thanks for posting this!! This was one of the first projects I ever animated . We did the CG hat tumbling forward followed by all the stuff pouring out of it. geez...it looks so hilariously primitive now but was still a boatload of work on a little PC in 1989
Eddie Van Halen was once asked....... what it's like to be one the greatest guitarists ever 🥸 to step out on to the stage ?? His reply........ Why don't you go ask Alex Lifeson ???? 😎🌟 ohsnap!!! 🥸 👉 RESPECT 👈 🎊😶🌫️🎉
After reading Geddy’s book, I appreciate a clip like this even more. He’s playing bass, giving full throated vocals, playing keyboard, and triggering effects. Good lord.
Wow wow wow, quite unbelievable how precise rush are, tight as hell, complexity that is hard to comprehend. I simply adore everything they have ever done. Masterclass. Rest in peace neil. X
I've always thought that this was one of the more underrated Rush songs. The riff and especially Neil's drumming underneath was tip top. I like the way it sounds here too.
This is enough!!! What is it with this "UNDERRATED" Comments? Its like the special school spent a whole day on this... "good morning slow class...today we are going to learn the "underrated" comment used by SLOW Students, you know Slow Class, like you... SLOW....now, go out there and use the SLOW Student response "underrated" when you try to make a Silly Comment on Social Media.
@@hankgarza4975 what an odd comment. It's like you don't understand what I meant when I said underrated SONG. Underrated, as in unheralded or not frequently discussed as a classic of their oeuvre.
the sound coming out of a 3 man band is unreal. No cell phones, internet, social media....the goold old organic music days, when new music coming out was anticipated and awesome.... the 90s was the last decade of originality amd creativity in genres, defining music. Rush came out and sounded like NO ONE, especially in the 70s. I LOVE this band. Geddy can walk, chew gum and sweep the floor, all at the same time. Neil is the best drummer I have ever seen.
Neil Part: The drummer that drops a beat, places a roll or in this case, surgically drops in a crash cymbal in the just the perfect spot that it makes me hit replay just to hear it again. Drum hook master.
Absolutely. And he'll cram like 12 hooks in one song. LOL. Incredible. And every one will work and get you where you live! I was listening to "Subdivisions" today on the way home from work. "Breathtaking" was the word that came to mind. By the time it's over it's like ok - what can top that?
Absolutely the best era for Rush. They are developing the more modern sound and Geddys voice is in between the shrill early years and the later years where he can't hit certain stuff. Songwriting began to mature in a huge way too.
David Pomerleau its a shame though that the recording quality was so weak on these albums. They didnt fix it until counterparts. These songs are much stronger live.
amazing to watch all of them esp Getty playing and singing at 4:45 - synth petals, that bass line and singing.... he knows he nailed it - look at his smile at 5:00! - 3 musicians in one, and forget about the writing and arrangements ... I saw them the album before this and still the best concert I ever saw... Such a Great track! - R.I.P Rush - there will never be another that's for sure!
I'm surprised at the negative comments towards Presto....that is a great album! Its one of my favs--it was a return to a more straight forward rock sound and the lyrics are outstanding.
I remember being in the Cayman islands working on the Radisson on seven mile Beach and when the hotel band at the Ramada played this song I about fell over. Finally my band had become cool and when I came home listening to the evening plane rises up from the runway over constellations of lite. I look down to a million houses and wonder what your doing tonight. if I could wave my magic wand. I'd go back and do it all again
it's impossible for anyone to understand how much the music of rush has influenced my life. I am a better musician, ironically I was talking with my almost 80 year old mother about how the songs that rush have written over the years gave me a richer deeper meaning than if I had not had that first album
Yes. I hear the lyrics of the song "Presto" in my head whenever I "Fly By Night" and look out the window at the buildings on the ground. And I think about people that I used to be close to before "the years went by and we drifted apart".
Great tour! I have such great memories of those Rabbits and this album when it came out. This song was my favorite... Prolific and comedically powerful.
Same here. Came home from jr high to turn on MTV and see the instrumental section into the bass solo, and my entire world opened up. Result. Professional musician than never strayed too far from my love of Rush. Even 33 years later. There's no easy way to calculate just how many musicians were formed from the influence of Rush over the last 40 years. Incredible!
Thank you for this!! This was my very first concert. I was 14 and they were at Nassau Colliseum LI NY... Mr Big opened. I will never forget that show and the experience being at my first show. This vid brought back so many great memories. RUSH was my favorite band ever....and still is all these years later. RIP N.P. 🥁
Watching all three play, but especially, Alex and Neil you just feel there is no place they would rather be then right there playing. Their energy live was so infectious.
