RUSH - Show Don't Tell (Rabbits From A Hat Intro) live 1990 - Presto Tour

[@yrunaked4]

I was always and still impressed with how Alex sounds like so much more than a single guitarist. His style is unmatched

[@davidwood5789]

Eddie Van Halen was once asked....... what it's like to be one the greatest guitarists ever 🥸 to step out on to the stage ?? His reply........ Why don't you go ask Alex Lifeson ???? 😎🌟 ohsnap!!! 🥸 👉 RESPECT 👈 🎊😶‍🌫️🎉

[@JustMe99999]

@@davidwood5789 That's an urban legend, but would definitely be cool if true.

[@spankygrant]

thanks for posting this!! This was one of the first projects I ever animated . We did the CG hat tumbling forward followed by all the stuff pouring out of it. geez...it looks so hilariously primitive now but was still a boatload of work on a little PC in 1989

[@megazillion2946]

Wow, that is cool.

[@jimsmith625]

Show me don't tell me!!!!

[@driftless7134]

Are you Geddy's brother?

[@shanecurtis7797]

Yeah sure you did. And I'm Geddy's sound tech.

[@Why_are_americans_so_dumb]

@@shanecurtis7797jealous

[@tedfabiano]

After reading Geddy’s book, I appreciate a clip like this even more. He’s playing bass, giving full throated vocals, playing keyboard, and triggering effects. Good lord.

[@johnkem2630]

Geddy is a musical savant !

[@25newrush]

the ultimate professional multitasker

[@stephenoneill3120]

Wow wow wow, quite unbelievable how precise rush are, tight as hell, complexity that is hard to comprehend. I simply adore everything they have ever done. Masterclass. Rest in peace neil. X

[@dannyholloway2007]

I completely agree, even their eighties material that people dog on is just as good to me.

[@adamwilliam2882]

Unbelievable In their prime here

[@jsullivan2112]

This is actually pretty sloppy, tempo is all over the place and Geddy's clearly struggling. They shouldn't have opened the show with this one.

[@adam872]

I've always thought that this was one of the more underrated Rush songs. The riff and especially Neil's drumming underneath was tip top. I like the way it sounds here too.

[@andresgonzales3013]

it is the best Rush chorus ever.

[@secretjourney4815]

similar structure to "test for echo" and"one little victory", however WAAAAYYYY better, especially the bass solo

[@hankgarza4975]

This is enough!!! What is it with this "UNDERRATED" Comments? Its like the special school spent a whole day on this... "good morning slow class...today we are going to learn the "underrated" comment used by SLOW Students, you know Slow Class, like you... SLOW....now, go out there and use the SLOW Student response "underrated" when you try to make a Silly Comment on Social Media.

[@adam872]

@@hankgarza4975 what an odd comment. It's like you don't understand what I meant when I said underrated SONG. Underrated, as in unheralded or not frequently discussed as a classic of their oeuvre.

[@Lerxstification]

NEP hitting the skins HARD right from the start. Love Alex's hair and Ged's pony tail lol.

[@moonstars315]

the sound coming out of a 3 man band is unreal. No cell phones, internet, social media....the goold old organic music days, when new music coming out was anticipated and awesome.... the 90s was the last decade of originality amd creativity in genres, defining music. Rush came out and sounded like NO ONE, especially in the 70s. I LOVE this band. Geddy can walk, chew gum and sweep the floor, all at the same time. Neil is the best drummer I have ever seen.

[@johnwagner4559]

Jesus! Neil is something....is an understatement..RIP Neil.

[@dancha1593]

Three guys Forty years Forever the greatest band.

[@88hemann]

Rush!!! The world's best band😁

[@4residentleon]

HOLY SHIT I LOVE RUSH, HOW CAN A BAND BE SO GOOD

[@daemonicnimrod4772]

Rush was truly a divine gift to the musical arts. Second to none, never an equal!!!

[@adammbowman]

Because they are pure of heart...or hure of peart.

[@da8171]

Yes, they are simply one of the best bands that ever graced this earth.

[@Rosbergen80]

And just 3 guys!

[@chrisevans9553]

Pure talent and lots of practice!

[@fixxxer3456]

You can tell this is probably one of Geddy's favorites from the album, he is really into it

[@mikevalois9891]

I like them even more now, today ,than I did when I was a teenager

[@VoodooCrab]

I enjoyed all phases of Rush but man were they tight in the late 80's and early 90's.

[@squonk86]

I totally agree but my favorite album will always be 2112....

