Rush - YYZ | First Listen!

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  @D0CI87PC · 6 months ago

  Another vote for a Live in Rio reaction.

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• JU

  @Just-TB16 · 6 months ago

  Your favorite will change... It just happens cuz every Rush song becomes your next Favorite 😮

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• MI

  @mikedown3219 · 6 months ago

  That opening riff is morse code for YYZ which is the airport code for their home airport in Toronto. As I understand it, Alex has a pilot’s license and got the idea for the song flying into Totonto one day and hearing the morse code signal.

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• JO

  @joehahn8817 · 6 months ago

  Every time that song ends I hear the opening notes of "Limelight" in my head...lol.

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• GR

  @gregf1236 · 6 months ago

  Thank you for checking out the studio version first. It will help you appreciate what they pulled up off playing it live.<br>YYZ Live in Rio is a must watch.

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• ST

  @stillbreeze99 · 6 months ago

  As your beginning to see, &nbsp;moving pictures is a masterpiece.

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• CH

  @charge70 · 6 months ago

  I was in the middle of that crowd at Rush in Rio...

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• JA

  @jamesbowen2105 · 6 months ago

  YYZ Is the 3 letter call symbol for Toronto International Airport. This song is a description of their emotional excitement at returning home to their FAMILIES after months of hard touring.

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• BO

  @Bones_Jr. · 6 months ago

  The live version from Exit Stage Left is a must because of Neil’s drum solo. I’m pretty sure that was the seven-minute version you saw.

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• PU

  @PutGodFirst21121 · 6 months ago

  Story behind &quot;YYZ&quot;<br><br>“It’s interesting. We were coming back from Le Studio when we were making the record just for a break back home and a friend of mine – he was actually my flight instructor – he came and picked us up in a small plane from the little airline that flew out of the small airport,” Alex Lifeson remembers. “And on the way back, they tuned in the identifier for Toronto airport, which is YYZ.”<br><br><br>“The rhythm stuck in my head and I said, ‘Guys!’,” Neil Peart recalled. “So then, thematically we said, ‘We’ll let’s use that airport – so much a part of our lives in those days and after – let’s use that as a metaphor in a sense. Again, in a playful way. There was no sense of ‘Okay, this part is this part’ and all that. But there is a sense of bustling and coming and going and the grand emotion of that middle section of what airports can be.”<br><br>“In our lives, airports were rich with symbolism. Departures and comings and goings; departures and arrivals. Separations and meetings. That was kind of woven into the song. The exotic nature of travel, too, and Alex’s guitar solo for sure too. He wove in that kind of eastern mode.”<br><br>Peart observed that, when you strip away the “modern-day tedium”, airports could be considered fairly romantic places. While Peart saw the exoticism and uncertainty of travel in ‘YYZ’, Geddy Lee saw a heartwarming sense of comfort in returning back to Canada.<br><br>“[‘YYZ’] pretty much is about coming home,” Lee observed. “It’s that call to home. Being a band that spent so much time on the road, whenever we would check in for that flight home and we would see that YYZ ticket on our bag, it was always really exciting. It was like, ‘We’re coming home.’ So basically we wanted to put a song together about that, and even though it’s instrumental, it’s about our town and about kind of where we came from.”

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  @ThePrincepiggy · 6 months ago

  Although everyone recommends Rio, the definitive version is the live on Exit, Stage Left

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  @chrishoffman2489 · 6 months ago

  I&apos;m all for the Rush in Rio live version for the fan interaction, but my favorite live version of YYZ is on their Exit Stage Left album. Neil performs his best drum solo (my opinion) in that song. Just wow🤯

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