Musician REACTS RUSH By-Tor And The Snow Dog 1975 Fly By Night FIRST TIME HEARING REACTION
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- Musician REACTS RUSH By-Tor And The Snow Dog 1975 Fly By Night FIRST TIME HEARING REACTION
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Hey Justin! Hope y’all are well in 2024! I’m reading Geddys book and when he talked about By-Tor, I had to come back and listen to your reaction! He explains how he does the “fight scene”! Hopefully I’ll get to tour more of your reactions again, as the book goes on!! I know you got it, I hope you’re having time to enjoy the read!! Send my best to Camilla, Hank and Ho Kitty! Be well and God bless… from Texas!!
I've always felt that with this song, they're telling us "Hey guys, we got a new drummer. We think he'll be pretty good."
This is their single masterpiece
Yay!
Rush was out there putting out movie soundtrack albums. Whole visual novels 🤣🤣🤣
Bytor and the Snowdog is the result of 3 musical geniuses smoking some primo herb and then watching 2 dogs playing in the yard. 🇨🇦
Iconic tune!!! THANKS
The role of By-Tor is played by Geddy (bass) and Snowdog by Alex (guitar). The liner notes are important for Rush songs.
I like that comment, "This sounds like Rush."
As a young man my first concert ever was Rush during the Hemisphere's tour. I was hooked. I saw several shows through the years, including the last album tour for Clockwork Angels. I loved Fly By Night because it was the first album with Neil Peart, and his lyrical input was immediately transforming for the band. His passing was one of the saddest days of my adult life, not just because of the music, but the tragedies he endured in his personal life and his ability to rise above those and continue on.
Alex is so good using the volume swells with the pedals to create that effect. Plus gorgeous chords in that second part. Also Neil shines as usual. You ever take note every fill is never the same as in duplicated. Always unique.
STILL my FAV!
The first time they didn’t play this in concert? I was unhappy!
This is my fav Rush song , 1 its when Neil joined the band , 2 it's the song that said stick with us your going on 1 hell of a journey , 3 I didn't know at the time , I was 9 and my uncle made me seat down and listen to the whole album , but by 2112 I knew they were my fav band.
One of my favorite guitar solos of all time is in By-Tor etc... that slow blues Grove Alex solos over and the solo is just next worldly. Only two people have moved me with a guitar Alex and Dave Gilmore...and this solo just gets turned to 11 when it hits...
This was a staple of their live shows for years to come as they would rambunctiously act out the battle scene between "Prince By Tor( Getty). And "The Snowdog" (Alex.) Very 70s and all-encompassing in its grandeur And overt silliness. But excess was the name of the game and with the limited funds and what they had to work with they try their best to give a big show to Their audience that was growing with them. "Fly By Night" is something of a Benchmark and that it did yield significant radio play for them both in Canada and abroad, but the real signature here is the grounding of them as a progressive unit that was growing confidence to be able to step outside of the Zeppelin mold. The next album after this "Caress of Steel" while still a significant marker in their progression was a commercial setback and you could say that it's lackluster sales and the threat of being dropped by the record label is what inspired the fire to make or break with their album follow-up 2112. I think it's fascinating that you're doing this from the ground up... Track-by-track... Album by album. It's going to be an interesting ride. Cheers.
Great post! Rush is a fantastically great and talented band. Love them or hate them, Rush is in the pantheon of great Rock bands.
@@uroktim Absolutely!!!
Wait until you see the live medley of By-tor/In the End/In the Mood and 2112 Finale. The performance is just incredible.
Excellent review as usual and well said Justin, thanks again.
So much awesome music to come! Keep at it. Totally worth it
I have watched a lot of people react to Rush on TH-cam and it always makes me smile. I truly love watching people discover this great band. Some of your comments have been repeated many times by others. What did I just listen to? I need to listen to that again. That song was 9 minutes and what just happened? I need to start taking notes because I can’t remember my thoughts during the song. All of it makes me smile. Imagine how I felt in the 70’s when we would pile in our vehicle and blast this stuff on 8 track bring so proud that they are also Canadian. It was a big deal then and they are still a big deal now. Thanks for doing these reactions. I am really enjoying your take on the music. Congratulations on your Rush journey!!
This Album changed my 🧬!
“Hopefully I didn’t lose you guys, but if I did that you’re not watching so it doesn’t matter.”🤣🤣🤣👍
Always a fave at gigs 🤘
So the story goes that someone Rush knew (maybe their manager?) had two dogs. One was a big white husky (a "snowdog") and the other one kept nipping at people. He was the "biter" (By-Tor). So that's the origin of this imaginary battle and the two foes. Also, this was their first foray into "cinematic" writing where the lyrics just kind of provide the framework for a musical story. The music is like the "soundtrack" to the lyrics/story. Jacob's Ladder on Permanent Waves is similar where the lyrics just provide a "feel" to write a musical story around.