[@williamsecrest8019]

3 technical wizards each a master at his craft. conjuring up a terrilfic showing of their talents .the greatest band ever.

[@davidpomm]

Absolutely the best era for Rush. They are developing the more modern sound and Geddys voice is in between the shrill early years and the later years where he can't hit certain stuff. Songwriting began to mature in a huge way too.

[@trenken]

David Pomerleau its a shame though that the recording quality was so weak on these albums. They didnt fix it until counterparts. These songs are much stronger live.

[@davidpomm]

Tim Renken Agreed. Would be cool to hear a remixed "Presto" and "Roll the Bones".

[@VoodooCrab]

Their live recording were always much better in my opinion.

[@SuperSparrow45]

Best era for Rush: 1974-Present

[@VoodooCrab]

Haha, yeah!

[@chinatype2bassrocker809]

Neil Part: The drummer that drops a beat, places a roll or in this case, surgically drops in a crash cymbal in the just the perfect spot that it makes me hit replay just to hear it again. Drum hook master.

[@Twotontessie]

Absolutely. And he'll cram like 12 hooks in one song. LOL. Incredible. And every one will work and get you where you live! I was listening to "Subdivisions" today on the way home from work. "Breathtaking" was the word that came to mind. By the time it's over it's like ok - what can top that?

[@JRTrilling]

I wasn't into Presto that much, however, I could watch ANYTHING Rush did. These 3 were SO inducing.

[@ralphhyland8661]

My all time favorite band in concert. Nobody like them before or since! RIP

[@nickavenoso7851]

Rush has always been there for me in tough moments. Like having to put one of my dogs down, there music helped me get through that tough time.

[@Lerxstification]

/...living in those dog years...

[@JustMe99999]

First tour I saw Rush on - sophomore in High School. Mind blown!

[@kevinmcgiffin10]

Bout as tight as you can get. ❤ RUSH FOREVER❤

[@TopJimmyWinn]

I saw this tour in St Petersburg Florida, and I remember Mr Big opened for them. Great show!

[@alexandermglass]

I can't get enough of this song.

[@jimmylukes6152]

REST IN PEACE NEIL!

[@notramesses4790]

Best live performance of this song ever! These guys are awesome!

[@johnpierson4696]

Saw this show at Star Lake Amphitheatre in Pittsburgh. It was spectacular. The sound was great for an outdoor show.

[@davethompson1545]

This is a bad ass song,good and powerful in any era DAM!!!!

[@gerguil]

the instrumental after the second chorus.man !!!!!! i love it.gives me chills

[@andrerenault]

This and the A Show of Hands era are the places where Alex's voice is the most audible

[@Sigma77-n2u]

This was the time I discovered Rush I was 12 ! Love this album 💿 Presto !! 🐇

[@thesgkiddave]

This song was my intro to Rush when I was a kid watching MTV.

[@timphelan2873]

Same here. Came home from jr high to turn on MTV and see the instrumental section into the bass solo, and my entire world opened up. Result. Professional musician than never strayed too far from my love of Rush. Even 33 years later. There's no easy way to calculate just how many musicians were formed from the influence of Rush over the last 40 years. Incredible!

[@ChrisBenjamin-fo1bf]

Saw the "Presto" tour in 1990 👍 They had giant inflated rabbits on each side of the stage 🐰 It was awesome 👌

[@hustler3of4culture3]

Yup. It was awesome

[@chriswright1160]

They had the bunnies dancing during Counterparts tour.

[@mediacreationsusa]

amazing to watch all of them esp Getty playing and singing at 4:45 - synth petals, that bass line and singing.... he knows he nailed it - look at his smile at 5:00! - 3 musicians in one, and forget about the writing and arrangements ... I saw them the album before this and still the best concert I ever saw... Such a Great track! - R.I.P Rush - there will never be another that's for sure!

[@ironrainband]

Indeed. 3 guys who defied the odds and did it all from the ground up. The BEST.

[@johnkem2630]

Geddy is a musical savant !

[@bauerserves]

I remember being in the Cayman islands working on the Radisson on seven mile Beach and when the hotel band at the Ramada played this song I about fell over. Finally my band had become cool and when I came home listening to the evening plane rises up from the runway over constellations of lite. I look down to a million houses and wonder what your doing tonight. if I could wave my magic wand. I'd go back and do it all again

[@bauerserves]

it's impossible for anyone to understand how much the music of rush has influenced my life. I am a better musician, ironically I was talking with my almost 80 year old mother about how the songs that rush have written over the years gave me a richer deeper meaning than if I had not had that first album

[@tap22]

Love this !

