Episode 228: Rush Tom Sawyer year 1981. English Version.

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00:00:51 - Want to see us.

00:00:53 - What's that?

00:00:54 - And more people want to see us.

00:00:55 - And you know, I mean, first of all we love, you know, we love doing it.

00:00:59 - It's really a kind of a privilege to be, you know, 51 years old and being able to go out just still to have a voice.

00:01:14 - Let me.

00:01:15 - Well, it's felt differently, everything is called orgasmatron.

00:01:19 - Rudd Helford.

00:01:20 - I think are useful just because of the fact that with what I try and do, it's important to try and...

00:01:31 - Eric Clapton and Paul Stanley

00:01:33 - But piano was inconceivable, I mean, you can't, you can't just go and buy a piano or his guitar is much more accessible.

00:01:40 - I think I was very driven, period.

00:01:43 - It was to compensate, to make myself feel more worthy.

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00:01:57 - Rush was a Canadian progressive rock band formed in August 1968 in the Willowdale neighborhood of Toronto, Ontario.

00:02:06 - The lineup had been stable since 1974, when Neil Pert replaced original drummer John Rootsy before their first US tour.

00:02:18 - One of the band's most beloved songs was born in the most natural way.

00:02:24 - After Pert had worked with Pie to Voice and Max Webster on the lyrics, next was the drumming that the late great drummer Neil Pert, along with the rest of the band, improvised on.

00:02:36 - This was a characteristic of the band in the course of his career.

00:02:42 - That song finds us at such a confident moment that we were learning to make a song only 6 minutes long instead of 12, 15 and use the same standards of arrangement," Pert explained.

00:02:55 - It was a classic setup for a band that rarely looked back.

00:02:59 - Tom Sawyer is a true trademark song for us, says Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson.

00:03:05 - Musically it's very powerful and lyrically it has a spirit that resonates with a lot of people.

00:03:12 - It's kind of an anthem.

00:03:16 - Du Bois was a poet and lyricist who was based in Sarnia, Ontario, in the same province as

00:03:24 - Russia's hometown of Toronto.

00:03:27 - He was very quirky, a little crazy, but he wrote great lyrics.

00:03:34 - And around 1980 he sent Neil a poem with the idea to collaborate on a song.

00:03:40 - The original draft was called Louis the Warrior.

00:03:44 - Neil took that idea and adapted it, took out some of the lines and added his ideas, choosing a simpler title.

00:03:53 - Tom Sawyer completed the lyrics with an autobiography element as he put it, reconciling the boy and the man in myself.

00:04:04 - Frontman Getty Lee said the band hated this classic song when they first recorded it.

00:04:10 - He explained, I remember being disappointed in the studio, thinking that I really doesn't get we get the spirit of the song.

00:04:18 - We thought it was the worst song on the album at the time, but it all came together in the mix.

00:04:25 - Sometimes you don't have the objectivity to know when you're doing your best work.

00:04:32 - The band chose this song as a concert opener for their 2002 vapor trails tour, something they had never done before.

00:04:40 - After all the trauma, and the times difficult times endured by the personal losses of Neil

00:04:46 - Pert, wife and daughter who die within a year of each other, and the possibility of the band ending, they believed that Tom Sawyer would send the message that they were back to stay.

00:04:58 - They usually introduced the song with a count from one to four, but for vapor trails there was no count, at least not in the usual sense.

00:05:07 - Perk gave the signal, he simply closed his high hat simple pedal with his foot, and this he gave the band the signal to silently count the beginning of the song.

00:05:20 - This can be seen on the Russian Rio DVD, before the concert starts, a muffled cymbal sound is heard, starting the countdown.

00:05:56 - Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

00:06:26 - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

00:06:56 - There's no more of this love and no more of you

00:07:02 - With the eyes in space, all night

00:07:12 - The days come so you can try on new

00:07:15 - Spacing in pain and goodbye

00:07:26 - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

00:08:26 - You find it all there, doing it all at once

00:08:34 - And you tell me that it's the day, you don't think you don't believe it

00:08:40 - I'll show you the truth

00:08:56 - Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

00:09:26 - It's like all night

00:09:35 - And if the worry of the day starts falling

00:09:37 - You can try on me when you have a game of trade

00:09:40 - Right under the bridge in our world

00:09:56 - I don't know, I don't know

00:09:58 - I don't know

00:10:00 - I don't know

00:10:26 - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah