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This song is based off Samuel Coleridge's poem about Xanadu. A mythical paradise where, as long as you are there, you are immortal. The song starts out journeying to find Xanadu. Then, he finds it and enjoys immortality in paradise. Then, he realizes it's a prison as all that he knows is dead and gone as he passed thousands of years there. This is definitely one of their more progressive tracks. It also is my personal favorite by the band.
This. Anyone with your avatar surely knows the story behind this song. And....forgive me for calling you shirley.
Mine too. It's so mind blowing, I never get enough of this song.
love farewell to kings album
Kublai Khan
-by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
And ’mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw;
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ’twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
You are the man on Rush.Makes me want hear Working man.
A Prog Rock masterpiece. So much sound from just three musicians and this is live proof that their doing it without multi-tracks, dubs, etc. Was lucky enough to see them live in 1980 on my 16th birthday lol. RIP professor 🙏
Took my son to see them for his 16th birthday. It was a first for both of us. His 1st concert. And my 1st time seeing Rush live. It was a great experience for both of us.
Saw them on Moving Pictures in 82. I was 17.
Ha, we're the same age, unfortunately I didn't get to see them till the final tour in 2015. I am betting I paid a loooooot more for my ticket than you did, lol.
Saw them twice in the 70s in a small town arena. First warming up for Kiss and then headlining with I forget.
Ya really a master musician on the drums
Not only was Neil Peart one, if not the best rock percussionist of all time, he also wrote most of their lyrics.
You do not have to like this. But, those 3 guys got on stage and performed this live! It is truly a marvel.
This right here. There are bands I don’t necessarily dig that much, but I always acknowledge their talent & songwriting abilities.
40,000 fans agreed with you
Every song is just noise if you don't like it ! Complex songs take some getting used to' and then when you start to get to know them, they seem to make sense and flow a little more, whereas simple songs bore you to death after a few listens. As only a 3 person band, they try to look for ways to fill out the sound, those growly low notes were being played with their feet on taurus pedals, and the reason for the double neck guitars was... Alex (guitarist) had a six string & a 12 string, just for different sounds, & Geddy( vocalist, bassplayer, keyboard player) had a bass on one neck, & 6 string guitar, because he played rythm guitar near the end of the song, while Alex was doing the guitar solo, and was playing the low notes with his foot pedals. Anyways it's alot to take in" and i can understand why lots of people don,t like it, but I sure do !
It's just a detail, but the guitar under the bass of Geddy Lee is a 12 string Rickenbaker, whose headstock looks like a 6 string.
I agree with this statement. A lot of Rush songs get better with multiple listens. There’s a lot going on and it’s helps if you know where they’re going a little. It’s what makes it so you can enjoy the song for so many years. Once you get familiar with it you start noticing the different parts of the song. Give it another few listens. Think you’ll enjoy it more.
@@alainrobillard4300 Oh , sorry, well I get the feeling they don't read my comments anyways
I love hearing reactors say “So old school” or that’s so retro. As a Rush fan from the late 70’s we said that’s so groundbreaking. They were ahead of their time.
LoL ya when you heard rush back in the beginning the reaction can be funny
When I hear someone say "that's so old school," I hear "that's so much better than the music I have been listening to."
As much as I love Rush and discovered them when Xanadu was released in 1977, at this point in their career they were anything but "ahead of their time".They were following and were influenced by all the great prog rock giants whose glory days were winding down by 1977. Rush really forged their own style a few years later on Permanent Waves.
Also known as playing actual music with instruments, not a programmed track🗝
@@TheRebuilt1 Twenty-year old:" But why are they playing so many notes ? I mean... why ?"
Me:" Jesus..."
Xanadu is an acquired taste…, but it’s a musical masterpiece. Neil’s drumming is iconic.
If Xanadu is an acquired taste, then ALL progressive rock is an acquired taste. Song makes perfect sense to me, and it did from the beginning. I find nothing strange about it. Then again, I was brought up on that stuff, so I was luckier than today's kids.
@@frankpentangeli7945 I like it too, but it’s not something that gets you rocking out the gate so to speak.
Most people, who are used to 3 min radio songs, can’t handle long intros like that.
