are you ready for nine minutes and 37 seconds of instrumental greatness courtesy of geddy lee, neil peart and alex lifeson, better known as toronto progressive rockers rush? i sure hope so, cuz they are really good. besides having some of the most creative music ever, they are all crazy crazy good musicians who seem like they were way ahead of their time. which i guess is the definition of progressive rock? i actually remember the first i ever heard of rush. we used to have this huge raffle at our grade school every year, and one year my brother won tickets to see rush. i think he went to the show with one of our older cousins or something but then started listening to them all the time. and then i started liking weird music and started liking them too. and the rest is history i guess.
even though i like a ton of their stuff, this song has always stood out for me. i think i just really enjoy the creativity of taking basically one theme and replaying it out a bunch of different times throughout the track at different speeds and different rhythms. and remember how i said these guys are crazy crazy good musicians? well, pay attention to the drums throughout the song, and the flamenco-ish electric guitar solo a few minutes in (or the intro, for that matter), and some of the crazy bass fills, and just how many ways they twist and turn that theme if you dont believe me.
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