Her is a video where he is seated at the dinner table with his parents. They are imploring him to stay in school. He tells them he doesn't need school because he is going to play music for a living. th-cam.com/video/M977GFRWDmY/w-d-xo.html
@@Harmonic14 amen! He has nothing on Alex. I don't care how good is solos were some or this great songwriting ( even though Rodger Waters was the Real Genius of Pink Floyd) but Gilmore ALL TOGETHER, at some point, gets bit overblown and I'm sick of not hearing about Alex. Doing a nice vibrato on a pentatonic scale does not even remotely compared to Alex. And that's just the lead guitar! Alex lifeson though is obviously way more versatile L Rhythm guitarist!! ithout Roger Waters, what was Gilmore come up with but the fucking album at the end of the eighties and the one in 1994? That's not real Pink Floyd! That's activate Gilmour solo band that's glorified by a different name to sell records
All he has to do is learn a few Rush songs and it told me everything else I ever need to know about rock and roll from Pornos to Pyro's to fugazi to Metallica to The Beatles to Jane'd addiction to everybody ON GUITAR. Once I learn those Russians I never had to learn again and it's because I'm really a depth at sounding stuff out and stuff, but still--Rush, THE Beatles. and Metallica taught me how to play guitar. Eff yeah! ( had a little too much Foose tonight but it makes you feel good even at 46th to have been taught by these great bands essentially(
@@chippchipp1 Not so sure. I do think they have some similarities. I am a little more impressed with Alex and his range. He applies that big, emotional sound to so many styles. Take a sampling across Gillmour and Lifeson's works and there is just much more range/variety in Lifeson's. That in no way distracts from the mastership of Gilmour. I just have to give the overall nod to Alex there.
I will never forget the morning I first heard this song on the radio in Los Angeles. I was a kid getting ready for school and I had to stop in my tracks when I heard the beauty of this guitar solo. This whole song blew me away the first time I heard it, and it still does, some 40 years later...
As a fellow Los Angeleno who was a kid at the time this came out, I totally relate to your comment. I heard it on the bus to junior high and we all just sat there with That Look. So privileged to have been witness to so much classic material from this period. Not just Rush but Police, too many to mention.....will never be like that again.
Alex is one guitar player that actually used a fuller sounding distortion. A lot of bands from this time used scratchy shitty overdrive. Alex sounds huge in comparison
Blaze Infernus part of it is the fact that certain riffs (all rhythms) are double tracked. One track had effects, the other was dry. Double tracking is more important to thickness of his sound, the flange and chorus is definitely his signature tho!
@@curragh4635 a lot of guitar players use a slight detuning effect, combined with a short millisecond (around 4-7 ms) delay in between two amps to emulate the doubling effect from the studio. Alex' rig constantly changed through the years, but his live tone approach was probably different then when tracking in the studio. Love Alex' sound and approach!
The little things one hears in isolation... 2:01 That chord trailing off as the harmonics come back in...so amazing. The voicings and tone choices Alex used on this album (and just about every other album) are so unique and hard to define. They bring out so many nostalgic feelings.
Imagine them playing this at Le Studio with the snow outside and fine French food at every turn. I love the pictures of the studio from that time and I love the vibe the place conveyed... just this unpretentious coolness. They put in the time, the energy, and sacrificed a lot for where they landed, and we're all better off because of it.
Lifeson rules this rock n roll planet...but he still stands on the shoulders of the giants that went before him...Alex Lifeson..What a talent...pure genius..👍
There is nobody that can create the feeling he has on guitar there’s a few others that have good soul but he really knows how to shift a mood with music
Nick Shermer reading tabs is awesome to begin but you should try to drop them as soon as possible, you could try watching youtube tutorials next to improve and then when you feel ready try to learn by ear.