One of my favorite songs by them.. I'm a drummer so to lose Neil broke my heart. He's a beast and artist on this song..I listened to this song a thousand times when I first heard he died... RIP Neil Peart
@@terrys8690 I agree to a point. It is definitely not your usual 'radio play' music. I can't tell you how many reactors I have heard say "Are there any lyrics? We are already xx minutes into the song and they haven't said anything yet!" For me appreciation of music was ingrained in my being. Rush had the best of both worlds, lyrics and music. I grew up with Rush as well. I was in Junior High when I first heard their first album and my life was forever changed by them. I knew many people that listened to them and were transfixed. There are people who react to them that are instantly hooked like we were back them, so it still has the same power it had over people back then
The song is about a man searching for immortality by looking for Xanadu. When he finds it, he gets more than he bargained for and decides it isn't for him.
I am a Rush fan for 40 years....they have an insane catalog of great music, but I will request this gem..."Natural Science"
I second it!
@@cz2464 such a hard thing to say? I totally get it! Lol but it's such a masterpiece!
@@cz2464 there you go with your excellent taste again lol 🤘😎🤘🍻
My understanding of the song is the first verse is the search for Xanadu (Paradise), the second is finding it and sampling its treasures, and the final part is about the consequences - moral of the story is be careful what you wish for.
This song is the one that got me into Rush. Amazing, brilliant, what more can be said.
For sure!! Some people say it’s the fountain of youth, which would make sense, “ a thousand yrs have come and gone, but time has passed me by”, then “waiting for the world to end…” But I agree 100% that Neil intended the “careful what you wish for” part! That’s so Neil.. lol! Be well, my friend! God Bless.. from Texas!! Merry Christmas 🎁🎄
Yeah, I mean, he has the lyrics right there. How can he not get it. He went to college, did he never take a literature course, or study English at all?
Well these Canadian boys are genius at their craft. They never wrote a simple song and for 3 people to produce the amount of sound they do is very rarely equaled. Boston did a great job with 4 guys, but not quite the scale of sound.
3 musicians, live......THREE. No computers, No autotune, Some of the best live music ever.....
agreed, there will never be another more talented band than Rush.
Cliff notes:
Someone is searching for Xanadu to find immortality, he finds it, now he can't escape, 1000 years have come and gone, searching for the light, praying for the night, stars stuck in the sky, Neverending. Be careful what you wish for.
One if my favorite RUSH tunes; I've heard it over a thousand times and still love it. Best 3 man live performance ever.
I'm kinda disappointed Brad didn't seem to appreciate the musicianship and talent . To do what you just seen them do live in 1980. Was feat of musical genius. You won't find any three musicians in rock that could match their talent. And pull it off live and make it sound better than the album actually. .
It just seems like musically, he's just a meat and potatoes kind of guy. No extra flavor. Anything unusual he just overthinks it. Seems like a super cool dude, but dang, he always seems confused by the songs I see them reacting too. Lex gets it on the other hand most of the time. She's up for anything so it's easier for her to let the song take over without overanalyzing.
@@salvador75 yeah Lex is a trip. She can get out a little in left field sometime. This is a lex quote. " it sounds like music for murderers at truckstops." LOL ! She is definitely one of a kind. Brad got lucky when he found her.
They're not used to these high levels of creativity.
yeah but you can't just dive into, or talk somebody into Rush... they're one of those bands that sometimes takes many listens to their library.
I find the studio version is so much better. Although I get the sense that the live performance was superb, the recording of it was crap.
The most insane about this video is that for all the multitasking you see them do, there's still more going on that's not shown! 😲
The first verse is the search for the eternal city of Xanadu.
The second they've found it.
Third is that they realize that they are trapped for eternity in Xanadu.
It's based on a Samuel Coleridge poem called Kubla Kahn.
Beat me to it 🙂
Bit of a metaphor for being a rock star too, which they addressed quite often. Everyone wants to be one, but once you are one, you realize that it has downsides just like any path through life, and the riches of paradise do nothing to salve that.
