First time I saw Rush was in 1975 in a small venue in Pittsburgh. I knew nothing about them at the time. I had heard a few of their songs on the radio. After the first song I looked at my friends and said how the hell can only 3 dudes make all that noise? Been a Rush fan since then.
As a student 1 through 8 In a private Catholic school. The first time hearing them " 1978 ish " with there relevant lyrics. split my thoughts on religion.
Rush is not the whole world, but definitely the better part of it. The way they captured and understood the feelings of various generations (70's to 2010's, and today even) is amazing. We still are listening to them, in fact.
Neil started to use the Drum Jazz stick holding Term TRADITIONAL GRIP after lessons from jazz great Freddie Gruber 1994-95. He used this grip on the whole album==== Test For Echo 1996....But shortly after he returned to using MATCHED grip( meaning holding both sticks the same way )....sometimes you will see him switch grips for certain parts of songs or in later drum solos
"Hi" to you, too! 😀 Yay, the leather pants have returned! 😄 Seriously, though: That was a fun performance indeed 😊 'Half The World' is one of the best songs on their 'Test For Echo' album, in my opinion, and it blows my mind that it's already 27 years old now! 🤯 Which also means I was only half(!) my current age then! 😭 😅
This is one of my favorites from the band, very melodic and I love the lyrics. Thanks for the reaction 😊 ps, Neil was battling tendinitis in his elbow I believe, he’s wearing a brace 😊
I think that was one of the shorter songs I have heard by them but it is still just as intense💯💯 Red I watched an interview with Alex and his love of golf super cool 🕳🕳🕳Red you have me watching do much on them; Geffy is awesome with his collections 🤯🤯Thanks Red ❤❤❤ #reaction #rush #rushreaction #geddylee #alexlifeson #neilpeart #redheadedneighbor #bestreactor #redsarmy #beautifulfuncountrygirl #35K #heartofgoldwithmetalinhersoul #bestbadjokes #redheadedbarbiedoll
Probably my favourite song on Test for Echo. I always feel a little sad when I see clips from this tour as just over a month from it's conclusion, Neil's daughter lost her life & so began a nightmare period for him.
As one who grew up in the synth era of the mid-1980s, I came to like their 1990s music as a refreshing change. This show also included the song Animate from their 1993 album Counterparts, the first song from this era that caught my attention; unfortunately, I can't provide you with a link, so I'm hoping that someone else can help with that. Have a beautiful day, and Rush on! 🎤 🎸 🥁 🎸 🐐 🐐 🐐
Red, I've been waiting for you to react to Half the World. I was at the Test for Echo tour June 19th, 1997. Amazing night. I'm still wait for you to react to "Main Monkey Business" live from Rotterdam Holland. Neil Peart was amazing lyrist. Alex & Geddy always came with incredible music to match the lyrics. Red, you would LOVE Resist from the same tour Test for Echo 1997. ❤🔥🤘
Hi again I love every incarnation of this band. But I was not paying much attention to them during this period. So seeing and hearing it now is so special. Happy music. Fuck yeah. Thanks
Rush has been my favorite band since I was 13. I'm almost 53 (in December). They will NEVER be surpassed as far as I'm concerned. THAT being said, there IS an up and coming band called YYNOT. They are a Rush tribute band that has 3 original albums out now. Three songs that show EXTREME similarities (all instrumentals, one from each of their original albums) are YYNOT {from YYNOT), Chemical Burn {from Resonance} and Wire and Wood (from Light and Shade). I HIGHLY recommend checking them out. I've never donated on UA-cam before, because I don't know how, but if I figure it out, I will.
A painfully underrated song. As close to a 'single' formatted composition that they have ever made. But I love the lyrics, the performance and obviously love it more than they did as they never again performed it after this tour which was in 1997. The elbow pad on Neil you mentioned was due to tendonitis issues he was having throughout the latter part of the tour.
This is one of my favourite tracks of theirs from the 90's, especially the chorus. The lyrics are also great. Everything about this band is incredibly uplifting.
This is one of those songs where they "tickle the ribs before slipping the dagger in". Delivering a very serious, thought provoking message wrapped in uplifting, carefree music is a skill they mastered over the years.
I love this song ! ❤ It has been growing on me. The lyrics are very timely. Animate is another excellent song and there is a performance from the same concert as this one.
