Rush- Finding My Way REACTION & REVIEW
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And this is the band Finding Their roots. With original drummer John Rutsy. The bands first album is more hard rock and shows some elements of blues and heavy metal. Especially on the last song Working Man which has become an iconic song in their catalogue.
I remember dropping the needle on this track / album - first time I ever heard Rush and Yeah! Oh Yeah!
@@cazgerald9471 man first album first song first words Yeah Oh Yeah told us all what we needed to know
Ladies and Gentleman, from Toronto Canada….RUSH!!!!
Young Geddy’s voice was so incredible
I was about 15 years old, shopping for my first stereo at the local mall and the salesman queued up this track as a demo, much to the consternation of all the older shoppers in earshot. That was my first exposure to what has become the soundtrack of my life. 😁
Thank you!!! This makes my day. This has been the soundtrack to my life for many decades. Rush and Zappa are my Gods.
We're overdue some Frank!
I was four years old when they made that album.My parents were country music fans and I didn't hear any Rush until I was in my teens.I had a lot of most excellent catching up to do,and I did.Never saw them play live😢
What a rock trio!!!
Even back that far and with all the Zepplin influences, you can hear Alex and Geddy really had IT, something special that would separate RUSH from all their contemporaries
I've always loved this first album. I never thought John Rutsey was a bad drummer but they were never going to the stratosphere until Neil joined. And most importantly, this album gave us Working Man!
They certainly went from one end of the spectrum to the other lyrically when they started getting Neil to write the words.
Donna Halper was the first DJ to give them a go (you’ll see her on the Spiritual Of Radio video done a few years ago), and when she was playing cuts from the album the station’s phones would light up with people asking when the next Zeppelin album was coming out.
Working Man, the last track from this album, was the one that was first aired, although it was given that honour because it was a long song which allowed the DJs to take a potty break.
And find their way they did! With the replacement of Rutsy, it became A-Peart-ent, this band was no "Fly By Night"! 🧭🍁🍁🍁✌&❤
Early Geddy vocals are amazing! The album closer is "Working Man", two fantastic "bookends" for their debut album!🧨🧨⚡⚡🔥🔥
I heard the songs from this album first on their live All the Worlds a Stage album. That was a great place to start. The live versions of all the songs on that album are so good.
It's like a totally different band on that first record compared to what they became. The album ROCKS for sure, but it doesn't give me the "goosebump" factor that their later records do. Very good start though.
Difficult to review this album without knowing what was to come. In 1974, this totally passed me by. Had I heard it, I'm sure that I would have thought that it was a run-of-the-mill Budgie or Led Zep copyist album (two years too late) without the style or panache of those two bands. There was some talent there - Lifeson knew what he was doing and Lee's bass is more than adequate but the vocals are trying too hard and come across as unconvincing. Some more tracks like Working Man would have helped but alas most of the album was like this. Every Rush fan should own this but I suspect few will play it regularly.
Of the early albums "Caress of Steel" is my favorite. More variety and originality. They started out sounding like Led Zeppelin. From the first album "In the Mood" and "Working Man" survived into later set lists. The latter song broke the band in Cleveland, Ohio.
Hmm well, speaking as a Rush fan their debut has little to offer beyond Zepp/Sabbath clichés (not that I mind that!), and the songwriting is far from spectacular. Fly By Night is the earliest one I that ever really listen to all the way through.
I’m with you on that
Me too👍
Geddy hated writing lyrics, and it kinda shows on this album, as they are mostly just adolescent drivel. But the musicality was there, even then. Neil coming along to write lyrics was what the band really need, and he did it better than anyone.
I love hard Rush and so this album is in my top 3 despite the production quality.
Great reaction. Thanks for choosing this track. Its fun. THe Led Zeppelin influence is cler.
My younger brother (1.5 years) could play that intro perfect. We did an instrumental medley of that into Working Man into the ending of Freebird in my High School cafeteria back in maybe 1975/76. It was a hit and the drummer broke the snare on a borrowed drum kit. Good times and great song!
Love, love , love it !!!
Hugs from Brazil >>>>
The only party album by Rush. A good one !
Young, very young guys...just finding their groove.
Zeppelin was an early influence on the band. The lyrics are pretty basic but it is a fun song.
Geddy had to write some fast lyrics as John Rutsy ripped up the lyrics he had written and didn't show up for the vocals recording. In Geddy's book he said it wasn't only his Diebetes but there were also musical differences as John was more straight forward rock and Alex and Geddy were wanting to go more the progressive rock route.
Lee was very kind to some people in that book, but reserved some pointed criticism for others, himself being one of them. Rutsey didn't come out very well in that book. Lee painted him as manipulative and mildy sociopathic.
@@Azabaxe80Maybe he was? Geddy has had a lot of years to realize things from the past that at the time go unrealized. At the time, John was the band leader. And I’m sure that dynamic played a part in being conciliatory at the time, that was later noticed as manipulation.
@@illegal_space_alien Did you enjoy the book? I did. It did a lot to debunk a lot of the mythology surrounding Rush.
