They've been described as the 'world's smallest ever symphony orchestra', this song proves that point beyond any shadow of a doubt....

Neil Peart, the best drummer to sit behind a kit on the last 40 years, wrote the lyrics for the band. May he RIP. I was fortunate enough to see this band several times live. Always a great show.

2112 is my favorite album ever…and I am now 64 years old and have lived through, collected and loved the best music ever produced from virtually every genre. Thanks for bringing Rush back to the masses.

When he's playing bass, he's playing keyboard with his feet. When he's playing keyboard, he's playing bass with his feet.

What else? Both Geddy and Alex play bass/synth pedals at the same time as they are playing other instruments. Alex Lifeson the guitarist also plays acoustic guitar, mandola and later on keyboards. Neil Peart was not only the drummer and percussionist but was also the main lyrist. Alex Lifeson is also a licensed pilot and a painter. He donates his paintings to charities for fundraising. Geddy Lee has written a couple of books The Big Book of Bass and My Effen Life which will be coming out in November of this year. Neil Peart was also an avid motorcyclist and wrote a number of books about his travels. Three very talented and down to earth guys. This is one of their masterpieces and they make it look so easy! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

Rush always had a producer or course, but Geddy is VERY involved in production. He's a musical genius and a perfectionist.

What else? Geddy plays foot pedals on every song: alternately set for synthesizer or bass based on what he/ they need at the moment. Peace, love and bellbottoms from Canada

One comment that stuck with me was your comment about how all the band members seem to be doing something more than just their main instrument. Oh, how very true! While Neil is being his typical superhero self, using every percussive instrument imaginable, I don't think Alex receives enough credit. He plays bass pedals with his feet when Geddy is on the keyboards as well as use a host of pedal effects to make the guitar a voice of its own (e.g. La Villa Strangiato). Thank you for a fantastic reaction.

You'll never hear a band as tight as RUSH.... They are the GOAT! Saw them live 5 times and it blew me away every time!

Ah yes Rush is an amazing band have seen them 9 times and they actually played my high school in 74. I have seen them perform this song 3x live and this by far is the best version. All 3 are Goats and one of the most talented bands in the world. RIP Professor!!!!!!

You missed that Geddy is also playing foot pedals along with bass, keyboards, and singing. Just another day at the office for ol' Ged, but rather incomprehensible for us mere mortals.

Geddy also plays Taurus foot peddles (keyboards for you feet) on this track and other tracks. In concert, that I've been to, Geddy simultaneous played bass with one hand, keyboards with the other, Taurus foot peddles with one foot, stood on the other ... and... sang. They are all amazingly talented musicians.

i luv that u called it a double-barrel guitar(shotgun) in a way... in his hands...it is!

The greatest band ever,,period!

Best live performance by a rock band hands down. Multi tasking is insane. You are right ….the best band ever….and three wonderful human beings to boot.

You think Neil Peart (the drum master) is out of control, watch his drum solo from Frankfurt Germany…INSANE! RIP Professor…you are SORELY missed!!

Haha the drummer is outta control love it vro

I saw them live 3 times,I wish I could have seen them 3hundred times,they were just incredible to see them on stage reproducing some of the hardest music ever written in a live performance, no auto tune, no backing tracks, no pro tools. Just 3 amazingly talented musicians.

Ahh this song was released in the 70s not the 80s 1977 to be exact off the A Farewell To Kings album their follow-up album to 2112. Alex and Geddy have been friends since childhood. Love it they are from my home town of Toronto ( YYZ)

dont forget he also plays the taurus foot pedals as well!!!!!!!!! they are just mind blowing

Nice reaction. I love it when someone realizes there are only 3 people in the band. If you liked that the start was just an instrumental I have just 3 letters for you, YYZ. Be sure to hit the live version in Rio.

Another great Rush reaction...keep them coming!!! 😃😃 It's amazing how newcomers to Rush are blown away by their talents and abilities and overwhelmed by the fact that they once knew nothing about this band. With Xanadu now complete...I would still recommend the following list in continuing upon your Rush journey: - Working Man...Live in Cleveland from 2011 (original studio version was in 1974-75)...The pure sight and performance of three men in their upper 50's take control of the stage and perform and play like they were in their 20's!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥 - "Best Intro Ever" Live (leading into Spirit of Radio)...kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j7mEoq6Ux73eYZ8.html 🔥🔥🔥 - Limelight - studio version 🔥🔥🔥 - YYZ...Live from Rio 🔥🔥🔥 - Subdivisions...studio version or live version 🔥🔥🔥 - Freewill...studio version or live version 🔥🔥🔥 - 2112 🔥🔥🔥 - Also...Neil Peart's Drum Solo Live from Frankfurt. He was The Professor...a pure musician and percussionist...not just a "drummer". Be ready to be amazed by not just his hand coordination...but most of all his foot coordination...basically his feet being completely individual in timing from his hands during segments of this performance. He was the master of this technique.🔥🔥🔥 - La Villa Strangiato - Live version 🔥🔥🔥

Geddy Lee is the lead singer, plays bass, plays keyboards, plays synth pedals with his feet and pushes the mic around with his nose. I saw them 5 times and every time I saw them, I had the same reaction..."how on earth do 3 guys make this much sound??"

