When I saw them play this live in front of my very eyes, it was one of, if not the most, mystifying, euphoric musical experience of my life. So much sound and so much power. I'm forever thankful to my dad who was willing to take me to see Rush as a teenager, not once but twice.
I saw them every tour from vapor trails to r40, courtesy of my father as well. A part of me died after they finally called it quits, we will never see anything like them ever again. I've been to so many big rock concerts since then but nothing will ever hit me like a Rush live show did, it was really like going to another dimension.
@@superslayerguy That's amazing. I always wish I could have seen the Snakes and Arrows Tour. My opinion is that tour contained some of their best captured performances as a band, if you go back and listen to the live album. Especially as a guitarist, I love Alex's sound on that tour. Listen to "Between the Wheels" on the live album, and it's thunderous and powerful. My dad took my sister to see that tour, but I stole the shirt she bought in the end. hahaha.
I think it's usually meant as underrated compared to the other two guys, who are regularly mentioned as being among the greatest on their respective instruments. Alex may not quite have those kind of chops but he is amazing at always being able to play what best serves the song.
It's difficult for a band to produce additional iconic songs after their young years, but Rush managed a few and that's a testament to their creativity.
They managed more than just a few. Every album has iconic songs and is unique in their own way. Rush will always be the best rock band to me. They're like their own genre.
Rush is what happens when 3 geniuses get together to create magic!! Arguably the greatest band of all time! The professors passing left a gigantic hole in the fabric of my world and I suspect many others too.
Saw Rush twice in the 70s/80s. Wish I could have seen them one more time before the passing of Neil. Most incredibly balanced band ever--their work got even better as they aged, unlike so many others.
Timothy Morris I am 49 TIm, I dont listen to so called modern crap. Music died around 1990, we had 10 x better stuff in the 80's than what this talentless trash produce. Music just gives a inner smile...its priceless :))) Carry on brother!
I got to see them in 97' at the Charlotte Colesium. I was in the nose bleed section catching a contact high. It was the best and loudest show ever. I can still feel Neil's kick drum thudding my chest. God Blessed us with the Proffesor, he soloing for Jesus now!
I´m shocked! One of the greatest Rush moments of all time, for sure. A killer groove, an astonishing guitar (what a solo!), a fantastic song, an incredible performance and a superb band.
One of the best performances of one of their best songs. Neil Peart plays with groove and style. His body had never been so fluid when playing the instrument. The peak.
There is something about this song that just moves me. Killer groove and chorus. Solo in the middle with lyrics is also great. Alex is so overlooked as a composer and guitarist it just makes me sick, the guy is just incredible. But I think all 3 of them did it as a whole package. So many great songs and albums.
Some buddies and I made the trek to Canada from Denver for the last 5 shows of this tour. I'm so happy there's record of this show! Brings back memories of a legendary road trip!
When I met Geddy in 2000 I asked him about this show and when it was coming out. He said "I'm trying to get Atlantic to move their ass!" I saw six shows on the 1996-97 (Rockford, Chicago, Milwaukee 1996 and Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago 1997) tour, great memories. Most of the Chicago 1997 show was on the Different Stages release. It was the best of the shows I saw for sure. The audience was into it. Maybe because the Bulls had won their 5th title the night before!
Cool , I almost had a close encounter with Geddy and Alex once in 1996 after a TFE show in the backstage area , I was like 10 feet away but they got in there cars and left . They waved good bye . It would have been real cool to meet them for a moment . Oh well .
Saw them in KC on the TFE tour first show I had been to. Drove up from Tulsa, no tickets. Show had been sold out. They had opened up a block for fans who were buying tickets at the venue got lucky enough to be 12 rows back Right Center... I didn't know all of their stuff then. Had just purchased Counterparts at a used cd store the week before and when they went into that break I was transcended into another dimension... Rush has been my favorite band since and there is no one even close to them
@@shaunsteele6926almost 30 years now. I saw them live in 97' in Charlotte NC. I can still feel Neils drum kick from the nose bleed section. Probably the loudest and clearest concert I ever attended. I've seen Aerosmith, The Who, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tesla, Page and Plant and many others but Rush was the best bar none.