@@epsilon6516 I think it's some kind of F chord with an alternating E in the bass. The way I learned it (whether it's correct or not), is to fret the low E, B, and high E all on the first fret. Then strike the low E letting it ring out, and play quick staccato notes on the high strings (a reggae-like upstroke). On each round, you'll alternate between fretting the low E (on the F) and playing it open, and it just goes back and forth. Remember to quickly mute the high strings each time to give it that staccato effect.
the most melodic guitarist in music history... 30,000+ different notes per record... nothing was the same... year to year ,, song to song,, verse to chorus ,,
I get what you mean, and all these yars later am still enthusiastic about their music. I was pretty much an Alex Lifeson guitar clone for a couple of years. So much so I had to literally stop listening to them for years so I could develop my own style. But in western music there are typically only 12 notes, and having learned to play every note he put on all of their albums up to Power Windows, I can say I am 100% certain they don't have even one song with all 12 of those notes. Just saying that because new players need to understand how easy it is, and in particular to not be intimidated by music theory. Music theory is essentially as easy as A, B, C, D, E, F, G and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Put those together and you have the music theory of the key of A minor. After that, it's mostly just a matter of moving that same thing around to different places on the fretboard.
Even if I haven't heard this song in a year, images pop into my head and I can always see myself jumping off the train into the fields, and later, pulling back the tarp that covered the car in the barn. That's a big part of why it's a great song.
It*s so tastefull!!! Not only Alex. This is a perfect example for their symbiotic musical soul...just brilliant. And I still hear the roooooaaarrrrr of da Barchetta each and everytime, in that magnificant intrumental Bridge....PURE GODS
He definitely influenced me - his open chords with drone notes… and how he picks chords - it’s more symphonic gives the illusion of more than one instrument
Everything about his guitar part sounds like revving engines, squealing tires, shifting gears, the hum of the engine and tires on the road, pistons and exhaust
I said it was "simpler than their other songs" (which it is) not "simple". Is English your 2nd language? or if not, why would you be insulting? Oh, look at dbrowns page - another no content anonymous pussy - you guys who cannot do anything themselves are so bitter. I played in Pegasus which was a VERY popular RUSH cover band for +20 years. Now playing solo. Where is YOUR music??? @@dbrown6451
i just dont see how they came up with a song like this and it's not like one guy sat down with an acoustic, wrote it himself and then showed the others; their stuff somehow came from all three jamming together and then just Neil would come up with lyrics to fit the song and to think they did this over and over for yrs...AND Alex always just happened to come up with leads that fit each song perfectly, I dont see how they had enough time to accomplish all this especially since they were almost always touring. Rush is like a miracle.
that chord change at 1:50 OMG!!! when i heard that at 10 years old …i was like what just happen…😃😃😃😃😃Alex is the most creative …melodic yet technically efficient gutarist out there and so fricking underrated !!!! rip Neil🥁🥁🥁🥁🎸🎸🔥🔥🔥
And I've realized now I've been playing it wrong for 40 years, I was overplaying it. This makes me want to quit playing 🤣 The layers and effects, you don't realize the depth of things until you hear them isolated, amazing!
This song is a glorious example of Rush's ability to create musical imagery. During that solo, you are in that car chase, just as, during the Trees, you enter a forest.
Alex channeling his inner Jimi Page 110% on this song. Brilliant stuff! This song brings back fond early childhood memories in front of the record player set @ 16 RPM with my guitar in hand.
Being a bass player, I absolutely love Geddy!!!! But seriously ........where does Alex find these chords???? He is un-freaking-real! So underrated!!!!!!
I used to hesitate to say Alex and was my favorite guitar player bc of Jimmy Page. I get that we wouldnt have Alex if not for Jimmu but I like Alex more. Plus hes a humble goodball like so many of us and not afraid to hide it.
Got drawn on this epic Rush dream tour when I first heard limelight back in 1981. Musicianship from a Trio who have blown away other bands with just a song like Natural science . Neil Peart’s drumming , on almost every night on tour is like watching a master sword Maker , who strives to make perfection happen every time ..