Not many regrets in life but if you press me - never saw Rush. Not sure how I screwed that up. I guess it was one of those things where it seemed like they would be around forever (and kind of were).
Thanks for posting this ! What a good quality video. This a very good song. As good as this cut is, it doesn't sound anywhere near as good as actually being there. None of their live albums have captured how fantastic Rush sounds seeing them in person.
I hope whoever was responsible of editing the material got a good smack on their head. They missed everything. Alex's solo, Ged''s most magical parts and Neil almost entirely! Shame on them. Having said that, this performance absolutely blew me away! Good God! What power, what sound, the precision. This is few years before I discovered them, having been ten at the time. I wish I had seen them live during this era. They fucking rocked!
Yeah, there was probably plenty of camera footage of each of the trinity, since there is only three guy on that stage. It would make sense to have a cameraman dedicate to each musician, which I would assume they did. It is the dumbass editor who decided to show us gratuitous scenes of Alex playing arpeggio on a single chord while Geddy is over there lighting the bass neck on fire. You’d think he could have at least followed the smoke to find the source at Geddy’s fingers. Why don’t they ever hire an editor who is at least a Rush fan and familiar enough with the song to know which one should be highlighted? I know it can be hard since they’re usually all doing some impressive shit all the time. Whenever I have seen them live, it gets frustrating trying to catch each one of them doing your favorite fill, especially on parts like the guitar solo on Freewill, which is actually a guitar, bass and drum solo simultaneously. All three of them are teaching their instrument a lesson they’ll never forget during the part of the song that double times. That was one of the many songs where I didn’t know who to focus on, but other times it is pretty obvious and that bass break in Show, Don’t Tell is a time when a complete imbecile would still know to use the footage of a Geddy taking that bass to the woodshed. Just once I would like to see a Rush video where they highlight the right guy at the right time.
I wouldn't say his voice got bad, it just changed. In the later years, he put more emotion into the words that kind of made up for the loss of range. But his bass playing has gotten better every year since the 90's. Back then he was great but they way he performed on the last 3 or 4 tours was unreal.
I think his voice started to decline around Hold Your Fire. Listen to his vocals on that album compared to Power Windows, where he really sounded excellent. And each album since then it got worse and worse. He was never all THAT bad on their studio albums since it was a controlled environment, but live his voice has been really rough for a really long time now, since way before Vapor Trails. But I think maybe the Time Machine tour was when it really started to get unbearably bad. He sounded absolutely awful on that tour. Couldnt even hit mid-range notes without seriously struggling.
"time if nothing else will do its worst" it's called *age.* Sad fact of life. Vocal cords wear out and change, much as everything else. It's usually hardest on the singers with higher ranges, like his.
saw this concert tour in worcester, ma, they had huge top hats on eAch side of the stage and giant inflatable bunnies came out of them, and neil put on a blistering solo performance
thanks for posting this!! This was one of the first projects I ever animated . We did the CG hat tumbling forward followed by all the stuff pouring out of it. geez...it looks so hilariously primitive now but was still a boatload of work on a little PC in 1989
Wow, that is cool.
Show me don't tell me!!!!
Are you Geddy's brother?
Yeah sure you did. And I'm Geddy's sound tech.
@@shanecurtis7797jealous
I was always and still impressed with how Alex sounds like so much more than a single guitarist. His style is unmatched
Eddie Van Halen was once asked....... what it's like to be one the greatest guitarists ever 🥸 to step out on to the stage ?? His reply........
Why don't you go ask Alex Lifeson ???? 😎🌟 ohsnap!!! 🥸
👉 RESPECT 👈 🎊😶🌫️🎉
After reading Geddy’s book, I appreciate a clip like this even more. He’s playing bass, giving full throated vocals, playing keyboard, and triggering effects. Good lord.
Geddy is a musical savant !
Wow wow wow, quite unbelievable how precise rush are, tight as hell, complexity that is hard to comprehend. I simply adore everything they have ever done. Masterclass. Rest in peace neil. X
I completely agree, even their eighties material that people dog on is just as good to me.
Unbelievable
In their prime here
This is actually pretty sloppy, tempo is all over the place and Geddy's clearly struggling. They shouldn't have opened the show with this one.
