RUSH - Xanadu LIVE EXIT STAGE LEFT | FIRST TIME REACTION TO RUSH XANADU LIVE EXIT STAGE LEFT

[@dannychase1787]

Best live performance by a band hands down. The multi tasking is insane! GOAT!

[@stephenmcconway4894]

I completely agree with you, absolutely amazing 👏👏👏

[@jons3808]

Greatest band of all time from three of the most talented, intelligent and humble friends. Pure greatness!

[@jimtatro6550]

“It almost sounds like movie music.” Rush has been the soundtrack of my life for over 42 years.

[@justimprovising]

Congratulations, I think you're the first reactor I've ever seen pronounce Neil's surname correctly first time 😂👏 The other two are Geddy Lee (with a hard G, not like a J) and Alex Lifeson. The song is based on the poem "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and is about a man's journey to find the lost paradise Xanadu and become immortal. He ends up trapped there, immortal but mad, waiting for the world to end. The band doesn't have an extra person to play keyboards because they play pedals with their feet - you can see Alex playing the baseline while Geddy is at the keyboard in this video. Sometimes Geddy sings, plays bass and pedals at the same time!

[@mightyV444]

Nice! 😀👍 Not many people notice that also Alex plays the pedal synth in this performance! He does this also during his 7/8 guitar riff after the intro and when it repeats towards the end 🙂

[@stratcat3216]

Geddy and Alex also both play synth and synth/bass parts with their feet.

[@STEELCITYBERMA]

Welcome to the world of Rush and 3 of the greatest musicians you’ll ever listen to…. Arguably the greatest drummer to ever play the drums!! RIP

[@AaronRaynerKASR]

I never get tired of watching people discover this masterpiece - you included. What these three guys did was undeniable. And THAT sound - from three people. They'll never be another band like them. Great reactions - you got my sub.

[@mightyV444]

Same 😊 I've watched oodles of reactions to this particular performance. So far, only two people have noticed Alex's swift switch from the 12-string part of his double-neck to the 6-string part at 9:11 😁

[@jpschub3181]

Master class in musicianship!

[@iKvetch558]

Still makes me miss The Professor every time I see it. RIP Neil Peart 😢

[@Fred-vy1hm]

9:10 watch how quick Alex shifts from 12 to 6 string, it's so fast and smooth most people miss it.

[@mightyV444]

Yep! 😊 I've watched quite a few reactions to this particular performance, and only two guys noticed it 😁 And not only does Alex switch between the necks, he also flicks the switch that mutes the 12-string and activates the 6-string! 🤯

[@SnowDogisVictorious]

Geddy Lee was born Gary Lee Weinrib, to Holocaust survivors who moved to Canada after WWII. Thanks to his mother’s thick Yiddish accent, whenever she called him for dinner, he and his friends heard her saying Geddy rather than Gary (as she had intended). The nickname stuck. (It’s a hard ‘g’ - by the way). Geddy met Alex in middle school and they have remained best friends ever since. Alex’s parents also moved from their native Serbia to Canada after the war, first to Fernie, British Columbia, and later to (what was then) the Toronto suburb of Willowdale. Alex’s off-stage surname is Živojinović. Lifeson is a transliteration of the Serbian meaning of his name. Neil Peart was born Neil Peart and remained so until his death. Rush started as a garage band in 1968. They played a lot of church basements and high school dances over the next four years, until they were old enough to play bars. They cut their first album in 1974, with the band’s original drummer, John Rutsey. Rutsey had different musical tastes than Geddy and Alex (they wanted to explore progressive rock; he didn’t). He also suffered from childhood diabetes and therefore couldn’t realistically participate in the tremendously gruelling travel schedule of a young band. So, he left the band and Alex and Geddy wound up recruiting Neil to join them for their first US tour (Pittsburgh in the spring of 1974, originally opening for Manfred Mann).

[@mightyV444]

Those tubes making the bell sounds are actually called Tubular Bells ! Which also is the title of the debut album by Mike Oldfield 🙂 And "Geddy" is how his grandmother had pronounced his real name Gary, with her Polish accent 😊

[@edgarpacifico3421]

Great reaction 👏😀👏 Geddy still plays foot pedals while singing and playing bass! Three geniosis!Try Natural Science! Another banger

[@williamdemerchant7295]

Sometimes Geddy plays bass pedals when he's on keyboards, and then synth pedals while playing bass guitar. Alex also uses sustain pedals for the guitar intro. Then there's Neil with all of his percussive toys. After the intro he beats those drums savagely with perfect fills.

