatever you say. I have been a fan since 1980 and a drummer since 1982...I clearly have no clue what I am talking about with regards to this band after seeing them live 33 times and owning every recording and hundreds of bootlegs not to mention influenced by dozens of drummers from Chambers to Beauford to Portnoy to Peart.
Oh and if what you call the era from 78-89 evolving then I am right there with you...but the band has been headed on many wrong tracks backwards since then and if record sales and quality music indicate anything...my argument wins hands down.
The band has been stuck in this rut of keeping it simple since Test For Echo and it shows. You couldn't possibly hold a straight face and say that Snakes & Arrows is in the same category as Power Windows. Vapor Trails would have been a great record if
the sound of it wasn't so fucking muddy and awful...I wonder why Peart chooses not to play the more challenging songs live from recent records? Surely playing Vapor Trail doesn't scare him that much now does it? Heresy?
I have Replay X3 - picked it up days after it was released. All the shows are identical to the VHS or Lazerdisc versions. The Grace DVD is [also] identical to the VHS, which I have. I should've been more specific - I wish they would've included this tune, (& about another hour's worth of other material) on X3 instead of just a remastered version of the original VHS release. This is a home video, & very cool to see it here, but Rush has never released official live concert footage of this tune.
It might be coming. There is a lab called Fogo in Canada that has all of Rush's video and audio archives they claim to have the full Toronto show that was partially released on VHS/DVD and have plans for a Blu-Ray release.
Cool, the second half of the drum solo is almost exactly like the Exit...Stage Left version, (best IMO; better than the 80's with all the electronic big band sampling, more groove-oriented than today) which I've never actually seen played, only heard, & I like the way Ged "funks" his way back in. Also the way they play around with the arrangement a bit at the end -- improv never Rush's strong point. Very cool. Would have loved to seen this tour. Damn! wish they'd release this on DVD now...
Can hardly believe it was almost 25 years ago that I caught this tour. I was young and impressionable and I was utterly impressed! (I just got goose-bumps watching these songs played again.) Rush up to and including GUP is just about my favourite period in the band's history. I do like a lot of their more 'recent' stuff but what the three of them released to the world back then was truly special. The previous Signals tour was incredible too: seeing Chemistry live was a dream come true.
I totally agree! Unfortunately, I'm too young to have seen them live back then - but i did catch them on the Snakes and Arrows tour - they've still got it!
I remember when this album came out. It was a HUGE difference from the Signals album. Over the years before that, you could hear the gradual change from one album to the next as the band evolved to a higher more technical level. But this album was scary. It marked the end of a decade and the end of TC Broonsey. Rush had grown up and totally changed into a band who COULD'NT have done things like 2112 or Spheres. Sadly, I really thought P/G was to be their last tour.
Thinking about the overfed. The underread. Well, I said, I'm a- Bled red. Thinkin bout whatchoo said. I think about it, I think, I think it, Red. Nothing like a Geddy Lee studio fade-out. Unless it's the nonfade-outable live version. Great find, Mr TheFemers. You never not post anything surprising. Haha. I had one of those Miami Vice jackets just like Geddys. I wore it once. I felt like a little homo. So I went back to old faithful. My black Members Only jacket.
GUP brings me back to such a great time in my life and in my humble opinion, Rush's greatest album ever! Going to see Rush during this time was such an amazing event. I'd start getting psyched out of my mind over a week before the show and I remember how pumped I was out in the parking lot the day of the show drinking beers and listening to the multitudes cranking Rush tunes on their car stereos. Just an amazing experience that I will ALWAYS remember! Those were the good old days for me!
There was an Italian supposedly embarking on a project to remaster the original total and complete videos from the concerts EXIT, GRACE and SHOW in their entirety. Last I heard he had Grace and Exit, but not the show of hands footage...I want the total show of Grace Under Pressure...I must have it.
If I remember there's no complete show for Grace Under Pressure Tour, Fogolabs got the entire tapes of it so they can make a different montage of it but that's it! It just too bad...
I saw this tour when they were in Los Angeles. What an incredible concert!!
hgrubbs 1 month ago
wow, when neil peart was known as neil pert. this playing is what made him a household name in drumming. so much energy. not to say anything about his playing now, but, there is a world of difference. a shame we all have to age. also, that rock and roll hall of fame should be at the bottom of lake earie where it belongs........
jimmygt4 2 months ago
Neil was just a beast back then! Listen to him an his contemporary rock drummers and he was just on another level!