In the song, Alex takes the character of Snowdog and Geddy is By-Tor. So for the battle part each users their instruments to create the sounds each of the characters would make.
Finally, while By-Tor is the bad guy in this song, he is the good guy on a song on Caress of Steel. I guess he had a change of heart.
🥰 Cool Beans! Glad you like it! 🤗 Looking forward to Side 2 tomorrow! 😁🐰
Epic song. The ground work is being laid!!!
By-tor's growl was Geddy on the bass. Quote from Geddy: "I put my Fender bass through a fuzztone -I can't remember what kind-and then into the board. It was distorted all to ****, so we added phasing, and ultimately put in everything but the kitchen sink. I had all that sound going through a volume pedal, so every time the monster was supposed to growl, I would lean on the volume pedal." It's great you're doing the albums chronologically. You certainly get the importance of this song in their development. When compared to their other long-form epic songs, this one is a little rough around the edges in terms of overall composition, but an important first step.
The ending chimes looped infinitely on the lead-out groove on vinyl. 😁
That noise was Geddy playing through the "kitchen sink"
This sounds amazing...been so long since I heard it, but it all comes "rushing" back! This album, to me, is proof positive that Rush became RUSH when Neil Peart joined the band. Awesome drumming here!
Bytor and the Snowdog was one of the first tracks I really appreciated by them too. Only by random circumstances did I discover FBN after kinda knowing who Rush was around 80-81.🤘🖖✌️🎸🥁🎤🎹🥇🇨🇦👍👌
Don't know if you are planning to cover the live albums, but in the extended version of this song on All The World's A Stage, Alex takes the solo to another level. You'd swear he was using a violin bow like Jimmy Page, but he's doing it all using just his hands and a couple of effects pedals. It's beautiful and mesmerising.
This song has titanic balls.
My brother took me to see Rush Fly by Night tour and then I tried to play drums because of Neil and this Song
This song is when I think they became RUSH. Alex sounds like Alex not Jimmy, Geddy has his style playing and singing down and the Professor is just being that.
It's a growing process. Their still really young here a new drummer/lyricist. Trying to figure out who they are what they want their music to sound like. What's popular on the radio what the record company wants . Got their 1st top tier gig coming touring with the world's hottest band at the time. They had alot going on. They had to grow into it. And they did.
By-tor is a demo tape. Rush doesn’t lock it in until half of Caress of Steel.
I believe R30! They play it with an animated video on the screen behind them that is rather amusing. Well worth a future look. Hell, the whole R30 concert is worth a look and listen.
I heard most of the early stuff and it was caught my attention BUT when I heard all the early stuff on All The Worlds A Stage, that is the power that hooked me. This song was awesome live and Working Man/Finding My Way/Drum Solo are incredible.
Such a sound change from the debut to this 2nd album! It's kind of hard to understand that a change of drummers could produce such a dramatic change in the entire direction of a band, but, here is proof that it definitely can!😄🎵👍 Thanks JP.
The "sounds of battle" were produced by Geddy cranking his Fender Precision bass through distortion and wah effect pedals.
Charlie YT Only has the background to this duel between By-Tor (Bass) and Snow Dog (Guitar). Kind of a silly & fun song. Some cool rifs in this one, and of course cool drumming.
Who cares what the tone deaf critics thought about this song.. All the diehard Rush fans that I know (myself included)appreciate the talent put forward by "the boys" and uniqueness of this song.. And you"re sure right it is starting to sound like Rush!
Since you liked "By-Tor and the Snowdog," I think you'll love "The Necromancer" from the other album from 1975
oops .. smh lol we'll see it'll be out next week!
@@JustinPanariello A bit different opening but I think you'll dig it! 😊✌
Mr Peart your hired !
I am still here :)
Again, spot on.
What always amazed me about Rush (still does, probably always will) is how they transport you, instrumentally, to another place or time. Then, the instrumentation also tells the story. You will see this in many songs. The lyrics are great, and often a mouthful for Geddy, but the instruments tell the story and you can follow along even without lyrics.
Rush's manager at the time, Ray Daniels, owned two dogs. The German Shepherd was always biting guests and the other dog was white as snow. Hence the inspiration behind the names of the two main characters of the song.
Welcome to the birth of Prog-Metal! The guitar is representing Snowdog and the bass is Bytor in our musical 'battle'. (Watching Geddy and Alex mess with each other live during the fight part is always entertaining 🤭 ) Glad you liked it.
