BATTLESCAR w. Alex Lifeson (RUSH) & Kim Mitchell (Max Webster)

[@Bigirondoug]

History will show, Alex is one of the greatest guitarists to walk this planet.

[@stephencrispin1763]

Not sure about greatest as, honestly, there are too many outstanding guitarists out there. But there is no question that Alex is remarkable in so many ways. Playing with Geddy and Neil caused him to be overshadowed to a large extent, not because the other two were better, but because the band was truly a triumvirate. Normally in a three piece a guitarist is highlighted but in Rush, all three members were highlighted. Completely remarkable how they did that.

[@Bigirondoug]

@@stephencrispin1763 Completely agree that why is I said " one of " . Coming from a players point of view, his technique and phrasing choices are outstanding.

[@VoodooCrab]

Undoubtedly.

[@camc5483]

Alex is the George Harrison of the 70's...supremely talented, but overlooked, and elevated, because of his bandmates.

[@earthkeepr7591]

Absolutely

[@williammeister1568]

This was the MOST underated songs...EVER!!!@@

[@billreinhardt3684]

One of my Favorite All time!!!!!

[@zwastiunburzy3688]

Good to see Alex getting out there again, and I know Geddy has been also. They're two awesome musicians, I hope to see them doing something together again soon. RIP Neil Elwood Peart.

[@jimdawson9799]

I saw them play this New Years Eve at Maple Leafs Gardens and Getty Lee came out with Max. One of the most monumental moments of my life.

[@tempo529]

Who is Getty Lee?

[@CHAUNCEY.GARDNER.]

Yup I was there,taking the Subway from Kennedy in Scarberia they did about 3 New Years Eve show s

[@murraycomeau8689]

Toronto yea

[@bradkubota6968]

Saw Kim New Years Eve when he played under his own name for his first EP. He played before SAGA. Really fun concert. Had floor seats at MLG. KIm and SAGA killed it.

[@tempo529]

@@ThePUNisher2112YYZ lol

[@SilentKnight43]

Saw Max Webster live at Sutton High School during the Live Magnetic Air tour - 1979. 44 years later I still remember the concert well. Near the end of the show they lit up the gymnasium with huge white spotlights that fried everyone's eyeballs, lol. Kim, Terry, Gary and Dave - the original Toronto Tontos. "Now Daphne's the orphan...still searching for her roots. She likes concert blisters and leather boots...and knows one fact...her act is to get loose."

[@christopher8220]

OMG! This song brings back memories of 'Moving Pictures' when Max closed with this before Rush came on. WOW!!!

[@danielfalcon450]

There are fans that were listening to Max Webster back in the day of Battlescar in deep deep south Texas . How my best friends sister managed to get a hold of this album , much less know this band existed, I'll never know , but I'm glad she did . .

[@beverlyburzstyn3569]

Go Kim!! Fantastic, Love this, ❤️ love you!! Always been a fan, big-time!! Great song!!❤

[@twentyeightmcd]

3 years in a row in the 80's - MakeBelief Gardens, New Years - such great memories

[@jimjewell7649]

Peter Fredette is an underrated singer and musician !!!

[@geftiler2112]

His voice is shot.

[@TGormania]

@@geftiler2112 You're high. LOL!!! He is trying to be high voice Geddy. He is a great talent.

[@maynardbrownstone4108]

Alex Lifeson has always been up there with Beck and Page / my top 3 guitarists....

[@rogerp6903]

As well as being a huge influencer on so many monster guitar players that are a few years younger

[@jannaslund5625]

Fucking seriously HEAVY!!!!

[@bramcurtis6900]

I saw Kim 5 times...from a bar to Massy hall to Maple Leaf Gardens. The Gardens was new years eve. They backed up Saga....and simply blew them off the stag.. The played "The Party". Imagine 15,000 ppl in perfect unison saying "here's Lucy, she's choosy who calls her on the phone..."....it was one of THE most memorable concert moments of My life.

[@WCSkills]

The Party is my fav Max Webster tune. It really showcases Kim's talent as a guitarist.

[@Pksparty2112]

I watched them open for Rush. What an amazing show that was.

[@senorbokchoy]

Me too ... Massey Hall 1976

[@johnnybrace]

beyond the obvious talent of Alex and Kim, always loved the voice of bassist on Kim's stuff....

[@billreinhardt3684]

Max Webster rocks!!!