[@mightyV444]

@@williamdemerchant7295 - It's not a sustain pedal per sé but a volume pedal; Much the same effect as if he was turning the volume up and down with the controls on his guitar (like Eddie Van Halen in his 'Cathedral' solo) but much more convenient this way 🙂 Alex too plays a pedal synth during certain parts of this great performance 🙂

[@juliebrockett3471]

This was an unfinished poem by Samuel Taylor Coolidge… Neil decided to finish it for him… LOL! You got the storyline right on the dot! Neil Peart (like Peert) wrote all lyrics while Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee (like spaghetti) wrote all the music!) I think Neil also had a cautionary tale in this story… “Be careful what you wish for… you just might get it”! Sounds like Neil! Great reaction! Best live performance ever (as they all are)! Welcome to the #RUSHFAMILY! Be well and God bless… from Texas!!

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Texas here too! Glad I understood the message 😁

[@mightyV444]

Spageddy Lee! 😄 I love it! 😁

[@MrKneeV]

Hard "G" in Geddy. Song lyrics come from the poem "Kubla Khan", by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. If you enjoy this sound and this era of Rush, I suggest Cygnus X-1, from this same album (A Farewell to Kings, 1977), followed by Cygnus X-1 Book II, from the following album (Hemispheres, 1978).

[@luiscarmona6940]

I have to listen to that song everyday, that's just how f..good it is. I always discover something new in this masterpiece. By the way, the long things Neal's hitting at the beginning are called tubabells. I've been addicted to this band for 45 ys. To me, their best song, all around, is Cygnus X-1, book II. The music is unmatched and the lyrics are Neil's very best....it's a 20 minute mind-blowing story, that, as always, leaves good in you, as Neil always meant to. Hope you check it. You'll thank me.

[@MarkLang61]

LOVE your reaction videos. I'm an old rocker and really appreciate when someone can relate to the old classics, like Rush, and the new rockers, like The Warning. It brings two worlds together.

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Thank you, that means a lot

[@patrigilligan2112]

You are totally getting this song better than most people do! It usually just goes right over most people's heads! It's an analogy for how people look for this perfect paradise that we'll NEVER find. Geddy's name is a "hard" g, as in Gary. His grandmother had a strong accent, and when she called his name it sounded like Geddy, so it stuck. His actual name is Gary Lee. And btw, those long tubular bells Neil is playing are "orchestra bells."

[@rimskykorsakov2892]

You actually answered your own answer they are Tubular bells

[@patrigilligan2112]

@@rimskykorsakov2892 .....and those tunular bells are CALLED "orchestra bells."

[@Tarkus_]

Easily a top 5 (at least) live performance on KZbin. If it was just Neil Peart, it would probably be top 10, but Alex and Geddy are also otherworldly. Just a ridiculous performance and recording.

[@alexgaranzuay7537]

There's no better band in the world then Rush especially the drummer

[@evanswendy9773]

Check out Best intro ever, from their 30th anniversary tour -- R30! The intro features music from their first 7 albums!

[@debbieplato5107]

Amazing performance of an amazing song! 🌟🌟🌟 Red Barchetta from the same concert Exit Stage Left is also fabulous Also Natural Science from the Molson Amphitheatre Toronto Digital Man from. the Snakes and Arrows tour The Trees Circumstances Cheers

[@deanroddey2881]

If you look up the definition of 'epic' in the dictionary... Well, OK, they won't mention this song, but they should. Actually both Geddy and Alex are also playing synth pedals, at that time Taurus pedals I would guess. That's how you can have a three piece band making more sound that seems possible. Otherwise, once Geddy went to play a synth part, the low end would fall away. But he can move the bass part to the pedals while he plays the synth.

[@iKvetch558]

Can confirm...Taurus pedals 💯

[@cpmf2112]

Natural Science by Rush is my favorite song. 😁 Definitely need the lyrics. 😎

[@rsdempster]

Fun fact: Geddy (Gary Lee Weinrib) when young, his mother would call for him with a strong Yittish accent, and his friends would ask "Why is she calling you Geddy?". Later he decided to use that along with his middle name as his stage name.

