Starting with shimmering guitar lines from Alex Lifeson with Geddy Lee's brutal bass and Neil Peart's vivid imagery steppin in to create a mid 70s hard rock classic. It all combines in this hook laden track with it's sidewinder rhythm and intricate guitar licks all draped in Geddy Lee's giddy high vocals delivering Neil Peart's spiriting sentiments. Together, Peart's words and the tremendous gusto of the energetic performance capture the exhilarating thrill ride of youth;"My ship's is a comin and I just can't pretend". Its also capped off with a great dialled down bridge where Geddy's vocals become phased and more intimate with the help of a Hammond Amp.
There's a certain sense of wide eyed wonder to the song underlined by the bright shimmering guitar work and high vocals; all ringing in unison with a celestial glow.
Though it's Lifeson's embellishments that make the song for me like the brisk downstrokes after the chorus is spat out by Lee, or the tumbling arpeggios make this a crystal ship of creativity, elegance and hard hitting rock n roll. Rush were emerging from the Zeppelin copycat claims that verged on full blown plagiarism into their own interesting kaleidoscopic vision of epic progressive rock a la Yes but with far more punch and grandeur and less classical sensibilities more deriving from Sci-Fi than fantasy, a vision they would soon be bringing to life on their ambitious concept album 2112.
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