Rush | Ghost of a Chance | REACTION | 1st Time Listener

[@scottdpublic]

This song has always been special for me. RUSH doesn't do a lot of love songs, but when they do.... well, they're not like anyone else's love songs. As always, the lyrics take it to a deeper level. The melody and mood are absolutely beautiful! The Roll The Bones tour was the only one I got to see twice, on their tour stops in Topeka and Kansas City.

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@scottdpublic congrats on getting to see them live. How awesome thst must have been for you

[@mdu2112]

Rush rocks my world in all sorts of ways...

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@mdu2112 mine too my friend, mine too 🤗🤘

[@gypsyhughes30]

Beautiful touching song

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@gypsyhughes30 yes, I loved the dark groovy sound of it

[@SteveTurpin-g6j]

It's one of Rush best writing songs by far I've been listening to rush for 50 years. I can't believe I just said that lol but any way listen to bravado you will just love Alex's guitar work on the song

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@SteveTurpin-g6j thank you, ill add it to my list 🤗🤘

[@SteveTurpin-g6j]

It's the truth song for people who are really struggling with God or what ever gypsyhyghes30

[@gregcormier2379]

For me, the music really captures the sentiment of the lyrics. I especially like the atmospheric plaiyng by Alex which beautifully captures the hopefullness and positivity in the lyrics. A love song Rush style !

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@gregcormier2379 the way Alex plays takes me away on a magical ride through far away places 🤗🤘

[@michaelatkinson8291]

A true underrated gem. Roll the Bones was a great album. Nice stuff Miss Whims xx

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@michaelatkinson8291 thank you Sir Michael! I've never heard of this album before, wow they have so many lol

[@KennethSavage-nn2vv]

@@michaelatkinson8291 Agree, Roll the Bones has some many great songs on it

[@vincetripodi1016]

Song of hope, great song, great album great musicians… old Rush fan, fell in love with album. I believe they restrained themselves because it felt like it needed to go into another instrumental piece to go back to the beginning.

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@vincetripodi1016 this song could have easily been over 10 min long

[@toddmadden9777]

Nice...thanks, Whimsy loving it...Todd from Ohio

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@toddmadden9777 hi Todd from Ohio. The way Alex plays during this blew me away

[@B.P-m2q]

What an extraordinarily lovely song. I completely agree with you regarding the tone of the music and how it brings out the passion in the lyrics. Alex is playing a Gibson Les Paul on this song. Thank you for sharing. BPR

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@B.P-m2q gorgeous guitar! I love it when he plays, though the studio version is amazing, I love seeing his personality on stage 🤗🤘

[@AlfPane]

P R S guitar

[@davidcairns6957]

Gibson les Paul custom in the great mans hands. Enjoy your journey through the greatest band to have walked the earth....yeah i know i am biased! Slainthe 🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@davidcairns6957 thats what I thought but wasn't quite sure. I am truly loving this ride!🤗🤘

[@johncampbell756]

​@@WhimsyMeadowsInterestingly, Les Pauls have various trim levels including Custom, but this one is a customized Custom adding a Floyd Rose tremelo/bridge and an extra Piezo pickup which allows Alex to play the electric guitar and have it sound like an acoustic. It has a second cable output jack as well for that pickup.

[@robertl4104]

Love this long. They sound so good live. So much sound coming out of just a three piece band. Thank you for sharing your reaction with us! I'm getting my vote in now for Red Barchetta and when you do the live version, please do the R30 version. So much better video and sound. Thank you. :)

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@robertl4104 Red Barchetta is on my list and I can't wait to hear it for the first time. And when I do, ill def do the R30 version. 🤗🤘

[@robertl4104]

@@WhimsyMeadows Yay! Thank you! Can't wait!

[@winstonhewett6679]

Alex's guitar looks like a Gibson Les Paul!

[@donovanemery597]

Probably is

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@winstonhewett6679 gorgeous guitar, I would love to have one! 🤗🤘

[@kevincamp2913]

Alex is in beautiful form in this song, and the lyrics are so on point.