Samuel Coleridge was addicted to a drug much like today's Acid. In describing his poem he said he had dreamt it and wrote down as much as he could remember, so it is merely a fragment...it is not complete. It could be that Mr. Coleridge might have been on a “trip” when he wrote this poem, and that is why it remained unfinished and a fragment?
An excellent summary.
The other part of it is that the music becomes deliberately discordant and the timing slightly off as the song progresses. An indication of how something sweet can turn unpleasant as it continues on.
@@s.mcpherson6354 nice take on it ....kind of like Limelight 🙏
The “noise” is a synthesizer. Being played by the singer/bassist with his feet. And it’s not just a drone. There’s a melody there that comes and goes. Plenty of moments where it’s not there at all.
I think he needs to get his hearing checked.
Dude 😎 he killed me with the noise 🤣 coment 😂
The synth is a "mini-moog" (as heard in Tom Sawyer) played with hands. The Taurus pedal is what Geddy plays with his feet. Two separate synths.
@@paulgillespie542 I assumed he meant the drone sounds going on while Geddy was playing bass, which would be the pedals, which are a synthesizer.
Right on. The space is filled with the synth. It's perfect and is not a constant
This performance is simply perfect. I’ve seen it dozens and dozens of times, and never fail to be amazed.
This is quite possibly one of the 5 greatest "Live" performances of all-time. And that's coming from a 62 year-old who has heard his share of music.
You must understand that Rush is music for "music geeks" as I am a musician, I am a music geek and Rush has been "instrumental" in helping me mold my talents, perceptions and music knowledge.
Rush is orchestrated, syncopated, precise, accurate and most of all intelligent.
The body of lyrics was written by Neil Peart (a drummer and percussionists).
Yeah buddy!
Not a musician here , but been enthralled by RUSH for 40 plus years. And yes I hear the intricacies of their compositional mastery.
Brad you are so ensconced with the lyrics that you’re missing out the expert musicianship of these three men. They’re extravagant in every way. And you totally missed out on a musical excursion
Brad can't HEAR or FEEL music. He reads words and interprets them. That's what he does.
WHAT ALWAYS HAS AMAZED ME FOR THE LAST ALMOST 40 years of my listening to RUSH is How Much Sound Comes From Just 3 Band Members ( ACTUAL SOUND and not a repeating recoding sample like you hear in all of RAP music ).
That’s a strange comparison. Rap isn’t so much about instrumentation but neither is a lot of mainstream pop music. Hip hop was about using cool samples on a simple beat and coming up with creative lyrics and hooks. A very different approach than most genres
This is one of the greatest live performances of all time imo...
With you completely. Astonishing from three Kings.
Agreed 🙂
I'm pretty sure I know: this song is about a man who is searching for immortality that can be found in Xanadu. He believes that once he becomes immortal, he will be in paradise. But it turns out that immortality is a prison in which he's trapped and goes mad.
You sir nailed this!! 🥇🏆
My favorite live performance ever as an artistic statement. Playing, content and the ability to pull this off live with that sound quality is 2nd to none. These guys a next level.
I'm not sure there has ever been any other three musicians who could put out so much music, man for man, in real time as these three could. You are watching a live demonstration of consummate musicianship without overdubs and multitracks; just three performers pouring it all out. Rest in peace, Neil.
More Rush please!!! This is an absolute masterpiece (as is a LOT of their work)... I could make so many suggestions but you really can't go wrong with anything from the 70's, early 80's in my opinion.... RIP Professor. Neil Peart (pronounced like EAR with a P in the front and T at the end) is the drummer.. a lyrical genius.. wrote a large portion of Rush's music.. Geddy Lee is the bassist, keyboards, lead singer, Alex Lifeson is the lead guitarist. 3 people create this fantastic sound! I'm so fortunate to have seen them live several times in the 70's... nothing like them.. the best 3 piece band to ever exist... I could be partial.. but nah...
Except for the pre-Peart period, then Rivendell, I think I'm Going... well... I'll take the last 75% of their career that you just skipped past, over the over-played, over-hyped, melodramatic "Prog" phase of their earlier career, any day of the week.
@@surfeit5910 to each his own.
Music is subjective. So I always feel that each opinion is correct.
