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Rush - Fly By Night (1975)
Cover Front Album Cover Back
Artist/Composer Rush
Length 37:25
Format Vinyl to CD
Genre Hard Rock; Progressive Rock
Label Anthem
Index 388
Collection Status In Collection
Packaging Vinyl Record
Musicians
Drums and Percussion Neil Peart
Percussion-Various Neil Peart
Acoustic Guitar Alex Lifeson
Acoustic Guitar Geddy Lee
Bass Guitar Geddy Lee
Guitar-Electric Alex Lifeson
Vocals Geddy Lee
Credits
Engineer John Woloschuk
Engineer Terry Brown
Producer Alex Lifeson
Producer Geddy Lee
Producer Neil Peart
Producer Terry Brown
Track List
01 Anthem 04:21
02 Best I Can 03:25
03 Beneath, Between And Behind 03:01
04 By-Tor And The Snow Dog 08:37
05 Fly By Night 03:21
06 Making Memories 02:57
07 Rivendell 04:57
08 In The End 06:46
Personal Details
Album Lookup1 R
Details
Spars DDD
Rare No
Sound Stereo
Notes
Prior to one of Rush's first U.S. tours, original drummer John Rutsey split from the band, since he wasn't prepared to commit to the band's rigorous touring schedule. And it proved to be a blessing in disguise, since his replacement was to become one of the most respected rock drummers of all time, Neil Peart, who would also steer the band towards success with more challenging material - starting with Fly by Night. While the title track and the album-closing ballad, "In the End," still had Zeppelin roots, the album isn't as straightforward as the debut. Rush's first bona-fide classic, "Anthem," is included, while the over eight-minute "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" helped pave the way for the group's future epics ("2112," "Cygnus X-1," etc.), and introduced the fans to Peart's imaginative lyric writing, often tinged with science fiction themes. The reflective and melodic "Making Memories" is an underrated early composition, while "Beneath, Between, & Behind" is a furious heavy rocker. Fly by Night may not be one of Rush's finest albums, but it is one of their most important - it showed that the young band was leaving their Zep-isms behind in favor of a more challenging and original direction.