[@droopyofthenorthwestmounted]

As far as love songs go, this is about as close to one as Rush gets. Alex's solo on this song evokes the solos of Carlos Santana. More so on the studio version.

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@droopyofthenorthwestmounted best kind of love songs. There was true meaning in that song, you could tell. Oooh maybe ill react to some Santana next 😯

[@SteveTurpin-g6j]

He's playing a custom lespaul hi whimsey I really liked your reaction to ghost of a chance your letting rush into your heart that's a good thing oh yeah his guitar is a gibson

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@SteveTurpin-g6j a Gibson, I thought so. Gorgeous guitar 🎸

[@michaelschroeck2254]

5:24 that magazine cover !!! Ha!!!! I had a friend who went to a job interview. This issue just came out and the company had this on their table of magazines to read while you waited. He saw it. He knew me and my love of Rush. He stole it and gave it to me!!!! I still have it!!!!!

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@michaelschroeck2254 teehee...borrowed and never returned 😆. I think I would have done the same lol. Im so glad you still have it. What a treasure indeed! 🤗🤘

[@offroadhusky]

Smooth rockin jam!

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@offroadhusky love it! 🤗🤘

[@moon4music]

As always Alex's guitar is so good, and so smooth at that change and verse, love it. Love this song, it was the one I heard that got me hooked on Rush. I grew up hearing Rush on the radio since the beginning, but paid total attention to them after hearing this song, been hooked ever since and that's a really great thing!

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@moon4music i would love to own all the records . That would be an amazing collection to own. I've found a place that sells them. Which should be my first album?

[@moon4music]

@@WhimsyMeadows a difficult question because I love every album, every era, but I would say A Farewell To Kings because the 70s era was so great! However, if you enjoy the 80s era more, then Moving Pictures is a really great choice.

[@jasonwilliams6005]

I miss Rush. Their music has been a very important part of my life. In my opinion, the greatest ever.

[@raybernal6829]

As I reflect back on my 45 years of listening to Rush .. how could someone when you first heard a band then listen to them as you are older.. 😮❤️

[@debbieplato5107]

Gorgeous just gorgeous 💖💖💖

[@BrendaHughes-e6s]

loved this song

[@carlgibbons5777]

I believe there's a ghost of a chance more and more Rush fans will come to love this great album. It's gets a bad "rap" from many Rush fans. See what I did there? a bad rap. lol My ONLY complaint about this record is that the producer/engineer made the low end on this record so weak. Those amazing Ludwig drums were somewhat neutered in the studio. Good to hear the low end on this live version.

[@scottdpublic]

a bad rap - lol! OK to a rap fan it's probably not the best, but I always liked it. I remember a friend complaining about RUSH putting rap in the title song all the way from Kansas City to Topeka when we drove there for the RTB concert. RUSH always liked to play around with different genres and put their stamp on them, and I always loved that about them!

[@DionysusAlS]

I've given it a good 35 years, and it's solidly in my bottom 5 of their 20 albums. It just didn't move the needle with me musically, and the postmodernism theme to the lyrics left me cold. I remember giving up on it and going back to listen to Presto regularly after only a few months, which was an amazing album by contrast. But it's cool that you like it. And this song, Bravado and Dreamline are among their best, I admit.

[@lisaharrison1031]

I love RTB. It’s a great album. So many great songs. I have to stretch to find a song on this one that isn’t top notch. I was thrilled when they pulled out the title track for their last tour. It’s always been one of those songs that reminds me of just how much fun they liked to have with the music and themselves. DIRK LERXST AND PRATT……..THE GOATS!!!

