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  • whoa.. greatness *-*

  • Awesome, awesome stuff...a total mind bender. Uh, I think a point has been made. Let the axe fly!!!

  • yikes, just an incredible jam.

  • This song is the epitome of badass.

  • This may not be relevant, but... it is true.

  • hey, can somebody explain to me what is goin on in this vid? i just wna kno

  • it;s talking about the various religions our world has/has had.

  • and also that in the east(asia) we see 3 main branches with only a few branches off of those three, but in the west(America, europe) we have 3 main branches and then tons and tons of little branches off of the three of those, even though the three main branches, judaism, christianty, and islam, are all pretty much based on the same beliefs and the same god. I could go on and on, but u get the point.

  • I find this an interesting song in what appears to me to be possible influence by the song Zooma by John Paul Jones.

    Thoughts?

  • Yeah, right on. I knew the bass line sounded kind of familiar. Zooma is a killer album, btw.

  • First off if you don't understand the symbolism in the video, then you obviously cant comprehend Rush's true genius.

  • why would just plank your ass in a chair and watch a video ?? that comment is stupid !! you cruise the net and listen GeeZe,who cares what the video as long the quality is gOOd.''Yeah so whats with that video it's kinda weird i don't like the song anymore because of the video.C i can make stupid fuckin comments too you lame fuckin bastards & the video is cool.i just wanna listen to rush? does the video not let you listen to rush er sumthin ? stupid dumb asses.you don't deserve 2112 in ur name!

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  • LOL. You are a complete moron.

  • fuck you. your a moron...asshole. go fuck yourself.

  • It is not my fault you are mentally ill and know nothing about music.

  • what does my comment have to do with my knowledge of music? yuo don't know anything aoubt music and yur metally ill...fucker.

    i know everything about rush and a fuck load about countless other bands and their music. Don't gmme this fuck bullshit that i don't know shot about music. i just didn't see the relevance of the viseo portion of this video.

    pices of shit like you who are so dumb and immature don't deserve to live. fucker.

  • You sir, are a complete immature moron.

    1) Learn to spell and use correct grammar.

    2) Don't get upset and start throwing random curse words together that don't even make sense.

    3) Grow up you child.

    4)If you can not understand this simple video, I doubt you know anything else about Rush

    GF. Have fun with your failure life.

  • anyone who takes influence on religion or philosophy from a band that was influenced by "Lord of the Rings" and the "Hobbit" is in trouble .....enjoy the music which is advanced but their other ideas are about as sophisticated as a geeked out 8th grader playing Dungeons & Dragons .

  • Neil Peart took influence from Tolkien because it's good literature. Neil Peart wrote tons of other pieces of music philosophical in nature. Hell, most of their music has either something to do with politics, religion, and or philosophy. So comparing them to geeked out 8th graders playing D&D is quite possibly the most asinine thing you can say about them. I'd probably feel the same way about that even if I wasn't a big fan of theirs.

  • he is a fantistic drummer, but i dont think for any rhodes scholar awards anytime soon,,,,his ideas about this religion & philosophy are somewhat basic and at an advanced 8th 9th grade level so i think that is true , he never went to college and the only book he published about traveling across the USA in a motor cycle is kinda dull w/o any new ideas.....at one part he descibes a sceen in which a waitress is given a hard time and Neil's responce to her is " dont worry about ".....sage advice

  • You don't need to be a Rhodes scholar to perceive the world around you and think about it in an "advanced" nature. As for the single example you've provided, I'm sure you, me, or anyone else for that matter including said Rhodes scholars have been in situations where given advice is less than "sage". Regardless of all this, sometimes basic lyrical concepts promote the deepest thinking.

  • And I'm aware my grammar was less than impressive in a certain sentence...

  • probably most of the listeners have about the same level of sophistication on these topics as rush does.

    although those trees are pretty damned impressive. i'd love to have hard copy of them. i really would.

