Alex Lifeson - Rik Emmett - Liona Boyd - Ed Bickert - BEYOND BORDERS

[@mattg629]

I can remember getting this mag like it was yesterday and how being so excited that two of my guitar heroes (Rik and Alex) were on one song! The style profoundly influenced me and set the bar for my "pursuit" that continues to this day. What a song! Should have been recognized by the recording academy.

[@aliensporebomb]

This was a classic piece of uplifting music - they should have done a full length record together. What a great tune!

[@TheErod1944Channel]

I drooled down my entire shirt during Ed Bickert's Soloing. Bickert is an amazingly powerful player.

[@shanepython]

I remember first hearing this as the "plastic record" included in the Guitar Player magazine when I was in my late teens/early 20's. SO happy it's available via KZbin. This is without question one of the most beautiful pieces of guitar music. AMAZING! What kind of idiot rates this a thumbs down? Thank you so much for sharing this. It is keeping this piece alive and, for me personally, giving me a nice bit of reminiscence. : ))

[@TimPimentel3006]

I remember the plastic record too. It’s still floating around my house somewhere. First I did was transfer it to a cassette, 😃.

[@Mr.CliffysWorld]

@@TimPimentel3006 I wish I still had mine but now I have it on Facebook

[@mtn7224]

I just found this flexi disc in my collection, and like you, I remember it well from my youth. I suspect we are similar in age

[@steev11]

Yup. I may still have it packed away somewhere.

[@Chief-Walleye]

Me too! Racer X being Side B!

[@TripWamsley]

I still have this mag and the soundsheet!

[@TheBrightSounds]

The brilliance is why I love Jazz.... smooth jazz, fusion and prog.... just fucking amazing.

[@johnturner6452]

BIg Al. 20 notes, and it still gets me 35 years later.

[@santyrush]

i`m a very big Rush fans... and i play guitar and i tell Alex is fantastic fantastic fantastic. greetings from spain.

[@I_need_an_oil_change]

Rik Emmett is a monster player with so much class.

[@hammer11638]

As someone who is not a musician, outside of knowing that their was Guitar Player magazine I would not have ever known about this before today. I am glad it was shared though because it really is a great tune. I hope more people stumble onto this as it great stuff.

[@mcwakefield]

So sweet n such talent truly beautiful love it love each member n I miss these times when no one really knew what they were hearing, the great talents. Rush brought so much together with just their own insane talents alone. So proud to b canadian

[@lexo30]

I have fond memories of this from when I was a teenage Guitar Player reader. It's so goddamn... Canadian, in the best way. Four different musicians having a great conversation.

[@1267cando]

My brother just found this magazine and the record was inside!

[@TheJazzweed]

I've had this issue of guitar player for many years, found a used copy of it, so of course the floppy 45 rpm was missing, now I finally get to hear what it sounded like.I love it .This piece of music should be made more available. Thanks for posting this.

[@johannkleen4048]

Thanks for posting this!!! Man it brought tears in my eyes, 27 years ago I bought that magazine!! I still have it, I was starting on the guitar.

[@mauroalbert_gypsyguitar]

I'm too...

[@WyattScott]

Johann Kleen seriously a tear here as well. Just listened to this tonight. Had the mag and pull out record in 87’. Been probably what 27 years since I heard this. Memories evoked big time and what an incredible song!!!

[@Vimana]

I'm so glad you've uploaded this on KZbin. I really appreciate it. I always come back to this great instrumental time and time again. It has so many great elements, so many different sounds and styles in it. It should be much more well known. To me this is a classic and it always makes me feel good. I'm an old Rush fan living in Finland. I've been searching many things from the Internet that's related to Rush since the 1990s. That's how I also found this piece of music many years ago. I like this not just because it features Alex Lifeson. I love every little bit of it. It's fantastic!

[@sickoancestry4973]

Nice! Never heard it,it's like Alex brought in his Steve Hackett influence!