Love that smooth amp distortion, doesn't have the high end fizz of a pedal and you can hear alex is picking pretty hard, but there's also a lot of clarity
It's easy for any guitar player to just throw in suspended chords wherever you feel like it, but Alex makes it into a high art on so many of his rhythm parts.
One of the highlights of the Moving Pictures tour is the animated film that played behind them during this song. Just hearing the guitar part alone is enough to give me goosebumps!!!
Used to play this on the bass and Im pretty sure the guitar is much harder! I'll start working on this song soon. I know I won't be a great guitar player but even if I can mush my way through it, it will be fun.
brocks clips i’m a bass player, bass sure is showed up by lead guitar, but it’s not “underrated”, we’re the ones that hold the whole song together, (but so does every other instrument) but the lead guitar should be louder, otherwise the song would sound weird (unless it’s primus or something)
What exactly does he play during the chorus? The part that has: "Down in his barn, My uncle preserved for me an old machine, For fifty odd years, To keep it as new has been his dearest dream"?
O Alex Lifeson é um guitarrista pra lá de versátil. Outros desprezam ele. Mas Geddy Lee e Neil não abrem mão dele. Lembrando que Alex Lifeson não se importa se a parte dele é simples. Vide Tom Sawyer. Ele reconhece com bom humor que a parte dele é mamão com açúcar e ele está de boa se notado como coadjuvante. Não se incomoda com virtuose monstruosa do Neil e Geddy. Por isso que eu considero Rush um dos maiores trio power da história senão o maior mesmo.
Is this song recorded with a LP right? I hear more mids in this guitar track compared to others of the same era that sound more ES-335 to me. The solo of the song sounds ES-335 to me.
@@jsullivan2112 Yes in this era he is very related with Hiwatts. I have a Strat with humbucker in the bridge. I'll try to match this sound using some guitar plugins with hiwatt sims.
He's still one of the greatest, even though others might rate him lower than he deserves. I believe that it's much more than playing super fast and/or playing something technically difficult that makes a great player. It has always been like that since Handel and Mozart, once we left the Baroque behind. I've heard faster solos and crazy speed metal, but once it's over, neither the song nor the solo really sticks around in my head, because its just not memorable, in terms of lyric, emotional melody. So much just tends to be "grind it out and blow you over" guitar work. But Alex is an artist compared to most that are just painters. We most likely all can agree that it's not the number of notes per measure that makes a song or a solo great, but rather which exact notes you play, how, when and with what tone. So much of Alex's work is so memorable, like every note of his solo on La Villa, or the crying battle between his guitar and the violin on Losing It, which just screams misery, pain and the pathetic sadness of old age. Here, he nails the sounds of a car sliding around a corner on a dirt road, and if listen (I was fortunate to restore and own an Alfa Romeo, so I hear it) you can hear the " accelerate, clutch, shift; accelerate, clutch, shift" pulsing going on in the undercurrent. It's in time with " WELL weathered leather; hot METAL on oil, the SCENT of the country air" all the words in caps are on the acceleration, than the quick clutch and the shift (which is two clicks, once coming out of gear and than clicking into the next gear) so it's on " lea-ther) is into second, and "oy-ill" is second into third; than into fourth on " air" than there is a fill by Neil,( because it's a four speed) "sunlight on chrome" you can hear Geddys voice as he gets nervous, because now we are downshifting at speed, "the blur of the landscape" as we go back into fourth gear and nail the gas "EVERY NERVE AWARE!!!!" because now we are freaking flying over these gravel curves and are going for broke and you can than hear the big slide and Alex dives into the "chase" of the solo. Really, this is just light years ahead of what most bands were ever capable of. Is you haven't, read the story that inspired Neil to wrote this song. It has the car chase, the mad dash, spinning and reversible course on the road to double back, I mean, they nailed it! In the original story of course, the car was an MG, but the whole feeling of the story was kept, just put into the future a bit. That's why Alex is worthy or being called great. And yeah, they wrote the song in a couple days at Le Studio. Amazing.