[@rswilson5207]

I saw Max Webster in the hockey arena in Cobourg, Ontario around 1974-5… blew my mind Two drummers, two bass players and two guitarists… that’s how you get it done! Rock on 🤘

[@rm5157]

Can't like this enough!

[@sheldonsmith1294]

My first concert was Max opening for Rush at Guelph Memorial Gardens, March 1978.

[@roadshift]

What a great concert!!!!!!!!

[@stevewoan6]

This is so good, wow! Thank you for posting this. Back in the late 1970s, Rush and Max Webster were my two fave bands

[@IPBullets]

Me too!! Wish Geddy was singing the vocals with Kim

[@rogerhickson7256]

And how cool was it to be able to see these 2 bands together in same concert? They toured so much together they were almost 1 band! Still remember thinking how great it was for us fans to able to hear a song done by both bands together....and such a great song at that!

[@afghanwhigs01]

I saw max open for Rush and Angel. No cigarettes, no matches.

[@CygnusXJon]

Thanks for posting this! What you see when you look up the word “good” is this! Kim and band so good , Alex also

[@aschule5684]

Glad Alex went back to using les pauls in later years and has a signature model, never saw him with the one he's playing tho, 3 pickups? Always loved this song, so great to see this, Max Webster and Rush both very important bands to me and 2 of the Canadian bands that made a huge mark in music history, thanks Canada, and thanks for sharing this!!!

[@billd1000]

Don't forget Triumph! Another awesome Canadian Band and trio like Rush! :-)

[@aschule5684]

Bill D also FM another amazing Canadian prog trio I got to see open for Rush in the early 80's it was supposed to be Max Webster but Kim quit a few weeks before the show I saw right in the middle of supporting Rush on the Signals tour.

[@sega62s]

he took it from Ace Frehley 😉

[@gocars3210]

Geddy has publicly said that Alex sounds his best with a Gibson

[@stevewyatt9693]

I was there at the Gardens at Mid Night for Battlescar- Excellent memory and concert

[@paddyo3422]

Max was my favourite band as a youth, worked at the Mc D's on V.P. and Curlew that Kim went to. Served him twice, great guy . they really should have broke big...the music still rocks decades later. WEBSTER FOREVER!

[@rogerp6903]

Awesome live version and to hear Alex letting loose on the opening showing his guitar skills! All amazing musicians on that stage.Thanks

[@Alex-vi8ux]

Totally awesome!!! Real instruments, Real music.... Real people.

[@strikezonefishingadventures]

Saw them perform this live in Maple Leaf Gardens in the last New Year's Rocking Eve Show back about 40 years ago (with Alex and Neil) - blew everyone away!!!!!!

[@jimcook8933]

Saw them a ton at the Mustache across from the Montreal Forum a million years ago!!

[@bruceclarke2945]

I get chills watching this, incredible performance and such a great song, always on my playlist. Miss Geddy's voice but it's still great. Love seeing Alex up there with Kim. How lucky were you to be at this show!!!!

[@johnvermilyea]

How does this not have more views? it's classic!

[@MM1717mm]

everyone’s too busy watching videos of drunk girls kissing 🙃

[@jimquicksilver442]

Why has this taken almost a year to appear in my feed? F'ing amazing.

[@Unity360Media]

You should subscribe to our page ;)

[@mcwakefield]

As a Canadian I played both rush to death and I loved max webster too but not to the same degree. I am so mad that I never saw rush tho they will never b the same without Neil for sure. My boyfriend had seen rush live n was blown away these 3 guys could make music n sound like many players were in the band, so talented and tight. Great band.

[@jamesmoffet4292]

I saw Rush at the Montreal Forum in the mid-1980s. I never saw Max Webster or Kim Mitchell. But in the late 1970s, Montreal's CHOM-FM radio station had a contest and the high school that won had Max Webster perform at a dance. The winner was Centennial High School in the next town, and some of my friends went.

[@mcwakefield]

@@jamesmoffet4292 you are lucky to have seen rush in their prime, really I guess that would’ve been the 70’s but it’s hard to choose cuz it’s all good. I love max Webster too but, Ive not seen them either, I was a troubled kid who spent those yrs locked up but as I got older I saw many bands just never rush and I love rush. Party on dude! Long live rock!!