I think they may have had to cave in with a couple fillers. Incredible as it may sound, the title of one such song eludes me now. Almost a crime for a die hard fan such as I. Tai Shan? Maybe? Geddy once said it was a song he actually regretted adding it to the album. The second was written and recorded in one afternoon, and ironically became one of their biggest hits. Clearly a filler song, New World Man. They always said they had no clue how to produce a hit song. Ya ok, sure they didn't. If you believe that, you likely believe that a chicken has lips. Just saying. ✌️
The official video (what you see on the screen in the live version) is an awesome video. Everything is reversed so it looks like the boys are playing left handed. It has a patina/antique feel to the video. And Alex plays a mandolin on the studio version. Very catchy tune.
SOOOOOOO Great reaction!!! I loved them since 1980ish... ♥ ♥ ♥ Learned to play drums from Neil! Playing along with my 10pc Tama set..kinda like the one he had... back then! I had about 10 cymbals then also.... I still have 1 10" Splash cymbal left from my kit... ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 “That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are[a] being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So, we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.”
This song was the first single & music video from their 1996 album 'Test for Echo'... but they rarely performed it live; it wasn't even included in the 1998 live album 'Different stages live'... 'Driven' was the other music video from the record. Seeing the date of this concert in 1997, it was just before Neil Peart's tragedy came when his daughter Selena was killed in a car accident...😪 and Rush would not play another show for 5 years afterwards...
I noticed that Alex is sporting a totally 90's Caesar hair cut, along with his totally 90's leather rock pants. I had my hair cut Caesar style in '97 and my girlfriend was so exasperated with me, because she absolutely loved my longer hair (not head-banger long anymore, just shoulder length) and I had no idea she was so attached to it. But it grows back...well, hardly anymore, but once upon a time. But at least mine is receding and I don't have the bald spot like Alex!
I'm pretty sure my neighbour heard me scream from the goosebumps. This is one of my top 10 fav Rush songs of all time. Such depth in the lyrics, composition and instrumentation.
Hey neighbor, before this tour Rush usually played about a two hour set and had an opening band with them. But starting with the Test For Echo tour, it was An Evening With Rush. And they played a three hour set with no opening band for the remainder of their career. I saw them that year at the Richfield Coliseum, which was in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. The highlight of that show for me was them playing 2112 in it’s entirety. Keep the Rush coming Red.
Red Headed Neighbour. Experiencing the joy with which you view these videos bring old guys like me back to the first time we heard this music as teens, when we would skip class and line up to buy our RUSH tickets to see them at Maple Leaf Gardens. Every Toronto kid would give their life to headline at the Gardens. A small arena that always felt intimate, not a bad seat in the house.😂
This concert was just less than over a month from what would be for Neil, a heartbreaking tragedy. In August, the loss of his daughter Selina who was tragically killed in a car accident. Then just less than a year later in June, he lost his first wife Jackie to lung cancer. Neil then embarked on a 2 year motorcycle ride across America to, as he put it "ease his little baby soul".
Emmm Molson Amphitheatre! I miss Canadian beer and Henry's!! I HHHHAATE! IPA's‼️At least the 10 or so I have choked. Give me a good Lager any day! Especially with pizza or Mexican food!! WOW! That went off rail 😊 Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
So sad that this performance was only 3 or so months before the start of Neil's journey through hell. It was September '97, IIRC, when his daughter was killed and as you know it only got worse from there. I wonder what music might have risen from the years lost to Neil's recovery had they continued at the same pace and trajectory as they'd been on otherwise? We'll never know, but I nevertheless feel that what *did* come from them after the "reunion" was all the more poignant, profound and revelatory while being even more philosophically impactful as everything before 1997 put together. But what a price to pay for The Professor"
I think there was a slight shift to highlighting the lyrics more. Don't get me wrong, they're still apex musicians, but I think some of the older fans didn't like this slight tweak to their style. Happy? Idk, it's kind of a bummer. It reminds me of what the US is going through right now. 🤷🏻♂️ Take care 🤷🏻♂️
Rush has always been a "three" play band for me, at least from Grace Under Pressure onwards. GUP was a big disappointment to me when it released. As a 14 year old, I didn't like the change in their sound. But any Rush fan will tell you, each era grows on you. . Each album took a couple playthroughs for me to "get it." Some more than others.