[@TopJimmyWinn]

I used to have this record, it came with magazine

[@byebye-w9o]

love it. memories!

[@saucerocreamify]

I had this record. It was a very thin 45 from the magazine ❤❤❤.

[@lormack]

Thank you for putting this on You Tube!!! I haven't heard this in twenty years. I had this issue of Guitar Player with the record sheet but along with all of my other collectibles, my mother gave them away when I got married.

[@GavinSteiner]

I remember waiting for this issue to come out and playing the flexi over and over again :-) Thanks for posting this!

[@Mr.CliffysWorld]

I was in my mid-to late teens working at my uncle's music store when this came out. Being a rush fan since I was young I snagged the first copy LOL. I can't believe every viewer gave this a thumbs down

[@The_Rockin_Prof]

I remember seeing the magazine at Waldenbooks when it first came out. I was a Triumph / Rik Emmett fan first, but I had just gotten my first introduction to Rush, so it was a double-dose of great Canadian musicianship, plus the other two great talents. Sadly, I didn't pick up the record that came with it, but I had a friend who did!

[@mzmadmike]

Interviews and writeup here. Everything that sounds like a synth or strings is Alex on guitar. www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/guitar-player-07.1987.php

[@WyattScott]

Mike Williamson cool article!

[@Vimana]

Thank you so much for the link! I finally saw your comment here and now I have to go and read it.

[@Freyathrith]

I bought this record back in the day! It reminds me of a gutsier Windham Hill -- love it.

[@Loathello]

I've been looking for this for decades! Awesome! \oo/ \oo/

[@guitarran]

I remember hearing this when this issue of GPM came out. This was my first exposer to Liona Boyd and Ed Bickert. Cool stuff, thanks.

[@dondonithan1534]

i really...really love this.

[@thomaswalkowiak815]

OMG. Incredible

[@emmadetten]

wow! That was unreal! All these 80ies early digitasl type sounds and movietype music, and in the middle of all that, in walks Ed. Unbelieveable, tremendously funny, thx for posting

[@cmnewell]

OMG you have just made me so happy

[@fenderlead1]

Thanks for posting.. I remember this from when I was a kid...I gave away all my mags when I moved out of my folks house lol.

[@shanepython]

Can you imagine a video of the recording? : )

[@fras0011]

Loll, yeah i remember when that magazine came out... i bought it right away. Hey.. Rik, Alex... Liona Boyd... and Jeff Beck, i did'nt know this one. Damn the other three together did get my attention, i needed to listen to that! And i was happily surprised, awesome work. It is truely amazing what creative minds can do. Thankyou for offering this to the world. Damn, i love it!

[@esroberto1]

I'm doing a transfer and restoration from my mint soundpage of this piece, speed corrected, RIAA compensation off, denoised and fully mastered and the whole nine yards. Not quite done, but it sounds fantastic so far. Anyone wants an mp3 of the results, message me through here with an email address and I'll send it to you.

[@hesspedro100]

Dear Robert, please send me the mp3 of your transfer, i love Beyond Borders and i still have the magazine and the soundpage but i have no record player. My mail address is [e-mail] Many thanks, kind regards.

[@rodevans1549]

Robert Wright please send me an mp3 if still available. [e-mail] Thank you. Rod

[@Mr.CliffysWorld]

I would be forever indebted if you would send me a copy of this my email address is.... [e-mail] And no the 0609 it's not a sexual reference it is my birthday June 9th LOL but everybody keeps thinking it's the other thing I may have to eventually change it. I still have the magazine but the record is well beyond playable it is been played so many times and scratched up. I didn't think of trying to preserve it when I was 15 or 17 or however old I was when it came out I think late teens I was born in 67. Anyway again thank you very much I would be most grateful do you receive your copy

[@kriscalverley2131]

Wow. My brother had this. I think we taped it. Man been a long time

[@gafferanon]

He has a unique touch, emotional, heart felt notes

[@monkeybass01]

Wow, thanks for posting this, I had no idea it existed!