  • ya even thay didnt i saw a vid of fly by night and neil was wearing a cross on his neck im influenced by him well not that it matters but i am catholic and a drummer who writes the lyrics 4 my band

  • Believe what you want to believe, I just want to listen

  • Awesome Video!

  • Lets not argue and just listen to some rush

  • exactly....the video is completely random and torraly irrevelant to the song...

  • Holy Books, namely the Bible, have an answer for every question. Be this because it's fabricated or because it's the inspired word of God I cannot answer. I think I'll just listen to some music. Bitchin' song.

  • good answer

  • Alex Lifeson discovered while recording "Malignant Narcissism" that Neil Peart could actually play the regular drum set. This shocked him so much he could only play an A chord the entire song and lost the ability to solo

  • geddy lee rules!

  • Just enjoy the song? o.O

  • Am I being stoopid but Is Chuck D = Charles Darwin

  • Most likely.

  • Rush are not cool! How dare they do something as interesting.

  • Article 1: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Get it strait you fascist theocratic pig. Go to Saudi Arabia if you dont like it her e. I hear they have a nice theocracy.

  • Didn't the Soviets try to lay the ax to the trees of religion? Man is a religious creature and it's his God given right to worship.

  • You are so right! Man is a primative creature that needs religion as an emotional crutch and to keep him in line, creating morality through fear. I totally agree, man has the right to worship. And, there is no better place to do it than in his home and church.

  • I guess you don't agree with the Constitution then you commie.

  • The Soviet Union was a totalitarian anti-religious society. They were wrong because they were merely trying to destroy one dogma to impose another one.

    This axe is much more metaphorical and doesn't involve acutally forcing people to shed religion.

  • Man USED to be a religious creature. And it is his need for an explanation for unexplainable things that created "God". Fortunatly, many people are starting to see through the farce of religion. Primitive humans needed God, we don't.

  • do you actually belive this? do you not see the shit hole of a world we live in.

  • The world is a shit hole says you. You are negative. God doesn't need to exist to see the world in a positive light.

  • I concur.

  • Once again, who is barking up the wrong tree in the long run?? Anybody.......Anyone??No.....N­othing??Nobody??

  • fucking awsume song. it just dont get any bettr

  • i wish i could read all the branches of the snake tree, but the words are too small!

  • awesome song, just awesome :D

  • has a bit of the Warriors vibe

  • I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. John 15:5

    Thank you RUSH, for doing stuff!

  • I don't think you really watched this video.

  • Nice comment henrysww. I get it!

  • Rush has long been the KINGS of prog rock instrumentals and getting better every new album, Also giving credit to Dream Theater, not alot of bands do them anymore. And yea Awesome song

  • Amazing!

    Cut down those trees!

  • Such a statement... I love this video!

    Seriously, Religions are the cause of so many fucking problems its rediculous.

  • secular governments arent much better

  • We need seperation of church and state, unfortunatly in the US, the church has its grimy little hands in all kinds of laws.

  • Secular governments aren't much better? I beg to differ..

    Don't confuse secularism with totalitarian anti-theism.

  • oh im talking modern secular governments that are killing people around the world

  • It's not enough to just say that there are. Please provide examples.

  • Yes they are. The atheist countries of Scandanavia and Western Europe that have market economies but much larger social safety nets are some of the most peaceful, enlightened, and wealthy states in the world.

  • and absurdly high taxes

  • Quality of life is more important than unlimited freedom to make purchasing choices in general, I think.

  • yeah in Utopia, but in a truly free society freedom to succced & fail drives the human spirt to its best , instead of placid mediorcty where the govement runs all and eveyrone is about the same

  • don't disregard those peacefull,atheists scocieties like the soviet union,cambodia, china, north korea,and my all-time favorie,nazi germany.wonderful, peaceloving, godless narcissists!

  • Hitler may or may not have been an atheist. He invokes God from time to time. And his problem certainly wasn't an excess of critical thinking.

