Rush - Afterimage (Music Video)

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Rush - Afterimage (Music Video)

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2 ай бұрын

This is the Rush music video "Afterimage" from the Through The Camera Eye VHS.
The original version found on this VHS tape and on the official Rush KZfaq upload contain cinematic shots amongst the rest of the band footage that appear "smushed" due to being shot/cut in widescreen and then crammed into a 4:3 aspect ratio. While the actual original aspect ratio is unknown, we chose the closest standard we could find and changed the aspect ratio to 12:5. You can now enjoy these shots as they were originally filmed. Finally, we replaced the original VHS audio with an original 1984 Grace Under Pressure cassette tape transfer captured at 24-bit 96khz in stereo.
The VHS tape was captured using a Panasonic AG-1980 S-VHS VCR and DataVideo TBC-3000 capturing video at 720x480 interlaced using the lossless HuffyUV codec and an M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 PCI capturing audio at 16-bit 48khz stereo raw.
Note: The video has been non-AI upscaled to 1440p to allow for a higher-bitrate viewing on KZfaq, deinterlaced to 60fps, and encoded to h264 using a CRF of 18.
Official Upload:
• Rush - Afterimage
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@RushArchives Ай бұрын

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@kevinhopkins9284 2 ай бұрын

I always crack up at Neil trying to be intense. He always looked so mellow when he played. Quiet aggression

@jameswyman5752 Ай бұрын

Grace under pressure is a truly outstanding album.

@alessandromariani99 2 ай бұрын

Drum in peace, Neil.

@wildbill1726 2 ай бұрын

40 years ago...

@craig528 2 ай бұрын

I love Alex’s guitar sound, composition, and playing on this. It’s interesting to hear about his frustrations in the 1980s. When this album came out I remember hearing Geddy say that Alex had come back from Signals with a vengeance. This song is a great example!

@RushArchives 2 ай бұрын

We have a magazine interview with Alex and Geddy in Japan that we uncovered recently and it's really interesting to learn about the direction and equipment Alex was going for during this time. Aside from pretty much telling us every single piece of equipment they used during the 1984 Grace Under Pressure Tour, Alex interestingly mentioned that he was experimenting with synth guitars at the time, including a few we had no idea he even used before. To our knowledge, Alex only ever used one synth guitar on the Hemispheres and Permanent Waves tours during "Cygnus" on Hemispheres, but it was still interesting to hear that he wasn't as against synths during this period as I've heard people claim he was. As for the guitar work, he certainly did go all out and this is one of my favorite examples from this album; second only to Between The Wheels.

@craig528 2 ай бұрын

@@RushArchives That’s so cool, would love to find that article. Alex is always steeped in the music of the times, and I reminder that he was a fan of synth bands back in those days. It wasn’t really so much about the instruments, I reckon, but about just how Geddy’s keyboards and keyboard compositions kept expanding and taking over the mid-range and melodies. Here you see Alex striking a lot of chords and weaving what he plays around the keyboard parts. It’s good creative tension!

@RushArchives 2 ай бұрын

@@craig528 We have the interview able to be viewed here now: rush-archives.net/index.php?threads/november-1984-alex-lifeson-geddy-lee-rush.671/ . We have two more we hope to upload sometime soon as well.

@paulelliott3220 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely marvellous - nice to see the boys in the 80’s Alex’s playing is wonderful and Neil’s precision drumming is always a treat

@TomAxl22 2 ай бұрын

Great track! One of my fav Alex solos...

@ChollieD 2 ай бұрын

I forget sometimes how good Alex's guitar work is. And then I watch him play and "I Remember" lol.

@ghendar 2 ай бұрын

Fabulous guitar work. Haircut choice, not so much

@mustangbob9282 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing this one. I’ve always thought of this as more of a pensive relatively low-energy song. Seeing them perform this reminds me of how hard they were working on EVERY song and just making it look easy.