Solo starts at 3:25.
Great upload bro! How did you get this?
@@markusaurelius777 I'm afraid I'm not authorized to say lol
@@ThiagoVelosodosSantos I already know LOL
Guitar hero :P
@@markusaurelius777 .
Alex's parents must be so freakin' proud. They did good letting him learn guitar and live his dreams.
Her is a video where he is seated at the dinner table with his parents. They are imploring him to stay in school. He tells them he doesn't need school because he is going to play music for a living. th-cam.com/video/M977GFRWDmY/w-d-xo.html
Alex Lifeson is the greatest guitarist at portraying emotion and meaning.
Yes!
chippchipp1 Gilmour wishes he could play something La Villa Strangiato... lmao most overrated guitarist on the planet
@@Harmonic14 amen! He has nothing on Alex. I don't care how good is solos were some or this great songwriting ( even though Rodger Waters was the Real Genius of Pink Floyd) but Gilmore ALL TOGETHER, at some point, gets bit overblown and I'm sick of not hearing about Alex. Doing a nice vibrato on a pentatonic scale does not even remotely compared to Alex. And that's just the lead guitar! Alex lifeson though is obviously way more versatile L Rhythm guitarist!!
ithout Roger Waters, what was Gilmore come up with but the fucking album at the end of the eighties and the one in 1994? That's not real Pink Floyd! That's activate Gilmour solo band that's glorified by a different name to sell records
All he has to do is learn a few Rush songs and it told me everything else I ever need to know about rock and roll from Pornos to Pyro's to fugazi to Metallica to The Beatles to Jane'd addiction to everybody ON GUITAR. Once I learn those Russians I never had to learn again and it's because I'm really a depth at sounding stuff out and stuff, but still--Rush, THE Beatles. and Metallica taught me how to play guitar. Eff yeah! ( had a little too much Foose tonight but it makes you feel good even at 46th to have been taught by these great bands essentially(
@@chippchipp1 Not so sure. I do think they have some similarities. I am a little more impressed with Alex and his range. He applies that big, emotional sound to so many styles. Take a sampling across Gillmour and Lifeson's works and there is just much more range/variety in Lifeson's. That in no way distracts from the mastership of Gilmour. I just have to give the overall nod to Alex there.
Words cannot describe the amazing quality of Alex's tone on his solo. Sends chills down my spine. So much midrange.
His tone is always mouth watering, I can’t comprehend how he always found a beautiful tone for each album
@@maximilianodelrio
Agreed, but in signals it was faaaaar away, very hidden or distant…😢
I will never forget the morning I first heard this song on the radio in Los Angeles. I was a kid getting ready for school and I had to stop in my tracks when I heard the beauty of this guitar solo. This whole song blew me away the first time I heard it, and it still does, some 40 years later...
Awesome story, thanks for sharing!
As a fellow Los Angeleno who was a kid at the time this came out, I totally relate to your comment. I heard it on the bus to junior high and we all just sat there with That Look. So privileged to have been witness to so much classic material from this period. Not just Rush but Police, too many to mention.....will never be like that again.
First song I heard on this album pre-release. Then Limelight and Vital Signs if I recall.
Awesome
Alex is one guitar player that actually used a fuller sounding distortion. A lot of bands from this time used scratchy shitty overdrive. Alex sounds huge in comparison
Yo foreal
Blaze Infernus part of it is the fact that certain riffs (all rhythms) are double tracked. One track had effects, the other was dry. Double tracking is more important to thickness of his sound, the flange and chorus is definitely his signature tho!
@@snapascrew explain how he gets this sound live then
@@curragh4635 a lot of guitar players use a slight detuning effect, combined with a short millisecond (around 4-7 ms) delay in between two amps to emulate the doubling effect from the studio. Alex' rig constantly changed through the years, but his live tone approach was probably different then when tracking in the studio. Love Alex' sound and approach!