How good is this? One a scale of 1 to awesome, it is off the scale. Oddly been a Rush fan since about 1978 and was lucky to see them on the Hemispheres tour but this album just passed me by but I had the Roll the Bones and Hold your fire albums rom that era. Now, the Counterparts album is my favourite head phones listen. There is not one bad track, the sound is superb and the production immaculate. I was lucky enough to see them twice towards the end of their touring days and loved the humour pre and during the interval, but nothing can beat that 1978 Birmingham Odeon concert. A band that had found it's feet and was building a huge fan base at a rapid rate of knots in the late 70's. They were not too shabby after that mind with Snakes and Arrows etc.
I was whistling quite loudly specially during 2112. I doubt you can hear much of the audience here but in the bootleg you can hear me since i wasn't too far away from the mics lol. After the show, i think it was one of the wives,..Alex's wife was giving out red guitar pics. Sadly Neil's daughter died a month later just east of Toronto.
It was his first solo album, which was around 2000, that's when it all began. He started doing that warble stuff. Then it continued into Vapor Trails and onward.
Jack Mehoff Yes no kidding too bad the last number of live shows on Blu-ray have a horrible mix you can barely hear Neil’s drums on the last few live released recordings. This one and snakes and arrows live Are the only real ones that sound halfway decent. Strange for a band known for its musicianship do you have horrible production values and taste.
Molson Amphiteatre is not a good place for a concert. The sight lines are limited outside the main stage area unless your at the back on a small hill. So it's good this concert has been released but why only half of it ?...for the R50 release?, maybe for the R70.
Great live version of one of my favorite Rush songs. Saw this tour in Houston from the 3rd row Geddy side with my fellow Rush buddies Robert, Bart, and Henry!
There's no completist package. This is a R40 box set released in 2014 with a lot of stuff. But there's the full version on YT. It's from the 1997 live at Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto. T4e tour.
I saw them on this tour, my first time. And then for a while it looked like it would be my last, or anyone else's. But then came Vapor Trails, a fair album at best but a spectacular tour. Saw them 9 more times at 4 different places up to 2012. Then on 1/7/20 you heard the worst. It was as if it was a precursor to what so far has been a real shitty decade.
This is where Neil probably fucked up his arms. The traditional grip he tried to use on the CD and tour uses an entirely different muscle group than the regular matched grip he's been use to playing. He played matched grip for about 20-25 years and he just hadn't mastered traditional grip by the TFE tour. I can tell there's more power to his fills and he plays more freely when he plays matched. His drums sound like pure shit but his cymbals sound good.
Watchmaker Fs SO one has to buy two R40 sets from 2 different stores to get the complete songs that were released? Whoa, that's too expensive just to get all of this. So 11 songs in all?
Do you really think that will happen? I've never heard of a bonus think being sold separately. I was at that concert, center stage behind the soundboard but separated by a walkway. It was very distracting with hordes of fans walking back and forth going to the toilet? I would not recommend anyone to an amphitheatre, poor site lines beyond the center stage area.
When I saw them play this live in front of my very eyes, it was one of, if not the most, mystifying, euphoric musical experience of my life. So much sound and so much power. I'm forever thankful to my dad who was willing to take me to see Rush as a teenager, not once but twice.
You are So lucky your Dad turned you onto Rush. I did for my son too. Just wish I would have taken him to see them LIVE as well.
I saw them every tour from vapor trails to r40, courtesy of my father as well. A part of me died after they finally called it quits, we will never see anything like them ever again. I've been to so many big rock concerts since then but nothing will ever hit me like a Rush live show did, it was really like going to another dimension.
@@superslayerguy That's amazing. I always wish I could have seen the Snakes and Arrows Tour. My opinion is that tour contained some of their best captured performances as a band, if you go back and listen to the live album. Especially as a guitarist, I love Alex's sound on that tour. Listen to "Between the Wheels" on the live album, and it's thunderous and powerful. My dad took my sister to see that tour, but I stole the shirt she bought in the end. hahaha.
You lucky sod....I got in to them too late to ever catch Animate live. But I was lucky enough to see them live twice in my life.
neil peart sounds so damn motherfucking badass in this
he's always badass
Funkmentality indeed
Well said I must say. However, he’s was always badass!
Dude, he sounded badass when he accidentally dropped his cutlery onthe kitchen floor.
@@jochenroeder669You think that was accidental? Every beat from every fork and knife, precisely placed as an event in time.