[@ritchmoore1442]

One of my absolute favorites by Rush. 🧡

[@scottdpublic]

RUSH reaction request: Xanadu. It's a song about a man who discovers a secret to immortality, achieves it, then regrets it. There are both studio and live versions but the song is 12-1/2 minutes long and some of the live versions are abbreviated, so if you're only going to react to one I highly recommend the live performance from Montreal 1981. Widely considered the finest live rock performance ever recorded, it is simply magical and mesmerizing! Link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIXafZxpas16rKc

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@scottdpublic my pleasure, absolutely LOVED this song and it was way too short lol. Here you go my friend kzbin.info/www/bejne/qabCfn6nrNt7gcUsi=Tc5xkJl1-4OF5muT

[@scottdpublic]

@@WhimsyMeadows Aha! Xanadu is always one of the first ones to be strongly recommended to a new RUSH reactor, so I was wondering why you hadn't already done it when I searched your channel for it and didn't find it, I must've misspelled it in the search box. Your reaction was so classic - everyone is speechless after the first listen! And that's the thing about RUSH, isn't it? Their songs are so good they always seem to end too soon, leaving you wanting more, the longer songs even more so because they tend to be masterpieces!

[@KennethSavage-nn2vv]

This is in my top 10 Rush songs. I loved this particular live version. Great reaction and review 👊🏻

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@KennethSavage-nn2vv thank you! I love to watch them play live 🤗🤘

[@danielmoeller8457]

Lots of reasons to love it, lots of reasons to hate it but, it hits the heart so gotta love it!

[@leemcintyre3943]

Just to let you know you have a great thumbnail for this reaction! Also you're not assuming yourself to be the star of these 16 minutes :) Kudos!! Subscribing!!

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@leemcintyre3943 thank you so much! I've fallen head over heals for this trio, and they deserve all the love. 🤗🤘

[@sarastromseth-troy3323]

This may be as close to a 'love song' as Rush got, and I appreciate how Neil's lyrics aren't sentimental, but still hopeful. I also really like Geddy's voice in the lower range, and Alex's guitar solo is amazing, both in studio and live. This is such a beautiful song!

[@michaelschroeck2254]

Upon initial release this song instantly gave my up to them favorite Rush song a run for its money . Red Sector A still stands, but this is one of the songs Rush wrote that makes me say “ I’m glad they wrote this song.”

[@gray6336]

One of my all-time fave suitar solos. Thanks for this one, Whimsy

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@gray6336 i love that solo, its incredibly captivating

[@raybernal6829]

Such an EPIC song from an EPIC band... The lyrics as always by The Professor are 🔥🔥 especially someone in the later stages of life (over 60 😉) relecting on those who made that impact on your heart.

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@raybernal6829 The Professor had such a way with words, they took you somewhere and showed you things No one else ever could or ever will again.

[@ronaldfriedline9297]

Just wish the lyrics said "i believe " instead of "i don't believe ". But hey i guess i can sing it that way. Haven't heard this song since it came out. Lost my wife in 2020 to cancer, 30 yrs together. Listening to this after so long brings a tear to my eye

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@ronaldfriedline9297 im so sorry for your loss. 😥 😔 how wonderful you got to spend so many years together. Sending you virtual hugs 🤗🤟

[@lisaharrison1031]

Some of Neils most profound lyrics. One of my favorites from Roll The Bones. 🤘🎶💜

[@claudiorancagua]

pienso igual que en esta cancion, siempre hay mas de 2 oportunidades

[@goldenretrieverdad]

Snakes and Arrows tour was incredible! Saw this in 2007 in Tampa Florida!

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@goldenretrieverdad you so lucky, I would have LOVED to have been there!!

[@micron001]

Neil was so insightful about life in his lyrics; especially in the latter years of Rush. This year I lost two dear, dear friends who were a couple. When he was battling cancer he wanted to spend a lot of time with us on our deck, and at times I said to my wife "I'm not getting anything done". She said it was important to make the most of this time together. Now I listen to Time Stand Still and can hardly keep my composure: Freeze this moment A little bit longer Make each sensation A little bit stronger Make each impression A little bit stronger Freeze this motion A little bit longer To anyone who finds themselves in that situation - make the most of the time you have available. The grass can wait to be cut. BTW, it would make a great song for a philosophical reaction.

