A song about Neil hearing from geddy's mother about her experiences in the Nazi Concentration Camp. Geddy's parents met there, fell in love and lost touch for awhile before reconnecting and settling in the Toronto area. A most moving story.
As a vet I was lucky enough and humble enough to meet a auschwitz holocaust survivor. Just to listen to her story of survival almost put me in tears. I sure enjoyed and admired our time together. I will never forget her.
This was when Rush was well into their Progressive New wave phase. This is kinda my favorite era of Rush.. but then I'm an 80s kid. The metalhead in me loves the 70s stuff..also the later material.. but the 80s kid in me loves this sound. I know some purists hate it.. but... whatever.
This is the era of Rush that I started out listening to, starting with Moving Pictures on up. I am also an 80's kid and Tom Sawyer was the first song that I listened to by them and have been hooked since. Only regret, I never got to see them play live
I love all these reaction videos to Rush! This was my favorite album growing up. It puts a smile on my face that people enjoy them as much as I do. Isn’t crazy how you can feel the music on a cellular level? Love it!
I remember when I saw Rush live during the Clockwork Angels tour, and they played this song. On the line "Shouting guards and smoking guns" they had indoor pyrotechnics shoot up behind the stage right on the beat. This was TD Garden in Boston, so we're talking about an indoor venue.... when those pyros went up, I nearly shit myself. *Booooooom!!!* but as soon as I realized we weren't getting bombed, I was like "Yeeeaaaahhhhh!!!" and the whole audience was throwing their fists up and cheering. Best concert I've ever been to.
I was 16 when the Grace Under Pressure tour landed in Kansas City, MO. It was June 16, 1984 and it was the first RUSH tour I saw. The venue was one of my favorites, KEMPER ARENA - Garry More was the support act - This was the first of twenty one awesome RUSH concerts in a 31 year span.
@@blacklist2112 Awesome! Do you happen to remember at one of those shows where someone threw a ballcap and hit Geddy in the middle of the set? Didn't faze him... But I thought 2 things "What an asshole that guy is" and "Geddy is such a professional"
I know you get a bazillion requests, but I highly recommend "Analog Kid" from the "Signals" album. So upbeat and fun to listen to. Drummer and lyricist Neil Peart said that song was his first attempt at non-fiction, and that he (his words now) "for the longest time stepped into characters until I had my own confidence and technique to be able to step outside them as a writer." This song rips!
Allow me to throw a suggestion on your Rush pile. One track nobody ever talks about is "Alien Shore" from the Counterparts album. It's amazing, and it gets sadly overlooked. It has a fantastic lyric, but on top of that it's a total jam. Just a stone groove. You'll love it, I promise you.
Love watching you listening and enjoying these great Rush songs for the first time that I have listened to and enjoyed for so long. Long live the holy triumvirate, long live the holy trinity!! RIP Professor!!!!!!!!!!
This album, Grace Under Pressure, contains Rush's most serious lyrics. It was released during the rise of the Reagan administration when the US military was in the midst of a buildup. I was in the US Navy at the time and I saw the money that was being spent. Anyway, this track is very apocalyptic in nature and sort of falls on the heels of the opener, "Distant Early Warning" (see the official video). "Red Sector A" is more of a concentration camp theme. I took it as a subject dealing with the aftermath of a nuclear war and the rounding up of the survivors. I remember buying the album new on cassette tape and playing it so much that I wore it out!! Thank you for reacting to a semi deep cut. The live performance of the song on the "Show of Hands" concert DVD. Rush was one of the first bands to use computer programming for their light show, and the music samples they recorded (that each of the 3 guys would sequence during their concert - Geddy Lee mostly).
I got this cassette on day one. It was a big change in direction and was at first hard to LIKE. But I kept listening to it and it grew on me.....like all Rush albums.
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GREAT tune and reaction, Grace is one of my favorite releases despite not liking it a whole lot when it came out. Put it on a back burner for years and when I broke it out again I really came to appreciate it a lot! This is the first release where Neil used electronic drums, featured in this song. He also did something else during this song, he uses both of his ride cymbals in the pattern, pretty damn cool when I saw it live in concert.