This song was based on an incomplete short story. Basically it's someone looking for a mythical place that would offer immortality. He finds it, but eventually regrets being immortal "A thousand years have come and gone, though time has passed me by..."
"Waiting for the world to end, weary of the night. Praying for the light, prison of the lost Xanadu.."
So in short. Careful what you wish for, because you might just get it.
Always enjoy your reactions.
You guys take care ✌
Thank you so much for checking out the live version! What 3 people could do live is something you won't see repeated soon.
One of the best in the Rush catalog, A definite Prog masterpiece
The person in the song searched for and found Xanadu, a mythical place where you become immortal. He found out that being immortal was more of curse than a blessing.
I'm glad I'm someone who believes there is just the right amount of "stuff" going on
To me Xanadu will always be a defining song for Rush. Exit Stage Left was the lp that solidified my being a fan!
This is when a young RUSH wrote epic masterpieces!!!! They were all expanding with new instruments and as musicians!!!
Rush was totally killer live. Losing drummer Neill Peart to cancer 2 years ago was a sad day. He was a brilliant drummer and lyricist. You could be transported during their shows.
A masterpiece is what Xanadu is! Prog rockers are better musicians than your average rockers.
Just to clear things up ….. Geddy Lee plays a standard MOOG synthesizer, electric piano, bass, guitar (thus the double neck), he sings all vocals & a series of foot pedals, mostly Taurus pedals, that project synth accents whilst playing bass. RUSH is one of those bands that you either love or hate. What you call a “thinking person’s” band. Or a musicians band.
The "constant noise" is a Moog Taurus pedal that Geddy (Vocals/Bass/Keyboards/Pedals) used when he was playing keyboard parts. Shame you couldn't get into it, this is one of the foundational songs of progressive metal.
3 man band from Canada but we won't hold that against them for thier history's ambassadors to EPIC music. The best drummer in the world with 127 pc drum kit and Neal Pert uses every one of them!! RIP NP!! ALEX Lifeson the most underrated guitar player in the world. And Getty Lee with screaming vocals and phenomenal bass playing, no one matches this band! We saw them Rio,,, still sends shivers!
"Searching for Paradise while you're in Paradise"... Thats a brilliant analogy.
Too complex for Brad - listen to "THE TREES" Brad - lovely mellow short song with a double message that you are sure to understand!
Geddy Lee plays bass, 6-string guitar, keyboards, pedals, and sings on this track... he's an absolute animal musically. As far as the story goes, Rush was really into telling stories from mythology in their songs, they have several besides this one like 2112, the Trees, and By-tor and the Snow Dog. I'm not sure you need to look to deep for symbolism or metaphors, it was a story about a man searching for and finding eternal life and being driven mad by it.
Geddy's double neck is a bass and a 12 string with six tuning keys facing back.
3 musicians and a wall of beautiful music 🤘😁🤘
RIP Professor
🤘❤🇨🇦
I played this album (Exit Stage Left) for 2 days straight while on shrooms back in the early 80s. What a blast!!!
Always happy when I hear the word 'shrooms' hahahaha
Lol I was a teen in the 80’s I get it….class of ‘88 …be well
It’s not overly difficult. It’s based on a very old poem. Guy seeks paradise to live forever. Guy finds it and ends up trapped and regrets it. Lol.
Definitely one of their more prog songs. But it’s a masterpiece. If you like the more mainstream stuff then anything from permanent waves and on….80’s through their last album in the 2000’s will be more your liking. It’s still incredibly technical musically speaking but more accessible.
Exactly! Brad, this should be right up your alley as the story is laid right out! Almost painful to hear the -maybe it’s this, or maybe it’s that- when you know this masterpiece my heart. Please give it another listen, Rush is rarely a one-listen band, much too much going on, but that’s the beauty!
And the story is.............They searched for paradise, found it, and become a prisoner of it. , but managed to escape never to return,. Great lyrically and musicianship is outstanding. Dig it.
Can you believe, three guys making all that beautiful music!!🎵🎵🎵🎵
So much talent!!!!!
You can only play music like this at the COOLEST of parties.