I've always thought that this was one of the more underrated Rush songs. The riff and especially Neil's drumming underneath was tip top. I like the way it sounds here too.
it is the best Rush chorus ever.
similar structure to "test for echo" and"one little victory", however WAAAAYYYY better, especially the bass solo
This is enough!!! What is it with this "UNDERRATED" Comments? Its like the special school spent a whole day on this... "good morning slow class...today we are going to learn the "underrated" comment used by SLOW Students, you know Slow Class, like you... SLOW....now, go out there and use the SLOW Student response "underrated" when you try to make a Silly Comment on Social Media.
@@hankgarza4975 what an odd comment. It's like you don't understand what I meant when I said underrated SONG. Underrated, as in unheralded or not frequently discussed as a classic of their oeuvre.
NEP hitting the skins HARD right from the start. Love Alex's hair and Ged's pony tail lol.
HOLY SHIT I LOVE RUSH, HOW CAN A BAND BE SO GOOD
Rush was truly a divine gift to the musical arts. Second to none, never an equal!!!
Because they are pure of heart...or hure of peart.
Yes, they are simply one of the best bands that ever graced this earth.
And just 3 guys!
Pure talent and lots of practice!
the sound coming out of a 3 man band is unreal. No cell phones, internet, social media....the goold old organic music days, when new music coming out was anticipated and awesome.... the 90s was the last decade of originality amd creativity in genres, defining music. Rush came out and sounded like NO ONE, especially in the 70s. I LOVE this band. Geddy can walk, chew gum and sweep the floor, all at the same time. Neil is the best drummer I have ever seen.
You can tell this is probably one of Geddy's favorites from the album, he is really into it
Neil Part: The drummer that drops a beat, places a roll or in this case, surgically drops in a crash cymbal in the just the perfect spot that it makes me hit replay just to hear it again. Drum hook master.
Absolutely. And he'll cram like 12 hooks in one song. LOL. Incredible. And every one will work and get you where you live! I was listening to "Subdivisions" today on the way home from work. "Breathtaking" was the word that came to mind. By the time it's over it's like ok - what can top that?
Three guys
Forty years
Forever the greatest band.
Rush!!! The world's best band😁
Absolutely the best era for Rush. They are developing the more modern sound and Geddys voice is in between the shrill early years and the later years where he can't hit certain stuff. Songwriting began to mature in a huge way too.
David Pomerleau its a shame though that the recording quality was so weak on these albums. They didnt fix it until counterparts. These songs are much stronger live.
Tim Renken Agreed. Would be cool to hear a remixed "Presto" and "Roll the Bones".
Their live recording were always much better in my opinion.
Best era for Rush: 1974-Present
Haha, yeah!
Jesus! Neil is something....is an understatement..RIP Neil.
I enjoyed all phases of Rush but man were they tight in the late 80's and early 90's.
I totally agree but my favorite album will always be 2112....
Rush has always been there for me in tough moments. Like having to put one of my dogs down, there music helped me get through that tough time.
/...living in those dog years...
amazing to watch all of them esp Getty playing and singing at 4:45 - synth petals, that bass line and singing.... he knows he nailed it - look at his smile at 5:00! - 3 musicians in one, and forget about the writing and arrangements ... I saw them the album before this and still the best concert I ever saw... Such a Great track! - R.I.P Rush - there will never be another that's for sure!
Indeed. 3 guys who defied the odds and did it all from the ground up. The BEST.
Geddy is a musical savant !
Best live performance of this song ever! These guys are awesome!
the instrumental after the second chorus.man !!!!!! i love it.gives me chills
I wasn't into Presto that much, however, I could watch ANYTHING Rush did. These 3 were SO inducing.
This and the A Show of Hands era are the places where Alex's voice is the most audible
I'm surprised at the negative comments towards Presto....that is a great album! Its one of my favs--it was a return to a more straight forward rock sound and the lyrics are outstanding.
Presto is a great album. Every song is stellar as they were well established musicians playing together for 14 years at this point.
I remember being in the Cayman islands working on the Radisson on seven mile Beach and when the hotel band at the Ramada played this song I about fell over. Finally my band had become cool and when I came home listening to the evening plane rises up from the runway over constellations of lite. I look down to a million houses and wonder what your doing tonight. if I could wave my magic wand. I'd go back and do it all again
it's impossible for anyone to understand how much the music of rush has influenced my life. I am a better musician, ironically I was talking with my almost 80 year old mother about how the songs that rush have written over the years gave me a richer deeper meaning than if I had not had that first album
Love this !