Happy day to you fellow brethren. It's quite enjoyable listening to this together. It's also a rush seeing you liking a band that I hold near and dear to my heart. Godspeed. ✌❤
Neil & John Rusty are booth gone. Alex & Geddy are talking about working with each other again but not as Rush. so pleased you are spreading the word of rush and enjoying their music so much. Cheers.
I'm going to go ahead and like this a comment before you even start. This is a song that makes me cry almost every time I hear it. There's a lot of people going through a lot of suffering right now in the world, and I'm not trying to Discount any of that. But the Holocaust....
Rush un grupo de rock progresivo que a 36 años de este disco las nuevas generaciones siguen escuchando a este gran grupo y admirarlo gracias Rush por su legado
I remember well when this album came out. It was the first tour that I got to see live. The critics of this album, Grace Under Pressure, said that it was dark and heavily political. In fact, it was a resurgence for Alex as his guitars came roaring back after being a bit muted on Signals. I still love this record. Check Kid Gloves and Between the Wheels. Two standouts from this album...
As another comment said, Neil wrote this after talking to Geddy's mother. She spent 6 years in different concentration camps, including the infamous Auschwitz, where she met her future husband Geddy's future father. He used to bribe guards to smuggle her things like slippers or soap, tissue, etc. That's where he writes. " I hear the sound of gunfire at thd prison gate/Are the liberators here/ Do I hope or do I fear They reunited after both camps were liberated. Geddy's father had a sister that had immigrated to Ottawa, and she helped them immigrate to Toronto, where his mother still lives today. His father passed when Geddy was 11.
Since you love 80s Rush, you should really give BETWEEN THE WHEELS a shot. I used to skip past this song when listening to the album because the intro is very loud synth. But one day I gave it a shot and it is now one of my favorites.
The only reason you wouldn’t move is that the subject matter of the song (The Holocaust) is so dark. It is one of RUSH’s best riffs and the 80s sequencers do give a driving beat, though. It’s a weird song that ends up being awesome in the end.
Grace Under Pressure had a very different feel to it. It seemed to me Rush’s most serious album. I had no idea this was about the fact that Geddy had many older relatives die in concentration camps.
This song is about the Holocaust... sad song when you really pay attention to the lyrics even though its pretty up beat. Geddy Lee the singer is a Jew and doesnt follow the religion as much but has a great point of view on subjects. One of my favorite sayings is "what do you get when you have a Jew, Christian, and Atheist come together" ... you have Rush!!!!
Saw 68 shows, since 2000 my wife was cool enough to let me travel the country solo to see dozens of concerts solo. I hope this is not racist ( I think it's cool , but these days if you use the wrong toilet paper you can be deemed a racist) I remember seeing shows in St Louis and Atlanta walking to the car after the show and there was a solo black guy at each show... I mentioned it was cool that you dig these boys...Nothing different when I was as a white boy in the minority at a Parliament or Ohio Players show. for what that is worth.
At the R30 they play in the Frankfurt hall and recorded the concert. They play this song too, remarkable fact is that Hitler was speeching there in the 30’s I was told
Personally this is where my interest in Rush started to wane. Grace Under Pressure is an ok album, but it pales next to their best records and their best years, which imo are Hemispheres thru Moving Pictures.
When I was young mine too waned, along with all my classic rock bands that were going through the same changes. I looked backward and found new interest in all things punk and the new metal like Metallica to feed my youthful rage. Then in my 30's I began to revist Grace and others and found a new appreciation and love for the style. Now 50, all the sounds made by all bands from the 50's to the 90's is all awesome to me.
Rush great and technically difficult but check out some old Yes from early 60s. Try Yours is no disgrace. Actually anything from The Yes Album. I'm 66 and love all these old bands and saw a lot in concert. But check out Yes
I don't know how you can be moving. I am riveted by the lyrics. World War 2 ended ten years before I was born, my parents were safe here in America. I was fully informed by my mother, whose ancestry was German, on what happened in Germany in the forties. I do hope you realize that he is singing about recent history, it doesn't seem you do. Geddy's mother made sure he knew what had happened. His father was not able to talk about it. I seriously had to move down to the replies so I could not see you grinning throughout this song. Where did the lyrical breakdown go? What happened there?
Can you react to het Garden, slower song but has great meaning. about getting old. your love it.. off the clockwork angles. play the live version.. thank you.
