FLY BY NIGHT

And this is where Neil Peart's story with Rush begins. Although the success and general recognition would come later with "2112", the band gained a lot as an entity with its own personality and an identifiable musicianship with the addition of the drummer for "Fly by Night".

It is true that they were still influenced by Zeppelian riffs, where short songs with a lot of hard rock muscle, such as the forceful and overflowing energy "Anthem", "Best I Can", "Beneath, Between and Behind" and "Fly by Night", are combined with the drops in revolutions as with "Making Memories" and especially the fragile "Rivendell".But it is with "By Tor", the mythological victory of good (the heroic Snow Dog) over evil (the demonic and powerful By-Tor), where Rush glimpses the path they are about to travel, with great changes of rhythm, stories with fanciful elements and an exuberant instrumental display, from the impeccable Peart and Alex Lifeson on percussion and guitar respectively. A future more closely related to the currents of progressive rock was already looming on the horizon.

From "Fly by Night" onwards, Rush would no longer change their formation, remaining a stable trio for more than 40 years, something that not many bands could sustain.

3/3.5 stars