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Geddy is a nice nickname too 😁

[@generoberts9151]

It’s actually spelled and pronounced “Yiddish”. A Hebrew dialect

[@rsdempster]

@@generoberts9151 thank you! I was trying to find the correct spelling.

[@k_spats]

*RUSH RULES!* 💜💫✌🏼🎵

[@obiwanbenobi4943]

I missed your previous video reaction to Rush but I'll go back and find it. Welcome to Rush and their many fans on YT. :) If you want to just react to different songs from a band there's plenty to pick from for Rush for sure. I would not get into their longer epics out of sequence because I think they are pretty musically demanding for a listener and a reaction channel may not want to get into 20+ minute whole album sides at first. Personally, I'm always interested in how a band develops through time so I go back and listen to their early stuff and then work through it and let it soak in for a while before moving on to the next album. That is how it was produced and released when we first heard it and how the band intended it to be heard. Catching the live performances (there's so many on YT now :) ) to spice things up and to compare how they pulled off songs like this one live v.s the studio version (I still prefer the studio version of this song because you can hear things much more clearly), but you really can't find a lot wrong with this particular performance - they did a great job of adapting it and playing it live. Only a few spots where Geddy has a hard time with the lyrics (in later concerts he's changed his phrasing and melody lines even more)... On the whole though, it's a lot to enjoy and I hope you keep enjoying the journey.

[@CLGMusicMedia]

The song is based on a poem by English poet Samuel Coleridge called "Kubla Khan". And Geddy's real name is Gary Weinrib. His mother had a strong East European accent and, when she said Gary, it sounded like "Geddy".

[@danarchuleta1154]

There is simply no band that conveys musical expressions perfectly crafted to carry the lyrical meaning and affect. Funny, but this is in contrast with one of my other fav.s, Steely Dan, whose amazing compositions seem antithetical to the lyrics, but in the sweetest way. Alex's playing evolved and to a masterclass level IMO...... Luv it when someone new appreciates this multifaceted iconic trio! Great Rxn!

[@squamishfish]

Try Natural Science studio version with Lyrics get ready for a journey fire 🔥 Fire 🔥 Fire , Then once you know the lyrics very important to this song do the live version this will take away any doubt they can do it live no problem,

[@SomeOneNew1029]

I realize you're new to the band, but every time you say "jetty" I die a little inside

[@michaelmccombs2959]

I have watched so many reactors struggle with the names first couple times. After time they know each of them, and their nicknames to each other, plus just a out any quirks or personality traits that define who they are. In time you will learn the ways of the force.😊

[@garysteinert8040]

There songs tell better stories and better visuals than blockbuster movies.

[@surfeit5910]

It's a Poem By Samuel Taylor Coleridge entitled "Kubla Khan". Based on the book by Marco Polo, written about the Yuan Emperor and Genghis Kahn's grandson, Kubla Kahn. Ironically, it was a brief but significant speck in Chinese history where the Mongols conquered China, but before they lost control of it shortly afterwards, that Marco Polo traveled there and pretty much write down everything Renaissance Europe would come to know about Chinese culture. That said, yeah... Neil Peart did not mess around when it came to lyrics, so always make sure you do your homework! :)

[@ritchmoore1442]

Great reaction to a great song! 😎

[@detlevschwalm6327]

Epic, isn't it. Rush was the band I listened repetetively too before discovering The Warning. And is the one I come back to occasionally. Always a good choice.

[@johncampbell756]

Xanadu was a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Kubla Khan becomes immortal, but by being essentially frozen. He doesn't get to exoerience anything but time. Alex Lifesonnon guitar. Neil Peart (correct pronunciation) on drums and percussion. He hits every item in his kit on this song. Geddy (not Jeddy) Lee was born Gary Liebowitz, but his Holocaust surviving grandmother's accent was was so thick, she'd say Gary but you hear Geddy. So it stuck. During this song Geddy plays bass, sings, plays keys, plays keyboard foot triggers while playing bass and singing or playing bass pedals with his feet while playing keys and singing and at the end plays guitar.