Hey man have you heard any of pantera power metal album?1988 first album with phil.the differences will blow your mind lol.check out the song power metal
Yes, because objectivism is such a sane and reasonable philosophy to follow. Just gotta read up on our Ayn Rand and learn to be self-serving and ignore those in need.
This is a strange song for me. It is one of their most rocking songs, with one of their best riffs, so I understand why you feel a need to move, but the subject matter is so serious and dark, that it it is hard to dance or even bop your head.
oh man i can feel it...you are like1 pubic hair away from doin "xanadu" from "exit stage left" best live shit you will see unless you did it already and im just F'd up right now haha
I’m sorry, I usually would love your energy and happiness but not to this song. Knowing about Geedy’s parents makes this song too real, and me discussed with our past actions. But this song is a cruel reminder that we are animals. Yes, it is a great musical song and I get it, but a respectful somber should be the tone. I love that live, the lights do prison bars between the audience and the Band.
All of Grace Under Pressure is Fire. Serious themes but beautiful music. Some of Alex’s most eclectic/inspired playing and solos
Killer album!
BETWEEN THE WHEELS...
No argument here, True Rush fan, In my opinion, My favorite Rush album 🤟
Alex great on this album
A song about Neil hearing from geddy's mother about her experiences in the Nazi Concentration Camp. Geddy's parents met there, fell in love and lost touch for awhile before reconnecting and settling in the Toronto area. A most moving story.
Yes! Inspired song.
As a vet I was lucky enough and humble enough to meet a auschwitz holocaust survivor. Just to listen to her story of survival almost put me in tears. I sure enjoyed and admired our time together. I will never forget her.
This was when Rush was well into their Progressive New wave phase. This is kinda my favorite era of Rush.. but then I'm an 80s kid. The metalhead in me loves the 70s stuff..also the later material.. but the 80s kid in me loves this sound. I know some purists hate it.. but... whatever.
Boooo to the purists. This period of Rush is simply fantastic. They took the post punk sound in a way only Rush could!
GuP is still my favorite album
I just heard the song Marathon and Lock and Key this week and they were both amazing, if not the rockers that Freewill or Tom Sawyer are
Can’t be a real rush fan if you don’t like this era. It was a major part of their progression as musicians.
This is the era of Rush that I started out listening to, starting with Moving Pictures on up. I am also an 80's kid and Tom Sawyer was the first song that I listened to by them and have been hooked since. Only regret, I never got to see them play live
Forgot how much I loved this song! Respect.
Damn, you're goin in! Keep up the Rush reactions! Best band ever... BETTER than Zeppelin ;)
Lol
I love all these reaction videos to Rush! This was my favorite album growing up. It puts a smile on my face that people enjoy them as much as I do. Isn’t crazy how you can feel the music on a cellular level? Love it!
I remember when I saw Rush live during the Clockwork Angels tour, and they played this song. On the line "Shouting guards and smoking guns" they had indoor pyrotechnics shoot up behind the stage right on the beat. This was TD Garden in Boston, so we're talking about an indoor venue.... when those pyros went up, I nearly shit myself. *Booooooom!!!* but as soon as I realized we weren't getting bombed, I was like "Yeeeaaaahhhhh!!!" and the whole audience was throwing their fists up and cheering. Best concert I've ever been to.
I was 16 when the Grace Under Pressure tour landed in Kansas City, MO. It was June 16, 1984 and it was the first RUSH tour I saw. The venue was one of my favorites, KEMPER ARENA - Garry More was the support act - This was the first of twenty one awesome RUSH concerts in a 31 year span.
Saw them twice in Bonner Springs in 97 and 02. I loved that venue! Did you attend?
@@benredmond6636 Sure did, We call that venue Sandstone Amphitheater. Saw many concerts there over the years.
@@blacklist2112 Awesome! Do you happen to remember at one of those shows where someone threw a ballcap and hit Geddy in the middle of the set? Didn't faze him... But I thought 2 things "What an asshole that guy is" and "Geddy is such a professional"
You are the most avid Rush fan of a the reviewers. And I love it!!!
Besides Jamal
Please listen to between the wheels...
Very beautiful and powerful song from one of the best albums of Power Trio.
This is one of my favorites on the Grace Under Pressure album. You got to do Between the Wheels.