"A man must learn to gently dominate"
Fuckin' Rush, man. Good Lord, they were the greatest.
Freaking A that drum mix at the beginning was so good. Best band of all time IMO.
Alex is so underrated. He is one of my 5 guitar players ever.
Underrated by who? Millions of fans all over the globe with tens of millions of records sold?
I think it's usually meant as underrated compared to the other two guys, who are regularly mentioned as being among the greatest on their respective instruments. Alex may not quite have those kind of chops but he is amazing at always being able to play what best serves the song.
Alex could play in most any other band, very few guitarists could play in Rush.
I absolutely agree. Jimmy Page and maybe three others above him.
"Suddenly You were gone from all the lives you left your mark upon" Rest in peace Neil.....
It's difficult for a band to produce additional iconic songs after their young years, but Rush managed a few and that's a testament to their creativity.
They managed more than just a few. Every album has iconic songs and is unique in their own way. Rush will always be the best rock band to me. They're like their own genre.
Imagine if you will, being in your sixties and all be it painful playing the kit as Neil did. God bless you professor 🙏❤🙏
@@doomer604 yup way more then a few lmao...these guys are on a completely different level. One of the best to do it for a very long time
And there lives sound like the studio recordings too
RIP Neil! One of the great drum intros in rock history.
It’s probably my favorite part of the song, but the end really turns the emotional level to eleven
Neil was one the greatest persons to pick up a pair of sticks next to Karen Carpenter
Rush is what happens when 3 geniuses get together to create magic!!
Arguably the greatest band of all time!
The professors passing left a gigantic hole in the fabric of my world and I suspect many others too.
Saw Rush twice in the 70s/80s. Wish I could have seen them one more time before the passing of Neil.
Most incredibly balanced band ever--their work got even better as they aged, unlike so many others.
Animate is my favorite Rush song as of now... Just perfection.
+Timothy Morris my top three from these boys of wonder!
Sunil Patel
Now, I have 4 songs tied at #1: Animate, The Spirit of Radio, Red Barchetta, Between Sun & Moon.
Timothy Morris I am 49 TIm, I dont listen to so called modern crap. Music died around 1990, we had 10 x better stuff in the 80's than what this talentless trash produce. Music just gives a inner smile...its priceless :))) Carry on brother!
@@timothymorris3601 good selection. How about Witch Hunt?
Lifeson is so fkn good....
Yeeeeeeeeeeh!!!!!!!!! The invisible master. Grest great guitar player.
X40
agree
Neil Peart is definitely working overtime back there! And Lifeson's guitar just adds an amazing ethereal beauty to the song.
Wow! I just heard this for the first time, a new Rush song for me in 2022, and if I ever heard it before,I must have forgotten it.
That album Counterparts I like much better live; especially the later performances
The professor looks like an animal, love it
Thinking all last days about this great man... Can't believe that it happened. No words, only tears...
I got to see them in 97' at the Charlotte Colesium. I was in the nose bleed section catching a contact high. It was the best and loudest show ever. I can still feel Neil's kick drum thudding my chest. God Blessed us with the Proffesor, he soloing for Jesus now!
I´m shocked! One of the greatest Rush moments of all time, for sure. A killer groove, an astonishing guitar (what a solo!), a fantastic song, an incredible performance and a superb band.
Neil was clockwork, man... Awesome.
One of the best performances of one of their best songs. Neil Peart plays with groove and style. His body had never been so fluid when playing the instrument. The peak.
There is something about this song that just moves me. Killer groove and chorus. Solo in the middle with lyrics is also great. Alex is so overlooked as a composer and guitarist it just makes me sick, the guy is just incredible. But I think all 3 of them did it as a whole package. So many great songs and albums.
Some buddies and I made the trek to Canada from Denver for the last 5 shows of this tour. I'm so happy there's record of this show! Brings back memories of a legendary road trip!
Neil looking bada$$ with the sleeveless shirt and goatee . RIP PROFESSOR
I've been in love with this song for over 30 years!
Legendary performance. The boys are in top form here.
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Neil master enjoy your retirement...great human being :)
What RIDE was Neil playing??!!! I want it. It is sweet but serious.
