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Rush: A Musical Journey

Six years later, I notice this thread, lol. Rush has always been one of my go to bands, bought Archives when I was 14 and went from there.

Saw them the first time on the Permanent Waves tour, saw them every time they came to town after, Roll the Bones was my last show however. I regret not seeing them for their last show here, I guess you never really think ‘this is the last time’.
Just a different band, with different lyrics and themes than most others, and not a love song in the repertoire; everything about them appealed to young me.

Of all the concerts I saw, and there were a lot, Rush always stood out from the rest with their professionalism and showmanship. The Moving Pictures concert was one of the best shows I ever saw, we were standing just a few feet in front of the stage.

Thanks for the thread, brought back some great memories.
 
Condorsat said:
If memory serves me well ... Geddy Lee did not want to take John Rutsey on the road because he felt that it would lead to his death (Rock Star life style) ... and he didn't want to explain that to his parents.
Seen that on some documentary on Rush on MTV music channel (formerly Palladia).
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Probably this one, it's now on U2Be (with Polish subtitles). Best Rush documentary I know of, well worth your time if you're a fan as I am:

 
i don't consider myself a fan, per se, but dang, i have continuously listened to Rush since figuring it out in eighth grade when Moving Pictures came out. and about 96% of that amongst the 4 album span of permanent waves, moving pictures, signals, and grace under pressure.

nowadays, i'm most likely to just play one of their live shows from youtube.
 
app4dstn said:
i don't consider myself a fan, per se, but dang, i have continuously listened to Rush since figuring it out in eighth grade when Moving Pictures came out. and about 96% of that amongst the 4 album span of permanent waves, moving pictures, signals, and grace under pressure.

nowadays, i'm most likely to just play one of their live shows from youtube.
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Oh dang. I got farewell to kings on vinyl. After an ultrasonic cleaning, I have seen the light. Converted.
 
KevinJS said:
Caress Of Steel

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Track list:

1. Bastille Day
2. I Think I'm Going Bald
3. Lakeside Park
4. The Necromancer
5. The Fountain Of Lamneth

The second album of 1975 was Caress Of Steel, which made the lukewarm reception of Fly By Night seem like the heat of a supernova by comparison.

Criticism was rife and it seemed that Rush had made a huge mistake. The album was a failure and neither it nor the band were going any further.

I'm pretty well convinced that those who berate the album haven't listened to it at all. From the opening bars of Bastille Day to the last notes of Fountain Of Lamneth, it's clear that this was a work of art, and one of the better albums of the era. The first three tracks show the band to be powerful, humorous and thoughtful. The 4th and 5th develop the program material and Lee's powerful voice conveys Peart's lyrics admirably.

I think that what the fans initially missed and what the critics found unforgivable was that this was a band who intended to progress, and were prepared to take risks in order to do so. Constant reinvention of Working Man was not going to happen, even if it meant that feathers were going to be ruffled.

Like the rest of the catalogue, Caress Of Steel now stands up as a shining example of how to do program material. Any and all of the tracks could be played at a concert to rapturous applause. 4 decades on and Caress of Steel takes its place proudly in the discography, as indeed it should.

However close Mercury came to letting Rush go, or whether that was even going to happen, history reveals that the band survived and of course, the next part of the story will tell us that not only did they survive, but began to achieve iconic recognition. As 1975 gave way to 1976, a phenomenon was in preparation and nothing would ever be quite the same again.
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Still one of my favorites. My theory is the sequencing of the sidelong epic limited its accessibility. There are some awesome bits of music locked away in those monolithic grooves. Anyone like me who has put in hours of needle-jumping, looking for the spaces between tracks to find the song you want as the next track on your mixtape knows the struggle. Despite that, I did manage to discern "No one at the Bridge" and "Bacchus Plateau" well enough to add to a bunch of tapes.
 
In the mid seventies I was in my early teens...RUSH was yet to really break out BIG nationally. I got to see them during the 2112 Tour, and then a couple of years later A Farewell To Kings. RUSH, and the experience of those concerts led me (in part) to taking a serious run at rock stardom...those 2 albums (along with All The World's A Stage) remain faves and get spun routinely... as for the rock star thing...good times...most of it I remember...

"We've taken care of everything
The words you hear, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes

It's one for all and all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why"
 
I rode a BMW GSA and listened hard to early Rush, so I was interested in Neil Peart and his riding. Read his books, felt his pain years later through a personal loss. I always thought this was a very cool bit of backstory to "The Red Barchetta". I first read it in a BMWMOA monthly magazine.
If this has already been shared let me know and I'll delete it. I'm only on page 10 of this chronicle

I saw them for the first time in Marquette Michigan at the university's hockey arena in '77. We had all been listening to them for 2 years.The sound was not so good but we did not care! I remember "Necromancer" and I was in awe...
Max Webster opened for them
 
Pio1980 said:

Watch newly restored 4K footage of Rush on their 1976 2112 tour​

www.loudersound.com

Watch newly restored 4K footage of Rush on their 1976 2112 tour

Rare live footage from Rush's 2112 tour has surfaced online
www.loudersound.com www.loudersound.com
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Thanks, that was a tasty little treat and a rare look at the youthful band on tour half a century ago when they probably never imagined how popular they'd become. I suppose this tour is the one done when recording their first live album All The World's A Stage :rockon:
 
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