Peart’s Rush Future Unclear
“You have to know when you are at the top of your particular mountain, I guess maybe not the summit but as high as you can go.”
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RECONSTRUCTING HISTORY – RUSH
Geddy Lee Presenting your public history can be a daunting task and can lead to curious moments and connections for both the performer and the spectator. For Rush, performing a synopsis of their catalog as a reverse retrospective while allowing their staging to be constructed into smaller and smaller pieces, a deconstruction of sorts, played with the imagination and offered...
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BACHMAN Heavy Blues
Think of Randy Bachman and you associate this iconic Winnipegger with beefy power rock bands like Bachman-Turner Overdrive or the more melodic Guess Who – but two girls? That’s what you get with Bachman’s first studio record in five years as he teams up with drummer Dale Anne Brendon and bassist Anna Ruddick to lay down 11 blues-flavoured tracks. Inspired...
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RUSH
R40 (Anthem) Toronto’s Rush are the clear masters of re-packaging past releases. Aside from their 19 studio records and 10 live releases, Rush have also re-packaged 11 compilation albums and two boxed sets to go along with 11 live video titles. Now you can add to this, R40, a 10 DVD or six Blu-Ray boxed set (your choice) issued to...
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The Many Faces Of Lisa Dal Bello
Contrary to the perception that Lisa Dalbello has dropped off the music industry map, she’s still out there and you may hear her more times than you recognize. Yes that is Dalbello singing the Ford Focus commercial or the Cheers detergent commercial or introducing Peter Mansbridge on CBC’s National news program. And yes, that is Dalbello’s distinctive voice being utilized...
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HEADSTONES & RUSH BIG WINNERS OF 2014 MUSIC EXPRESS AWARDS
More than 10,000 Music Express readers have cast their on-line ballot for the Long & McQuade 2014 Music Express Awards with Rush and The Headstones leading the way with three awards each. Rush, who claimed three ME awards in 2013, repeated again this year, winning Top Group, Top Live Performance (Arena) and Top Compilation Release for their Clockwork Angels-Live Rock...
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CLASSIC CANADIAN – Compilations
(Solid Gold/Linus Entertainment) Classic Canadian rock and pop music is currently enjoying a renaissance. Partially fuelled by the persistence of mainstream FM radio to continually recycling AOR hits songs from the 70’s and 80’s, this exposure has encouraged the majority of those classic rock acts to continue performing. However many of these bands have been impeded by previous records being...
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Rush – Vapour Trails Remixed
(Anthem) Even though Rush fans were delighted to see Rush emerge from the recording studios with their first new studio recording since 1996 (Test For Echoes), even the most discerning fan would have felt something was wrong with their new 2002 opus `Vapour Trails’. There was something not right with the mix, the record had a loud sound quality. Rush...
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Rush announce Clockwork Angels Tour DVD!
Legendary rock trio Rush have unveiled details for their first new recording since being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year. RUSH: Clockwork Angels Tour will be released on November 19. The DVD was filmed and recorded last November at the American Airlines Arena in Dallas, Texas, during Rush’s highly successful Clockwork Angels Tour. The...
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The Show Goes On, We Are Canadian – Rush
At first it appeared that the spirit of that bloody storm had resurrected itself and threatened to take this show down; a spiteful wraith bound and determined to end the evening’s proceedings. For a band and crew that pride themselves on precision, the hour long delay was unheard of. A local radio personality came out twice to say there were...
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Rush Hall Of Fame Bound
Rush fans no longer need to mumble about the injustice of the band not being nominated into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Appearing on the ballot for the first time (yet eligible since 1998), Rush was voted in at the first attempt joining a stellar group that also includes Heart, Albert King, Donna Summer, Public Enemy, Quincy Jones,...
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Perspectives – Rush
The steam-powered juggernaut of the Rush Clockwork Angels tour stormed across the Prairie Provinces this fall to the delight of band-brand emblazoned fans ranging from 6 to 64. With near capacity crowds at each stop, Messrs.’ Lee, Lifeson, and Peart opened the shows with a choice selection of 80s era music including “The Analog Kid”, “The Big Money”, “Bravado”, and...
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