Steeltowner 6 months ago
Terrific song, very underrated. Peart's best drum solo ever. I've only ever heard this solo on a hissy cassette tape before. Thanks for posting it.
lowtown47 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
dead ahead 2010
TheBrilliantGeniuses 1 year ago
This and LVS contain some of Neil's best drumming IMO.
DelDuio 1 year ago
I saw the concert in T.O. Definately Neil's best solo ever!!!
It's true.
baalptor 2 years ago
Surely to God the Grace Under Pressure Tour footage in it's entirety is somewhere...including the drum solo!!!!! Come on!!!!
biopsychosocio 2 years ago 5
One his best solos...I would really like to see a good quality of it.
nopast68 2 years ago 2
RollTheFemers, WHERE DO YOU GET THIS STUFF?!?!
you are my hero.
great video, overlooked song.
Cygnusx27 2 years ago
Awesome
jsillers 2 years ago
alex tries to pipe up at 1:35 but sounds like a moron
DeltaGaryGordon 2 years ago
he says It's true! that is the way the song was written.
michaelbillypec 2 years ago 4
i know but he just kind of yells it
DeltaGaryGordon 2 years ago 2
What you are watching here is just how Neil Peart got his name and how he became a household name. His solos from 76-91 were just something of a spectacle. He has since become quite bland and slow and boring. I appreciate him trying to be different but this is what made the man special. Not trying to be a jazz drummer in a rock band like he is now...just doesn't fit. He is a rock drummer...always will be and he should be comfortable with that instead of hanging out with jazz guys 24/7.
vaportrails44 2 years ago
I can clearly see that you don't know what you are talking about. If you really understand what the nature of Rush, you know that evolving and getting better has always been very important to those guys. You have all the right to not like it, but please don't denigrate jazz drummers, who are generally very skilled.
bobelond32 2 years ago
Right Ace...whatever you say. I have been a fan since 1980 and a drummer since 1982...I clearly have no clue what I am talking about with regards to this band after seeing them live 33 times and owning every recording and hundreds of bootlegs not to mention influenced by dozens of drummers from Chambers to Beauford to Portnoy to Peart.
You "skooled" me bro! Take a bow!
vaportrails44 2 years ago
Oh and if what you call the era from 78-89 evolving then I am right there with you...but the band has been headed on many wrong tracks backwards since then and if record sales and quality music indicate anything...my argument wins hands down.
The band has been stuck in this rut of keeping it simple since Test For Echo and it shows. You couldn't possibly hold a straight face and say that Snakes & Arrows is in the same category as Power Windows. Vapor Trails would have been a great record if
vaportrails44 2 years ago
the sound of it wasn't so fucking muddy and awful...I wonder why Peart chooses not to play the more challenging songs live from recent records? Surely playing Vapor Trail doesn't scare him that much now does it? Heresy?
vaportrails44 2 years ago
i think he got a little bored and wanted to expand as a musician; that is what they do.
michaelbillypec 2 years ago
I have Replay X3 - picked it up days after it was released. All the shows are identical to the VHS or Lazerdisc versions. The Grace DVD is [also] identical to the VHS, which I have. I should've been more specific - I wish they would've included this tune, (& about another hour's worth of other material) on X3 instead of just a remastered version of the original VHS release. This is a home video, & very cool to see it here, but Rush has never released official live concert footage of this tune.
rafro007 2 years ago
It might be coming. There is a lab called Fogo in Canada that has all of Rush's video and audio archives they claim to have the full Toronto show that was partially released on VHS/DVD and have plans for a Blu-Ray release.
vaportrails44 2 years ago
Good song!
Strangely, the synthesizer part on 00:18 through 00:48 sounds almost identical to Stardust Speedway Present (American) in the game Sonic CD.
Nesplayer 2 years ago
Took me a minute but I think I hear it.
troysson81 2 years ago
Cool, the second half of the drum solo is almost exactly like the Exit...Stage Left version, (best IMO; better than the 80's with all the electronic big band sampling, more groove-oriented than today) which I've never actually seen played, only heard, & I like the way Ged "funks" his way back in. Also the way they play around with the arrangement a bit at the end -- improv never Rush's strong point. Very cool. Would have loved to seen this tour. Damn! wish they'd release this on DVD now...
rafro007 2 years ago
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rafro007 2 years ago
yep.. I saw this tour.. Grace under pressure. Worcester Centrum, Mass.