@@diezel013 awesome man
The little things one hears in isolation...
2:01 That chord trailing off as the harmonics come back in...so amazing. The voicings and tone choices Alex used on this album (and just about every other album) are so unique and hard to define. They bring out so many nostalgic feelings.
I know! Every "Moving Pictures" track is just so rich in details... You can very easily tell that A LOT of thought was put into each of them!
It would be a C6
Kris Carter you hear a lot from isolated tracks. Not live. So?
Kris Carter if that surprised ya, listen to the bass isolation.
Sounds like he punched that one chord in. What a masterpiece.
That solo sounds like it's coming at you from a tunnel.
Imagine them playing this at Le Studio with the snow outside and fine French food at every turn. I love the pictures of the studio from that time and I love the vibe the place conveyed... just this unpretentious coolness. They put in the time, the energy, and sacrificed a lot for where they landed, and we're all better off because of it.
This song has the greatest outro ever in my opinion. Geddys bass with Alex’s harmonics over luscious chorus? Yup, that’s my shit
They are not over chorus, chorus is over the harmonics and the bass. Learn grammar. Soon
@@AL_1991wetting your panties over a TH-cam comment 3 years ago is crazy
man even after hearing this song 1000000 times, i *always* learn something new when i listen to an isolated track. thank you for posting these!!!
Lifeson rules this rock n roll planet...but he still stands on the shoulders of the giants that went before him...Alex Lifeson..What a talent...pure genius..👍
The clarity and dreamy sound is mind blowing. Such a full sound. That drop in notes at 00:52 is such an awesome touch
Alex will forever be my guitar idol
There is nobody that can create the feeling he has on guitar there’s a few others that have good soul but he really knows how to shift a mood with music
Going from the Asus4 to the F to E part at 1:16 gets me every time. Love that transition.
Wish I could tell what chords they are by sound, all I can do is read tabs and I still get confused.
Nick Shermer reading tabs is awesome to begin but you should try to drop them as soon as possible, you could try watching youtube tutorials next to improve and then when you feel ready try to learn by ear.
@@epsilon6516 It's actually really simple, you just need a bit of ear training.
@@epsilon6516 I think it's some kind of F chord with an alternating E in the bass. The way I learned it (whether it's correct or not), is to fret the low E, B, and high E all on the first fret. Then strike the low E letting it ring out, and play quick staccato notes on the high strings (a reggae-like upstroke). On each round, you'll alternate between fretting the low E (on the F) and playing it open, and it just goes back and forth. Remember to quickly mute the high strings each time to give it that staccato effect.
Man that tone and those chord choices. Also, that re-entry into the third verse from the solo with those arpeggios. Perfection!
the most melodic guitarist in music history...
30,000+ different notes per record...
nothing was the same...
year to year ,, song to song,, verse to chorus ,,
I get what you mean, and all these yars later am still enthusiastic about their music.
I was pretty much an Alex Lifeson guitar clone for a couple of years. So much so I had to literally stop listening to them for years so I could develop my own style.
But in western music there are typically only 12 notes, and having learned to play every note he put on all of their albums up to Power Windows, I can say I am 100% certain they don't have even one song with all 12 of those notes.
Just saying that because new players need to understand how easy it is, and in particular to not be intimidated by music theory. Music theory is essentially as easy as A, B, C, D, E, F, G and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Put those together and you have the music theory of the key of A minor. After that, it's mostly just a matter of moving that same thing around to different places on the fretboard.
amen. thx
Even if I haven't heard this song in a year, images pop into my head and I can always see myself jumping off the train into the fields, and later, pulling back the tarp that covered the car in the barn.
That's a big part of why it's a great song.
It*s so tastefull!!! Not only Alex. This is a perfect example for their symbiotic musical soul...just brilliant. And I still hear the roooooaaarrrrr of da Barchetta each and everytime, in that magnificant intrumental Bridge....PURE GODS
He definitely influenced me - his open chords with drone notes… and how he picks chords - it’s more symphonic gives the illusion of more than one instrument
Everything about his guitar part sounds like revving engines, squealing tires, shifting gears, the hum of the engine and tires on the road, pistons and exhaust
Put the other two bandmates together and you have one of the top three greatest bands of all time.
