Rush

It's time for the annual snubbing of Rush by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The list of nominees for induction in 2010 was just announced and once again Rush is not on the list. No surprise there, but I was pleasantly surprised by a couple of the choices. This year's list includes first time nomin...

A lot is happening in Rush-land as of late so I'll get right to it. About an hour ago I let you know that Rush will be releasing a new CD/DVD compilation this coming November which will include cuts from their 3 most recent concert DVDs: Rush in Rio, R30 and Snakes & Arrows Live. The compilati...

Rush will be releasing a new CD/DVD compilation this coming November which will include cuts from their 3 most recent concert DVDs: Rush in Rio, R30 and Snakes & Arrows Live. The compilation will be titled Working Men and is slated for release on November 17th. The compilation will also...

If you are familiar with early Rush history, you may have heard of Ian Grandy - Rush's first roadie who worked with the band from 1969 up through 1983. Skip Daly (of RushPetition.com) tracked down Ian and interviewed him for a recent article at GuitarInternational.com. Ian shares his firstha...

The 2010 Rush wall calendar has been available for pre-order since June and was supposed to ship back in late July, but due to delays only started shipping this past week. John over at Cygnus-X1.net received his copy and has scanned all the images from the calendar and made them available on h...

Alex Lifeson and Rob Stefaniuk were guests on the Dean Blundell morning show on 102.1 The Edge in Toronto this morning to talk about Suck and its premier at the Toronto International Film Festival later this week. The podcast of their appearance is now up on the station's website at this link...

UPDATE - 9/9@4:39PM: The podcast of their appearance is now up on the station's website at this link (thanks RushFanForever). You can download it here or listen using the player below. The interview begins at around the 26 minute-mark (counting down) and runs 9 minutes or so. There's very li...

Alfred Publishing will release an Ultimate Drum Play-along Rush book/CD on September 13th as a companion to its Ultimate Guitar Play-along Rush (released back on April 15th) and Ultimate Bass Play-along Rush (released back on June 17th) titles. We first heard of this planned release vi...

Live concert power-outage during "Force-10"] We Hold On' without guitar] Far Cry' featuring Alex Lifeson guitar parts] Acoustic" version of 'Armor & Sword' featuring Geddy and Neil] Hidden echo effect on Geddy vocal in 'Armor & Sword']

Rush documentary filmmakers Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen were recently interviewed for the Rush feature in the most recent issue of Prog. We learned several more details regarding the documentary including the fact that the release will not likely occur until next summer. In one portion of...

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeon are on the radio interview circuit this week promoting Retrospective 3. These interviews tend to be very short and have little in the way of new information, and the DJs conducting the interviews are usually (there are exceptions) pretty clueless. Geddy did most (...

UPDATE - 3/5@12:59PM: Reader jt let me know that Geddy appeared in place of Alex on 103.5 The Fox in Denver this morning. He had also been on yesterday as well but had to cut the interview short because he was choking on something apparently? I heard the interview and it's nothing spectacular. I...

My contact at Atlantic Records has asked me to let everyone know that Rush will be in the Atlantic Records office tomorrow and they wanted to take the opportunity to submit a few questions to Geddy Lee for a fan Q&A session. Geddy will be going through and answering a few of these question...

UPDATE - 3/4@6:56PM: The producer of the Jim Kerr Rock and Roll Morning Show emailed me to confirm that Geddy Lee will indeed be in the studio tomorrow morning bright and early at 7AM on Q1043 in New York. You can listen live at this link.

Rush's Atantic-era greatest hits package Rush: Retrospective 3 officially releases today although many fans who ordered online via Rush.com or the Rush Backstage Club have already received their copies. Probably the most anticipated detail regarding the release is the fact that it co...

Just a reminder that the Neil Peart signed 14" Drum Workshop drum head charity auction for Southern California Deputy Sheriff Robert "Bobby" Corrales and the T.J. Martell Foundation that I'd mentioned last week ends today! The bidding has already topped $900 and Michael of NeilPeartDru...