@RushArchives 2 ай бұрын

Especially in live settings, this song was challenging to play, at least for Geddy. They don't show it here (because Geddy's not actually playing them) but Geddy actually plays two keyboards for this song (one hand on synth bass, one hand on synth lead). You can actually hear them mess up this song at a few live Grace Under Pressure Tour shows. It makes me wonder if that's why it was only played for a few months in 1984 and then never again.

@mikecronis 2 ай бұрын

Great work.

@bluefunkt 2 ай бұрын

Thank you, I always loved this track!

@AJLopez44 2 ай бұрын

You can see in Neil’s drumming this is before he started seeing his drum teacher…big difference between this and say after T4E…

@peartfaldo 2 ай бұрын

yeah baby;-)

@Guyjharrison 2 ай бұрын

After this Enemy Within is a good one

@Tranquillado 2 ай бұрын

Did Ged borrow that Zildjian tee from Neil?

@ruthylopez 2 ай бұрын

I've been a rush freak for 40 years. I've seen a zillion rush videos. I think this is the only one where I feel like they are "acting" and "over acting" on purpose for the camera. I'm not saying that it's terrible. Hell, most bands do it in ALL their videos. But it just feels super "weird" to see the Rush boys doing it. Especially Peart. I think this is the ONLY time I've ever seen him do it. Compare it to the videos from Le Studio on Moving Pictures. In those, the boys are JAMMING hard, but they're not "hamming it up" for the cameras.......

@pjuliano9000 2 ай бұрын

Neil's friend died ... I think he was acting out his sorrow ....similarly its sorrow that killed Neil... deep sorrow manifests itself into cancer .... very tragic what happened to his daughter, his wife and then him

@user-hs7ps3egdkdkd 2 ай бұрын

Just absolutely embarrassingly bad. How ray Daniels didn’t know to suggest a different video creator … it’s just so bad. So bad. Has nothing to do with song.. and it’s like to went on a pbs set and re purposed it during after hours. Sorry. I adore band but these videos…. Distant early warning, enemy within, body electric… it just showcases rush s talent. Because most other bands… these videos would’ve killed their music careers back when mtv was relevant.

@Augfordpdoggie 2 ай бұрын

time stand still is the worst. greatest band ever, but i agree who ever approved these videos....should give us some money for having to sit through these

@RushArchives 2 ай бұрын

Regrettably, I don't think these (certainly past Signals) were anything more than quick music videos whipped up for MTV. In an interview, you can hear Geddy mentioning that he wanted to make videos for every song on the album, but it's apparent that they either ran out of money or time to do so, if it was ever a serious consideration for them. The music videos for The Enemy Within and The Body Electric are quite obviously using the same sets and just reused to save budget, this one (Afterimage), as you said, is mostly just band footage with stock footage lazily-placed in-between. Out of all the ones for GUP, Distant Early Warning feels like it had the most budget, though I don't personally feel they used it as good as they could've. Regardless, I still enjoy these for what they are and find myself rewatching them from time to time.

@boffin3398 2 ай бұрын

The director was Tim Pope. He was one of the big-name directors of the time, as was David Mallet, who did DEW. Rush and their management must have spent a lot of money at the time in getting hold of these directors, as they also did in getting Karsh to do the band photo on GUP, and had creative input and control over what was released, so I would imagine that they were happy with it, regardless of anyone else.

@alicethroughthelookingglass 2 ай бұрын

@@RushArchives Neil was not into making music videos for tv or any other reason for that matter. That Alex and Geddy were able to talk him into these early videos at all is a gift to us fans (maybe Geddy did most of the talking perhaps~"Mr. Bossypants" as he wrote) and it appears some seem to think they are entitled to something more as I can see by User way too long to read and type above. This video is the one I chose to make my first RUSH meme quote from. I made it on my phone from a screenshot of Neil at the very end in my own writing for good reason a couple of months after Neil died. Alex's black Hentor Porkflapsocaster I saw him play in Toronto when they filmed that show. I wish they would release video from the entire show and add some camera shots of the audience from moving cameras or the walkings guys from the stage. I am there with my friends. Nice to see you posting on here, William and thanks for this.