Fly by Night
Studio album by RUSHWikipedia
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Search complete. 14 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Fly by Night".
Sep 15, 2026
Martin PopoffHOST
How does this work? '70, '75.
Martin PopoffHOST
Anyways, um, Fly by Night, uh, by Rush comes out on the exact same day as Status Quo's On the Level.
Martin PopoffHOST
And again, two bands about as heavy as each other.
Martin PopoffHOST
They think differently, um, but they're kind of about the same level of heaviness.
RobHOST
In April of 1984, Rush came out with their album, Grace Under Pressure.
RobHOST
And this is the first album that they did without longtime producer Terry Brown, who had done every album with them from Fly By Night to Signals.
RobHOST
And they originally were going to use a producer named Steve Lillywhite.
RobHOST
And this is sort of part of Rush lore.
Donivan BlairHOST
Whatever.
Donivan BlairHOST
Then Fly By Night, he got that black one.
Donivan BlairHOST
The Jet
Zach BlairGUEST
Glow.
Donivan BlairHOST
Is
Zach BlairGUEST
Fly By Night a Rickenbacker?
Donivan BlairHOST
Yeah, it's that Jet Glow.
Donivan BlairHOST
Yeah, listen to it.
Mack BHOST
It was great, actually.
Mack BHOST
And then they went into Anthem from Fly by Night, which I was a little surprised about.
Mack BHOST
Just, I mean, they've got a deep catalog.
Mack BHOST
I know they can do a lot of different things.
Mack BHOST
What do you want, you know? And everyone wants Rush with Annika.
Mack BHOST
All right, then they go to Anthem from Fly by Night.
Gary Action JacksonHOST
Oh.
Gary Action JacksonHOST
Um.
Jack AshtonGUEST
I feel very honored that I was able to be part of that history.
Jack AshtonGUEST
I remember Rush's first track was Fly By Night.
Jack AshtonGUEST
Gosh, yes.
Jack AshtonGUEST
All I can remember is
Tiffany ScottHOST
Fly By Night.
Tiffany ScottHOST
I can't sing at all, so you don't want to hear me sing.
Jack AshtonGUEST
No, I know.
James GraessleGUEST
We're just on the journey.
James A. JanisseHOST
Fly By Night, baby.
James A. JanisseHOST
[laughs]
Chelsea RebeccaHOST
Next time we see Don, we need to ask him if he likes King Crimson and sh-
Mack BHOST
What do you want, you know? And everyone wants Rush with Ratajczak.
Mack BHOST
All right, then they go to Anthem from Fly By Night.
Gary Action JacksonHOST
Oh.
Gary Action JacksonHOST
Um.
JerryHOST
Is this one of the choices?
Ray WawrzyniakGUEST
The choices are, was it A, The Debut Album? Was it B, Fly by Night? Was it C, 2112? Or was it D, Permanent Waves?
SteveHOST
I guess we're nowhere near close.
JerryHOST
I'm gonna say Permanent Waves.
SteveHOST
Fly by Night.
Ray WawrzyniakGUEST
You can't say you're nowhere near close because you didn't name a Rush album, so you, you are definitively close.
SteveHOST
Okay.
Martin PopoffCORRESPONDENT
This is a big hit song for the band, and it's a big hit song for the band doing, uh, what they love most, being a very, very complicated progressive metal band.
Martin PopoffCORRESPONDENT
So it's different than Fly by Night and Closer to the Heart in that manner.
Martin PopoffCORRESPONDENT
Even different than Working Man, I suppose.
Martin PopoffCORRESPONDENT
You've got that crazy syncopated, uh, intro, uh, to open the song.
Martin PopoffCORRESPONDENT
Yeah, what they've discovered on this album, and this song is the perfect metaphor for that, is they can make a very user-friendly song that still challenges people.
Martin PopoffCORRESPONDENT
It's very, you know, rhythmically daunting throughout.
Martin PopoffCORRESPONDENT
There's many, many parts on this, and yet they squeeze it into a short song, so it's very different from, uh, from what you got on the last four albums, really, um, and even somewhat Fly by Night.
Martin PopoffCORRESPONDENT
This is a song that, uh, you know, once you hear it, it's got so much, there's so much enthusiasm and, uh, and well-wishing melodies, uh, on it.