[@James-dh6ld]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge,one of the greatest English Poets, wrote this following an Opium induced dream. When he awoke he wrote the Poem Xanadu which he never finished after a visitor knocked on the Door

[@jumpman8282]

The singer's real name is Gary, but his mother had an accent, so as a kid when she would call him in for dinner or whatnot, the other kids thought she said Geddy. I guess it stuck :) As for the song, it's basically about finding something that appears to be a blessing but later turns out to be more of a curse. I think we all have some event or moment in life to which that is applicable. As a struggling alcoholic myself I have definitely had my fair share of the milk of 'Paradise'. But what at first gave me a sense of immortality slowly wore me down and I ended up spending more time with the liquor than with friends and family - isolating myself in my 'pleasure dome'. But after a decade or so it really started feeling as if time had passed me by and I realized that my pleasure dome had become a prison. Since then, I've had countless relapses and I'll probably have many more, but this song helps me in my battle to one day break free and escape these caves of ice!

[@1teamski]

Welcome to the magic of RUSH!

[@jewel_laughs]

Lov'in your Rush reactions! Subbed for more1

[@nodrush80]

The greatest.

[@glenngunnis6642]

Geddy Lee with a hard g

[@alexgaranzuay7537]

You should hear the albums from 1985 all the way back to 74 when the drummer started playing with rush it was the fly by night album

[@linearrecords12]

Geddy Lee Alex Lifeson Neil Peart Exit Stage Left 1981

[@andersbjansson1688]

The lyrics are a direct reference to the poem "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

[@RayEvans-j1q]

A song about an unfinished poem, played by three guys just having fun!

[@edzeljereza8234]

The tubes behind Neil are called tubular bells, a staple of his kit in the 70s to the 80s...he used electronic pads later on in its place until he retired.

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Real nice set up

[@G-MAN1958]

Welcome to the RUSH rabbit-hole! 😄

[@jackteppo9633]

Live is best. Everything pretty much. Just give er a listen.

[@garylogan3640]

The song was inspired by the unfinished poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge titled Kubla Khan.

[@johntrickey7182]

Its a traveler searching for a immortal world. Its philosophical journey, a humans desire to seek out perfection.

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Well said 👏 our desires could very well be more than we bargained for

[@ricardoacosta5753]

A L E X 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@evanswendy9773]

Xanadu is a song about an unfinished poem.

[@alexgaranzuay7537]

If you haven't noticed the drummer is the one that writes the songs most of them and he gets most of his lyrics from God's word Xanadu means Paradise what I understand of the definition of Xanadu the bass player is called geddy Lee the guitarist is called Alex lifeson you got the drummer's name right

[@joshuagies4900]

iirc, this is based off a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge also titled Xanadu. edit: another poster has the correct name of "Kubla Khan" for the title of the poem.

[@traceysharpe6330]

Other Great band from Ontario Canada is Motion Device.

[@psychedelicmushroompeople]

Kubla Khan (1797, circa late 18th century) BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean; And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight ’twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

[@timjones8377]

Geddy is playing six string guitar (bottom neck) during the last 1:50 of the song.. and pedals

[@rattan3793]

It's actually a 12 string bottom neck, always has been whenever Geddy used the doubleneck for Xanadu.

[@squamishfish]

Back in the day when electronic percussion were not available the drummer had to use real percussion,

[@jerrybranagin7615]

Based on an unfinished poem

[@jimmavity]

please play Bytor and the Snowdog from the live album all the worlds a stage

[@rodwhitfield3029]

Welcome to the musical universe of the world's smallest ever symphony orchestra....

[@squidly2112]

FYI, it is Geddy Lee, not pronounced Jeddy .. Guh sound - Geddy.

[@scott4482]

Turns out immortality is a curse not a blessing

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Yes 😁

[@generoberts9151]

Exactly. Rush not only tells stories with music but teaches lessons. Based on the Coolidge poem they find that paradise is not always what it’s cracked up to be….

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Love the message. Pretty much "Be careful what you wish for"

[@jamesdwyer7379]

Do TOM SAWYER official video

[@48mastadon]

Who is this "Jetti" of which you speak?

[@Buds1own]

WAY toooooo much bobblehead to be a true first time??????????????? Geesh!

[@muhammadrafiqsafi8680]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kublai_Khan