Max Webster & Rush - Battle Scar

keb · #1 10-02-2005, 09:27 AM

Love this song, it's been on repeat in my playlist all morning. Love Geddy's weird wailing towards the end "welllllll feeeeel the wwaaaaaaayy I feeeeeeaaaaeeeeeealaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAaAAaaaallllllL!! !!"

Just thought I'd alert the internet.

Matt Till · #2 10-02-2005, 09:53 AM

Thanks.

I've got that album on Vinyl... it is kind of a hidden Geddy treasure, not many people know about it, and it's one of my favorite Geddy tunes.

Scroller · #3 10-23-2005, 02:28 PM

Another "hidden Geddy treasure": Take Off (to the Great White North)...

heh, heh...yeh, his pipes were at their prime right around the Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures 1980 period...

darkblack99 · #4 10-23-2005, 05:01 PM

They just about broke the board at Manta sound for that song...24 track, both bands live off the floor, no overdubs.

The deal was, whoever released an album first got to put it on...It would have been on Moving Pictures if Max hadn't put out Universal Juveniles.

Too late to save a great band - R.I.P, Toronto Tontos

Matt Till · #5 10-23-2005, 07:25 PM

That song would have really really clashed on Moving Pictures.

**cheezewiz** · #6 10-23-2005, 07:44 PM

Ahh..High School memories. Great cut.

darkblack99 · #7 10-23-2005, 08:08 PM

Terry Brown would have mixed it much differently from Jack Richardson, methinks.
I remember some people having a hard time getting their heads around the side two sequencing/content of MP at first, also...But hindsight won't save us from reality.
And I must

self-correct...Battlescar was recorded at Phase One Studios (also 24 track circa 1980), rather than Manta Sound...Thank you, vinyl LP linernotes

Peter Squire · #8 10-25-2005, 08:15 AM

Toward the end, after the guitar widdlies, they sing a heap of "yeaaah!"s.

Geddy absolutely nails it - it is the best "yeaah" on record, period.

Yes, a great, great choon.

wyrtti · #9 10-25-2005, 12:07 PM

Thanks for reminding me about this song and about Max Webster...have to dig out my vinyls.

Although, come to think of it, I've been humming "I'll run, I'll run to Niagara..." lately...