I know you get a bazillion requests, but I highly recommend "Analog Kid" from the "Signals" album. So upbeat and fun to listen to. Drummer and lyricist Neil Peart said that song was his first attempt at non-fiction, and that he (his words now) "for the longest time stepped into characters until I had my own confidence and technique to be able to step outside them as a writer." This song rips!
My favorite song!!!
Also my favorite rush song !
Yessssss
I was lucky enough to see Rush live, twice. Vapor Trails and The Clockwork Angels tour. They were beast live!
Red Sector A is awesome LIVE!!!
Allow me to throw a suggestion on your Rush pile. One track nobody ever talks about is "Alien Shore" from the Counterparts album. It's amazing, and it gets sadly overlooked. It has a fantastic lyric, but on top of that it's a total jam. Just a stone groove. You'll love it, I promise you.
Ron Moses Double agent is pretty cool too. Cygnus X1 sorta vibe.
Absolutely one of my favorites.
@@lerxstdirkst6181 A lot of tracks on Counterparts are great. Cut To The Chase is good too.
ViciousAlienKlown Animate is one of my favourites. 🎸
Alien Shore is a fantastic song, with hopeful lyrics,cool chords, Fusion groves, killer bass ,guitar and drums.
Love watching you listening and enjoying these great Rush songs for the first time that I have listened to and enjoyed for so long. Long live the holy triumvirate, long live the holy trinity!! RIP Professor!!!!!!!!!!
Great song! One of their best and oh so intense lyrics.
I do enjoy watching reactions makes me relive my first time hearing them. Thank you!
This album, Grace Under Pressure, contains Rush's most serious lyrics. It was released during the rise of the Reagan administration when the US military was in the midst of a buildup. I was in the US Navy at the time and I saw the money that was being spent.
Anyway, this track is very apocalyptic in nature and sort of falls on the heels of the opener, "Distant Early Warning" (see the official video). "Red Sector A" is more of a concentration camp theme. I took it as a subject dealing with the aftermath of a nuclear war and the rounding up of the survivors. I remember buying the album new on cassette tape and playing it so much that I wore it out!!
Thank you for reacting to a semi deep cut. The live performance of the song on the "Show of Hands" concert DVD. Rush was one of the first bands to use computer programming for their light show, and the music samples they recorded (that each of the 3 guys would sequence during their concert - Geddy Lee mostly).
Wow. I haven't heard this song since I was playing the hell out of my cassette so many years ago! Thanks for posting this. :)
I got this cassette on day one. It was a big change in direction and was at first hard to LIKE. But I kept listening to it and it grew on me.....like all Rush albums.
Phenomenal guitar work from Alex
He is so underrated!!
ONE OF THE GUITAR KINGS
Hi, hope you're doing well.
Thank you for reacting to red sector a.
I have just subscribed.
!. Can't wait for your Rush segment on subdivisions or free will. Thank you and we enjoyed it
So Awesome You Did This. One Best Rush Songs Ever!
Finally someone gave Red Sector A a reaction!! Criminally underrated song. Another banger is “The Pass”. It’s a deep one as well.
MY FAVE RUSH ERA IS 1974-1981... BUT FROM THE 80'S CRAPPIER RUSH THIS IS ONE OF THOSE BEAUTY STAND OUT TRACKS THAT GIVES GOOSEBUMPS
GREAT tune and reaction, Grace is one of my favorite releases despite not liking it a whole lot when it came out. Put it on a back burner for years and when I broke it out again I really came to appreciate it a lot! This is the first release where Neil used electronic drums, featured in this song. He also did something else during this song, he uses both of his ride cymbals in the pattern, pretty damn cool when I saw it live in concert.
This is one of those underrated gems. Great song!
Happy day to you fellow brethren. It's quite enjoyable listening to this together. It's also a rush seeing you liking a band that I hold near and dear to my heart. Godspeed. ✌❤
Since 1977,my first concert ever.
RUSH IS THE GREATEST TRIO BAND EVER!!
NO MATTER WHAT GENRE! Respectfully.
Song so good it made you drink!!!🤣👍🏿 "Red Sector A" is in my top 10 Rush songs! Good job man!
We're about to live these lyrics.
Classic! 🎸 Nicely done TNT!
