Canadian illegal immigration invasion song

[pepp5]

0:20 Neil throws and catches!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HgHwabWeN8

Bonus points to anyone who can identify the odd time signature at the beginning.

[claire]

It's just 2 measures of 4/4 at the beginning

[pepp5]

Okay okay... after the first two bars I should have said. Good catch.  Start at 0:19 or so when Neil throws his stick. 

[claire]

I think officially it's 6/4 and 7/4 alternating with an 8/4 thrown in there, but I know some people dislike the whole alternating thing so they might say 13/4

[pepp5]

Yeah I prefer thinking of it as one 13-beat time signature. Here's another thing - they switch it up right after that and go to 14/8 or two sets of 7/4 during the opening singing.  And it all sounds so fluid.

[claire]

Rush was a favorite in my youth (still is), but like many things I stopped seeking out their newer stuff...

[pepp5]

Concierto Numero Uno for me. :-)

I used to hum Neil's solo randomly.  I can do the fills from Tom Sawyer and YYZ. (well, most of them)

The song Retribution on JR Flood's demo album has some of the same drum fills that Neil played on the song Fly By Night.

[|iR|Focalor]

First got into them around 1991 when Roll The Bones came out and they'd play the title track on the local Atlanta rock station 96 Rock. Funny because they never play that song on the classic rock station EVER. It's like it never happened. They only play the handful of hits from Permanent Waves (80) and Moving Pictures (81)... maybe Working Man or Fly By Night from the earlier stuff. Much like radio, I don't really listen to any of their later stuff either. I love Hemispheres from 78. It's my favorite Rush album, even though my favorite individual Rush songs are from the later albums in 80 and 81. The sound, the song structures and progressive feel of it. It's prog, it's arranged beautifully like classical music, but it's got some hard rock feel too. And that's the great thing about all their albums from the late 70's and early 80's: they ROCKED. Once keyboards started getting pushed to the front more, they kinda lost that swing and energy they had before. Van Halen was the same. ZZ Top. That was the big thing in the 80's, everybody started toying with the fancy new Casio and Yamaha keyboards.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0zN0VjA3As