Monday, July 23, 2007
Rush - Subdivisions
YouTube via lmpec. Oberheim OB-X, Minimoog and Tempest.
Update: new upload by someone else:
Subdivisions - Rush
YouTube via AirbrushRocks — April 14, 2008 — "'Subdivisions' is a Rush song often considered to be describing feelings of isolation, boredom, conformity, and sadness springing up from teenage life in the suburbs.
"Subdivisions" was released on the 1982 album Signals. Aside from being a perennial fan favourite and a staple of live performances, the song appears on several greatest hits compilations, was released as a single in 1982, and despite doing little serious business in the UK charts, it gained a lot of radio airplay in Britain at the time. It was also played live prior to its release. Pre-release live versions exist on the internet.
The promotional videos scenes were filmed in the Toronto area. The downtown scenes in downtown Toronto, the suburbs scenes in Scarborough, Ontario, near Warden and Finch. The high school scenes were filmed at L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute, in the same area. The student that walks downtown in the video is Dave Glover, a student at the L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute at the time. Near the end of the video, Glover is seen playing the video game Tempest at an arcade, which was reportedly his favourite video game at the time. Info courtesy: wikipedia.org]"
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When I was 11 I actually used this video to learn how to play the song. Unfortunately it wasn't on an OB-X, but my Mom's Lowrey organ... :o)
ReplyDeletewhen i was 11 i must have listened to this song about a billion times (it might not be an exact figure) but its probably close...rush is one of my #1 influences aside from a few others...
ReplyDeleteplus Alex Lifeson is born the same day as me
rush effen sucks
ReplyDeleteI saw Rush on their Counterparts tour, and those bastards didn't play subdivisions. I then heard from a friend that they played the song the following night one town over. Bastards!
ReplyDeleteI saw them on the Signals tour, my first concert at the age of 13! I can still see that pile of keyboards and moog bass pedals stacked over on the Lee side of the stage. ( I sat on the lifeson side of the stage!)It was quite a first impression, as there was only the local FM station in Biloxi playing a very enigmatic sounding "Tom Sawyer". There was no MTV. If you wanted to even see what a band even looked like, it was on an album sleeve or in concert!
ReplyDeleteWell..... MTV had been around since 1981, but the first Rush videos I recall seeing there didn't appear until '84 with Grace Under Pressure.
ReplyDeleteSame year was shen I first saw their P/G concert, but on network TV of all places. Saw that in person, too, and it was my first concert at age 14.
Good times. Rush and BMX bikes... everything else is a blur of malls and shitty homework assignments.
Anyone else notice the uncanny similarity between Alex Lifeson & Richie Hawtin?
ReplyDeleteTempest!!!
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