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@micron001 reading this made me tear up. At night before bed I go over in my head what I did good n what I could have done better. Your wife was right...some things can wait while others can't. 🤗

[@WineSippingCowboy]

Lyrics by the late Neil Peart. Music by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. Released in 1991. Then, Celine Dion, Tom Cochrane and Bryan Adams took more of the spotlight especially outside of Canada 🇨🇦. 1 of my favorites from Rush. Underrated. In concerts, Rush uses a backing track 👣. Geddy Lee on synthesizers pre-recorded. Not a true ballad. Yet, the song leads to one. The other pop tyoe of song I luke from them is Time Stand Still. Aimee Mann then of 'til Tuesday is the guest singer. In concert, her voice is on a backing track 👣.

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@WineSippingCowboy i reacted to Time Stand Still. Loved it! Heck, I love all their songs. Each one gives off a different feel

[@WineSippingCowboy]

Ok. Geddy Lee was in a 1-month supergroup in Canada 🇨🇦 Suggested video 📹 Northern Lights perform Tears Are Not Enough with names. Link: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmaccoCajtaXiMU&pp=ygUvbm9ydGhlcm4gbGlnaHRzIHRlYXJzIGFyZSBub3QgZW5vdWdoIHdpdGggbmFtZXM%3D.

[@thomasmiller8364]

Wonderful song. My favorite off of Roll The Bones Album.

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@thomasmiller8364 so emotional and powerful 🤗🤘

[@michaelschroeck2254]

6:54 I remember seeing them on this tour and they had two legs of the tour ….. but on the one leg when they played this song it was very unexpected . I never thought I would hear this one live .

[@telsat]

This song is so emotional 😭

[@kelvinmann1058]

Sorry I'm late to the party this time, glad you did this one, it's good to work up slowly to The Garden. 😔 this song is just incredible the flow of the music with the lyrics, just pure raw emotion 🥺

[@donmcewan8807]

There is something about a lady singing rush tunes ❤ Love the reactions Whimsy 👍

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@donmcewan8807 thank you! Perhaps one day I'll make a cover to one of their songs. 🤗🤘

[@Fred-vy1hm]

I'd like to see you do Dreamline, some of Neil's best lyrics in that one and it's driving melody has always given me a "Rush." 😊

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@Fred-vy1hm sounds delightful, ill add it to my list. Thank you! 🤗🤘

[@Buds1own]

Love you!!! ♥♥♥Psalm 16:11 “You make known to me the path of life; in Your presence there is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”

[@kelvinmann1058]

The guitar is an Alex Lifeson inspired Gibson Les Paul Epiphone. Made to Alex's specifications.

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@kelvinmann1058 thats what I thought but wasn't sure. His solos are like the sound of a thousand angels

[@kelvinmann1058]

@WhimsyMeadows The guitar also has the ability to be switched between electric and acoustic 🤯

[@jimtatro6550]

This is my favorite song off of roll of the bones and it’s not even close

[@squamishfish]

Oh my you need to Do The Garden live Clock work Angels tour, This is the very last song on their very last recording, So Emotional ❤️❤️❤️. Think about how the Drummer lyric writer lost his daughter in a car Accident then his wife shortly after with Cancer , Then the singer bass players parents were Holocaust survivors, And the guitar player father was a political prisoner in Bosnia , This song is about protecting Family raising a Garden in reference to the Family

[@glenngunnis6642]

Thank you! What do they do with all the rotisserie chicken after the show! Just asking.🤘🎸😊

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@glenngunnis6642 they insane lol

[@jessew1133]

My recommendation is if you like this song, you should listen to The Garden. It was the last song on their very last record. RIP Professor 😔🌹

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@jessew1133 I've heard such wonderful things about that song. I think it will make me cry 😢

[@Michael-Philip]

I was in high school in the 1980s and saw Rush five times . I didn't know any girls that were into Rush.

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@Michael-Philip i wasn't either till now 😁 Now I can't get enough lol

[@Michael-Philip]

@WhimsyMeadows Natural Science is a good one. If you haven't done it.

[@michaelschroeck2254]

5:24 rolling stone rarely gave Rush love. But once the editor in chief wrote a story to create the best band of any musician , engineer, producer, etc. to make a dream team. He actually said “ I have to disqualify any member of Rush as it is not fair to the rest of the artists.”

