Bach, Petrucci, Sheehan, Guillory, Portnoy - Jacob's Ladder

[@evanmichael3153]

Great nod to Alex, but the tail at the end of Petrucci's solo is super tasty. His references to the Blues always standout in his own compositions. Wicked player 🤘🔥❤️🔥🤘

[@davidhamm9560]

What no one gets about this tribute is that the intro Portnoy is doing a "meta-tribute" to Neil Peart "breaking the time signature barrier" which Neil talks about in his instructional DVD. The intro is an 11 time (more specifically a two-measure phrase of 5 and 6) and about half way through the intro Portnoy goes into "free time" playing, which means what he plays can't really be counted. To do it that with a simple background of 4 (or 3 as it would be with most jazz applications of this) is one thing, to do it to a background of 11... that is some rare company of people in the world that can play that way (Peart, Bozzio, Vinnie C and, help me out here). More things like this please Music Universe...

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

What he said.

[@MassTunes]

What cracks me up is it's 5 of them and only 3 Rush members.

[@silentdrowning]

Free play in any signature isn't difficult as long as you know how to count in time to the pulse. In this case, to 11! I'd like to hear Magini over this.

[@StGeoRUSH619]

For that kind of "freedom of time", you really have to include Danny Carey (Tool)

[@freegee3503]

Excellent post! Why oh why couldn't Mike have performed more like this while with DT.

[@rodrigoduartesantana4094]

In 1996 Rush was releasing Test for Echo, a great album.

[@byronius57]

If I were a member of Rush I'd be proud of this cover, this is insanely good! I love Sebastian Bach's vocals, he fit this song perfectly! And the musicianship is incredible!

[@Chris_Stanley007]

Thx for the upload, forgot about this 🍻🤘

[@donbut3056]

Petrucci and Sheehan are great.

[@StGeoRUSH619]

Never heard this line-up before... very awesome! R*I*P* Neil

[@clean.c8540]

Amazing Tribute !!!!

[@bdover1278]

This is one of my favorite doom metalish songs turned jazzy. Love it.

[@IronheddAxioma]

Mike hit all the drum fills almost perfectly! This song is extremely difficult to cover. They did a great job!

[@Hendrix1326]

IronheddAxioma I will agree to disagree, my friend. They didn't fit the tone of the song, sounds like showboating to me...

[@LalisasToxicHusband]

i like the time signature beginning around 5:07. Sounds a lot like the 10-beat signature Tool uses throughout Lateralus--I like that sig because it doesn't sound "odd for the sake of being odd" and has a groove all its own

[@hpatss4966]

That’s rush for ya

[@Gabry2138]

Fantastic.

[@michaellongo3212]

i completely agree guy below me portonoy completely overdoes it in the beginning but sebastian does an incredible cover of geddy lee vocals this literally sounded like rush was playing it

[@steviemac2377]

Sebastian does an awesome job with skid row doing what you're doing as well!

[@johnfutrell8461]

Never have been a Portnoy Fan. And yes, this is not the note for note drum intro to JL.......but I love listening to him play his take on it!!

[@Wag2112]

Thanks for the post !!!

[@arkadyyablokov9158]

Очередной Магнакартовский трибьют Working Man: Tribute To Rush (1996), в свое время покорил меня (как преданного фаната Rush) не только высочайшим уровнем исполнения, но и замечательной подборкой композиций. Здесь присутствуют почти все мои любимые вещи канадского трио : Closer To The Heart, Jacob's Ladder, Red Burchetta, Working Man и др. В Лестнице Якоба отметились вокалист Себастьян Бах (Skid Row), в компании супер инструменталистов - Петруччи, Шиэн, Портной...

[@hectorlagos8937]

awesome

[@pedrosilva-lz8cj]

Fantastico !!

[@Roma-di5xf]

Portnoy does a wonderful job here...

[@DavidPrimeraGarcia]

Pinche Rolonnnn...

[@greatchannelname]

production is kinda flat, but i get that this is a one-off and there's not much time/money for greatness. i like the playing, it's not meant to be a note for note replication. lighten up people

[@RichardSmithloves]

That 1st full minute intro tho...

[@hermanhelmich]

And I completely agree with the guy next in the comment section

[@kerber5258]

imagine sebastian bach was the singer of the dreamtheater 🤔

[@Marctull66]

I would have stopped buying their albums, then. I never liked his voice, not at all. He hasn't got any natural reverb, his voice is fairly dry... Matter of tastes, of course. But I also think this performance is quite... strange as he changes his vocal style three times in a few seconds in the beginning and doesn't sound natural... Geddy Lee might not be the best singer in the world but at least, the studio version is coherent and full of passion, and Geddy's voice is very clear and vibrates, it was much better on Permanent Waves than on Rush's previous albums, much more sober and controlled.

[@cathlabman]

Have never been a Portnoy Fan. I bought this cd new back in the day. My younger brother borrowed it/ruined it. I haven`t heard this version of Jacob`s Ladder since then!! Portnoy,"Nailed" that intro!!! That was nice!!! The rest of the song.........Sorry.....Let Rush do Rush!!!

[@PeachWNK]

Portnoy is a thief, but a good player. I guess all drummers steal from each other. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@deltasyn7434]

I swear those keys sound like Kevin Moore. I guess they’re not tho.

[@Marctull66]

It was Matthew Guillory, who had his own band Dali's Dilemma, but he's more famous for working with James LaBrie from Dream Theater, on his project Mullmuzzler and then on several of his subsequent solo albums. You've got Brendt Allman from Shadow Gallery on rhythm guitar, James Petrucci on lead guitar, Billy Sheehan on bass, Mike Portnoy on drums and Sebastian Bach on lead vocals...

[@fuzzydunlop1988]

Alex Lifeson + Steve Morse = John Petrucci

[@BourhilOthmane]

YES.

[@johndavis9196]

Sean Moroney John Petrucci = God!

[@nicolasacevedo9442]

Plus Howe

[@tyeman3039]

It’s Peart, Portnoy, then Steve Smith! In that order! 😁✌️

[@VajraProductions]

This could have been a really great cover, though I can't help but feel Bach's choice of vocal harmonies were in poor taste and unmusical. Also, I was appalled by the rhythm guitarist's performance from his first out of place Csus chord at the beginning. Props to everyone else though, particularly Billy Sheehan and the nice solo spot from John Petrucci

[@greatchannelname]

petrucci is the rhythm guitarist too

[@VajraProductions]

@@greatchannelname Actually Brendt Allman is credited with rhythm guitar on this song plus the first five songs of this tribute album

[@lou6977]

see... Portnoy is (maybe) 1/10 of Peart's class...

[@shallex5744]

he must be pretty good then

[@lou6977]

@@shallex5744 SURE

[@RogueReplicant]

No, no, no! That is NOT the original spirit of the song. It's supposed to be epic, majestic, played with gravitas! I hear a jazzy drummer, limp tonal bass, the guitar is meh, the whole thing lacks the BUILD-UP, TENSION and ARC of the original!

[@chrisrobinson-cj6tq]

There are some good and bad elements to this cover. The vocals don't work neither does some of the over playing. We already get the crazy off-beat signatures in the bridge section so why do we need the drums to mess up the intro? This track is a lesson in timing in all aspects ALREADY. Still, some sections gave me chills. Overplay in songs that call for it. Not in this song. Just proves no matter how great some musicians are, Rush is (almost) un-coverable.