Yes. I hear the lyrics of the song "Presto" in my head whenever I "Fly By Night" and look out the window at the buildings on the ground. And I think about people that I used to be close to before "the years went by and we drifted apart".
I saw this tour in St Petersburg Florida, and I remember Mr Big opened for them. Great show!
I like them even more now, today ,than I did when I was a teenager
3 technical wizards each a master at his craft. conjuring up a terrilfic showing of their talents .the greatest band ever.
REST IN PEACE NEIL!
Great tour! I have such great memories of those Rabbits and this album when it came out. This song was my favorite...
Prolific and comedically powerful.
First tour I saw Rush on - freshman in High School. Mind blown!
awesome! wow! I've never seen this since the 90's!!.. when I graduated from high school..
Saw the "Presto" tour in 1990 👍 They had giant inflated rabbits on each side of the stage 🐰 It was awesome 👌
Yup. It was awesome
They had the bunnies dancing during Counterparts tour.
This song was my intro to Rush when I was a kid watching MTV.
Same here. Came home from jr high to turn on MTV and see the instrumental section into the bass solo, and my entire world opened up. Result. Professional musician than never strayed too far from my love of Rush. Even 33 years later. There's no easy way to calculate just how many musicians were formed from the influence of Rush over the last 40 years. Incredible!
This was the time I discovered Rush I was 12 ! Love this album 💿 Presto !! 🐇
This is a bad ass song,good and powerful in any era DAM!!!!
Thank you for this!! This was my very first concert. I was 14 and they were at Nassau Colliseum LI NY... Mr Big opened. I will never forget that show and the experience being at my first show. This vid brought back so many great memories. RUSH was my favorite band ever....and still is all these years later. RIP N.P. 🥁
Me too - first show and I was hooked for life!
these videos are fantastic!
What a great version of this song! One of my favorites!
Ged's voice in tip top shape! Can't believe it was 30 years ago!
Sounds like this was recorded directly from the mixing board - everything sounds super clear. Guitar sounds great.
My all time favorite band in concert. Nobody like them before or since!
RIP
Alex is so cute here! Awesome guitar. His signature guitar! Presto was one of their best tours! Geddy’s voice is awesome!
That concert brings back such great memories of when I attended. Nearly brings tears of joy to myself. Thanks so much for posting 🤩🥰
Thank you, Neil...
AWESOME !!!! Thank U 4 uploading it ...greetings from South America ;)
Alguém da America latina que esta prestigiando a melhor banda do mundo com esse Clipe? De um salve ae!
Erico Alves 🙌
é nóis
Que banda! Que músicos! Que habilidade de cada um! Aula de música!!!! Uau, uau, uau uau!!!!!
I can't get enough of this song.
Its amazing watching the church\ high school performances up to this point...SIMPLY AMAZING how these three matured in music.❤❤❤❤❤
Watching all three play, but especially, Alex and Neil you just feel there is no place they would rather be then right there playing. Their energy live was so infectious.
Saw this show at Star Lake Amphitheatre in Pittsburgh. It was spectacular. The sound was great for an outdoor show.
Bout as tight as you can get. ❤ RUSH FOREVER❤
What a crystalline clean tone of Alex Lifeson!
Song sounds just like the album version, what talent on display!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow , they are on top form here. So tight, Neil is playing superb behind that beautiful sounding Ludwig Kit.
I wished he'd stayed with Ludwig..They sound way better than them DW's...IMHO
One of my all time favorite #Rush songs
This is such quality sound! I just wish the cameras knew what they missed...lol
My very first Rush concert for this tour in FL and I was second row center.
The best performers I have seen. I have seen Clapton and the Dead. I have seen Peter Frampton, Cheap Trick, Van Halen, the Police
Not many regrets in life but if you press me - never saw Rush. Not sure how I screwed that up. I guess it was one of those things where it seemed like they would be around forever (and kind of were).
This sounds amazing live.
dude i love RUSH
Thanks! Gary, Alex and Neil (R.I.P) ... The Rush
one of their best songs :-)
The Professor at his best! Man they sound so GOOD!
Spectacular
One of my favourites!
The world is not the same now that I'll never be able to see Rush again
Trifecta!
Peart is just killing it on that awesome kit! So miss this man!
Amazing Song 🤩😍!
This was fun live!!
I got goosebumps watching this! Loved Neil’s playing here. So much conviction!!! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
I was there. Cleveland, OH show. My first Rush concert.