    Anyway, as soon as you start counting countries you like or dislike, you're admitting your foundation for recognizing good and bad social systems isn't god at all. By the way, we aren't the happiest; Vanautu is. Nor are we the most free. Evidently, Estonia is. We are about 19th.

  • i'm going to read this post over and over again.

    o O -

  • seriously,a religion is is the reason why this country was founded, thus the reason why you live in a country with the highest standard of living and freedom.

  • I thought this country was founded because a colonial project by the English monarchy allowed some protestant denominations to run away from persecution by others, who later rebelled because the colonial merchant class couldn't swallow taxation without representation. The founding fathers were mostly deists. Do you know what the Jefferson Bible is? They emphatically did NOT found the country on religion-- instead they pioneered separation between church and state.

  • so, your denying that our constitution was influinced by christianity and doesnt invoke the bible?and im not the one who mentioned countries, i believe i used the term SOCIETIES nor did i say we were the happiest. please reread my post.

  • Exactly. I am denying that the Constitution invokes the Bible. It is not mentioned in Madison's notes on the convention or in the Federalist papers, either. They do mention 'providence' and 'the almighty' a few times, but on that basis, Rome or the French Revolution or any number of Greek philosophers could lay equal claim to 'influencing' the constitution.

    Society, country; either way, if religion were NECESSARY for good behavior, Scandanavia would be a hellhole. Why isn't it?

  • yes, im sure your quite right. you have finally ended the timeless argument between atheists and believers using the "scandinavia is not a hellhole theory".

  • I've ended it with you...

  • The Ten Comandments were around in various forms before christianity.

  • They were laws, and things people thought were bad before the worst storybook in history, the bible, rolled around.

  • damm, i love this song, i met my wife at the Rush intalian tour. they played it every night.

  • Awesome video, surely different than any other videoclip I ever saw

  • Geddy Lee = Bass GOD

  • Rush = Musical GODs. =D

  • cool vid

  • Holy animated trees, Batman!

    That's great! Who did the animation?

  • One of the only songs I enjoy from Snakes and Arrows, but maybe its because when I was browsing around on their website, it was always playing in the backround.

  • Wasn't Geddy using a fretless in this song? That bass doesn't sound fretless to me.

  • He does use a fretless, its a Jaco Pastorious signature model but he prolly just modified the shit outta his tone but When I saw them live on the tour u could definitley tell that it was fretless

  • i believe Geddy Lee uses a fretless model but it's modified. it has the tone from the Fender fretless bass but for Geddy it was made with frets... i believe it was said in an interview with Guitar world

  • The basses he used to record this and on tour are the Fender Jaco Pastorius artist models and are indeed fretless.

  • Brilliant, awesome song.

  • best trio since cream

  • screw everyone neil alex & geddy are the power trio

  • The ending makes such a powerful statement.

  • this isnt a official music video so all theses comments about their views are useless

  • Yeah...take very little to know that..carry on...

  • one of there best

  • Close your eyes. Far as I can tell, this instrumental has no political or religious opinion.

  • I don't understand why musicians shouldn't act like human individuals instead of being like clowns who are here only to entertain the idiots. Oh yeah, and there's no politics in this instrumental piece, right?

  • Oh yeah, sure, it's better to offend every person that believes there is a God by making a video like this. Rush is awesome.  Don't get me wrong. I understand that they have the right but it doesn't mean that they should have to convey a message that would offend a lot of people including me.

  • Rush write intelligent songs for intelligent listeners. Unfortunately the religious types just don't have the grey matter to understand. Check out songs like Jacobs Ladder and 2112 and be enlightened.

  • Or go read the Hobbit or Lord of the Rings which is about the same level of intelligence for those smart 8th graders out there

  • Lord of the Rings is a story which is not meant to be taken seriously, if you use it as a kind of escapism then you totally lose its meaning. It's an epic it doesn't need to be "intelligent", it needs to resourceful, and it is in fact as intelligent AND resourceful as many of the great epics and mythologies. If you can read Christian Mythology for its stories, then you can as well read Tolkien, what you should NOT do is believing that they're anything more than products of people's imaginations

  • they have every right to be preachy,, you contradict yourself by telling them to use their 1st amendment rights and in the same breath tell them not to.. they as artists can intertwine whatever they want and if you really liked the music you wouldnt let it bother you

  • I love their music. It's the message I don't like. Duh.