Very fun song to cover, its actually one of Rush's simpler songs to play but it gets a pretty good audience reception. Brilliant arrangement!
it's simple yet extremely powerful, just like a lot of their songs, the complexity comes when everything is put together
Couldn't agree more, the solo is a bit tricky though
It’s not simple if you play it correctly. You probably do not.
I said it was "simpler than their other songs" (which it is) not "simple". Is English your 2nd language? or if not, why would you be insulting? Oh, look at dbrowns page - another no content anonymous pussy - you guys who cannot do anything themselves are so bitter. I played in Pegasus which was a VERY popular RUSH cover band for +20 years. Now playing solo. Where is YOUR music??? @@dbrown6451
i just dont see how they came up with a song like this and it's not like one guy sat down with an acoustic, wrote it himself and then showed the others; their stuff somehow came from all three jamming together and then just Neil would come up with lyrics to fit the song and to think they did this over and over for yrs...AND Alex always just happened to come up with leads that fit each song perfectly, I dont see how they had enough time to accomplish all this especially since they were almost always touring. Rush is like a miracle.
This song is one of my favorites. Great musicianship, and it all blends together to well. Plus - the story is so entertaining. Fantastic lyrics.
There aren’t any bands out there that can emote more charisma and passion through every chord like Rush can!
that chord change at 1:50 OMG!!! when i heard that at 10 years old …i was like what just happen…😃😃😃😃😃Alex is the most creative …melodic yet technically efficient gutarist out there and so fricking underrated !!!! rip Neil🥁🥁🥁🥁🎸🎸🔥🔥🔥
And I've realized now I've been playing it wrong for 40 years, I was overplaying it. This makes me want to quit playing 🤣 The layers and effects, you don't realize the depth of things until you hear them isolated, amazing!
This song is a glorious example of Rush's ability to create musical imagery. During that solo, you are in that car chase, just as, during the Trees, you enter a forest.
Alex channeling his inner Jimi Page 110% on this song. Brilliant stuff! This song brings back fond early childhood memories in front of the record player set @ 16 RPM with my guitar in hand.
The tone Alex got out of those Gibson ES’s is so beautiful and unique. He was a prodigy. A true guitarist virtuoso.
Being a bass player, I absolutely love Geddy!!!! But seriously ........where does Alex find these chords???? He is un-freaking-real! So underrated!!!!!!
I love the 2 chords he switches between @ 4:22. Just something about them.
Wtf is that at 4:22... have heard this a million times and didn't know that was there. Like seeing a unicorn.
The solo is Alex the rest is the dude playing to a backing track. Tell me I'm wrong Mr dos Santos.
Guitar God..
I used to hesitate to say Alex and was my favorite guitar player bc of Jimmy Page. I get that we wouldnt have Alex if not for Jimmu but I like Alex more. Plus hes a humble goodball like so many of us and not afraid to hide it.
Alex Lifeson is a Guitar 🎸 God.
Yep
Would be a great video for Alex to play along with this so we can see his left hand magic, and the right.
Got drawn on this epic Rush dream tour when I first heard limelight back in 1981. Musicianship from a Trio who have blown away other bands with just a song like Natural science . Neil Peart’s drumming , on almost every night on tour is like watching a master sword
Maker , who strives to make perfection happen every time ..
The beauty of this is it sounds just as good when played on a plain acoustic guitar. All the added effects just make it even better.
That's the magic of Rush, all their songs were recorded with virtually no overdubs, so they could play them with one guitar
Amazing stuff. Such an influential guitarist. Thanks for sharing man!
So much easier to figure a song out by ear this way!