Wiki: "Xanadu may refer to: Shangdu, the summer capital of China's Yuan dynasty. A metaphor for opulence or an idyllic place, based upon Samuel Taylor Coleridge's description of Shangdu in his poem Kubla Khan". Coleridge wrote an unfinished poem about Xanadu (Zanadu) and Neil Peart finished that poem with his own take on things.

I remember first hearing Xanadu back in the 70’s. I would lay there wondering how they do this with 3 guys. All I could do is wonder with a black and white TV and no cable lol

Geddy Lee: Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Taurus Pedals. He's also using his feet. Neil Peart: Percussion & 99% of all RUSH lyrics Alex Lifeson: Guitar, Taurus Pedals, Backing Vocals Xanadu was released in 1977

3 guys. 😊 They are the best. RIP Neil Peart! 😢

One of the greatest songs Rush ever made. 3 guys made that.

Geddy the best bass player ever!!! NEIL, RIP, HE WILL ALWAYS BE THE GOAT DRUMMER!!!!

these dudes were godz. saw them live in the 80s amaazing

This shows why I saw Rush 18 times ! Time for Spirit of Radio from the Maple Leaf Gardens concert ! Also Natural Science from the Snakes and Arrows concert.

Yeah, there's lots of RUSH to go. They produced 20 studio albums and countless LIVE albums during their 40 plus years as a band. The band went through several style changes during that time and always maintained their excellent standard of songwriting and musicianship. You might try "Working Man" LIVE from Cleveland for a rippin' performance in their later years! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Great Song Of All Time

Try La Villa Strangiato next. There's no words at all just the three of them playing at their highest level for 10 minutes or so, but it feels like 5 minutes and you wish it was 20.

Dude, you're cracking me up! "What in the Star Trek?" And the waving! I thought you were trying to wave off the smoke in the concert! Baahahaha! I can't stop watching you enjoy Rush!

Great reaction. Thanks. I was there. Saw three straight tours of these guys. Passage to Bangkok is great, but no one reacts to it.

the moment when you realize he's playing a lot of those keyboard melodies with his feet....

Seen them live 6 times.... Each show better than the one before... I've been a hardcore musician 43 years and I know.... EVERY real musician is god smacked by these dudes...

Of all time lyrically and musically!!!!!!all 3 are virtuosos on their instruments!!!

The Three Guys Orchestra Best band ever!

Bro said "double barrel guitar" LOL! Love it. There's always something special about this song - it shows just how talented these cats were. La Villa Strangiato (live from the same concert) will solidify any doubts you may have had. Great review/react!

You want to know what else the bass guitarist is doing in this song. With his foot he is playing an instrument called a mini moog. It is a bass synthesiser he can play while he is playing with pianos and sinthisers.

Rush were at the beginning a Led Zeppelin inspired, hard, aggressive balls to the wall power trio. With each album release they were leaning more into a Progressive rock sound as they expanded their pallet. The influence of YES and Genesis was definitely coming through on tracks like this one..

I've been listening to this album since the mid-80's and it was also the first compact disc I ever bought. The guitar solo on this song still gives me goose bumps.

That was 🔥🔥🔥

So much fun to see someone else appreciate my favorite band. Rush is the BEST!

Neil Peart is the drummer of all drummers

Thanks for the great react.. this band and my life are intertwined...I dont know why but I cant imagine living in this World without this band...

Greatest rock band of all time, damned right.

There great live to saw them in 1982 in Memphis great concert

Rush is 🇨🇦🔥

Rush played at a very high level for all 40+ years. But they were at their peak when recording this album.

As you will find, they went through different phases over the decades, the Power/Prog early years with 2112 being the shining light, the golden prog years which you are looking at now, the syth era (some like/love/indifferent to) and the under appreciated later years culminating with the magnificent "The Garden" (Do the live version) If you want shredding check out Working Man - Live in Cleveland and for musical excellence a live version of La Villa Strangiato.

He put a hole in that joint for sure! Classic.

This is going to be good.

Welcome to club! I’ve seen them at least once every tour since Signals album in ‘82

Gotcha!!! You've gone down the RUSH rabbit hole.

this particular production was state of the art, and their willingness and desire to keep evolving their sound with the new tech of the day (plus of course their incredible musical abilities) means that this gig stands up forty years on, and will do so forever. if there IS a top drawer, this clip is the scented, lacey thing that sits on top of your gran's cardies.