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UPDATE - 2/28@2:30PM: Ray B was one of the recipients of a signed lithograph and received the following email from the Atlantic Webstore regarding it: Thank you for your purchase on Rush.com for the Retrospective III CD/DVD pre-order with lithograph.

Rush's Atantic-era greatest hits package Rush: Retrospective 3 officially releases next Tuesday, March 3rd but - as was mentioned yesterday - several fans who ordered the Deluxe Fan Pack version or ordered via the Rush Backstage Club have either received their copy already or been giv...

A couple of weeks ago I asked everyone to go over to the Saltyrockz t-shirts site and vote for Rush. They were running a poll to determine the theme of their next t-shirt; Rush or Metallica. Saltyrockz owner/operator Howard Johnson (a former rock journalist who used to write for a number of UK...

In the past few days a few users over at the Counterparts messageboard have been uploading and sharing some old Rush article scans from various fan magazines. So I thought I'd share them all here as well. First up we have several Rush album magazine ads from Counterparts user GeddyLeeGenes:

It was certainly a busy week for Rush news, especially considering that the band is currently on a break. Over the weekend we learned that Rush was inducted into the Playboy Music Hall of Fame. We were treated to 2 new interviews from Alex Lifeson this past week; one from Guitar Player magazin...

Just got back from New York City and was honoured to participate in the up-coming Rush documentary. It was great to meet Sam and his crew, and we chatted (and them filmed) for nearly 2 hours. Knowing TV and video the way I do, that will be edited down to about five minutes!!!

Reader plunge was at the Toy Fair in New York earlier this week and caught a preview glimpse of the 2010 Rush wall calendar at the NMR Distribution booth. The calendar will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Rush's Permanent Waves and feature several photos from that era. The calendar will sh...

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that a few rushisaband members (Kelly D, PetieLee and LanceTheShred) had been making plans for an East Coast Rush gathering/convention called RatCon 2009. The name comes from one clever member of the site who called all obsessed Rush fans rats. Details wer...

Back in a Friday Updates post from September of 2007 I gave a quick mention that the September 2007 issue of EQ Magazine with Geddy Lee on the cover contained a long article on the making of Snakes & Arrows. I did not have a transcript or scan at the time, but reader Phil C recently located on...

Wow. It's only been 2 weeks since MitA last shared with us his latest batch of Rush oddities, and he's already got some more for us! He must be feeling inspired. This next batch is a particularly cool one in my opinion. We have the isolated vocal track from The Trees, an isolated guitar track from...

The first episode of the Rush road crew documentary Backstage Secrets has been uploaded to YouTube in 6 parts. I'd first mentioned that Whistlestop Productions was putting this 5-part documentary together back in December of 2007. The series follows various members of the Rush road crew...

Last month when it was announced that heavy metal legends Metallica would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the band held a press conference and were asked what band they'd most like to see inducted. Guitarist Kirk Hammett's choice was none other than Rush:

This past week we were treated to a neat interview with Alex Lifeson at MusicRadar.com where Alex revealed what he thought were his three best guitar solos; Freewill, Kid Gloves and Limelight. Last night the Cut to the Drummer charity art show and drumming event took place at the Steam Whist...

Between Sun and Moon is an online handmade jewelry store owned and operated by fellow Rush fan Katy. All of Katy's pieces are inspired by Rush and named from their lyrics. Valentine's day is almost upon us and even if your significant other isn't a fan, they will love a Valentine's Day gift fro...

It's been a long time but MusicInTheAbstract - owner and operator of the MitA's Rush Oddities site - has several new Rush nuggets to share with us all. In the audio department we have a live Limelight trainwreck, Alex's isolated backing vocals from Bravado, another Geritol moment for Gedd...