In this episode of Brad & Lex, the whimsical nature of the chords take hold before the storm of drums give there heads a tap. The couple vocalize their opinions on leaving the planet and even hypothetically, Brad aint havin it. He politely objects and rejects any story this band is telling him as Lex tries to sail a virtual balloon in which Brad can ride but even Lex's "fantasy bop" doesn't move Brad's unenthusiastic signature "side to side sway".
This one might take a few more times hearing to fully appreciate, a lot to take in in one listen. A masterpiece.
It is a masterpiece but i seriously doubt that they're going to give it another listen. They react to a lot of different songs. I like a lot of Rush songs, but i only listen to them once in awhile.
I got to see them play this live back in the '80s. EPIC.
Keep in mind that this was part of a live show. Three people did all that. Just three. No overdubbing, no backing tracks, no Autotune.
Rush will always be remembered, in their own words, as "the world's smallest orchestra".
RIP Professor.
“Xanadu” is from the poem “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
This song came out in 1977. Its a great smoke a few bowls or a few bourbons in your best comfy chair or just laying in your bed kinda song. This song will chill you out and take you places.
This was when they just started filling the sound space with more than just their main 3 guitar, bass, and drums. The recorded version is much crisper. Wow trying to create that and many other songs LIVE without the new tech we now know, was mindnumbing back then. Seeing them live back then, 79 into the early eighties (this is like 81ish), it was "How the f are they making all those sounds simultaneously?". Later live versions are crisper too. This old fart wants to drink some honeydew 2😜
I actually much prefer this live version to the recorded version. I mean both are fantastic, but this version has so much energy and chemistry going on.
This performance is freaking incredible!
Great choice. Such a masterpiece of prog magic !!! Thank you
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ’twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The level of musicianship coming from Geddy Lee between playing bass, keyboards and singing, is off the chart’s!!
Watching Geddy and Alex bumping into each other reminds me that they were grade school friends. I'm not sure if the meeting and friendship- which developed into an amazing symbiotic talent set- was a happy accident, or if they pushed each other to greatness. Probably a mix of the two.
My favorite part of video was them bumping into each other and of course the great song 👌
You guys are a wonderful duo and compliment each other well. I've been binging a bit over the past week. I love Lex's energy and how she feels the music. Brad, you're a great thinker and have given a new perspective on a few of your analysi of some favorite songs of mine. I'm so happy to have discovered you two. More Rush please...😉🍻cheers
Agreed love your comment😀
I've been a RUSH fan for 42 years. IF I had to boil their collection down to one song that is my favorite, it would be XANADU.
This is one of their pieces you learn to appreciate for the exceptional musicianship of the live performance because trying to pull off something this complex, even for the best of musicians, is an absolute challenge and they do it to perfection. Glad you gave it a listen.
My favorite concert footage. Incredible performance.
This is a masterpiece. What's it about? To cut a long story short, be careful what you wish for. Paradise isn't all it's cracked up to be.
The greatest progressive rock trio of all time.. simple as that
I first ran across Rush - Caress of Steel - when I was about 14. On an 8 track. I played it so much I had to repair it, I don't know how many times. I've been hardcore Rush ever since. Absolutely the best 3-man band that has ever been and ever will be, and also one of the greatest bands to ever play.
Lex is cool, Brad is a fool, you just witnessed one of the greatest live performances in rock history but you don’t get it, 3 masters musicians at the top of their game, Rush is awesome and will always be my favourite band…
A three man Symphonic Orchestra !!!
RIP Professor… 💔 😢
Yes! More Rush, im so happy! One day I hope you two might do my favorite song by them and of all time, their song Bravado. It has more meaning to me than I could ever express and the meaning grows as I've gotten older. Now I always think about my parents and how much I miss them, I was lucky to have such amazing parents. Keep up the awesome videos guys, thank you very much!
The High Priests of Progressive Rock. Forever In My Heart.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🤟🤟🤟🤟
Lex: this is the greatest thing ever.
Brad: this some bullshit.
every single time
He's only concerned about subs & donations. She's the real show.
Primus is on tour now and covering this entire Rush album during their second set. They definitely do "XANADU" justice with Les' slap bass and a great sound. In '22 they have a bunch of dates in Canada and I bet Geddy Lee will join them on stage again at one of the shows.
