Guitarist Reacts To RUSH!! Jacob's Ladder (Studio Version Reaction!) Part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
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After you finish with this discumentary, you have to watch Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage. Sooo good. Keep going brother!
The live "Exit, Stage Left" version of Jacob's Ladder is awesome. Alex's playing is SICK! It gives that already-badass lead just that much more BURN and it turns into one for the ages! I guess you'll be doing the ESL live album in due course -- after Moving Pictures -- and you'll see what I mean!
I'm not a guitar player, can't play any instrument for that matter....but Alex's guitar work has always blown me away. No one else sounds like him. This song is big & sweeping, as befits a song about the weather & the skies and I think the keys add to it. Just a note: when you go into Entre Nous, the most important part of that song is the lyrics. I know you don't generally break those down, but in this case, it's something you should really go into.
Love Jacob’s Ladder. I can’t play shit either
This song is so evocative. I think it's a great lead-in to Moving Pictures, because it painted such a picture of storm clouds, lightning, thunder, and those Jacob's Ladder shafts of light at the end of a storm. Magical.
This is one of my favorites!! Such a big sweeping sound and all of it guided by Neil and Geddy with plenty of room for Alex to just play over the top of them! Be well and God Bless… from Texas!!
Loving that you are listening to the albums in their entirety this time. Gets you through all the songs so you can post them more consistently, and also you get to hear the albums as they were meant to be. Cant wait for the 80's albums!
Been listening to this song for over 30 years…I still can’t count off that crazy time signature at the end! What a clinic. 😎
The instrumental section near the end is alternating measures of 6/8 and 7/8. The way Neil accents the snare rolls them together is awesome
This one will grown on ya a LOT over time, just as had been mentioned, the ESL live show is awesome!!
Thanks for mentioning the "up front" drums being "soft" as well. Never really took note of that before! COOL!
I practiced that snare intro for hours as a 12 year old drummer who just started playing.👍🔥🎧🤘🏻
This is Rush's "Kashmir".
They're maturing exponentially...🤯
Jacob’s Ladder is a time-keeper’s dream.
It is a soundtrack, but to a passing storm. It is all (mostly) about the drums and building the atmosphere, and being slow and relentless. I'm not a drummer (just a fan) but i'm pretty sure Neil doesn't repeat very much (in terms of bars - there's always something different) in the entire track.
Put it on next time you've got thunderstorms in the area and you will love it.
I think the drumming is.... refined.... This album marks the refinement of their journey. Every track on this album is genius.
Love Permanent Waves! You can really see the direction they're heading with this album. Like you mentioned the addition of more keyboards is the way music was in 1980, and I think they were expanding their sound to incorporate the style of some of their influences at the time.
Structure, composition and ambiance are never matched by any other bands Rush is all on their own. Can't wait for you to get to Different Strings Alex will bend your brain
As a drummer I just find that song to be brilliant. Not the hardest to play but so interesting in the way the drum part progresses throughout. It kinda take importance as the rest of the music stays the course while the drum keeps adding little variants and some dynamic and rhythmic changes. Subtle and brilliant!!!
I've thought long and hard about the objections of the original Rush fans to the introduction of the keyboards, and then electronic drums, and then their musical changes, especially later in their careers, and I've come to this conclusion: The HAD to do this. First, they are musicians' musicians; they were absorbing sounds and ideas not only from classical music, rock, and jazz, but also from world music, and in the course of doing so, it made sense for them to be flexible, change their sounds and instrumentation, and go where those ideas lead them. Moreover, the thing we laud about Rush was their longevity - over 40 years together. That could never have happened if they did not change their sounds and adapt, which includes expanding their instruments to add to their sound palate. If they had not done so, they would have grown bored and broken up like so many other bands. Even though I'm a fan of their earlier, more "proggy" music, I never begrudged them the freedom to innovate and to indulge their musical urges and maintain their creative interest.
Disagree with due respect on the opening. The opening fits the song, the calm before the storm. The mood fits the lyrics.
But good stuff, I dig your reactions!
Yeah - it was the guitar solo that always excited me. It's like a primal scream. I've always loved it. Another unique thing about this song is that the guitar solo is at the beginning. I wish it was longer. I wouldn't have objected to another one at the end of the song either.
Movie soundtrack is a good description.
Permanent waves is really really good as far as the keyboards go because the keyboards do not drive the riff, the guitar still does that like their previous albums, whereas later in the mid to late 80s the keyboards are sometimes the main riff of the song and that wasn't always something I liked a lot by Rush, best example is on hold your fire
I can't count that pattern either at the end, but no surprise. :) So interesting to me. One reason among many why I listen is that they're not stuck in set time signatures that often and even when they are there's something else interesting going on.
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Check out this guy doing a wicked cover ! !
Jacob's Ladder - RUSH - Piano Cover Version by Vikram Shankar
The cleanest drum sound arrived with the next album 'Moving Pictures', where Neil switches to Tama to great effect!
Outstanding Video!!!
Think of what a Jacob's Ladder is....the Keys paint you a picture. Tension Ascension....
This album was recorded at a different studio than the previous ones, they also used additional engineers here, leaving Terry as more of a producer of the overall effort.
Can you explain what a "bend" is for those of us who are not guitar players?
I think the word you're looking for is, "ominous."
Drums comment - the Album has one of the best even mixes of any of the albums. This is the start of the keyboards and it takes over - I used to say they took Alex's guitar from him. The upcoming albums lose the balance. They are GOOD - don't get me wrong - in fact Hold Your Fire is one of my fav albums but Alex lost his guitar.
geddy and Neil were much more into thinking through sections and compositions, but Alex is a much more free flowing style of creative. Geddy says alex would often just up and leave while Neil and geddy were hashing out specifics about a song. Thats not to say that Alex didnt think this solo through, but his creative process is definitely more of a free flowing thing where he just sits down and plays some shit, maybe tweaks it and rearranges it a few times. I think thats why hes such a godly 'feel' player. Geddy and Neil were much more interested in constructing an intricate building brick by brick, where each brick has a specific place and shape.