Such an amazing album. Came out in my freshman year of college, wore out the cassette
Neil & John Rusty are booth gone. Alex & Geddy are talking about working with each other again but not as Rush. so pleased you are spreading the word of rush and enjoying their music so much. Cheers.
My favorite Rush song and that is beyond saying something.
Great Pick. Definitely top RUSH SONG. Deep Meaning😊
don't feel the hunger, too weak to cry
johnnyvader darksith Sickness through insanity! Prayer through profanity!
Thanx for doing Rush, afterimage is also another good one off of Grace.
And Kid Gloves!
Neil Peart...one of the best drummers. And he wrote this song with Geddy's parents in mind.
And I'm rockin with ya 💖
I'm going to go ahead and like this a comment before you even start. This is a song that makes me cry almost every time I hear it. There's a lot of people going through a lot of suffering right now in the world, and I'm not trying to Discount any of that. But the Holocaust....
Geddys parents were both in Nazi concentration camps.. its where they met.. this song is about as heavy as it gets
Great song great band
Rush un grupo de rock progresivo que a 36 años de este disco las nuevas generaciones siguen escuchando a este gran grupo y admirarlo gracias Rush por su legado
Between the wheels...... for sure!!!!
Their last album "Clockwork Angels", Neil co wrote a book. Story filled songs. Great live show!! check that one out!
I remember well when this album came out. It was the first tour that I got to see live. The critics of this album, Grace Under Pressure, said that it was dark and heavily political. In fact, it was a resurgence for Alex as his guitars came roaring back after being a bit muted on Signals. I still love this record. Check Kid Gloves and Between the Wheels. Two standouts from this album...
As another comment said, Neil wrote this after talking to Geddy's mother. She spent 6 years in different concentration camps, including the infamous Auschwitz, where she met her future husband Geddy's future father. He used to bribe guards to smuggle her things like slippers or soap, tissue, etc. That's where he writes. " I hear the sound of gunfire at thd prison gate/Are the liberators here/ Do I hope or do I fear
They reunited after both camps were liberated. Geddy's father had a sister that had immigrated to Ottawa, and she helped them immigrate to Toronto, where his mother still lives today. His father passed when Geddy was 11.
Awesome 🎵
"What kind of band is Rush? It's Rush." - Gene Simons
Red Sector A......🤩
you made my day my friend 😎👍🎶
I picked Rush up (or rather they picked me up) in the 'Purist' era. Each style has its' own merits. Don't criticise one or the other dudes xx
This might honestly be my favorite rush song
Great song 👍🏻 my favorite off of Grace Under Pressure. Check out more stuff from their 80’s synth period like Mystic Rhythms and Marathon!
Since you love 80s Rush, you should really give BETWEEN THE WHEELS a shot. I used to skip past this song when listening to the album because the intro is very loud synth. But one day I gave it a shot and it is now one of my favorites.
BEST BAND IN ROCK HISTORY! ENJOY
this particular song was written for and about Geddy Less mothers expierence in consentration camps during world war 2 and the horrors
My favorite song on this album of theirs is a deep cut called "Kid Gloves."
That is exactly what that song is talking about talking about
Watch the version of this song with ‘Band of brothers’ synced to it. Matches up beautifully! Really evokes emotion!
Here it is... th-cam.com/video/BZ-jHBHhOFQ/w-d-xo.html
All that we can do is just survive, All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive..........isn't that the true always?
Something else about this song is it’s one of a few were there is no bass guitar. It’s all synth, guitar, and drums.
#RUSHARMY4/EVER!!!
Do we get to see your reaction to Witch Hunt?
Maybe a jam session to the Fear Trilogy, although there are 4 parts...
I am sitting here with a big shit eating grin on my face watching you totally dig rush.
I’m loving it. This band is definitely top shelf music
The only reason you wouldn’t move is that the subject matter of the song (The Holocaust) is so dark. It is one of RUSH’s best riffs and the 80s sequencers do give a driving beat, though. It’s a weird song that ends up being awesome in the end.
I love how robotic the drums are.
Grace Under Pressure had a very different feel to it. It seemed to me Rush’s most serious album. I had no idea this was about the fact that Geddy had many older relatives die in concentration camps.
Good point on groove, my family is well aware, forget doctors, autopsies, or death certificates, play this song, if I don't tap my feet, I'm dead.