Just 3 musical genius' working their craft to create epic art.... Enjoy and don't over think.... It's art.... It's whatever your mind might take you... Peace...
This is the ultimate Rush song it is by far one of the best songs they have ever written an absolute masterpiece.
Xanadu is a poem that the made a song about. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was supposedly high on opium when he wrote it.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
And ’mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw;
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ’twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
nice one
The lyrics were taken from a poem and probably come across as silly but they were only 23 when they wrote this song. Musically though its very amazing and their performance of it here when they were in their late 20s is pretty incredible for still being so young. Superior band.
Rush was inspired by prog bands like Yes, early Genesis, & Uriah Heep... which resulted in 'Xanadu' in 1977 (This concert was in 1981) which was full of musical twists & turns... Neil Peart wrote fantasy lyrics from books he had read... That approach was somewhat disjointed in 1975 when their 'Caress of steel' album tanked, but in 1977, the album 'Farewell to kings' delivered beautifully.
Geddy Lee plays bass and keyboards... as well as the lead vocals 😁
no overdubs. no multi tracks. just insane musicianship. this is not NOISE! i love to watch you both your great. but you must understand what you are watching and hearing. this band has more talent then 95 percent of the bands you review. the are hall of fame icons. please listen to more of their music. great show you have on u tube. keep it going.
I love bands that hurry
I had the privilege of RUSH performing this song live on several occasions! Always blew me away! Seeing this band live was a experience....
Love you guys did this one...I broke out into laughter when Brad said...I'm so lost...I'm sure it was quite overwhelming for 'Simple Man'.. Love you guys...more Rush please...Red Barchetta...with lyrics
This is my favorite Rush song..epic. I could see it didn’t hit y’all in the sweet spot..give the studio version a spin and see if it resonates.
This song really shows just how great Neil was. He wasn't just a drummer but a full on percussionist! So many different pieces to his kit!
One of the great joys of my life was seeing them live… just once, their 2nd last show (R40, Irvine, CA). The best live concert, hard to eclipse.
A work of art...what a masterpiece!
Geddy Lee playing bass guitar, bass pedals with his feet, keyboards and singing.
Three of the most talented musicians rock has seen.
3 people playing live, with no net here. Amazing.
Lex is a genius; a very charming genius.
Best band ever!
The Three Guys Orchestra
This is definitely my favorite rush song. Three guys take you on a journey.
Introduced to Rush when Moving pictures arrived, me and my band covered half a dozen Rush songs but songs like Xanadu are mind blowing and to see them reproduce the sound live is a testimony of their brilliance. Never get tired of hearing their inventiveness and incites into the human condition. Love RUSH
Rush is the greatest band that ever existed. Scientific fact. No contest.
Bottom line is, you just witnessed 3 of the finest musicians in the world!
Masters of their craft!
Three amazing musicians playing as if there are 10 on stage …RUSH is a pantheon top tier band…
There is no other band that has pumped out that intense of a musical wall with only three guys than RUSH. They are the Kings of that!
One of the best progressive tracks by Rush. It is a masterpiece. The three members of Rush are the best musicians for the instrument they play, bass guitar, guitar and drums. It might take multiple listens to fully appreciate the musicianship in the track.
Now you're into the legendary Rush I grew up with.
I saw this live on this tour…and yes it was as mind blowing as this video!
Neil Ellwood Peart September 12, 1952 - January 7, 2020 #neilpeart #thegreatestdummerever #theprofessor #bubba
These kids are the first to completely go past the musicianship and listen to the music overall and really focus on the lyrics. To have someone experience what I have for 45 years with fresh eyes is really cool.
I love your innocence...you guys are so beautiful together in your reactions...
Side one of 2112 would greatly help the understanding of what Rush is about.
Geddy Lee played bass guitar, keyboards Bass Moog pedals his feet, and keyboard while singing. THANK YOU!!! I spent a lot of hours playing that tune on Bass Guitar & Keyboards. And don't forget that was 1977. Rush wrote a lot of mythical transporting tunes during the 70's. Reading lord of the rings was a really big fad during that period. They did a few tunes about it as well. You guys have 40 years worth of Rush tunes to sift thru. :)