New Rush Bootleg Vids January 23, 2007
I’ve located 3 more Rush bootleg vids on YouTube in recent days. Here they are:
[Digital Man live bootleg from Signals tour]: Digital Man from the Signals tour. This one was filmed in Montreal at the Forum in early April of 1983.
[Grand Designs live bootleg from Power Windows tour]: Grand Designs from the Power Windows tour. Filmed in New York on December 10th, 1985.
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Interesting MySpace bulletin from Neil Peart
Reader Neil C alerted me to this recent MySpace bulletin sent out from Neil Peart’s MySpace page:
Seeking Second Life Developers
If you don’t know what Second Life is, then don’t ask.
Candidates must know 2nd Life Encoding thoroughly.
No Pay involved but fun benefits.
Serious inquiries only!Reply to tag@neilpeart.net NOT MYSPACE!
Interesting. If you’re not familiar with Second Life it’s an internet-based virtual world. Why Neil Peart would need Second Life Developers is anybody’s guess. 
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Vapor Trails, tarot and the “loudness wars”
I recently came across a couple of articles which deal with Vapor Trails and thought I’d throw them together in one post. The first, titled How CDs are remastering the art of noise, talks about the loudness wars in the album recording process of recent years - how albums are getting louder at the expense of sound quality. The article mentions Vapor Trails as one of the examples of this trend. This would certainly jibe with the many negative comments I’ve seen on this site and others regarding the recording of Vapor Trails.
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More Rush oddities from MitA January 22, 2007
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From my readers January 21, 2007
Over the last several weeks I’ve received a lot of email from readers of the site. People send me all kinds of neat Rush-related links and info and I don’t always get a chance to post them. They often get trumped by bigger news (such as, say… a new Rush album and tour) or just lost in my inbox. So I recently went through all my recent emails and compiled everything into one big post. So here are all the many recent contributions from the readers of Rush is a Band.
Wim from the Netherlands sent me this link to a bunch of quality pics he took of the band in Oberhousen, Germany on September 17th.
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Time Stand Still among Q Magazine’s list of lost tracks January 20, 2007
The current issue of Q Magazine focues on the 500 Greatest Lost Tracks. One of the features is a list of the 50 top lost metal tracks which includes Rush’s Time Stand Still from 1987’s Hold Your Fire. I wouldn’t really classify this song as metal, but it’s nice to see it recognized in some way. This truly is a great song from an otherwise mediocre Rush album that seemed to be overlooked by fans and critics alike. Thanks to reader Tom for the heads up.
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Entire Jeff Burrows Alex Lifeson interview now online January 19, 2007
On Monday I reported how Alex Lifeson had spoken with Jeff Burrows (The Tea Party) on his 95.1 The Rock radio show and had a number of cool things to say about the new album and tour. Among these were that the album will be out late April or early May; the tour will begin in June and cover North America, Europe and South America; and the recording process was videotaped for a possible in-studio DVD. The entire interview is now up online on the stations’s website. Just go to the site here and click on the Rock Interviews banner on the right of the page. It’s a fantastic interview. The excitement in Alex’s voice is palpable. It’s definitely worth a listen. Thanks to reader Jeff (aka Red Sector A) for the heads up.
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Geddy Lee’s My Favorite Headache electronic press kit
Back in November of 2000 during Rush’s long hiatus Geddy Lee released his only solo album My Favorite Headache. It’s a great album and if you don’t have it yet I suggest you get it. I recently located a video online of the electronic press kit for the album. It’s basically a 10-minute promo for the album that contains in-studio footage, interviews, etc. You can check it out here.
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Knights of Prosperity theme song
About a month ago I posted about how a commercial for the new show from ABC The Knights of Prosperity contained a Rush reference. If you never heard of the show, it follows a group of working class misfits who dub themselves “The Knights of Prosperity” and attempt to rob Mick Jagger’s luxury apartment. In the commercial the group’s leader Eugene (Donal Logue) mentioned that Tom Sawyer is the Knights’ theme song and went on to sing a few lines. The commercial was in reference to last night’s episode Operation: Fighting Shape. At the beginning of the show, the group is trying to decide on a theme song. Eugene already has one in mind: Tom Sawyer. Eugene proceeds to unveil a karaoke machine and starts singing along with the Rush classic. The different characters then start joining in - singing some of the lines. The song also shows up as background music in a couple of fight scenes later on. You can watch it all yourself; the entire show is now available for viewing at ABC’s website here. Many thanks to everybody who emailed me about this - I didn’t catch the show when it aired.
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Rush in LA putting final mixes on the new album January 18, 2007
Former Max Webster frontman and longtime Rush friend Kim Mitchell is now a DJ on Canadian radio station Q107. Yesterday Andy Curran of the Toronto-based 80s-era band Coney Hatch - who is now with Rush’s management - came into the studio. Kim put the following post on his blog regarding the visit:
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