I like a lot of the songwriting of this era of Rush, but their instrumental playing took a down turn. Neil "relearned" the drums with a jazz tutor who worked on getting his style to loosen up. But you can hear if you listen closely, his playing became too sloggy and drags the songs back, way too much. Not appropriate at all for a band like Rush, but oh well.
I'd like to say this song isn't half bad but that would be disingenuous of me. Bang average at best and way too prosaic and formulaic for a band as creative and dynamic as Rush.
First time I saw Rush was in 1975 in a small venue in Pittsburgh. I knew nothing about them at the time. I had heard a few of their songs on the radio. After the first song I looked at my friends and said how the hell can only 3 dudes make all that noise? Been a Rush fan since then.
"Half the world hates
What half the world does every day"
Brilliant
This magnificent trio cooks with fire!
Categorically and decidedly...incontrovertibly and undisputably...Rush, is the best band...ever. 😁
The greatest band in the world ten thousand percent 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
As usual Neil is right on point here with the lyrics. I feel this is even more true today then when it was written back in the 90’s.
It is bc of the disgusting nature of what politics has become over the last 8 years.
They are simply the BEST
As a student 1 through 8 In a private Catholic school. The first time hearing them " 1978 ish " with there relevant lyrics. split my thoughts on religion.
Rush is not the whole world, but definitely the better part of it.
The way they captured and understood the feelings of various generations (70's to 2010's, and today even) is amazing. We still are listening to them, in fact.
This concert was a birthday gift to me by a good friend of mine. They did side 1 from 2112 blew us away.
Neil is showing off. 🤘
“Half the world thinks, while the other half does”
Neil started to use the Drum Jazz stick holding Term TRADITIONAL GRIP after lessons from jazz great Freddie Gruber 1994-95. He used this grip on the whole album==== Test For Echo 1996....But shortly after he returned to using MATCHED grip( meaning holding both sticks the same way )....sometimes you will see him switch grips for certain parts of songs or in later drum solos
this sound is the sound they were looking for but did have the equipment back on say fly by night as they do now, Excellent!!!!
"Hi" to you, too! 😀
Yay, the leather pants have returned! 😄 Seriously, though: That was a fun performance indeed 😊 'Half The World' is one of the best songs on their 'Test For Echo' album, in my opinion, and it blows my mind that it's already 27 years old now! 🤯 Which also means I was only half(!) my current age then!
😭 😅
I'll never forget this concert. I will, however, happily forget the gf who bought me the tickets, lol.
This is one of my favorites from the band, very melodic and I love the lyrics. Thanks for the reaction 😊 ps, Neil was battling tendinitis in his elbow I believe, he’s wearing a brace 😊
The lyrics to this song are so amazing and spot on!!
I think that was one of the shorter songs I have heard by them but it is still just as intense💯💯 Red I watched an interview with Alex and his love of golf super cool 🕳🕳🕳Red you have me watching do much on them; Geffy is awesome with his collections 🤯🤯Thanks Red ❤❤❤ #reaction #rush #rushreaction #geddylee #alexlifeson #neilpeart #redheadedneighbor #bestreactor #redsarmy #beautifulfuncountrygirl #35K #heartofgoldwithmetalinhersoul #bestbadjokes #redheadedbarbiedoll
Probably my favourite song on Test for Echo. I always feel a little sad when I see clips from this tour as just over a month from it's conclusion, Neil's daughter lost her life & so began a nightmare period for him.
As one who grew up in the synth era of the mid-1980s, I came to like their 1990s music as a refreshing change. This show also included the song Animate from their 1993 album Counterparts, the first song from this era that caught my attention; unfortunately, I can't provide you with a link, so I'm hoping that someone else can help with that. Have a beautiful day, and Rush on!
🎤 🎸 🥁 🎸 🐐 🐐 🐐
I love the performance of this song. Lots of good energy & passion.
Red, I've been waiting for you to react to Half the World. I was at the Test for Echo tour June 19th, 1997. Amazing night. I'm still wait for you to react to "Main Monkey Business" live from Rotterdam Holland. Neil Peart was amazing lyrist. Alex & Geddy always came with incredible music to match the lyrics. Red, you would LOVE Resist from the same tour Test for Echo 1997. ❤🔥🤘
Another new one for me. Really enjoyed that one.