[@nosny3570]

it's time for a Canadian band of reformed scraps that would include Geddy Lee, Rik Emmett, Alex Lifeson, etc

[@1251966LH]

Thanks a lot ........

[@Slippyfisted]

@StandardSam1 ya rik was very aware of Ed at the time. He states several times in the origional article how star struck he was and the fact that Ed did several solos before arriving at the one he liked, but according to rik, every one of Ed's takes would have "knocked you on your can"

[@betsysommer7142]

ethereal goodness

[@joant1221]

I still have the magazine and the floppy 45.

[@truetech4158]

Cool musicscape.

[@ModernDayWarrior2112]

It would be nice if they reissued this as maybe a record store day vinyl.

[@kevinwayte]

@blabberblabber Rik Emmett is doing the comping - on a big fat Gibson if I recall. It shows a photo in the magazine of this very exact thing.

[@McLeanAB88]

My god and little fishes I love this!

[@permanentwaves4621]

Does anyone who played which parts in this? I know the parts Lifeson did. I want to know who was on the underlying acoustic guitar at the end, starting 05:34 until the end. This may sound silly to any fellow guitarists out there, but especially at 05:50 Thats the part that puzzles me. Its sounds simple but theres a little something extra going in that seemingly simple strumming if you listen closely. I am going to email Liona Boyd to start- and maybe she'll respond. But if any of you know, that would be great.

[@14Maxmom]

Sounds like Power Windows all over again for alex.

[@jesusonazareth4752]

This was my introduction to jazz at 15! I think within a month I was buying Coltrane and Miles reissues, as well as Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery. Bickert was and still is hard to find on record...but wow is he ever good. He always makes the coolest stuff sound effortless. Here, his intro to his solo sounds so warm and Mediterranean, like an Italian ballad, but also cool. The solo itself is so melodic. It's almost laughable how much more musical he is just dueting with himself on a telecaster than the rock guys are with their giant-sounding 80s effects-laden guitars. The fingerpicked ending of the song sounds like a commercial for an erectile dysfunction drug or a rehabilitation center.

[@fras0011]

Of course i ment to say Ed Bickert not Jeff Beck... dont ask where i got that one lol. This is what happens when you do two things at once. Sorry Ed, this was'nt intentional!

[@esroberto1]

I finished that transfer and restoration -- it sounds like you're listening to the master tape. Anyone wants it, shoot me a message with your email address and I'll send it to you. :-)

[@robertcacciatore3668]

That is a generous offer,and certainly appreciated! Can you send the file to [e-mail]? I will eventually have to purchase a turntable and usb,if I want to rip the "Stages" version of "Allied Forces".Thank you for your time.

[@vincenowell2124]

I would love a copy of this as well - and thank you very much! [e-mail]

[@zmb5501]

id love it my email is [e-mail]

[@lifewithasong]

I would also love a copy please! [e-mail]

[@greggboughton9697]

I used to have a copy. Its gone would love to have it again. [e-mail]

[@steveroberts2180]

i think you had to put a 10p coin on top of a flexi disc,on top of another record to stop it slipping,beautiful.

[@timmybeckman2758]

Too bad they didn't make a video to go with it.

[@jeff9ish]

@svenhaefliger i had this mag 3 times now i dont i wish i did

[@nosny3570]

all of them are probably Maple Leafs fans NOT Sabres fans south of the border. Very disappointing.....

[@loudrimshot]

This was written and recorded long after moving pictures.

[@vibefrequencyable]

thats good prog...

[@ooconnor]

I disagree! For me the featured performer was Ed Bickert everybody else played a supporting role, although hats off to Rik Emmett for composition and arrangement and for masterminding the project. Alex Lifeson is very good at what he does but at the end of the day it's just special effects and that's no good without melody and groove. The Rush format worked because Geddy Lee covered so many tasks.

[@Nater389]

Alex could play early on. I don't like him much after Moving Pictures. He stopped soloing worth a shit.