Snakes and Arrows release date pushed back one week February 28, 2007
Blabbermouth.net is reporting that the release date of Rush’s upcoming album Snakes and Arrows has been pushed back one week to May 8th. This info comes straight from Atlantic records apparently. Oh well… what’s one more week? Right?? ARGHH!
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Geddy Lee pitches ESPN with Bronson Arroyo? February 27, 2007
It’s certainly no secret to Rush fans that Geddy Lee is an avid baseball fan so this news probably won’t come as a big surprise. Veteran sports television and radio talk authority Jim Rome has a show on ESPN called Jim Rome is Burning. Last week (Friday, Feb. 23rd I think) he interviewed Cincinnati Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo. During the interview Arroyo mentioned that he was doing the interview during a break from shooting an ESPN commercial with some other players and Geddy Lee. Jim Rome asked him if Geddy was a baseball fan. Arroyo said that he thought he was and that he remembers seeing him behind home plate in Toronto a lot. Interesting. I couldn’t find any more info on when this commercial might air but my guess is just prior to when baseball season starts, which would be later next month. So keep your eyes out for it. Many thanks to reader Doug J for spotting this.
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New Geddy Lee interview with Revolver magazine
The latest issue of Revolver magazine has an interview with Geddy Lee where he discusses their upcoming album Snakes and Arrows, due out May 1st. He describes the album thusly:
… “It’s hard to describe,” said Lee. “It’s big, it’s bold, and I think it’s some of the best work we’ve done in years. I’m really pleased with the quality of the songs, and there’s lots of playing on it.”…
He also goes on to describe how the band’s 2004 EP Feedback influenced the recording process on this latest album:
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Rush Order of Canada 10th anniversary February 26, 2007
The Order of Canada is the highest civilian honor that can be presented by the Canadian Government. 10 years ago today Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart were given this prestigious honor at Rideau Hall in Ottawa (the official residence of the Governor General of Canada). It marked the first time that the award was given to a group rather than an individual. Here is a transcription of what was said about the band when they were presented with the award. You can also watch the video of this presentation here.
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Rush 2002 MuchMusic interview clip
I recently located online an 8-minute clip of a one-hour Rush biography special titled The Story of … Rush which aired on MuchMusic in 2002. The clip features old Rush footage and interviews along with a current (at the time) interview of Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson with Bill Welychka at the Anthem offices in Toronto, ON. You can check out the clip here. Thanks to reader Shane for the heads up.
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Rush’s 2112 makes list of top 25 prog rock albums February 24, 2007
Top 25 Prog Rock Albums
IGN Music is running a feature today on the Top 25 Prog Rock Albums. Rush’s 2112 came in at #10.
Top 25 Prog Rock Albums
Undeniably the Canadian Godfathers of Prog, Rush evolved from a bare bones barroom rock band into a full-fledged Prog trio before shifting off into more streamlined synth enhanced fare by the late ’80s. This album showcases Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neal Pert in fine form as they delivered a conceptual album based on the writings of Ayn Rand. While tracks like “A Passage To Bangkok” may not be exactly Prog, the first side of the album, a whopping 20-minute, 33-second suite broken into seven sections, more than qualifies as a benchmark of the genre.
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Updates and other random Rush stuff
Here are a few post updates and other random Rush-related stuff that I’ve accumulated over the last few days. I thought I’d just lump everything in one post.
A few days ago I put up a post about Richard Chycki - the man charged with mixing the new Rush album. He put a post about his experience working with Rush on his blog last weekend. He mentioned that the album was mixed in LA at Ocean Way Studios (Studio D). Reader Samuel S located the studio’s website which contains a lot of great pics. Check it out here.
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Short clip of 2112 live at 1979 PinkPop festival February 23, 2007
2112 live clip from 1979 PinkPop festival
One of the coolest clips I’ve ever seen of 70s-era Rush live is this clip of La Villa Strangiato from a June 4, 1979 show at the Pinkpop festival in Geleen, Holand; the last performance of the Hemispheres European tour. Another clip from this show recently popped up on YouTube. It’s only a minute long and in black-and-white but good quality otherwise. It shows a portion of the song 2112: Presentation and then cuts to the last few bars of La Villa Strangiato. Several pans of the crowd are also interspersed. It looks like it might be from a news broadcast of some sort, but I can’t be sure. You can check it out here.
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Not a new Rush promo pic February 22, 2007
I’ve received several emails about this so I though I’d finally set the record straight. Rush.com has a new promo image for the Snakes & Arrows album up on their site. It’s exactly the same as the first one except that it has a different background image which includes a pic of the band. A lot of fans have speculated that this image was a new one and a possible promo pic for the new album. Well, it’s not. The image is actually a few years old and was originally used as the cover image on the 2004 Martin Popoff book Contents Under Pressure. So no new album artwork or pics … yet.
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Trailer Park Boys movie released to DVD in Canada
Last October the popular Candian TV show the Trailer Park Boys made its big screen debut in Canada. The movie was a resounding success garnering the highest opening-weekend gross of any English-language homegrown film. Alex Lifeson was heavily involved in the making of the film”s soundtrack (Geddy Lee also participated) and also got a cameo as a cop in the movie. The film is also riddled with Rush references including a movie marquee (screenshot supplied by Power Windows) which lists several Rush song titles as movies. In December the news came out that Myriad Pictures of Los Angeles had purchased U.S. and world rights (excluding Canada) for the movie and planned to put the film into commercial release this year. Whether this will actually happen or not I”m unclear on, but yesterday the film was released to DVD in Canada. It is also available via various private vendors in the US and elsewhere. I should also note that the entire film has already been uploaded to YouTube in 10 parts here. Not sure how long they”ll be up though, so watch “em while they”re hot!
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