Thanks for posting this ! What a good quality video. This a very good song. As good as this cut is, it doesn't sound anywhere near as good as actually being there. None of their live albums have captured how fantastic Rush sounds seeing them in person.
Que trío por Dios, geniales en todos los aspectos !!
Another fantastic video
Snowdog rules !
great band
I was there both nights at Auburn Hills!
I was there one night (this one). What a show!
Thanks for this....best live recording I've heard of this song!
I hope whoever was responsible of editing the material got a good smack on their head. They missed everything. Alex's solo, Ged''s most magical parts and Neil almost entirely! Shame on them. Having said that, this performance absolutely blew me away! Good God! What power, what sound, the precision. This is few years before I discovered them, having been ten at the time. I wish I had seen them live during this era. They fucking rocked!
Awful editing, I agree
3:19 Geddy sounds like he is back to his young 1970`s vocal days with that distorted scream!
Love you neil 👍 Miss u bud . Rush was a power house. Good god. Geddys voice is awesome.
Amazing vids from this show! Love it.
love it
Nice, great audio quality
Utterly amazing!
Great Concerts every time # 1, Great Rokers..
Masterpiece!
Alex is so cool.
NICE!!!!!! Thanks for the post!!! 😎
very underrated song.
Take me back to 1990 please
#Great ! #JustGreat !!!!
Nossa que saudades, amo amo
Man, oh, man Neil's toms sound SO GOOD here.
Very good one of the best bands in the world
Canada rocks America again. We love our northern neighbors !!!!!
alex's hair
Flock of Seagulls
@@Torgo1969
No!
@@theomegaconcern9564 If you don't like my comment, you can run, you can run so far away...
Geddy Lee called it the Simon Le Bon look
cameraman you had ONE job...geddy's ripping a solo.
Well yeah, the editor. But you're point is so right on- how the hell can they not show us the shot of him doing that bridge bass part?!
Yeah, there was probably plenty of camera footage of each of the trinity, since there is only three guy on that stage. It would make sense to have a cameraman dedicate to each musician, which I would assume they did.
It is the dumbass editor who decided to show us gratuitous scenes of Alex playing arpeggio on a single chord while Geddy is over there lighting the bass neck on fire. You’d think he could have at least followed the smoke to find the source at Geddy’s fingers.
Why don’t they ever hire an editor who is at least a Rush fan and familiar enough with the song to know which one should be highlighted? I know it can be hard since they’re usually all doing some impressive shit all the time.
Whenever I have seen them live, it gets frustrating trying to catch each one of them doing your favorite fill, especially on parts like the guitar solo on Freewill, which is actually a guitar, bass and drum solo simultaneously. All three of them are teaching their instrument a lesson they’ll never forget during the part of the song that double times.
That was one of the many songs where I didn’t know who to focus on, but other times it is pretty obvious and that bass break in Show, Don’t Tell is a time when a complete imbecile would still know to use the footage of a Geddy taking that bass to the woodshed. Just once I would like to see a Rush video where they highlight the right guy at the right time.
@@RoarOfWolverine Dear sir, thank you for writing that. 100% perfection.
@@RoarOfWolverine Right on,dude!!
That WAL bass tone is to die for!
Somewhere along the line Geddy´s voice changed for worst from Vapour Trails. I love this presto era, everything was perfect.
Alejandro Ruiz Well with the way geddy sings and how they started getting older it was to be expected
I wouldn't say his voice got bad, it just changed. In the later years, he put more emotion into the words that kind of made up for the loss of range. But his bass playing has gotten better every year since the 90's. Back then he was great but they way he performed on the last 3 or 4 tours was unreal.
I think his voice started to decline around Hold Your Fire. Listen to his vocals on that album compared to Power Windows, where he really sounded excellent. And each album since then it got worse and worse. He was never all THAT bad on their studio albums since it was a controlled environment, but live his voice has been really rough for a really long time now, since way before Vapor Trails. But I think maybe the Time Machine tour was when it really started to get unbearably bad. He sounded absolutely awful on that tour. Couldnt even hit mid-range notes without seriously struggling.
"time if nothing else will do its worst" it's called *age.* Sad fact of life. Vocal cords wear out and change, much as everything else. It's usually hardest on the singers with higher ranges, like his.
+Brian Shaffner >>> Sincere truth!!! Plant, Osbourne, Gillan... they also fell in this field.
saw this concert tour in worcester, ma, they had huge top hats on eAch side of the stage and giant inflatable bunnies came out of them, and neil put on a blistering solo performance
Beyond words performance 😱