When I met Geddy in 2000 I asked him about this show and when it was coming out. He said "I'm trying to get Atlantic to move their ass!" I saw six shows on the 1996-97 (Rockford, Chicago, Milwaukee 1996 and Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago 1997) tour, great memories. Most of the Chicago 1997 show was on the Different Stages release. It was the best of the shows I saw for sure. The audience was into it. Maybe because the Bulls had won their 5th title the night before!
Cool , I almost had a close encounter with Geddy and Alex once in 1996 after a TFE show in the backstage area , I was like 10 feet away but they got in there cars and left . They waved good bye . It would have been real cool to meet them for a moment . Oh well .
Saw them in KC on the TFE tour first show I had been to. Drove up from Tulsa, no tickets. Show had been sold out. They had opened up a block for fans who were buying tickets at the venue got lucky enough to be 12 rows back Right Center... I didn't know all of their stuff then. Had just purchased Counterparts at a used cd store the week before and when they went into that break I was transcended into another dimension... Rush has been my favorite band since and there is no one even close to them
I was at the Indianapolis show on that tour also! Back when the venue was still "Deer Creek".
Alex's solo...so fluid.
great version here top quality...
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The professor hero to many,Rush heroes to all!!
My favourite song of theirs for some reason.
Yeah, that is the right tempo for this very song! On R30 blu-ray it is far too slow to me...
I think this is a Top 5 Rush song all-time.
Rip Neil 🙏🏼
fabulous performance!
Counterparts is my favorite album by Rush. I think it's highly underrated but it's a great album...
One word AWESOME, guy thanks for the best 40 years keep it up. RUSH ROCKS
The Best Live show could could have ever seen.
I went to see them on this tour. It was awesome.
Rush is pure MAGIC 🙏❤🙏
My first ever live show was Rush on this tour at the Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, WI. June 13, 1997. They played 2112 in its entirety.
The sound and quality of this is epic
Great mix...I especially like the crack in Master Neils snare. R.I.P.
Thank you, Neil, for writing those beautiful lyrics! I wish you could have written far more.
Neil Ellwood Peart.
September 12, 1952 -- January 7, 2020
"A Farewell to a King"👑
Saw this tour at Jones beach, Long Island NY. AWESOME SHOW
Hard to believe this was almost 20 years ago. :-/
now it's been over 20 years lol
@@shaunsteele6926almost 30 years now. I saw them live in 97' in Charlotte NC. I can still feel Neils drum kick from the nose bleed section. Probably the loudest and clearest concert I ever attended. I've seen Aerosmith, The Who, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tesla, Page and Plant and many others but Rush was the best bar none.
How good is this? One a scale of 1 to awesome, it is off the scale.
Oddly been a Rush fan since about 1978 and was lucky to see them on the Hemispheres tour but this album just passed me by but I had the Roll the Bones and Hold your fire albums rom that era. Now, the Counterparts album is my favourite head phones listen. There is not one bad track, the sound is superb and the production immaculate. I was lucky enough to see them twice towards the end of their touring days and loved the humour pre and during the interval, but nothing can beat that 1978 Birmingham Odeon concert.
A band that had found it's feet and was building a huge fan base at a rapid rate of knots in the late 70's.
They were not too shabby after that mind with Snakes and Arrows etc.
I was whistling quite loudly specially during 2112. I doubt you can hear much of the audience here but in the bootleg you can hear me since i wasn't too far away from the mics lol. After the show, i think it was one of the wives,..Alex's wife was giving out red guitar pics. Sadly Neil's daughter died a month later just east of Toronto.
ThunderZandor I hate whilstling I would’ve been so mad lmao
Awesome Tune! Thank you J.S. for turning me on to RUSH!
Is it me or do they change to the correct tempo of the song after the breakdown? Right when they go back into the chorus... Polarize me
This was the last tour Geddy really sounded great and sharp as a singer
Snakes and Arrows was his downfall. His voice Time Machine was bad. R40 was ok though.
It was his first solo album, which was around 2000, that's when it all began. He started doing that warble stuff. Then it continued into Vapor Trails and onward.
You lot need to get your ears syringed!
Vapour Trails was his last high pitched album really. Also just listen to his vocals on Rush in Rio, some of his best in a while imo
What an absolute banger of a song
Such good times..................miss them incredibly..... :(
Rush, the only band that can actually slow their songs down for live performances !
