HomeBilly Corgan is a Rush Fanboy - Fuse
Fuse has posted a new video "Billy Corgan is a Rush Fanboy", where Billy talks about why he's such a Rush
fanboy and why the band has been dismissed by the "critical class." - Thanks to Steve Pavlopoulos for the headsup!
Rush Gold Records Update
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| Moving Pictures Goes Platinum, 1981 |
The last Rush studio album to go gold is Test For Echo. For the record, here are the current SoundScan numbers for "sales to date" of the last five Rush albums.
- Counterparts: 788,983
- Test For Echo: 504,504
- Vapor Trails: 358,382
- Feedback: 173,386
- Snakes & Arrows: 323,842
Geddy Lee cover feature in the August, 2012 issue of Bass Player - Now Online
Geddy Lee is featured on the cover of the August, 2012 issue of Bass Player magazine. Included is the feature story "Full Steam Ahead" as well as a second article "Inside Geddy's Gear" with Geddy's bass tech John "Skully" McIntosh. - Thanks to RushIsABand for the headsup!
Excerpt from Neil Peart's "Raindance Over the Rockies: Across The Mountains By Bicycle"
Today I'm happy to share with you an excerpt from one more of the two remaining unpublished books: Raindance Over the Rockies: Across The Mountains By Bicycle. In "Raindance" Neil shares the adventures of his bicycle trip from Calgary to Vancouver during the summer of 1988.
This except is the first two pages of the 21 page book, provided by a generous Rush fan for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
Geddy Lee's 5 favourite bassists of all time - MusicRadar.com
In between speaking to Billy Corgan about the state of the music world today and much more, legendary Rush frontman Geddy Lee took the time out to talk bass with MusicRadar.com. In no particular order, the Rush legend picks 5 of the best. - MusicRadar.com, June 26, 2012
Orange Amps Geddy Lee Giveaway
Roadrunner Video: "Rush - Geddy Lee on Singing Neil's Lyrics"
Roadrunner Records UK has posted a new video with Geddy lee where he discusses singing Neil's lyrics. - Thanks to B-man for the headsup!
Geddy Lee and Billy Corgan on concept albums, jamming, singing and more - Musicradar
UPDATE: Today Musicradar.com posted part 2 of their interview with Geddy Lee and Billy Corgan; this segment is "Geddy Lee and Billy Corgan on concept albums, jamming, singing and more". - Thanks to RushFanForever for the headsup!
Today Musicradar.com posted an extensive interview with Geddy Lee and Billy Corgan: "Geddy Lee and Billy Corgan talk albums vs singles".
Today Musicradar.com posted an extensive interview with Geddy Lee and Billy Corgan: "Geddy Lee and Billy Corgan talk albums vs singles".
"That both groups, Rush and The Smashing Pumpkins, have hit creative highs while rejecting the notion that 'the hit single is king' was the starting point for a discussion MusicRadar recently had with Lee and Corgan in which the two talked about how they navigate through the murky waters of the music business and rise to the challenges of what Corgan calls the 'iPod era.'" - MusicRadar.com, June 21, 2012
Rush on the cover of "Fireworks", June 2012
Rush is featured on the cover of the June issue of the UK's Fireworks magazine (#52). The issue includes a 2-page spread on the band and Clockwork Angels. For more information click here.
Geddy Lee Receives Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
The commemorative medals were presented to distinguished Ontario residents who have already been invested with the Order of Canada and Order of Ontario. All living Order of Canada and Order of Ontario recipients were invited. For more information visit CBC.ca. - Thanks to RushFanForever for the headsup!
Neil Peart To Participate In Drummer's Reality Camp In Los Angeles June 27 to 30
As previously announced, today the Pasadena Sun reported that Neil Peart will participate in the Drummer's Reality Camp at the Los
Angeles Music Academy College of Music in Pasadena from June 27 to 30. Also participating in the camp are legendary session drummer Jim Keltner, Doane Perry of Jethro Tull, Uli Frost and drumming instructors from the LA Music Academy. - For more info visit Pasadena Sun, June 24, 2012.
Neil Peart With Jim Ladd On Sirius XM Now Online
Neil Peart appeared on Jim Ladd's show on SiriusXM Deep Tracks channel 27 on the evening of June 13th. The interview is now online and can be heard here. - Thanks to RushFanForever for the headusp!
Rush Feature in Rolling Stone's July 5th issue
Engineer Rich Chycki On Recording Clockwork Angels
It feels like it’s been a time of all things ‘Rush’ over the past while. As you all know by now, we spent most of the late fall and early winter 2011 recording Clockwork Angels at Revolution Studios in Toronto, Canada. I had selected that room for its cavernous but controlled drum room and I was pleased with the recorded results, as was Neil. The clockwork stage kit is one of the best kits I’ve ever had the pleasure of recording.- Thanks to B-man for the headsup!