Ona Saturday night I come across this...after 68 shows, the last one being 8/1/15...you made me cry...what a treat...thanks
that part when he comes out of the solo and back into the riff always makes me smile
Greatest of all time IMO...Period!
This song is life.
Son
I like the flanger effect in guitar.
Very beautiful
Red Barchetta is definitely in my Top 5 Rush songs ever killer tune!!
WOW........!!!!! Dynamite hearing Alex's isolated guitar playing!!!! Awesome...
Oh Man ..... the clarity, I hear now. Thank you SO much for this.
Love that smooth amp distortion, doesn't have the high end fizz of a pedal and you can hear alex is picking pretty hard, but there's also a lot of clarity
That was cool to listen to, I would love to hear Geddy's vocals isolated on any song.
F*****g superb!!
It's easy for any guitar player to just throw in suspended chords wherever you feel like it, but Alex makes it into a high art on so many of his rhythm parts.
Whoa! Seen him over many decades with 355's, Les Pauls, modified Strats, PRS's, Signatures, Telecasters, but never seen him with THAT guitar before!
Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion.
He uses it on the Tom Sawyer video footage from Exit Stage Left
Love it !!!
One of the highlights of the Moving Pictures tour is the animated film that played behind them during this song. Just hearing the guitar part alone is enough to give me goosebumps!!!
One of kind for sure. He makes it easy to if rush in the first eight bars of the song.
So underrated! One of the best!🇨🇦
The chords that Alex plays at the 4:22 - 4:25 mark are simple but profound.
Very much so. I never knew they were there until listening to this.
me either
Well, I've definitely been playing that bit wrong! 😅
@@dominolexington9435 thats why the isolated stuff is so dam cool. I've been listening to this song for 39 yrs and I thought I knew it all
Wow yes amazing detail. Perfect
My head just exploded!
Love it. Thanks for sharing
Such an underrated guitarist! It's great to hear an actual iso (vs some fakes out there) btw. Thanks for sharing!
You're very welcome man!
Fred Jaminson, huh?
Shallex, true...that’s b/c they’re humble humans and each other’s fans! It’s no wonder they stayed together so many years.
We need to change this bs saying !
Awesome...
Absolutely badass
Used to play this on the bass and Im pretty sure the guitar is much harder! I'll start working on this song soon.
I know I won't be a great guitar player but even if I can mush my way through it, it will be fun.
Can anyone properly date this performance? Truly brilliant! Few players in the world can replicate studio quality in concert.
It's isolated from the original recording - 1981.
From Moving Pictures.
Exhilarating. Truly.
Oh my God…. Hearing this track we perceive that other Rush members were cavemen!!! What a sensibility, finesse, elegance and precision!!!
This isn't kidnapping,this is totally kidnapping" where is that from?
Trailer park boys
Mano, minha música favorita do Rush, pqp.
Então aproveita bastante meu!
F*****g wonderful
red barchetta but only alex went to Le studio
My all time favorite….
Why is famous actor Owen Wilson in the thumbnail?
The bass holds the whole song together
Not necessarily, this is great too. They both work together. The bass would be useless without alex
@@SWMP1523 I know but bass is underrated
brocks clips i’m a bass player, bass sure is showed up by lead guitar, but it’s not “underrated”, we’re the ones that hold the whole song together, (but so does every other instrument) but the lead guitar should be louder, otherwise the song would sound weird (unless it’s primus or something)
Need the video , I want to see these amazing performances
What exactly does he play during the chorus? The part that has: "Down in his barn, My uncle preserved for me an old machine, For fifty odd years, To keep it as new has been his dearest dream"?
🐐
Where do people get these isolated tracks?
Cool ending note
my favorite Rush song......probably...
A Fender Stratocaster was used on the Exit Stage Left DVD
The hentor strat
@@curragh4635 you mean hentor sports :-D
Like that note at the end that was edited out for the record.
Double guitar tracking at it's finest!
Moving Pictures is my favorite song.