Classic cut "Counterparts"🤘🍻
Man... the drum mix is spectacular on this video!
Jack Mehoff Yes no kidding too bad the last number of live shows on Blu-ray have a horrible mix you can barely hear Neil’s drums on the last few live released recordings. This one and snakes and arrows live Are the only real ones that sound halfway decent. Strange for a band known for its musicianship do you have horrible production values and taste.
Miss these dudes so much.
Neil rocking the traditional grip
Molson Amphiteatre is not a good place for a concert. The sight lines are limited outside the main stage area unless your at the back on a small hill. So it's good this concert has been released but why only half of it ?...for the R50 release?, maybe for the R70.
Canada rocks America again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Addictif... comme toutes les chansons devraient l'être... comme beaucoup de celles de Rush le sont.
Great Great Song, I love this one!!
Neil Peart's fill at 3.10 is my pick. Unbelievable.
Que solo de bateria.
Seriously who gave this a dislike? Smh
4:58 Triplets w accent on 1?
Authenticity and excellence
Alex is really really a joy to listen to...
Sounds punchy AF! McLovin' it!
OMG This is so cool!
04:20 You can clearly see that guitar has been on a massive journey
that boy by default is a bonafide hero
Love it!
Wow! Wow! Wow! I live this song!
Great live version of one of my favorite Rush songs. Saw this tour in Houston from the 3rd row Geddy side with my fellow Rush buddies Robert, Bart, and Henry!
I saw this tour 3rd row Geddy side alone with Pneumonia. I was 19.
Megan Crane Houston show?
Did Pneumonia have a good time? ;)
i've seen most of their live dvd releases, never seen this one, so we have to buy r40 completist package?
There's no completist package. This is a R40 box set released in 2014 with a lot of stuff. But there's the full version on YT. It's from the 1997 live at Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto. T4e tour.
@@watchmakerfs wow, that's great to know, will look for it. thanks
A bit slower. But still AWESOOME. one of the best drums intros EVEEEEEEER
The bestest ever!!!!!!
Love this song!
I loved the T4E show and the resulting live album Different Stages.
Love this..!
The man moves
Their best album after Signals(1982)
rush you rock! see you tomorrow @ nj & monday @ msg! yee-haw!
Great! Can't wait to LA and Vegas!
To have this sound quality palying live is quite something.
Grandes personas y para que decir lo Genios que cómo Músicos
Basse hypnotique sous guitare aérienne sur fond de batterie implacable.
Awesome
Is Neil working with some elbow problem here?!
Arthritis, I think.
Thank you for this :)
I saw them on this tour, my first time. And then for a while it looked like it would be my last, or anyone else's. But then came Vapor Trails, a fair album at best but a spectacular tour. Saw them 9 more times at 4 different places up to 2012. Then on 1/7/20 you heard the worst. It was as if it was a precursor to what so far has been a real shitty decade.
Goddess in my garden, sister in my soul!!! ROFL BB
Elevate....me!
This is where Neil probably fucked up his arms. The traditional grip he tried to use on the CD and tour uses an entirely different muscle group than the regular matched grip he's been use to playing. He played matched grip for about 20-25 years and he just hadn't mastered traditional grip by the TFE tour. I can tell there's more power to his fills and he plays more freely when he plays matched. His drums sound like pure shit but his cymbals sound good.
You are missed Neil Peart😔
Pure R U S H magic!
Niel and Alex ahh baby!!!!!
Wait, is there only three videos from the extras DVD for the Molson Amphitheater show? Just curious, thanks for the uploads mate!!
No, there are 8 songs on blu-ray and these 3 songs are from another dvd in the Best Buy or Backstage Club Edition, It's called R40 Completist disc.
Watchmaker Fs SO one has to buy two R40 sets from 2 different stores to get the complete songs that were released? Whoa, that's too expensive just to get all of this. So 11 songs in all?
11 songs that's right, some people will wait until they release just the bonus disc separately.
Do you really think that will happen? I've never heard of a bonus think being sold separately. I was at that concert, center stage behind the soundboard but separated by a walkway. It was very distracting with hordes of fans walking back and forth going to the toilet? I would not recommend anyone to an amphitheatre, poor site lines beyond the center stage area.
I don't think they will release the bonus disc after this R40 box, but some people do.