[@paulgriffin2954]

Saw Rush on their "Farewell To Kings" tour in Guelph. The only song I knew that Max played was "Diamonds, Diamonds". Couldn't wait for them to get off the stage and get to the band I came to see. Wish I been more invested in their music at the time. My brother bought their live album and after hearing it I was hooked. Used to listen to it on my disc player riding my bike for work from Hamilton to Burlington.

[@jamesha175]

first arena concert i ever saw was Rush 'Moving Pictures' tour with Max Webster Band opening in Phoenix Az. 1981

[@Lord_Stinkfoot]

What a perfect song for AL to take part in

[@geoffgreen8023]

Saw Max Webster back in the 70,s at Hammersmith as support to RUSH, I was so blown away by them that I bought every album then and afterward, so underrated, so unique and so bloody talented- love em.

[@markmarsh27]

DAMMIT! ... I live in Toronto and EVERY YEAR I forget to get tickets to this Andy Kim Christmas Benefit. ... NEVER AGAIN will I miss it! ... I've LEARNED my lesson.

[@jimmarshall3668]

That is one Great Song, plain and simple!! There is a lot of Talent on that stage and they play good old Rock n Roll the way it should be played, with Heart and SouI. I love it !!!!

[@markdemell8056]

Kim and Peter still got their chops , both can sing well. Hey there Big AL !

[@flybynightgirl]

I wish I saw this live !!! Gawd dang Alex 😳

[@acidheadzzz]

It’s difficult for me to explain how much I love seeing Alex, Kim, Peter and the rest of the band. I look at them and I think fuk they look old haha….yeah I have a mirror. I forget we’re getting older now :) I’ve seen Rush, Max Webster, Kim Mitchell dozens of times, great every time 👍🏻👍🏻🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@BarelyBoomer]

I completely agree except the Signals tour kinda sucked.... Golden Earing looked pretty good that night. 😮 The "reggae version" of Working Man was atrocious!

[@McFlyGuitarsandStuff]

Back in 1980 my girlfriend Sue frossel got me into Max Webster when I went to her apartment in Toronto. There was a simulcast of them live. I know that they opened for rush but I never realized how awesome of a band they were until she pointed it out. Thank you Susan. So if you're reading this send me a message. I've been wanting to tell you something for like 40 years.

[@brentlefrancois5716]

Two of the best guitar players 🇨🇦

[@tolwyn_doom]

I never in a million years thought I'd ever see this video. Holy crap

[@jamiehalifax4954]

This blew our minds when we were teenagers and listening to the universal juvenile album !!

[@ant-1382]

Wow Alex just doing all kinds of stuff!

[@mikecronis]

Amazing!

[@derekpierkowski7641]

I was Jr in high-school. I showed the Webster album to my bass teacher. He's a couple years older, music snob know it all. He hated it. And that's when I knew I was right to love it!

[@Joe-mz6dc]

Beauty

[@whereverigothereiam3078]

WOW! Just ... WOW!!! Beyond words with too much emotion. WOW!

[@lendavis6715]

April 15, 1981, Memphis Mid-South Coliseum. Max Webster opened for Rush. Rush touring the Moving Pictures album, and Max Webster with Universal Juvenilles. I was there; my first live concert. Purple mescaline.

[@sweetnighter]

Cool! You saw the very last MW show before Kim Mitchell abruptly quit the band

[@cygnustsp]

I saw the Max Webster reunion show in 1994, was amazing

[@aschule5684]

Bust the busters, screw the feeders, make the healers, "feel the way I feel"!!!!

[@HeviNova]

Alex Lifeson kicks ass!

[@dwaynedonnelly]

Goosebumps.

[@petershea9818]

Great collaboration

[@two-nine7730]

Had to pause it.Roll one up,LET'S GO.

[@Dave-gy1hx]

Alex is so above this, he has so much talent.....but this is why there guys were able to make the music they did. Alex your the best

[@johnziegelbauer4999]

YYZ boy here love theses guys ...

[@davidstobie2751]

great stuff wish I heard it earlier by ten years

[@mandys.2725]

This is why I love KZbin.. where else would you get to see such fabulousness as this? That’s some top quality Rock right there. What a treat on a dismal January evening. I’m gonna play it again now. ❤️🇨🇦

[@michenglish6867]

Early Christmas present!! So good!

[@peterpoli2353]

I attendant every new years bash at Maple Leaf Gardens with Rush and Max Webster in the early 80's. They did it 4 years in a row. I remember one show where Geddy Lee came out with a Rickenbacker tear drop bass guitar to play Battlescar. Never seen another one since then.