10 guitarists in the same room wouldnt sound as huge. Unbelievable
What are they using to isolate the track
O Alex Lifeson é um guitarrista pra lá de versátil.
Outros desprezam ele. Mas Geddy Lee e Neil não abrem mão dele.
Lembrando que Alex Lifeson não se importa se a parte dele é simples. Vide Tom Sawyer. Ele reconhece com bom humor que a parte dele é mamão com açúcar e ele está de boa se notado como coadjuvante. Não se incomoda com virtuose monstruosa do Neil e Geddy.
Por isso que eu considero Rush um dos maiores trio power da história senão o maior mesmo.
O Alex Lifeson é um dos meus guitarristas favoritos. Ele, Randy e o EVH tem um lugar grande no meu coração.
Do more than a feeling acoustic and lofi electric?
whoa! that sssssssssssssssssooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Killer!🎵👍
OH remix time!!!!!!!
Is this song recorded with a LP right? I hear more mids in this guitar track compared to others of the same era that sound more ES-335 to me. The solo of the song sounds ES-335 to me.
@@jsullivan2112 This song was recorded with a Strat really?
@@jsullivan2112 This info is gold for me
@@jsullivan2112 That Electric Mistress is the same one Andy Summer also used a lot?
@@jsullivan2112 Yes in this era he is very related with Hiwatts. I have a Strat with humbucker in the bridge. I'll try to match this sound using some guitar plugins with hiwatt sims.
@@ALBERTOGARCIA-nk9bo strat with a PAF at the bridge position. His famous Hentor Sportscaster.
He's still one of the greatest, even though others might rate him lower than he deserves. I believe that it's much more than playing super fast and/or playing something technically difficult that makes a great player. It has always been like that since Handel and Mozart, once we left the Baroque behind.
I've heard faster solos and crazy speed metal, but once it's over, neither the song nor the solo really sticks around in my head, because its just not memorable, in terms of lyric, emotional melody. So much just tends to be "grind it out and blow you over" guitar work. But Alex is an artist compared to most that are just painters.
We most likely all can agree that it's not the number of notes per measure that makes a song or a solo great, but rather which exact notes you play, how, when and with what tone.
So much of Alex's work is so memorable, like every note of his solo on La Villa, or the crying battle between his guitar and the violin on Losing It, which just screams misery, pain and the pathetic sadness of old age.
Here, he nails the sounds of a car sliding around a corner on a dirt road, and if listen (I was fortunate to restore and own an Alfa Romeo, so I hear it) you can hear the " accelerate, clutch, shift; accelerate, clutch, shift" pulsing going on in the undercurrent. It's in time with " WELL weathered leather; hot METAL on oil, the SCENT of the country air" all the words in caps are on the acceleration, than the quick clutch and the shift (which is two clicks, once coming out of gear and than clicking into the next gear) so it's on " lea-ther) is into second, and "oy-ill" is second into third; than into fourth on " air" than there is a fill by Neil,( because it's a four speed) "sunlight on chrome" you can hear Geddys voice as he gets nervous, because now we are downshifting at speed, "the blur of the landscape" as we go back into fourth gear and nail the gas "EVERY NERVE AWARE!!!!" because now we are freaking flying over these gravel curves and are going for broke and you can than hear the big slide and Alex dives into the "chase" of the solo.
Really, this is just light years ahead of what most bands were ever capable of.
Is you haven't, read the story that inspired Neil to wrote this song. It has the car chase, the mad dash, spinning and reversible course on the road to double back, I mean, they nailed it! In the original story of course, the car was an MG, but the whole feeling of the story was kept, just put into the future a bit.
That's why Alex is worthy or being called great.
And yeah, they wrote the song in a couple days at Le Studio.
Amazing.
I am not worthy..
1:16 MXR Distortion +
Dont listen to this driving unless you want a speeding ticket!
They'll have to catch me first, I'm headed to the one lane bridge! :)
Big Al is the best!
O guitarrista mais injustiçado do rock, foda demais