Begin the day With a friendly voice A companion, unobtrusive Plays the song that’s so elusive And the magic music makes your morning mood Recorded at Le Studio in Morin Heights, Quebec and released January, 1980. Happy 36th anniversary Permanent Waves. PERMANENT WAVES 1. The Spirit of Radio 2. Freewill 3. Jacob’s Ladder 4. Entre Nous 5. Different Strings 6. Natural Science Get the vinyl here and read more on the album here.
November 20, 2015 – Nashville, TN – R40 Live, an extraordinary document of Rush’s career-spanning 40th anniversary tour, was released today. Rush recorded and filmed R40 Live over two sold-out shows at the Air Canada center in the band’s hometown of Toronto on June 17 and 19, 2015. The epic live shows by the Rock Hall of Famers were captured with 14 cameras, in order to give fans the best possible viewing experience. The band, comprised of bassist/keyboardist/lead singer Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer Neil Peart, undertook a 35-city tour this summer to celebrate their 40-plus years together. The sold-out tour, which included stops in Atlanta, Buffalo, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, New York, Seattle, St. Louis, Toronto, Tulsa, and …
RUSH R40 LIVE Concert Film Available November 20 Epic Live Show with 40 Year Career-Spanning Set List Watch the R40 Live Trailer All roads have led to this. Forty-one years in the making, the R40 Live tour took a very real journey back through time. Beginning with the grand design: a state-of-the-art stage set that pivots, rolls and dives, and brings Clockwork Angels in to bombastic, colorful life before marching stridently back in time (through theatre stages, a panoply of band and fan shots, the accrued memories of a life spent playing live) to a mocked-up school gym and the band playing there; a solitary bass amp set on the …
If you’re a fan of Rush, you likely know who Eddie Trunk is. Eddie made it out to the R40 Live show in Denver and posted his thoughts about the show on his site.
Salt Lake City Weekly’s Randy Harward explains how Rush kept popping into his life.
The Art of Rush is a 272 page coffee table book that delves into the 40 year relationship with Rush and their longtime artist and illustrator Hugh Syme. Pre-orders start March 27 at 10AM Eastern.
Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart He’s a rebel and a runner He’s a signal turning green He’s a restless young romantic Wants to run the big machine He’s got a problem with his poisons But you know he’ll find a cure He’s cleaning up his systems To keep his nature pure Learning to match the beat of the Old World man Learning to catch the heat of the Third World man He’s got to make his own mistakes And learn to mend the mess he makes He’s old enough to know what’s right But young enough not to choose it He’s noble enough to win the world But weak enough …
Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Lyrics: Neil Peart His world is under observation — We monitor his station Under faces and the places Where he traces points of view He picks up scraps of conversation — Radio and radiation From the dancers and romancers With the answers — but no clue He’d love to spend the night in Zion He’s been a long while in Babylon He’d like a lover’s wings to fly on To a tropic isle of Avalon His world is under anaesthetic — Subdivided and synthetic His reliance on the giants In the science of the day He picks up scraps of information — He’s adept at adaptation ‘Cause for …
Earlier this year, Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) kicked off its own celebration of the band’s 40th anniversary with the reissue of Rush’s self-titled 1974 debut. Now, All titles will be reissued on high-quality vinyl in 2015.
About Moving Pictures What can you say? Moving Pictures became the band’s biggest selling album in the U.S., rising to #3 on the Billboard charts. It remains Rush’s most popular and commercially successful studio recording. Rush’s complex songwriting and musical virtuosity reached new heights on this album. Recorded and mixed from October to November 1980 at Le Studio, Moving Pictures followed a more radio-friendly format and includes several signature tracks, including “Tom Sawyer,” “Limelight,” “Red Barchetta,” and the band’s highly praised instrumental, “YYZ,” which is the IATA airport identification code of Toronto Pearson International Airport. The album cover is a monument to triple entendre. Movers are physically moving pictures, people are crying because the pictures passing by …