And as I'm sure you've already discovered with Caress of Steel (choppy and disjointed prog), that album was an essential stepping stone in order to get to 2112.
By-Tor and the Snow Dog Live in Rio is great.
Rush's road manager had two dogs that would fight quite often and one of them would bite everyone so Neil wrote about them as an epic battle between the forces of good and evil. Fucking Awesome.
Exit Stage Left video has them playing this live (1st half of song anyway, which is the better half)
If progressive hard rock is your thing you're gonna like a lot of Rush, especially starting with the next album Caress of Steel the Necromancer
A good story about this song (I don't know if it's true) but, it is written that an associate of the band owned two dogs, one of which was kind of a biter (that would be By Tor), so naturally they wrote song about an epic battle between them.
By-Tor (Rhymes with DOOR) as many have said was the tip of the spear of the more adventurous Rush. That strange noise you heard was supposed to be growling. The fierce battle between By-Tor and the Snowdog. I've always thought it was bit loud because the groove underneath is so killer. Great song for sure...
👁️ BYTOR, TKE roomy ❄️ 🐕!
This is a fun song and the start of them finding their own sound. They did this live on the R30 tour I believe and Alex (snow dog) and Geddy ( Bytor) have fun with it on stage. Neil was on the same page musically with Geddy and Alex and their expanding is already starting to show on this album.
Cheers
👀 2112 on 21st 🎂!
Throw down to the RUSH nation. Let’s do Hemisphere’s live.
Damn dude, I barely had time for my edit!! Seriously, Hemisphere’s live would be a thing. We’ll spread the word.
First record had some great tunes actually not all but still some great stuff!Fly by Night a classic to!One my faves!
Please do the live album" All The World is a Stage".
It's right after 2112. It's very raw.
I believe the bass and squealing part was Taurus peddles along with bass and guitars. So I guess this lays rest to the horrendous critique! Very imaginative track for that era!
The RIO live version is the best!
This made my day!! I thoroughly enjoyed watching you listen to this on my lunch hour! Watched it twice actually! Told you’d like this one!! A silly song about 2 dogs that fought all the time. The best live version of this is off “All the Worlds a Stage” but has no video. It’s hard to find video of the whole song, but the “Exit Stage Left” has a good vid of the 1st part! I’m sure someone will enlighten you below on what other options there are! Thanks for making my day better! Be well and God bless… from Texas!!
Taurus ♉ Pedal!
They needed someone who had the mind for stories and narratives and Neil was certainly that. :) I love this whole song just because it is so different from anything else you'd ever hear on the radio at that time and also they all have fun and do interesting music. The slow part through the drums and into the guitar solo is tops for me. Atmospherics. It would be interesting to hear how they came up with that.
And so it begins. Or began. Because you already heard the rest like 2 weeks ago. Fuck it. You know what I mean. ;)
So the history of Rush finally has lift off!
There is a phaser, likely a Maestro, a tape delay, Roland I believe, prob. a volume pedal for the swells. He wasn't using distortion pedals at that time. Just Marshall and 335 goodness. The most famous song of them all using this effect was by Grand Funk and the song is the "Loco Motion". If i remember correctly, Todd Rundgren was the guitarist on that song. Also, the very very best of the majority of the live songs like Btyor, Fly by night, 2112. Something for nothing, Anthem, Bastile Day are performed on "All the world's a stage or ATWAS for short. The growling effect on ATWAS is over the top! Day I say Alex goes ballistic on that live album! It's easily Rush's heaviest metal album or them all!
A large portion By-Tor came from extended versions of Working Man when played live in the early shows. You can hear it on the Bootlegs "The Fifth Order of Angels" also called "ABC1974" (the later is even available on vinyl) if you are interested. It's also interesting as Neil had only been with the band for roughly a month when the bootleg was recorded. Cool reaction, thanks!
I heard this on some bootlegs I got about a year ago, and it was really neat to hear the germ of inspiration for this song.
I have that vinyl. It sounds real good...
Thanks Brian.
This is the first album with Neil Peart in RUSH and if you listen closely you can hear his love of THE WHO, the LED ZEPPELIN sound from RUSH the Album was already out the door, let the Progression begin ! This song just like so many of their songs never got air play except in Cleveland and Philly !
It is better live in my opinion, but still a fun song. It is great on their first live album. I heard the song played at least once live in person. Love the effects 👍🏻
8:00 Back before everything had to be As Loud As Possible.
I can't wait to see you listen to the live version of this on "All the World's a Stage". That atmospheric section and instrumental section after the first jam? Alex picked up quite a few more tricks from Caress of Steel and 2112, and his atmospheric effects are greatly enhanced and filled out (the song actually runs a lot longer on the live album). Geddy tweaked and enhanced the bass melody in the instrumental section, and it's bold and gritty and driving and sick! They used their experience to make the song better. Actually, that's true for all of the songs on that album.
