Watch Rush Perform "Jacob's Ladder" for the First Time Since 1980
Canadian prog-rock legends Rush recently began their 40th anniversary R40 Live Tour with a show at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Though their set featured classics like "The Spirit of Radio" and "Tom Sawyer," it also featured notably obscure cuts, like "Lakeside Park" and "What You're Doing."
Check out this video of the band performing "Jacob's Ladder," a song from Permanent Waves that the band hadn't played live in 35 years!
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Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.

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