Rush Snakes and Arrows rumor mill February 21, 2007
The latest batch of rumors regarding the new album started floating around the message boards yesterday. They’re of the friend-of-a-friend variety so I had some doubts about posting them. But hey! Why the hell not?! It actually all sounds fairly believable. It comes from someone on a Kings X (great band by the way) board who is friends with producer Nick Raskulinecz’s assistant. Here’s the first post:
I just got off the phone with my boy Louie (Nick’s assistant) and he was freaking out. He is a HUGE Rush fan and he said that last night he got to go to the studio to hear the final mix of the new Rush album. It was only him, Nick, the band and about 10 of the band’s friends. He’s now gotten to hang with them a few times and said he has to keep his cool and not geek out. He said Geddy pulled him aside and said “Your boy Nick is the best young producer we’ve seen. The sky is the limit for him”.
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Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandRich Chycki talks Rush February 20, 2007
Impending Rush, Dolores O’Riordan Releases
As we’ve known for some time now, Richard Chycki was in charge of mixing the upcoming Rush album Snakes and Arrows. Richard has a blog and over the weekend put up a post about the experience of working with Rush and producer Nick Raskulinecz. Here it is:Impending Rush, Dolores O’Riordan Releases
Since the late fall, I’ve been in the studio recording and mixing a new CD for Rush with Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Stone Sour) producing. Recording was completed at Allaire Studios in Shokan, New York during November/December 2006. I mixed the CD in the Neve 88R room (Studio D) at Ocean Way Studios in Los Angeles.…
Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandInteresting Rush setlist exercise February 19, 2007
Rush 2007 setlist exercise
Reader mtb2112 sent me this very interesting Rush survey/questionnaire (for lack of a better term). I’ll let him do the explaining:Rush 2007 setlist exercise
Below is a link to an exercise designed to evaluate the appeal of Rush
songs that have never, or rarely, been performed live. This is much
more than the usual ‘rank your favorite songs’ questionnaire.Rush 2007 setlist exercise
This is a form of ‘Conjoint’ or ‘MaxDiff’ work that introduces trade-
offs into the process. Basically, you’ll be presented with multiple
“mini sets” of 6 songs- and you pick the one you’d most like to hear
and the one you’d least like to hear from each set. Everyone who does
this exercise will get different combinations/sets.…
Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandHemispheres live bootleg from Counterparts tour
A View from the Palace is one of the better-known pro-shot Rush live bootlegs. It was shot at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Michigan on March 22, 1994. It was taped off of arena’s video system for use on the arena scoreboards and broadcast to luxury boxes and suites so the quality is very good for a bootleg. A few songs from this boot began surfacing on YouTube last August. I just located another one - Hemispheres: Prelude which you can watch here. With all the talk of Rush’s new Far Cry single snippet sounding like Hemispheres, I thought this video was very timely. Here are some other vids from the same bootlelg:
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Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandThe Bad Plus jazz trio to cover Tom Sawyer February 18, 2007
Last week I posted about jazz group the Alex Skolnick Trio and their jazz cover of Tom Sawyer. It seems that their penchant for performing jazz versions of rock songs is not unique. Minnesota-based jazz trio The Bad Plus is also known for this practice. Back in September I received an email from reader Andy S who had recently seen The Bad Plus perform live at The Blue Note in New York. He emailed me because the trio had performed a cover of Tom Sawyer and mentioned that they would be including the song on their next album. I filed this information away for later use, and then last week I got another email about The Bad Plus from reader Dave. The band has a blog and had put up an amusing post about Rush where they mention their cover of Tom Sawyer. The post is a fun little back-and-forth between members Ethan Iverson and drummer David King where they talk about how great a drummer Neil Peart is.
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Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandNew Rush Backstage Club contest February 17, 2007
WIN The Complete Tourbooks!!
The latest Rush Backstage Club contest is up. The winner of the autographed copy of The Masked Rider was Beverley Wintjes from Ontario. Here are the new contest details from the site:WIN The Complete Tourbooks!!
This is a 400 page coffee table book with all of Rush’s tour books to date, a total of 15 books. The books have been reproduced and bound together in a black, cloth-wrapped 12″ X 12″ book. Every cover of every book is printed on cover stock. The front cover is debossed in black and silver foil with the starman logo. There is a two-page introduction written by Neil Peart, detailing his involvement in the design and content of every Rush tour book going back to 1977.…
Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandRush album getting a lot of press
The Rush PR machine has been working overtime since the official news about the new Rush album came out 2 days ago. The press release is plastered all over the net and elsewhere - it’s even been spotted on the CNN news crawl. This one from Billboard.com was one of the first and exemplifies most of the ones I’ve seen so far:
Rush has set a May 1 release date for its 18th studio album, “Snakes & Arrows.” The Anthem/Atlantic set will be preceded by the single “Far Cry,” which will hit U.S. rock radio outlets in mid-March. “Snakes & Arrows” is the follow-up to 2002’s “Vapor Trails.”
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Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandNew album release date May 1st; Far Cry sample online February 15, 2007
Rush.com has confirmed that the album will indeed be titled Snakes & Arrows and be released on May 1st! Better yet they have a very short but sweet (15 seconds or so, no vocals) sample of the single Far Cry. Just go to Rush.com to check out the clip. Judging by the clip, the new album is indeed heavier and more powerful - very Hemispherical.
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Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandTrack listing revealed for new album from Porcupine Tree featuring Alex Lifeson February 14, 2007
Porcupine Tree’s Fear For The World
A couple of months ago the news broke that Alex Lifeson along with King Crimson’s Robert Fripp would be making a guest appearance on the new album from British progsters Porcupine Tree. The album will be titled Fear Of A Blank Planet and is due to be released via Atlantic Records on April 24th. The band recently released the track listing for the album and Alex Lifeson appears on track 3. The track is titled Anesthetize, clocks in at 17 minutes and 42 seconds and features a guitar solo from Lerxst. From ign.com:…
Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandStarwood Amphitheater closing; Rush tour kickoff venue now in doubt
Hmm… this shines some doubt on the rumored tour kickoff date. The Starwood Amphitheater in Nashville, which was where Rush was supposed to kick off the tour, has been closed. All previously scheduled shows have been canceled. So I guess this means that the tour won’t be kicking off at the Starwood. From the Tennessean.com:
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