[@surfeit5910]

One of my top 5 songs. Without a doubt the best transition I've ever heard in a song! I stopped at the live version though. One downside to Rush's later live shows is the elephant in the room - Geddy's vocals were shot. He could sing their new songs, of course, and he could make due singing their older classics by dropping his tone, but everything from the mid 80's to mid 90's sounded like someone flogging a horse. This "bootleg" from this tour actually demonstrates what they sounded like live, better than the later video you watched, filmed 20 years after this song was released. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqCpfqaOnN6Ko8Usi=NbvsW8LUVEBhc86l Funny part about this song for me, it was technically my first exposure to Rush. The local NYC Rock station would play it on occasion and that guitar riff after "make it last" was burned into my brain years before I even recognized Rush or became a fan. And Alex was playing a specially modified Gibson for this concert. They don't typically make Gibsons with a tremolo (whammy) bar, yet he liked the feel of how it played but also relied heavily on the whammy bar for 2/3 of their catalog.

[@michaelkeller6223]

👻🎲🐐🐐🐐

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@michaelkeller6223 lol 😆 exactly!

[@Simon-RucknRideAUD]

Not one of my most liked albums, and not exactly sure when it was released, late 2002, I recall getting it as a gift on CD from Tess, both still gainfully employed at the big Uni here, I mention because we had Jan as holidays and we listened to the CD in the car a lot as we had our road trip, and ended up on the southern Coast. Tess liked this style and preferred it over the early progressive rock earlier chapters, but I felt kind of like we bound around. I think music is still very subjective and situational, i mean ask me in 3 months probably listening to a different style and period Rush are like that. I plan to get all rush on vinyl anyway.

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@Simon-RucknRideAUD that would be cool. I found a place that sells records, so ill be saving up for my first one. Any suggestions?

[@Simon-RucknRideAUD]

@@WhimsyMeadows my first Rush vinyl was Signals, however as we can all attest to the changes with music, streaming subscriptions, blah blah blah (see Alex about that) So, my second round I got Moving Pictures, and 2112 together. I normally just get one a month as they have to be ordered and never cheap, I have to also replace a lot of Rush & Pink Floyd T-shirt’s. Looking for cloth patches, as a young person I had a black denim jacket, that had a few Rush patches, badges it was lost and well they don’t make them anymore.

[@jasonwilliams6005]

1991

[@Simon-RucknRideAUD]

@@jasonwilliams6005 1991 in that year wasn’t married yet, was working at ANU we had a new Mazda 2 that had a cd player in it and had no motorcycle, still have maybe 80% music still on vinyl and my Sony stereo with MiniDisc

[@ChronicExcessiveManliness]

@@Simon-RucknRideAUD I still have a cassette player in one of my (now 27-year-old) cars. Love it. 😁

[@sthelenshistorychannel]

Neil said he wasn't a fan of 'love songs', in the trivial and conventional sense, instead he preferred 'songs about love'.

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@sthelenshistorychannel i feel the same way. These 'songs about love' to me are more realistic 🤗🤘

[@claudiorancagua]

te pido por favor a que reacciones a 2 canciones the mission y the pass

[@SteveTurpin-g6j]

Hey whimsey you gota check out rushs song bravado it will move you as much as ghost of a chance i promise by the way i love your smile

[@brendanward2257]

RUSH is the only band I TRUST!!!

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@brendanward2257 In Rush We Trust!

[@brendanward2257]

Whimsy you gotta see the live version...there's more than 3.

[@scott4482]

Try where's my thing, here it is

[@johnmurray6007]

Hmmm, Love this song BUT….. Ghost of a Chance means slim chance, or No chance. So the song is about there is No chance to find lasting love.

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@johnmurray6007 so sad...

[@ChronicExcessiveManliness]

Shocking Opinion! Rush is...the best band...ever. 😁

[@WhimsyMeadows]

@@ChronicExcessiveManliness gasp! 😲