Mikakk2 2 years ago
Can hardly believe it was almost 25 years ago that I caught this tour. I was young and impressionable and I was utterly impressed! (I just got goose-bumps watching these songs played again.) Rush up to and including GUP is just about my favourite period in the band's history. I do like a lot of their more 'recent' stuff but what the three of them released to the world back then was truly special. The previous Signals tour was incredible too: seeing Chemistry live was a dream come true.
sideshowlol 2 years ago
I totally agree! Unfortunately, I'm too young to have seen them live back then - but i did catch them on the Snakes and Arrows tour - they've still got it!
keznh 2 years ago
counterparts is a great album from the mid-nineties.
michaelbillypec 2 years ago
I remember when this album came out. It was a HUGE difference from the Signals album. Over the years before that, you could hear the gradual change from one album to the next as the band evolved to a higher more technical level. But this album was scary. It marked the end of a decade and the end of TC Broonsey. Rush had grown up and totally changed into a band who COULD'NT have done things like 2112 or Spheres. Sadly, I really thought P/G was to be their last tour.
That was 25 rockin years ago.
AnubisXII 2 years ago 2
that is amazing
thejbl 3 years ago 3
A very great, forgotten song. GUP was an album far ahead of it's time. I wish Rush had made a few more like it.
Attila709 3 years ago 12
The synthesizers melody is awesome, so simple yet effective.
1980MF1980 3 years ago 12
AnubisXII 3 years ago
hell yeah man. geddy does the sickest bassline at the fadeout too, real funky. he is such a tremendous musician
BDizDaBest 2 years ago 2
WOW! Now we can really see red, Not blue...
zarwarrior 3 years ago
RUSH AT THEIR VERY BEST!!! The GUP tour was INCREDIBLE!!! I wish I had a time machine! I'd see this show 100 times!
chrisbmets 3 years ago 6
agreed mr.chrisbmets... I would ask you for a lift in the time machine as well.
THIS was the era of Rush (I mean they still dominate the universe of course...) but this was when I was introduced to them.
My musical life was meaningless before
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Love this song!
instantbrother 3 years ago
GUP brings me back to such a great time in my life and in my humble opinion, Rush's greatest album ever! Going to see Rush during this time was such an amazing event. I'd start getting psyched out of my mind over a week before the show and I remember how pumped I was out in the parking lot the day of the show drinking beers and listening to the multitudes cranking Rush tunes on their car stereos. Just an amazing experience that I will ALWAYS remember! Those were the good old days for me!
chrisbmets 3 years ago
I agree wholeheartedly bro
biopsychosocio 3 years ago
There was an Italian supposedly embarking on a project to remaster the original total and complete videos from the concerts EXIT, GRACE and SHOW in their entirety. Last I heard he had Grace and Exit, but not the show of hands footage...I want the total show of Grace Under Pressure...I must have it.
biopsychosocio 3 years ago
Fogo Labs in Toronto has the full GUP show. They have all of Rush's audio and video archives. I think sadly the Exit show in full will never happen.
vaportrails44 3 years ago
I hope someone got a entire copy and in great quality of that entire tour!
Guyisthere 3 years ago
If I remember there's no complete show for Grace Under Pressure Tour, Fogolabs got the entire tapes of it so they can make a different montage of it but that's it! It just too bad...
Guyisthere 3 years ago
"The Soviets are the blues...the reds!"
MasterODisaster101 3 years ago
I hope they bring this back on their next tour, unlikely though.
Neelbeeten 3 years ago 2
I wish I could have been there...two bad I was only 2.
rossboss1 3 years ago
Fantastic!!! A neglected classic. Rush should bring this back into the live set.
DrL0206 3 years ago 4
totally!
ackerlaw2004 3 years ago 2
it's True
ePhilosopher 3 years ago
Gawd yes! Finally a live version of this song! I wonder if there was ever a music video...
rossboss1 3 years ago 3
nope, unfortunately
Neelbeeten 3 years ago
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY CLASSIC!
sabianrox1 3 years ago 4
Ohh mann if you think this sounds good wait till you can hear it On the Power Windows Tour And The Hold Your FIre TOur.....Awesome
ArrowDrummer215 3 years ago
I'd love to, where can I hear Red Lenses from those tours?
rossboss1 3 years ago
Awesome!!!!!
KuzinRob 3 years ago 2
All right, Red Lenses! Thanks!
ratchetfan2007 3 years ago 3