The making of this album was a further development of technique and technology and also a return to some old ways. In my work with some of Rush’s older masters like Moving Pictures, I learned that at that time much of the processing for guitars was committed to tape — a good example being the solo in Limelight, which is a stellar performance wrapped in lush sonics. Alex and I applied much of the same methodology for Clockwork, where a song like Carnies for example, with complex modulations, panning, eq and echo were committed as a premix during the recording phase for simplicity and reproducibility down the road. And Alex did some amazing solos in preproduction that were again, tweaked with vintage and modern technology during the recording phase so they would sit well within the production guidelines that the band had set.
Geddy’s recording was also expanded to include some additional vintage gear, if you recall the Fairchild I tweeted while we were in the studio ;-) . The rest of Mr. Lee’s secret sonic recipe will have to stay secret.
Alex Lifeson Talks To Classic Rock Revisited
“Hugh Syme is a very clever and able designer,” says Lifeson. “He works very closely with Neil on all of the artwork. He has done some really dramatic artwork for this record. It made me smile; I got it.”
“The drum pattern on that song is one that I put together and Neil connected with it. I think I come from a different place than Neil does and sometimes he will find what I do as an interesting approach that he would have never thought of himself. It gave him a launching point.”
Rush Bringing String Ensemble on Tour - Billboard.com
"Our intention is to take strings out on the road," guitarist Alex Lifeson tells Billboard.com. Orchestrations, arranged by David Campbell, feature on several of "Clockwork Angels' " tracks, and Lifeson says Rush will employ a small string ensemble, likely eight to 10 pieces, to recreate those pieces and to be added to some of Rush's older material. "It's just something different for us, and I can't wait to hear what it sounds like."- Thanks to Ed at RushIsABand for the headsup!
Lifeson says Campbell will be writing arrangements for the tour, which kicks off Sept. 7 in Manchester, N.H., and will likely appear at some of the shows as well. "Certainly in the beginning he'll be out for a bit," the guitarist says. "I think his intention is to use these musicians he's been working with for a long time, who he trusts, and once they're settled in he doesn't have to be around all the time and he can come out whenever he feels like it."
Lifeson says the production is "still in a planning stage" but promises that "it's a while new show. It's new staging, new lighting, everything is new and fresh about it. I would say that it's an evolutionary extension of what the (2010-11) Time Machine Tour was, but we are definitely freshening it up and bringing and there'll be a lot of new video stuff going on." And, of course, Lifeson and his mates expect to dedicate a considerable amount of stage time to "Clockwork Angels," a concept album that will be followed by a novel co-written by drummer/lyricist Neil Peart and Kevin J. Anderson.
"The set list is quite fluid these days," Lifeson reports. "We're dropping and replacing songs constantly, and that's the way it always goes before we get into rehearsals. There's a great deal of pressure on us now to do the whole record, which we don't anticipate. I think our intention is probably to prepare the whole thing; whether we'll do it or not we're still not sure, especially on the first leg of the tour. There's still a lot of older stuff we want to do, and we've got some great songs lined up from the past. We'd be loathe to drop them to add more of 'Clockwork Angels,' at least on the first leg. It's always nice to switch up on the second leg and make it a little different."
Q&A: Rush's Alex Lifeson on Choosing Their Tour Setlist, Hall of Fame Prospects - RollingStone
Alex Lifeson is featured in a new story at RollingStone.com: Q&A: Rush's Alex Lifeson on Choosing Their Tour Setlist, Hall of Fame Prospects. Alex talks to the Rolling Stone about the new record, the upcoming tour, playing move of the new album live, the Vapor Trails remaster, and his feelings about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Rush In The Studio With Jeff Woods - Video Now Online
Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee dropped by Toronto's Q107 for a live interview with Jeff Woods this past Monday night. The interview can be seen here.
- Thanks to RushFanForever for the headsup!
- Thanks to RushFanForever for the headsup!
Permanent Waves Photoshoot of Paula Turnbull - Unused Photo
Turnbull "reprised" her role on the cover of Exit Stage Left:
"Paula Turnbull became a noted model in Europe - enough that when I brought her back, she was appalled to know that I didn't have a trailer for her." - Hugh Syme, Chemistry- Thanks to Tony Riviere for the headsup!
"Rush As Food" Event, Benefiting Andrew MacNaughtan's Art Gives Hope
"The Best Music in the World like you've never tasted it before"."In celebration of perhaps the greatest rock band ever and their amazing new album Clockwork Angels, Matt Kantor, Chef of Secret Pickle, Hidden Kitchen and an arguably somewhat crazy individual, will be interpreting and deconstructing the music of Rush into a nine-course dinner. And we'll be doing it in Rush's hometown of Toronto Ontario. Coming July 18 and July 17 or 19, 2012. Dinner to be held at The Cookbook Store in Yorkville. One night only. We'll be pouring some really cool wines and beers as well. $150 all inclusive with proceeds to go to late Rush photographer Andrew MacNaughtan's Art Gives Hope." For more information visit RushAsFood.ca.
- Thanks to Quinn Bradley for the headsup!
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