[@Torgo1969]

Yes. I hear the lyrics of the song "Presto" in my head whenever I "Fly By Night" and look out the window at the buildings on the ground. And I think about people that I used to be close to before "the years went by and we drifted apart".

[@ericohome]

Alguém da America latina que esta prestigiando a melhor banda do mundo com esse Clipe? De um salve ae!

[@cleandrosoares9910]

Erico Alves 🙌

[@fndTenorio]

é nóis

[@maximopacheco8843]

Que banda! Que músicos! Que habilidade de cada um! Aula de música!!!! Uau, uau, uau uau!!!!!

[@timothymidgett9730]

Canada rocks America again. We love our northern neighbors !!!!!

[@VHSRetroTV]

awesome! wow! I've never seen this since the 90's!!.. when I graduated from high school..

[@donniecastleman5701]

Ged's voice in tip top shape! Can't believe it was 30 years ago!

[@threepeater]

Great tour! I have such great memories of those Rabbits and this album when it came out. This song was my favorite... Prolific and comedically powerful.

[@csiel]

I'm surprised at the negative comments towards Presto....that is a great album! Its one of my favs--it was a return to a more straight forward rock sound and the lyrics are outstanding.

[@johnkem2630]

Presto is a great album. Every song is stellar as they were well established musicians playing together for 14 years at this point.

[@kevinmcgiffin10]

Its amazing watching the church\ high school performances up to this point...SIMPLY AMAZING how these three matured in music.❤❤❤❤❤

[@gastoncorti669]

Que trío por Dios, geniales en todos los aspectos !!

[@caseyphudson]

The best performers I have seen. I have seen Clapton and the Dead. I have seen Peter Frampton, Cheap Trick, Van Halen, the Police

[@Twotontessie]

Not many regrets in life but if you press me - never saw Rush. Not sure how I screwed that up. I guess it was one of those things where it seemed like they would be around forever (and kind of were).

[@dou-lheumanacara4310]

What a crystalline clean tone of Alex Lifeson!

[@thelapander]

The world is not the same now that I'll never be able to see Rush again

[@jimdandstryker]

Watching all three play, but especially, Alex and Neil you just feel there is no place they would rather be then right there playing. Their energy live was so infectious.

[@maggieanaya1114]

What a great version of this song! One of my favorites!

[@romaneberle]

one of their best songs :-)

[@MehYam2112]

Sounds like this was recorded directly from the mixing board - everything sounds super clear. Guitar sounds great.

[@naughtynonnie4013]

Alex is so cute here! Awesome guitar. His signature guitar! Presto was one of their best tours! Geddy’s voice is awesome!

[@SoittajaMake]

Thanks! Gary, Alex and Neil (R.I.P) ... The Rush

[@davidmcilfatrick6014]

these videos are fantastic!

[@sunnys3325]

Thank you for this!! This was my very first concert. I was 14 and they were at Nassau Colliseum LI NY... Mr Big opened. I will never forget that show and the experience being at my first show. This vid brought back so many great memories. RUSH was my favorite band ever....and still is all these years later. RIP N.P. 🥁

[@alexandermglass]

Me too - first show and I was hooked for life!

[@13AndreFalcao666]

Thank you, Neil...

[@ChinoBerraco]

AWESOME !!!! Thank U 4 uploading it ...greetings from South America ;)

[@buzzmorgan4351]

That concert brings back such great memories of when I attended. Nearly brings tears of joy to myself. Thanks so much for posting 🤩🥰

[@lloydgriffiths1847]

One of my favourites!

[@shanecurtis7797]

I was there. Cleveland, OH show. My first Rush concert.

[@jefferyoliviero5668]

Song sounds just like the album version, what talent on display!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kevinmcgiffin10]

Love you neil 👍 Miss u bud . Rush was a power house. Good god. Geddys voice is awesome.

[@markaldridge3321]

Wow , they are on top form here. So tight, Neil is playing superb behind that beautiful sounding Ludwig Kit.

[@thediehardarkansasrazorbak7288]

I wished he'd stayed with Ludwig..They sound way better than them DW's...IMHO

[@roadbully384]

One of my all time favorite #Rush songs

[@michaelbrady2339]

I was there both nights at Auburn Hills!

[@smackela]

I was there one night (this one). What a show!

[@cjisawesome3686]

Amazing Song 🤩😍!

[@barrygerenski6259]

My very first Rush concert for this tour in FL and I was second row center.

[@nathanpickett202]

Trifecta!

