Uploaded December 2008 | Updated September 2026, 18 hours ago
What can I say about this wonderful, wonderful track? I LOVE IT!!!! I always have, ever since I first heard it when I was a teenager (er, 30 years ago?!).
Every now and then, I have sat down and tried to play along to it. I always speeded-up, always got it wrong, never got the accents right and generally made a mess of it! But I have always had a blast trying!
I could not resist trying to do a half decent version for YouTube, and I think I have just about got on camera what I wanted. In this first video (there is another to come, with out-takes) I don't play the outro properly and there are some other bits that went wrong. Overall though, it is a 'nearly'!
I have to admit that I over-play the two 'drummy' bits! I guess every drummer would want to stuff this bit full of enormous Neil Peart Rush-type mega fills, and I am no exception!!!! It seems to be begging for it!
Unfortunately (a) I am certainly not Mr. Peart and (b) my double bass drum work has never been my strong-point and (c) the accoustics seem to have resulted in the very fast 'Peart-doubles' sounding like singles. Pants, pants and double pants. You will just have to believe me when I say that I DID play doubles, and they DID come out right! It actually sounds better on the second video, if you watch that.
Very hard to get the music loud enough on this vid - the fantastic sounds created by the rest of the band in this track are hard to pick out - I urge anyone who has not heard this track before to go get it - it is awesome stuff, especially that fiddle. Epic!
If you enjoy this, then watch the other vid I have done of it - with out-takes! Look on the 'Other' playlist for it!
What can I say about this wonderful, wonderful track? I LOVE IT!!!! I always have, ever since I first heard it when I was a teenager (er, 30 years ago?!).
Every now and then, I have sat down and tried to play along to it. I always speeded-up, always got it wrong, never got the accents right and generally made a mess of it! But I have always had a blast trying!
I could not resist trying to do a half decent version for YouTube, and I think I have just about got on camera what I wanted. In this first video (there is another to come, with out-takes) I don't play the outro properly and there are some other bits that went wrong. Overall though, it is a 'nearly'!
I have to admit that I over-play the two 'drummy' bits! I guess every drummer would want to stuff this bit full of enormous Neil Peart Rush-type mega fills, and I am no exception!!!! It seems to be begging for it!
Unfortunately (a) I am certainly not Mr. Peart and (b) my double bass drum work has never been my strong-point and (c) the accoustics seem to have resulted in the very fast 'Peart-doubles' sounding like singles. Pants, pants and double pants. You will just have to believe me when I say that I DID play doubles, and they DID come out right! It actually sounds better on the second video, if you watch that.
Very hard to get the music loud enough on this vid - the fantastic sounds created by the rest of the band in this track are hard to pick out - I urge anyone who has not heard this track before to go get it - it is awesome stuff, especially that fiddle. Epic!
If you enjoy this, then watch the other vid I have done of it - with out-takes! Look on the 'Other' playlist for it!