The latest issue of German magazine Bass Quarterly has an interview with Geddy Lee in it. The interview is in German of course, but reader kisaki was kind enough to scan and translate the article for us. In the interview Geddy covers a wide variety of topics including the US election, the band...

Late last week Rush released another official press release regarding their upcoming Retrospective 3 greatest hits package which confirms the March 3rd release date. It also revealed details about the interview alluded to on the band's pre-order page for the Deluxe Fan Pack version of...

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Back in early December I'd posted several preview excerpts from an interview with Alex Lifeson that Skip Daly had conducted for Modern Guitars magazine. Skip is the cofounder of BOS Music as well as the creator of the infamous Rush Petition site. The complete article is now online at this lo...

Is there something about Rush you've always wanted to know? Like how Geddy Lee is able to play bass, synthesizer, foot pedals and sing all in the same song? What the inspiration was behind By-Tor and the Snow Dog? What their thoughts are on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (and why the heck they h...

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Rush's 3rd live album A Show of Hands. It was recorded in Birmingham (UK), New Orleans, Phoenix, and San Diego during the 1988 Hold Your Fire tour as well as in the Meadowlands (East Rutherford, NJ) during the 1986 Power Windows tour. A video o...

Back in early November the RushCon organizers surprised everyone when they revealed that they were considering having the 2009 convention in a city other than Toronto, where it's been held since its inception back in 2000. The potential alternate locations were Cleveland, Chicago, La...

All this past week from Monday, December 29th through Friday, January 2nd VH1 ran a 5-part series where they counted down the Top 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs. Each night they featured 20 songs and finished off with Friday night's episode where they counted down the top 20. Rush's Tom Sawyer...

Happy New Year everyone! 2008 certainly was a busy year for Rush and their fans. The biggest event was of course the second leg of the highly successful Snakes & Arrows tour which ran from April through July. Some other notable events were the Grammy nomination of Rush's Malignant Narci...

Chilean newspapper El Mercurio is reporting that Rush is in negotiations to tour South America sometime late next year. The article is in Spanish but from what I can glean from it, the band would potential play several dates at larger arenas (15000+) in Chile, Argentina and Brazil. If anyon...

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson were guests on last night's episode of That Metal Show on VH1 Classic. The show is a hard rock and heavy metal themed talk show hosted by DJ Eddie Trunk. Geddy and Alex appeared on the 7th and final episode of the show's inaugural season (outside of a best of show next we...

Not much happened this week with regards to Rush news due to the Holidays. About the only thing of significance was that this past weekend we got to see a preview of tomorrow night's Rush appearance on VH1 Classic's That Metal Show. Geddy and Alex will the guests on the final episode of the show...

Back in June I'd reported that Rush would be making a cameo in an upcoming film from John Hamburg starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel. The movie is called I Love You Man and is scheduled to release on March 20th. Rush's cameo was filmed sometime in May during a break on the 2008 leg of the Snakes &am...

Greg Prato of UGO.com's music blog recently conducted an interview with Alex Lifeson which was posted online this past Thursday. Alex mostly talks about the recently released Snakes & Arrows DVD but also had this to say regarding choosing more obscure songs for future setlists: ...

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Late last month we learned that Rush was offering a Deluxe Fan Pack version of their upcoming Retrospective 3 greatest hits package which you can pre-order here. The pre-order site states that the album will hits stores in March. But at the time, most online retail sites still had the releas...

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Between Sun & Moon is an online handcrafted jewelry store with Rush-inspired merchandise owned and operated by Rush fan and rushisaband reader Katy. Each uniquely handcrafted piece is named for and inspired by the lyrics of Rush. The Holidays are right around the corner and - as she ha...

This past week in Rush news was pretty much all about Alex Lifeson. Sunday's Toledo Blade featured an interview with Lerxst where he had a lot to say about the band's future and confirmed much of what Geddy Lee had revealed in his recent Billboard interview. Alex even teased us all a bit by ment...