Drum Teacher Reaction: NEIL PEART | Rush | 'I Think I'm Going Bald' | First Time Listen

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[davidtingley]

"I think we were really high when we recorded Caress Of Steel"- Geddy Lee

[michaelwilson]

I like the little Canadian joke you started off with..."What is up Wood Choppers?". Cheers from 🇨🇦.

[alangreenwell]

1975 Caress of Steel album.
I remember it coming out and now I am bald.

[LexRushon]

Love this record and song ;)..Rush has it all ..follow the evolution of Rush`n Roll :)

[johncritchlow]

Rush's third album, Caress of Steel - 1975.

[MrMustardU]

I am sick tonight, & I am throwing up my guts while watching this video...thanks for the laughs man...
I played this record (caress of steal) over & over as a kid. Geddy Lee's voice use to drive my Grand parents Crazy...

[brettking]

Yeah, I think was a comedic request from your anonymous subscriber. This song is from ‘Caress of Steel” album...1975(?). Rush was touring a lot with Kiss during this time. Kiss had a song “I Think I’m Going Blind”...Geddy said Rush wrote this song to simultaneously parody Kiss’s song and address Alex Lifeson’s new found fear that he was losing his hair. It’s not Rush’s best song (obviously), but it really highlights their self-deprecating humor in some aspect...I still love the guitar riff though! 😎

[debbieplato]

I love this song as it is a lot of fun. If you really listen to the lyrics it talks about getting older and gaining responsibilities, not having the freedom of teenage youth. I do love their sense of humour and that is a killer riff. As mentioned it is off Caress of Steel which was their 3rd album.

[madjock-hyth]

This may seem a very strange comment but I love this song so much. Although it is kind of a dig at what happened to the hippies in part the song has a different personal meaning for me.
When I first started getting into Rush many years back my dad was fighting cancer. He had a wonderful sense of humour. As you will probably be aware chemotherapy tends to cause baldness. Knowing my dad's sense of humour (I was a teen at the time) I said to him after one hospital visit "hey I have a song for ya dad". I played it and he laughed.
Regularly after coming out of hospital he would ask if I had "his song" ready to play whilst laughing. He wasn't a rock fan but to him it was a private joke with one of his sons.
When I hear this song I remember my dad fondly, his humour and strength of character. I strangely feel closer to him.
For me it shows how a song can take on a meaning or life of it's own to a fan, that the writers may never ever be aware of.
I love the rawness and innocence of this (and all of COS).
Thank you for doing a reaction to this.

[surfeit]

They were 22 (1975) and having fun on an album that essentially "bombed". The next one really was their breakout album, while this one faded into obscurity. This was definitely back in their Led Zeppelin wannabe days, as they are/were huge fans of them, Yes, and The Who. This entire album is best taken with a grain of salt a massive hit of a bong, even Geddy admitted that they were pretty much too stoned to really know what they were writing songs about LOL

[davegink]

Deep cut off of Caress Of Steel. My first and still favorite Rush album!

[jackteppo]

Kick ass old school Rush at its finest.

[siddokis]

Page was a huge influence on Alex's early style. No doubt about it.

[CD_Character]

I still listen to Caress of Steel. Bastille Day, Going Bald. The Necromancer (ie By-Tor and the Snowdog part 2).
But I do like to listen to the full Fountain of Lamneth. So intricate and a true precursor to so much of Neil's lyrics and everything else to follow from the band (such as Hemispheres).

[PlyrMava.]

I really would like to know Andy's thoughts on "Fountain Of Lamneth", one of my absolute favorite Rush songs and vastly underrated especially when it comes to Neil's drumming.

And then also Andy's thoughts on Geddy's truly unique and standout vocals and his incredible range, in a song that includes their legendary timing and one of the most iconic Neil Peart drum parts.... Cygnus X-1

[cityhonors]

😳 Only way I got to see Kiss was by telling my mom 😂 I'm going to see the nice Canadian Band, Rush! 🐰

[markmilner]

That’s from their third (and least commercially successful) album “Caress of Steel”. Neil wrote all the lyrics at this point. The next album after this was their breakthrough, “2112”, which saw them move past their Led Zeppelin influences. This is a really fun song, and one my favourite early Rush tracks. I think the request was a bit of a wind up, though.

[airsickgrove]

Rush released two albums in 1975 Fly By Night & Caress Of Steel... this is off latter.

[brookehornback]

From reading the comments was only 3yrs. old at time of release. One of the few Rush songs I have not heard🤔Interesting!!!

[robchehowski]

Now THIS is a deep track, lol. Caress of Steel 1975. Many, many Rush hate this song. It falls somewhere near the bottom for me as well, but I had fun listening to it, , simply because I hadn't heard it for so long....possibly 15 years or so.