Hi again
I love every incarnation of this band. But I was not paying much attention to them during this period. So seeing and hearing it now is so special. Happy music. Fuck yeah. Thanks
Rush 4Life 💯 Been a fan since 1980 I was 13 year's old thanks to my dearest friend who turned me on to Rush, check out the camera eye 1981
Rush has been my favorite band since I was 13. I'm almost 53 (in December). They will NEVER be surpassed as far as I'm concerned. THAT being said, there IS an up and coming band called YYNOT. They are a Rush tribute band that has 3 original albums out now. Three songs that show EXTREME similarities (all instrumentals, one from each of their original albums) are YYNOT {from YYNOT), Chemical Burn {from Resonance} and Wire and Wood (from Light and Shade). I HIGHLY recommend checking them out. I've never donated on UA-cam before, because I don't know how, but if I figure it out, I will.
A painfully underrated song. As close to a 'single' formatted composition that they have ever made. But I love the lyrics, the performance and obviously love it more than they did as they never again performed it after this tour which was in 1997.
The elbow pad on Neil you mentioned was due to tendonitis issues he was having throughout the latter part of the tour.
This is one of my favourite tracks of theirs from the 90's, especially the chorus. The lyrics are also great. Everything about this band is incredibly uplifting.
Timeless message &some of Neils finest drumming,loved that he reinvented his style after prepping forBuddy Rich tribute.
“Half of us are trying to reach the other half” gets me every time. Read Geddy’s book My Effin’ Life!
One of the few tours I missed. ☹️
RUSH is a VIBE for sure.
I was at this show... it was phenomenal.
This is one of those songs where they "tickle the ribs before slipping the dagger in". Delivering a very serious, thought provoking message wrapped in uplifting, carefree music is a skill they mastered over the years.
It floors me everytime I hear them, just how timeless their lyrics are. Half the World Tries to be the Other Half. 🤯
I love this song ! ❤ It has been growing on me.
The lyrics are very timely.
Animate is another excellent song and there is a performance from the same concert as this one.
You make a good point, Rush has no filler songs. Each one is crafted with care and always has a story to tell.
I think they may have had to cave in with a couple fillers. Incredible as it may sound, the title of one such song eludes me now. Almost a crime for a die hard fan such as I. Tai Shan? Maybe? Geddy once said it was a song he actually regretted adding it to the album. The second was written and recorded in one afternoon, and ironically became one of their biggest hits. Clearly a filler song, New World Man. They always said they had no clue how to produce a hit song. Ya ok, sure they didn't. If you believe that, you likely believe that a chicken has lips. Just saying. ✌️
Great request, great vid, greatest band ever. What more could you ask?😊
The official video (what you see on the screen in the live version) is an awesome video. Everything is reversed so it looks like the boys are playing left handed. It has a patina/antique feel to the video. And Alex plays a mandolin on the studio version. Very catchy tune.
SOOOOOOO Great reaction!!! I loved them since 1980ish... ♥ ♥ ♥ Learned to play drums from Neil! Playing along with my 10pc Tama set..kinda like the one he had... back then! I had about 10 cymbals then also.... I still have 1 10" Splash cymbal left from my kit... ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 “That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are[a] being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So, we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.”
💕💕
This song was the first single & music video from their 1996 album 'Test for Echo'... but they rarely performed it live; it wasn't even included in the 1998 live album 'Different stages live'... 'Driven' was the other music video from the record.
Seeing the date of this concert in 1997, it was just before Neil Peart's tragedy came when his daughter Selena was killed in a car accident...😪 and Rush would not play another show for 5 years afterwards...
I noticed that Alex is sporting a totally 90's Caesar hair cut, along with his totally 90's leather rock pants. I had my hair cut Caesar style in '97 and my girlfriend was so exasperated with me, because she absolutely loved my longer hair (not head-banger long anymore, just shoulder length) and I had no idea she was so attached to it. But it grows back...well, hardly anymore, but once upon a time. But at least mine is receding and I don't have the bald spot like Alex!
I'm pretty sure my neighbour heard me scream from the goosebumps. This is one of my top 10 fav Rush songs of all time. Such depth in the lyrics, composition and instrumentation.
Hey neighbor, before this tour Rush usually played about a two hour set and had an opening band with them. But starting with the Test For Echo tour, it was An Evening With Rush. And they played a three hour set with no opening band for the remainder of their career. I saw them that year at the Richfield Coliseum, which was in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. The highlight of that show for me was them playing 2112 in it’s entirety. Keep the Rush coming Red.