To me it has always sounded like an overdubbed bass string rake. A technique Alex made generous use of, although my guess is it was created by Geddy.
The 1980 Alex Lifeson cover issue of Guitar Player there is also an interview with Geddy. He explains how he got the By-Tor battle tone. Yes it is bass.
This is one of my favorite Rush songs, and definitely one my top two picks out of their first 4 albums. The guys must have been around 22-23 years old when they recorded this, and I love the raw aggressive sound they get (and in all of the live recordings I've heard of it). While it might not be one of the band's masterpieces compared to their later work, I still think it holds up as a great example of early prog-metal and I still enjoy listening to it without reservation.
This was where they started to push the boundaries. They would continue in that direction on the following album Caress of Steel. While that album has it's flaws, there's something endearing about it. I feel the same way about this song. It's not perfect and they would do far better, but it is still really cool to see where the seeds where planted.
I know you said you're going to do the albums in order. I hope you're not going to skip the live ones along the way. All The World's A Stage is their first live effort with tracks from their first four records. Something tells me you're going to have a different take on a bunch of the earlier tunes you thought were somewhat throw aways. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Rush was an amazing live band and those early tunes sound much better in the live setting. Cheers!
Neil sees 2 dogs and this is the story his mind creates. Geeze.
Rush fans do it in odd time signature in F sharp! \m/!
It took until 2013 for Rush to be inducted into the R&R Hall....."The group has been awarded 24 gold, 14 platinum and 3 multi-platinum albums. That ranks them fifth - behind The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, Kiss and Aerosmith - on the all-time list for most consecutive gold or platinum studio albums by a rock band." Yep J., this is where Rush evolves in a progressive tour de force! Remember the forces at play during that period in terms of the music industry. Love your analyses!
3 guys that got along very well, left their respective egos at the door, then proceeded to experiment and evolve together to form a genius band for the ages. The stars must have been aligned for Neil to join this band. He wanted to write and play progressive. Geddy and Alex wanted to get more progressive and didn't care to write lyrics. To say they found their guy is an understatement. Enough is said about Neil being one the greatest drummers, but his lyric writing is profound, relatable and seemingly timeless. Especially his late 70's onward.
Well said, my friend! I read someone the other day who called them “Pretentious”!! Total blasphemy.. LOL! Be well!
I have always wondered how they made the growling sounds. It sounds like Geddy is making his base puke.
If you were a stoner kid in the late 70s this was the shit. Especially the live version .
Have you watched any of the documentaries?
not yet
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I honestly have no idea and that sounds pretty annoying.
Sounds like he's saying byder
or biter .. like my snow dog is a biter lol
If you thought this song is crazy wait until you get to The Necromancer on Caress of Steel, it’s a pseudo sequel to this song.🤘🏻
You will be amazing how their sound changes over their albums. You can hear how they came into being who they became musically. Enjoy ur journey. It will be epic. Glad I am on the ride with you. I have heard all their songs and its just fun to do it all over again.
Listen to All the worlds astage.
My favorite pre-2112 track. First Rush epic. Without Neil (drumming & lyrics) contributing to By-Tor we may have never had other epics. By-Tor paved the way for Rush’s sound going forward and for other epics - Necromancer, Fountain, 2112, Xanadu, Natural Science and Camera Eye.
Every time I hear Iron Maiden's "Rime Of The Ancient Mariner", the slow part in the ocean, it reminds me of the slow part in By-Tor and The Snowdog. Seems like an influence to me!
This song is a lot better live, in my opinion, specifically the Rush in Rio performance.
It's great to see how even at this early stage they were having fun with the whole power trio setup. My only complaint with the song is the stoner guitar solo, which was cut after a few years. But clearly they knew how important this song was. It was a staple of their early live shows, and was then promoted to closer/encore status. They finally dropped it from setlists in the 80s, but it returned with a vengeance in the early 00s. The cartoon film made for this in the 00s is hilarious: th-cam.com/video/BBSg2-r6gA8/w-d-xo.html
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After hearing it live on all the world's a stage the studio version bored me. Live is crisper, heavier, more metallic, loser, and has a lot of extended epic pieces added to it. Gotta listen to that live version on atwas to get a real appreciation of the song. This album was the bands transition period from zeppelin like heavy straight forward blues rock to a more epic, metallic, and prog era. So in these next couple of albums they were still working out the kinks. But live they allowed themselves some freedom to just jam and experiment more. They went from being a zeppelin knock off to a band that actually influence several bands in the next decade ie maiden, metallica, queensryche etc.
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