Xanadu originally came out in 1977, on the album “A Farewell To Kings”

The kings of transition. Nobody does it better.

great, great reaction, and I mean it. I was there at 1982, and I was just as blown.

Best song ever… one of about 40 best Rush songs

RIP Professor. 😢

Only Rush was doing this - they are a music category all their own... Nice voice range, by the way.

You asked soooo....Bass Pedals. When he's on the keyboard/synth, he's playing bass on foot pedals.

YYZ (Live in Rio), Clockwork Angels, Jacobs Ladder, roo many to mention

If you're still looking thru Rush's catalog, try the Camera Eye (side B tr.1 from Moving Pictures) and have you seen the drummers live solo from Frankfurt Germany? RIP PROFEESOR PEART.

They were serious about staying at just 3 people. I understand that this was part of the reason for the multitasking

THEY BOTH ARE PLAYING KEYBOARDS WITH THEIR FEET AS WELL ( FOOTPEDALS )

Just think....every sound was live, no prerecorded anything. Alex has a 12 string on top with a six string on bottom. Geddy has a bass up top and a 12 string down bottom. He plays the twelve string at the end. Multitasking and multitalented!

You sir, just watched perfection!

Geddy Lee also plays Taurus pedals....

this is widely considered the greatest piece of music RUSH ever created

you could put together 50 of todays most popular singers/rappers, whatever they could not produce a song like this

They are the most underrated band ever! Check out live in Cleveland and YYZ Rio live!

When this was performed, it cost about half a day's wages to see this in concert; gas, ticket, etc. Albums (vinyl, cassette, 8-track) came out on Thursdays so we'd all go the the record store/head shop, smell the cool incense, and pay about 2-3 hours pay and walk out with the new album. It was big, and we read every word of the engineers & graphic artists who helped get this in our hands. Then we thought about the classic novels (of course we had to read them for English class) that inspired the musicians, and then we de-seeded.....

I counted 8 different percussion instruments. Geddy isn't the only multitasker. Alex also plays keyboards and pedals.

Geddy Lee: Vocals, Bass Guitar, 6-String Guitar, Keyboards, Torus Bass Pedals...

Who wants to tell him about Geddy's Foot pedals ..... LOL

He's actually playing synthesizers with his feet as well with pedals.

Yes 3 players making that sound without looping tracks. Watch the bassist's (singer) and the guitarist's feet. They both play pedals while playing guitar and singing.

a lot of Rush fans think they're the greatest band. they belong in that conversation alongside the Beatles, Zeppelin, Floyd, the Who, Sabbath, Queen... not many bands at that level

Like Zanado.....AB...love ya man!❤

The band that did everything backwards and it came out amazing. The drummer could (and did) play an entire song by himself with all his percussion instruments and could play different percussion instruments in different time signatures at the same time using both hands and feet all at once AND he wrote the lyrics but never sang. The lead singer played bass guitar and synths with both his hands and feet. The lead guitar player sang backup vocals and also sometime used foot pedal synths. They sound like a much larger band because all of them were almost always doing multiple things at the same time and even with all of that for a few songs they had guest musicians when they needed somebody to play something like an electric violin.

Welcome to it. Fourty plus years. Enjoy.

ALEX, GEDDY and NEIL ARE MASTERS!!!!!

Your in for one hella good ride! You have 40 yrs of insanely great music to cover an discover

Pronounced Zan A Do. Great song and reaction

ABtheKreator, great reaction, actually that was from 1977, the Farewell To Kings album, classic early Rush, this is one of my personal favorites, just epic...anyway, keep it up man, Rush is deep!

It is still considered to be THE greatest prog rock song of all time.

And for your next head fuck, check out Niel Peart drum solo live in Frankfurt. Bare in mind that what you called a piano is in fact a synthesiser and synths have been around since the late 60s but were really popular during the 80s and have been used ever since. ✌️♥️🇬🇧

Alex & Geddy have been friends grade school. Neil was jokingly always called the new guy since he came into the band a lil later to them forming. Rest in Peace Professor.

La Villa Strangiato/Working Man Live In Cleveland - be prepared to pick your jaw up off the floor multiple times. 🎤 🎹 🎸 🥁 🎸 🐐 🐐 🐐

that sound came out from 1977 ! A farewell to kings album

*The* Greatest Band of all Time...correct. 🙂

First time you listen to this song you need to lay on your back on a bed or couch in complete darkness and just listen.. don’t watch anything and damn sure don’t talk.. just listen.

Word has it if you search google spicy drummer it’ll pull up a pic of Neil Peart smiling and waving 😂

Best rock band ever period

I sold my tickets to Rush in 1981 in Lakeland, FL. Regrets...

This song done live is often considered the apex of their masterful skills on display. Three musicians doing all that on stage, live, and not missing a beat...just wow.