  • Stop whining and just listen to this piece.

  • How recounting history is blasphemy now? How Rush is voicing religious opinion as long as they ONLY document the historical evolution of a meme.

    I'm blasphemous by calling religion a meme (an idea that can only live in one's mind), NOT Rush...

  • woow this is a neat video... is this the actual video or fan made??? and does anyone know if there is a place to look at those "trees" in still pictures????

  • Its a real video.

  • go chuck d.!!!!

  • jus tryin to get into rush can anyone recommend a couple of songs or even an album

  • Oh yeah, I'm a relatively new Rush fan (about half a year), and what got me into Rush was the Moving Pictures album. Check that out.

  • I have been hanging with them since 1974. If you want their more complex compos then get the newest albums Snakes&Arrows and Vapor Trails. I think these two are their best yet. However, all their works are simply excellent. Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves and Power Windows are also some powerful albums. I'm certain you will find something you like on just about any of their albums.

  • id recommend the moving pictures album, a farewell to kings album, permanent waves album, snakes and arrows, or hemispheres album.

  • In my opinion, their best songs are: YYZ, passage to banghok, Tom Sawyer, Subdivisions, 2112, and Working man.

  • check out grace under pressure, hold your fire, and snakes & arrows

  • if u r a rush fan visit my page

  • after effects

  • i go to my friends house just to hear him play the bass part... hes good at it

  • Does no one understand the video?

    It's not about the trees themselves. It's about what they mean. They're all manifestations of narcissism. The tree analogy just helps to say it's malignant like a tumor... or anything that grows.

  • the bass in this song is amazingly audible

  • type of stevie wonder song

  • RUSH is superb.

  • Hm...I wonder how they'd show Sikhism? The Islam and Hindu trees intertwining, maybe?

  • I never really liked rush. But this track is cool.

  • Geddy at his finest

  • This song wasn't on Hemispheres

  • snakes and arrows

  • if was a joke

    I was saying Geddy at his finest was on the Hemispheres album

  • maybe i am just a minority or insane, but this song feels a bit angryer than other Rush tracks i know of.

  • god i wish i could play bass like geddy!

  • so do i! i can play animate and the pass but that's about it lol

  • The Grimys prove once again they are a joke.

    Of the others besides Rush who were nominated, three were worthy nominees who actually know how to play instruments, and it wouldn't bother me if they won (e.g. Steve Vai).

    Instead, they give it to Bruce Springsteen, a guy who can't even sing, let alone play a guitar, and never mind perform an instrumental.

    The Grimy Awards are a collosal fucking joke, run by coke-snorting, back slapping, payola-taking slime.

  • and they are coming back to nola after a damn decade 2008, to reestablish the trees that we had let grown take a look down take a look down, to pedal stick your feet on.

  • lol

  • Congrats on the Grammy Nomination! RUSH has been nominated for a 2008 Grammy in the Best Rock Instrumental Performance category for "Malignant Narcissism." Congrats to the boys!

  • omg! u wrote something people can understand, good 4 u.

  • the trouble with the trees - didnt even see it comin - fantastic video - great tie-in to Peart's whole-world philosophies and The Trees. hahah. a canadian lumberjack.

    I sleep all night and i work all day...

  • Is this official?

  • Cool video! Wow. Very good example on why religion always leads to disagreement, violence, and general stupidity!

  • Rush has always had this suspicion of organized religion going back to Free Will. Interesting video, thanks for posting.

  • That even applies to 2112. Collectivism isn't just a crime of communism, obedience is a demand made by the religious.

  • love it! good job

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