[@cameronduffy8115]

I too was there third row blues right above the clock at one end of MLG - BB Gabor and Goddo Geddy on Battlescar

[@andrewmarkmusic]

Yup...I was there 3-years in a row. I pretty well grew up listening to shows at MPLG..

[@garthzimmer8836]

I was at maple lief gardens for this song what a blast from the past

[@mikegike7273]

Warms my heart to see Alex smile.

[@3113Panther]

I was there for that epic concert where they performed this together! It was Mind blowing! When I found out it was a very rare thing I saw, I treasured it always.

[@iancoley]

Excellent - does the original justice - can imagine Lee hitting those high notes - with Peart in the awesome drumming session ! Thank you Alex and Kim ! -

[@stevezane]

Two best guitarists of Canada!

[@adamrichardson6821]

@Don’t call me Angie And Pat Travers for good measure.

[@Sweet--Richard.4981]

Frank Marino, Neil Young, Rick Emmet

[@YansaMusic]

Great upload.

[@Ultra54able]

Excellent!!

[@alex79suited]

Great fricken tune. Peace ✌️ 😎.

[@scottbohe7006]

So sad that Geddy Lee was not in this performance! His voice is unmistakable! Still, a great song!

[@tonyspro]

Not like he’d be hitting them notes haha. Even when this song came out, Geddy was reaching back a couple years for those high notes, they’d already transitioned into the Permanent Waves-Signals sound so he was singing lower at the time anyways.

[@Hipnosis65]

I love Max. This song is Canadian rock legend.

[@davidb5122]

Awesome!

[@frankwalker9276]

We love you Alex!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TheCumberlandbeggar]

Love this

[@almaguapa-sailboatliveaboa440]

Love the intro of light improvs and gradually rising the rock tension!

[@sgt.grinch3299]

Another side of Alex that we didn’t get to see much of in Rush. Love the LP. That is a proper instrument.

[@Garrett-In-Canada]

still one of my all time favorite songs. Have to keep an eye and see if Kim will be playing in the Hamilton Toronto Area in 2023

[@idontwantthiscookie8556]

Everytime I get drunk I gotta listen to battlescars lol

[@4ryan1963]

Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

[@summersavannah01]

And that , my friends, is just about as good as it gets !!!!

[@spookydog6959]

can't get enough love this

[@neilrobinson9806]

And a top drawer person to boot❤

[@gedhead1151]

🎸🎶💕Good stuff!!

[@sambreedlove8730]

GRATEFUL FOR THIS!

[@nataliaoleksander6386]

Geddy needs to join in on this one day

[@gerrykay1482]

how fuckin sick was that ???? Two of the most underrated electric guitarists on the planet.

[@rp6563]

Alex noodling at the beginning shows his brilliance,as Kim's chops and songcraft interweave

[@VoodooCrab]

Alex.....what a force of nature!!

[@Lerxstification]

Alex and Geddy, please come see us on the road, we miss you!!!

[@jestermindcrime1773]

I was at the show at the Gardens , can;t remember exactly what seats, but it was real fucking close to, the left Golds, bout 4 or 4 rows up, was about 14 maybe 15, Was a amazing show , place went ape shit crazy when Geddy came out

[@murraycomeau8689]

Hey Jester. Goddo wasn't bad either. The kid on Pretty bad boy, priceless. But why the hell was BB Gabor there . I seen the singer get hit by a watch. 3 rows from the stage. Comeau Murray.

[@marksoutherland7225]

Amen and amen

[@TheRhNegative]

Alex. The consummate professional. Kim. still sounding great. 2 Drummers creating one loud awesome sound.

[@muskokamike127]

I remember the first time hearing this on the radio...me and a buddy were driving home from a party at about 2 am and this came on...what the hell is this? then the dj came on said max webster/rush battlescar....Q107......getting off the 400 s/b at the jane st exit.

[@0look0in0not0out]

Max Webster..... Fucking gold from the Get!!!!

[@brianmcmanus4286]

I had this Max Webster (Universal Juvenile's it was, right?) on vinyl and I was the envy of my upstate NY neighborhood. Fuckin' shreds! Gotta have Geddy here tho...

[@timklecha1401]

THAT WAS FRICKING AWESOME!!!!

[@joel1964.]

Long live Alex lifeson 🤔

[@winstonlane708]

🐐 Guitar 🎸 G.O.A.T ... Mr. Alex Lifeson