A very good song and beat but when you Lauren to the lyrics and the back story that’s when the horror kicks in 😢
This song is about the Holocaust... sad song when you really pay attention to the lyrics even though its pretty up beat. Geddy Lee the singer is a Jew and doesnt follow the religion as much but has a great point of view on subjects. One of my favorite sayings is "what do you get when you have a Jew, Christian, and Atheist come together" ... you have Rush!!!!
Saw 68 shows, since 2000 my wife was cool enough to let me travel the country solo to see dozens of concerts solo. I hope this is not racist ( I think it's cool , but these days if you use the wrong toilet paper you can be deemed a racist) I remember seeing shows in St Louis and Atlanta walking to the car after the show and there was a solo black guy at each show... I mentioned it was cool that you dig these boys...Nothing different when I was as a white boy in the minority at a Parliament or Ohio Players show. for what that is worth.
At the R30 they play in the Frankfurt hall and recorded the concert. They play this song too, remarkable fact is that Hitler was speeching there in the 30’s I was told
Ever notice there isn't any rush tribute bands, well any good ones. You can't duplicate the sound, or gedddy's voice.
I second Between the Wheels very underrated song.
Just one question: when you say the music is “organised,” are you referring to the arrangements of the songs? I just want to be on the same page.…
Check out Between The Wheels, Natural Science, Analog Kid,Digital Man and Xanadu (Exit Stage Left)
If you haven’t listened to it yet you have to react to Cygnus x-1 book 2!! One of my favs by Rush!!
Personally this is where my interest in Rush started to wane. Grace Under Pressure is an ok album, but it pales next to their best records and their best years, which imo are Hemispheres thru Moving Pictures.
When I was young mine too waned, along with all my classic rock bands that were going through the same changes. I looked backward and found new interest in all things punk and the new metal like Metallica to feed my youthful rage. Then in my 30's I began to revist Grace and others and found a new appreciation and love for the style. Now 50, all the sounds made by all bands from the 50's to the 90's is all awesome to me.
Great reaction!! Look below
Rush great and technically difficult but check out some old Yes from early 60s. Try Yours is no disgrace. Actually anything from The Yes Album. I'm 66 and love all these old bands and saw a lot in concert. But check out Yes
Is about the Holocaust as both Geddys parents survived
The video is way better.
I don't know how you can be moving. I am riveted by the lyrics. World War 2 ended ten years before I was born, my parents were safe here in America. I was fully informed by my mother, whose ancestry was German, on what happened in Germany in the forties. I do hope you realize that he is singing about recent history, it doesn't seem you do. Geddy's mother made sure he knew what had happened. His father was not able to talk about it. I seriously had to move down to the replies so I could not see you grinning throughout this song. Where did the lyrical breakdown go? What happened there?
I did a lyrical breakdown of this song in my follow up video.
Can you react to het Garden, slower song but has great meaning. about getting old. your love it.. off the clockwork angles. play the live version.. thank you.
This was the keyboard era , some fans did not like it but I do. They are always experimenting.
Btw Alex not happy with this era
Hey man have you heard any of pantera power metal album?1988 first album with phil.the differences will blow your mind lol.check out the song power metal
If only the left would just listen to "The Trees" and stop tearing everything apart.
Yes, because objectivism is such a sane and reasonable philosophy to follow. Just gotta read up on our Ayn Rand and learn to be self-serving and ignore those in need.
This track pertains to the Holocaust
no bass in this song amazing!
Red Sector, Eh.
Please. Try some of artist Neal Morse. Seemingly sincere
The 1 Rush song where there is no bass guitar!!!
This is a strange song for me. It is one of their most rocking songs, with one of their best riffs, so I understand why you feel a need to move, but the subject matter is so serious and dark, that it it is hard to dance or even bop your head.
oh man i can feel it...you are like1 pubic hair away from doin "xanadu" from "exit stage left" best live shit you will see unless you did it already and im just F'd up right now haha
I’m sorry, I usually would love your energy and happiness but not to this song. Knowing about Geedy’s parents makes this song too real, and me discussed with our past actions. But this song is a cruel reminder that we are animals. Yes, it is a great musical song and I get it, but a respectful somber should be the tone. I love that live, the lights do prison bars between the audience and the Band.