[@bryansonnet2454]

The Professor at his best! Man they sound so GOOD!

[@DarylSchiefla]

Peart is just killing it on that awesome kit! So miss this man!

[@rafaa151]

A lot of pleasure watching this. I really don't knowed about this recorded concert. This live version is too good or better than the studio version. The reverb vocals, a nice ideia. Really great!

[@MichaelRojhay]

This is such quality sound! I just wish the cameras knew what they missed...lol

[@sennymau3134]

dude i love RUSH

[@aman2112]

This sounds amazing live.

[@shellymusgrove3328]

This was fun live!!

[@teddys3558]

I got goosebumps watching this! Loved Neil’s playing here. So much conviction!!! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@goodpainlive1]

very underrated song.

[@mickwade9499]

Man, oh, man Neil's toms sound SO GOOD here.

[@dcsmithenterprises8369]

Great Concerts every time # 1, Great Rokers..

[@patepulkkinenvtec2403]

3:19 Geddy sounds like he is back to his young 1970`s vocal days with that distorted scream!

[@MrBassPlayer1]

Spectacular

[@gregbyars456]

great band

[@petehotton4740]

Very good one of the best bands in the world

[@BylawsoftheCrib]

Somewhere along the line Geddy´s voice changed for worst from Vapour Trails. I love this presto era, everything was perfect.

[@fscorpion678]

Alejandro Ruiz Well with the way geddy sings and how they started getting older it was to be expected

[@freewill51]

I wouldn't say his voice got bad, it just changed. In the later years, he put more emotion into the words that kind of made up for the loss of range. But his bass playing has gotten better every year since the 90's. Back then he was great but they way he performed on the last 3 or 4 tours was unreal.

[@trenken]

I think his voice started to decline around Hold Your Fire. Listen to his vocals on that album compared to Power Windows, where he really sounded excellent. And each album since then it got worse and worse. He was never all THAT bad on their studio albums since it was a controlled environment, but live his voice has been really rough for a really long time now, since way before Vapor Trails. But I think maybe the Time Machine tour was when it really started to get unbearably bad. He sounded absolutely awful on that tour. Couldnt even hit mid-range notes without seriously struggling.

[@brianshaffneraclc]

"time if nothing else will do its worst" it's called *age.* Sad fact of life. Vocal cords wear out and change, much as everything else. It's usually hardest on the singers with higher ranges, like his.

[@SnowdogPL]

+Brian Shaffner >>> Sincere truth!!! Plant, Osbourne, Gillan... they also fell in this field.

[@toddwalker2161]

Thanks for this....best live recording I've heard of this song!

[@wecanrebuildhim]

That WAL bass tone is to die for!

[@robertwhite7071]

Nice, great audio quality

[@paulelliott3220]

Another fantastic video Snowdog rules !

[@666cramtheman]

Alex is so cool.

[@denisesoarem7087]

Nossa que saudades, amo amo

[@drvijil]

Thanks for posting this ! What a good quality video. This a very good song. As good as this cut is, it doesn't sound anywhere near as good as actually being there. None of their live albums have captured how fantastic Rush sounds seeing them in person.

[@Krazy_Shorts]

Amazing vids from this show! Love it.

[@kaljaadelfiineille]

I hope whoever was responsible of editing the material got a good smack on their head. They missed everything. Alex's solo, Ged''s most magical parts and Neil almost entirely! Shame on them. Having said that, this performance absolutely blew me away! Good God! What power, what sound, the precision. This is few years before I discovered them, having been ten at the time. I wish I had seen them live during this era. They fucking rocked!

[@reshpeck]

Awful editing, I agree

[@williamsecrest8019]

saw this concert tour in worcester, ma, they had huge top hats on eAch side of the stage and giant inflatable bunnies came out of them, and neil put on a blistering solo performance

[@tommcdonald9337]

Utterly amazing!

[@longislandcerealkiller5955]

Take me back to 1990 please

[@jefferyoliviero5668]

Neil Peart is the GOD of drums!

[@TfsTv]

#Great ! #JustGreat !!!!

[@gregbyars456]

love it

[@reginaldstampe3753]

Beyond words performance 😱

[@davidvollmar9029]

NICE!!!!!! Thanks for the post!!! 😎

[@darkmango1249]

alex's hair

[@Torgo1969]

Flock of Seagulls

[@theomegaconcern9564]

@@Torgo1969 No!

[@Torgo1969]

@@theomegaconcern9564 If you don't like my comment, you can run, you can run so far away...

[@nickavenoso7851]

Geddy Lee called it the Simon Le Bon look