Saga - Don't Be Late (Chapter Two)

[hagakure6410]

WHOA! Blast from my freaking past! I think I first heard this song in MTV, because the video is so strongly associated with the memory. I always loved the cascading keyboard part, the synchronized instrument parts and the stop time and that guitar note at 1:00 in. I remember trying to find all the "chapters" across the various albums to try to piece the story together. My favorite vocal part was always the "they don't know, they don't know how far we've had to go"...

[tak178]

@tjrtherocksponge I would have to say that was the first time I heard of them too...this song in fact? Life has incredible symmetry...we may have heard this at the same time?!!!

I love this song...Saga is indeed unappreciated.

[TheRedAdol]

I hope I'm not late to say this song is amazing =)

P.S: inb4 3 dudes were too late to press the like button ;P

[irigormo]

I had all their early records I saved to buy when I was a kid. Lost them many years ago but now getting them all on cd. This song on MTV I always waited for...only song I tried to air-keyboard to at the end while jumping off the sofa.

[tishapossimus]

great classic, brings me back to when i was a kid! keep rockin'

[dje2671]

I remember listening to "Worlds Apart" in the early 80s and loving this band. Great stuff for any prog fan

[1btdt]

Connie, I remember the love..

[pinahl]

Yeah, the younger gen and most folks in the US missed out on Saga... They were GIGANTIC in the rest of the world... Listening on vinyl STILL gives me goosebumps...

[Zuloff]

I liked this band from the first time I heard On The Loose in late 1982. When I caught this video on MTV in mid 1983 I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I became the knight of the questing album. Silent Knight was not released in the US. I finally found it along with SAGA and Images at Twilight on LP at a rare and import shop in early 1984. I still have the Maze records LPs.

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

I'll bet many people probably listen to the song's keyboard coda at 4:05 just like they would listen to Eric Clapton's "Layla" and its piano coda, as well as Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" and its outro jam.

[mikedo6]

So.......I had never heard of Saga but I saw this album in the record store when it first came out. For nearly a year I didn't buy it but then I broke down and snatched it up! I admit I only bought it because I loved the cover but I ended up loving it. The only other album I ever bought because of the cover was Point of Know Return by Kansas...but I had HEARD of Kansas!

[Kai8562]

This song is 30 Years old... I love it!

[elhombre18]

Great song!

[PresidentGackt]

jesus christ this band is out of this world

[Eznirt007]

RESPECT.Masterpiece in music.Above and Beyond taste.RIP Michael.I bought CD in 1986 "IN TRANSIT" and is one of my icons.Era for me.Used as test CD many times for our High-End speaker brand.Enjoy "Brief case" on your subwoofers!

Greetz Amsterdam.

[ToujoursLAmour]

Too good. How are these guys not huge?

[pinkfloydinspace]

Some of the best music is the music you have not heard yet. A few years ago I started to listen to early Genesis and have been a progressive rock freak ever since. I was amazed when I first head this song and went out and bought this album. Being a huge fan of Rush and Triumph for many years I finally discovered Saga. They are right there with those two bands.

[XBLincrement]

Oh man what memories... Thank you!

[ckluvsdg4eva]

this song is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

[rubicon1983]

Saga is.......incredible

[subesta]

Estuvieron en Guaynabo Puerto Rico en concierto en el 1980 o 1981. Inolvidable noche. Fue un derroche de talento , buena musica, sonido y sistema de luces. Como en los ochenta, se compartio como hermanos sin incidentes que lamentar.En aquel tiempo las taquillas costaban $18.00, no existia IVU. Yo tenia 17 o 18 de edad, un nenito.Hoy soy un viejito de 45 .Que buenos tiempos que no volveran.En ese tiempo yo estudiaba en el Colegio El Buen Pastor de la Carretera Alejandrino.