One of my Top 5 Rush albuns, and I don't care some band hardcore fans ignore it 'cause it's not prog... come on, it's not the proposal of the album, it's a damn good hard rock album... As 'Rocka Rolla' by Judas Priest.
And the others four albuns of the Top 5: Fly By Night, A Farewell to Kings, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures. Yes, no 2112...
Yeah their intricate lyrics came with Neil. But this is a solid album. Working Man from this album is great.
A solid album that I like. I can only make it about half way through, though. There’s a track with a short drum solo by Rutsey. Every time I hear it, I miss Neil and have to put on the album Fly By Night, instead.
I get you doing this album, but would love to see you do Fly By Night.
Yeah 100% their first album sounded very much like Led Zeppelin. There are stories of Zeppelin fans calling the radio stations thinking a new Zeppelin album was out, and the station would have to correct them, "no, no no not Zeppelin, a new band called Rush"
In regards to John Rutsey leaving the band due to health issues. There maybe some truth to that but after watching the Rush documentary "Beyond the Lighted Stage", I believe there's more it. The manager for Rush throughout or for most of their careers was Ray Daniels. I believe it was Daniels idea to get rid of John Rutsey and the diabetic illness sounded like an excuse. In the documentary, Geddy tells a story on how Daniels wanted to kick him (Geddy) out of the band as well and build around (pretty boy) Alex. Not sure what exactly happened next but the idea didn't last long (thank god 🤣😂🤣). Geddy states "to this day, I never let him forget he tried to kick me out of the band". Along with Rush, Daniels also managed Van Halen and caused some chaos there as well.
Do me a favor and listen the bluesy tune “Here Again” on this same album. It’s little heard, but it moves me deeply whenever I hear it. Actually, do yourself a favor and listen to it.
Dammit, now I just want to go play in the yard instead of going to work! 😂
Anyway, always thought this was still great although obviously not as unique as their later stuff. Just solid straight up hard rock, nothing more and nothing less.
Thanks JP 🤘🤘
To think,this masterpiece.....this great sound.....this energised,amazing rock band eventually turned into a sad synth based shadow of this greatness.
There are lovers of all periods of the band. Like many others, i believe they adapted perfectly to the changing times with 'Power Windows' being a top 3 album!
That's the beauty of opinions, we all have one....and I respect yours👍
I thought you were joking. D'oh!
@wendymotogirl ....I wish I was........imho the later part of their career pailed into an insignificant din,with the occasional classic thrown in. Just ( try) and listen to Roll the Bones!!! It's awful. By then, Geddy's voice had turned into a monotonous talk. Age had caught up I'm afraid. In the end,(great song!) They had gone from the greatest power trio of all time to just a very good band.........so you can see ,I'm not joking.
@markferrett700 The last great album aside from their remarkable Swansong was '85s 'Power Windows'. So yeah, that's a lot of detritus!
5 random Great Debut LPs of this Age:
Van Halen 1978
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops 1984
Doll By Doll - Remember 1978
Thomas Dolby - Golden Age of Wireless 1980
The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 1986
now we need u JP to finish Jeff Buckley's Grace to compare em all in it's context
You should try Breadfan by Budgie, has a similar tone :)
I have always wondered what would have become of Rush if Rusty decided to stay.
🤔
Definitely would NOT have Cygnus X1 with Rusty still there.
I presume 'Rusty' is deliberate
@@Owlstretchingtime78OOPS!!!! total typo. Not even autocorrect. Thats alllll me.
@@lifespanofafry1534 👍
I imagine they would’ve gone the path of Red Rider. Had a couple of hits, broken up, and had one or more members come back bigger in the next band they were in.
Being a huge Prog fan I should like Rush but I just can’t get into them but I lived this album. Lee’s vocals after this just made my ears bleed. That and the inane lyrics
Now do yourself a real favour and listen to Steve Hacket " Love song to a Vampire "
Fun, and you can see the chops are there, but without Neil and for other reasons, it will always be my least favorite Rush album, though still solid!
_Yeah! Oooh Yeah!_ Actually, no. It's difficult to imagine this same paleolithic sounding, totally derivative band being able to come up with _Farewell to Kings_ within four years.
That is pretty incredible.
Interesting rummage down to the bottom of the garbage pile. It seems they started out with utterly unlistenable crap and kept it consistent their entire career.
but they progressed thru varying degrees of "rock" intensity and kept their sense of humour you gotta admit surely?
Which one is your least offensive Rush Era ? My fave is the slowburnin mid 80s electro melodic pop prog of Grace Under Pressure. Try that after a glass of Prosecco?
Y@HippoYnYGlaw Your pissing in the wind with this individual.
@@Owlstretchingtime78 I'm the same with Fish era Marillion or at least I was b4 just jp taught me to give it a chance! 🤗 Sometimes a blind guess who's singing would be beneficial...? Though there's no mistaking some is there!
I heard the songs from this album first on their live All the Worlds a Stage album. That was a great place to start. The live versions of all the songs on that album are so good.
Troll...just ignore him.
When I first heard the band I said the singer won't be able to keep up that voice very long! He kept it up a lot longer than I thought he could. Peace!