Red Headed Neighbour. Experiencing the joy with which you view these videos bring old guys like me back to the first time we heard this music as teens, when we would skip class and line up to buy our RUSH tickets to see them at Maple Leaf Gardens. Every Toronto kid would give their life to headline at the Gardens. A small arena that always felt intimate, not a bad seat in the house.😂
1st Rush concert in May1981 in Richfield Coliseum. Last Rush concert September 2010 Cynthia Woods Pavillion.
This song definitely resonates more today than it ever has, sadly.
Playing in the background is the original music video
Alex reminds me of Trey from South Park 😂🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
This concert was just less than over a month from what would be for Neil, a heartbreaking tragedy. In August, the loss of his daughter Selina who was tragically killed in a car accident. Then just less than a year later in June, he lost his first wife Jackie to lung cancer. Neil then embarked on a 2 year motorcycle ride across America to, as he put it "ease his little baby soul".
I think it's time you do one of my favorite songs by RUSH... please try "New World Man".
Emmm Molson Amphitheatre! I miss Canadian beer and Henry's!! I HHHHAATE! IPA's‼️At least the 10 or so I have choked. Give me a good Lager any day! Especially with pizza or Mexican food!! WOW! That went off rail 😊 Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
Alex was was at his best this era
So sad that this performance was only 3 or so months before the start of Neil's journey through hell. It was September '97, IIRC, when his daughter was killed and as you know it only got worse from there. I wonder what music might have risen from the years lost to Neil's recovery had they continued at the same pace and trajectory as they'd been on otherwise? We'll never know, but I nevertheless feel that what *did* come from them after the "reunion" was all the more poignant, profound and revelatory while being even more philosophically impactful as everything before 1997 put together. But what a price to pay for The Professor"
Sorry am in a Rush hi Red ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Have a very very funny Rush MUST SEE for You its not very long.
By-Tor & The Snow Dog 10-13.2002😃
Neil was wearing a brace on his right elbow due to tendinitis
Half the fans like, half the fans, no so much.
Half the world didn’t like this album, and half the 🌎 did! 😜
Only reason to love Wednesdays ♥, Rush presented by Lovely Rush Angel❤
Very underrated song. 100x better than TSS
Test For Echo... uuuugh. This is a decent enough song, I guess. Pretty formulaic.
Sad that this was recorded just a month and a half before Neil's daughter died in a car accident.
I think there was a slight shift to highlighting the lyrics more. Don't get me wrong, they're still apex musicians, but I think some of the older fans didn't like this slight tweak to their style.
Happy? Idk, it's kind of a bummer. It reminds me of what the US is going through right now. 🤷🏻♂️
Take care 🤷🏻♂️
Their your band.
Rush has always been a "three" play band for me, at least from Grace Under Pressure onwards. GUP was a big disappointment to me when it released. As a 14 year old, I didn't like the change in their sound. But any Rush fan will tell you, each era grows on you. . Each album took a couple playthroughs for me to "get it." Some more than others.
I like a lot of the songwriting of this era of Rush, but their instrumental playing took a down turn. Neil "relearned" the drums with a jazz tutor who worked on getting his style to loosen up. But you can hear if you listen closely, his playing became too sloggy and drags the songs back, way too much. Not appropriate at all for a band like Rush, but oh well.
political song wouldn't you say.
I'd like to say this song isn't half bad but that would be disingenuous of me. Bang average at best and way too prosaic and formulaic for a band as creative and dynamic as Rush.
By Rush standards this is a mediocre song in my opinion.
Rush? Sounds to hardcore for little, old me.
You should stick to Satyricon.
Would Jesus like this?
@@Kjetil-wn6ls prolly
@@redheadedneighbor Jesus and Satyricon is like.....Bonnie and Clyde.
@@redheadedneighbor Not funny?
@@redheadedneighbor Thats me in a codsgill.
@@redheadedneighbor If you get that, you definitely smart.
'A Passage To Bangkok' reaction is overdue...
And the Twilight Zone
Send her a request with the link as she always ask us to do
Hey RHN, DAMN ..... you look extremely gorgeous today. Your hair looks even more red than normal.❤❤❤ oh and the Rush video was damn fine as well. 👍👍