Neil Peart Rush makes complete

"Fly By Night" is in a sense the first "real" album Rush-. The second album of the Canadians was the first great moment of the most brilliant and influential drummers of the rock history, Neil Peart. John Rutsey, the drummer of the debut album was, got out before the first tour - for health reasons (he suffered from diabetes), there was now and then differences between him and the other two, and not least different musical conceptions. Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee wanted instead of simple rock music namely pursuing demanding and more challenging song ideas. The decision by Lifeson and Lee for Neil Peart as a new drummer is likely also one of the most important have been in rock history. The ideas that the incredibly talented Peart were reacting to "Fly By Night" anno 1975 just amazing. Even simple-minded songs received by the wonderful drive of his own, and yet for decades formative style an unmatched dynamic performance. Each one of his fills on "Fly By Night "is still a work of art. At the same time Rush since that time and to this day have of course their only true and inviolable Lyrics- author who is responsible for almost all the texts. And Peart is indeed also a genius here: profound and ever ambiguous texts, always cosmopolitan inspired by classical and contemporary literature, as well as legends and myths from around the world.
And overall was of a rock band that just has just enjoy their music and took its cue from bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, already with "Fly By Night" in large batches innovative triumvirate, an engine of intelligent, progressive rock music.
The best example is the overarching song "By-Tor & The Snow Dog": Completely unconventional structured and divided into various Vocals- and instrumental parts, technically remarkably sophisticated and playful perfect, and with epic approaches that on the subsequent album "Caress of Steel "were even more expanded. "By-Tor & The Snow Dog", by the way actually the nickname for the two dogs of the manager of the band, describes the battle in which the valiant Snow Dog sends back the evil "Knight of Darkness" By-Tor in his underworld and the world rescues. For Rush the song is still one of the great classics, if "By-Tor" Geddy Lee and "Snow Dog" Alex Lifeson delivered with bass and guitar the famous duel.
In addition, the almost 38-minute album includes one of the few ballads of the band from the "Lord of the Rings" inspired "Rivendell", (always) a few straighter rock songs (of course, now enhanced by Peart's drumming) and with "Anthem" a Song, who has brought early Alex Lifeson very own guitar sound and style, the filigree alternating between heavy passages to the Clean Guitar- structures in the verses to the fore.
Of course, "Fly By Night" with 30 years under his belt now only limited use as a starter album for Rush- newcomers. Those who have but even excited for Rush, is also the first true classic in a long series of albums, all of which have achieved cult status, not rumkommen, if only because "By-Tor & The Snow Dog".