[mikol2007]

@subesta WAoo pense que estaba solo!! yo vivi el mismo tiempo que tu en estos dias!!! que recuerdos!! saludos desde Atlanta.boricua!!!

[JuliusGratekul]

@mikol2007 Wepa!

[BanditausBremen]

Masterpiece ..... one of the best. It's bad that Michael Sadler "Mr. SAGA" is no longer there. Saga is not the same band since. Without Michael this will never again .... , (A big "THANK YOU!!!!!!" to Saga, especially to Michael, you made great music, many, many years. Your musical life's work is fantastic.

[fireproh99]

They played my high school Uxbridge Ontario Canada.

Some one stole their jackets out of the change room. Cops were called. Good times lol

[alaskaman53]

love that song, allways played in the Yack a café at Genk Belgium, the band was in Vorst National Brussels , great music.

[Ypipable]

Rain for Venezuela

[Superchickenman159]

SAGA is Canadian.

[CrunkalicousFreaks]

love this song its one of the favorit band from me and my dad.

[gomezpiro]

"Great Band , great music"

[larrymo123]

They played my High School-Birchmount C.I.(Toronto).I was so mad i missed it 'cause i was working.

[Meehowski]

Awesome...........I love it.............

[theHERO292]

this band is unique and the music so intense and the voice so beautiful, and that makes this band so great

[Painbringer97]

Great song!

[Ollit90]

Thank you Michael !

[wilzyk]

To all you who like Saga.. You have taste. this band was under rated and missed by most of the people.. you are lucky to know this secret.. my favorite song is ...How Long....

[TheSamara89kitten]

@wilzyk They were HUGE in Germany in the 80s :-)

[rockabilly64]

So beautiful, love to play the synthesizer arpeggio on my Ibanez Jem77FP.

[blackjack4700]

Saga has some really cool album covers

[freeclimb64]

...oh my god - 20 years ago - but i know every verse...

What did we try to copy every riff, beat & solo...

16 years old, worked hard for 20 coins for ticket, hitch-hiking to the music-hall...

next day in our "studio", some cheap ibanez guitars, sonor drums, 150 watts PA, no contracts...a wonderful time!

[DarthTutor]

yeah ... I was in a similar adventure ... having a couple of street mates as roadies, playing the local club circuit again and again, doing an occaisional opening act .... the 100 bucks earned in a night went all on the drinks for the crew ...

[alpha8147]

Man, do I love those wildly imaginative album covers. Does any one knows the artist who did the covers?

[davidsanful]

Tony Roberts.

[alpha8147]

Thanks a lot.

[Gi1BrO]

Wich are the other chapters?

[GordonYYZ]

So far, I only have 3 chapters, but I'll keep looking.

[silentknightable]

simply marvellous!!!!!!

[ClassicTVMan81]

Could you please upload "Amnesia"?

[GordonYYZ]

I will soon.

[larrymo123]

Yeah,and maybe the first album?Cheers.

[anonymous1062]

It is quite good.

We are legion.

[ClassicTVMan81]

What does the last whispered line sung by Jim Crichton, "I'm sorry I go alone/This metal is a cold home," mean?

[loopster40]

I think he is talking about the fate he will receive by a bullet. Which metal meaning the bullet and when you die you always get cold. Cold home meaning your ending your death. I think the song is about a package deliver to a mob and he has so much time to get it there or her dies.

[PeterTheSAGAFan]

Not really but I like your interpretation.

All the Chapters (1-16) were created by J Crichton and Sadler as part of a sci fi story . "The story deals with an insectoid race of extraterrestrials who find Albert Einstein's brain and revive the great thinker in a new body to act as an intermediary between them and our own race, to try to save us from our own self-destruction. But even so, if their efforts fail, they are drawing together a mysterious back-up plan.

" now read the lyrics...

[aitraining]

The first (and probably only...) one on my block with this album 25 years ago! Thanks to MTV. Great stuff!

[PowerhousePaluch]

Thanks.