Updates and other random Rush stuff November 30, 2007
It’s been a quiet post-holiday week for Rush news. There was finally an update on the DarkStar project and Richard Chycki posted in his blog about how he was working on the upcoming Rush live DVD… but that’s about it.
This coming Thursday the 2007 Grammy Award nominees will be announced. Do you think Rush will be nominated? Take the poll and let us know. If Rush is nominated it’ll most likely be for best instrumental or possibly best rock album/performance. Last week I asked you what your favorite Rush instrumental was. The overwhelming winner was La Villa Strangiato with 50% of the vote. In second was YYZ with 21% and rounding out the top 5 was The Main Monkey Business (13%), Leave That Thing Alone (5%) and Malignant Narcissism (5%).
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Snakes & Arrows makes Amazon’s 2007 Top 100 Customer Favorites list November 28, 2007
Every year around this time online megastore Amazon.com compiles lists of the Best Music from the previous year. This year Rush’s Snakes & Arrows made their list of the Top 100 Customers’ Favorites coming in at #37. This came about despite the album not making the Top 100 Editor’s Picks list at all. It just proves that the customers are smarter than those stinkin’ editors. 
Thanks to DC Rush Fan for the heads up.
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Richard Chycki working on the new Rush live DVD
In a recent interview at BW&BK (see this post), Snakes & Arrows sound engineer Richard Chycki remarked that he was working on the upcoming Rush live DVD that was filmed in Rotterdam. He also mentions this in a post on his blog yesterday:
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Thanking the shit out of Snakes & Arrows November 27, 2007
Bob Cesca is a writer, director and producer (he is the founder of Camp Chaos) who’s been a featured blogger at the Huffington Post since August, 2005. For the past 3 years at Thanksgiving he’s put together a Thanking The Shit Out Of Stuff post. In this year’s installment Rush’s Snakes & Arrows made the cut:
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Moving Pictures: a life-changing album
Robert of the Radish is a prominent music fanatic and historian with a degree in music business who runs a series of music-related blogs. Robert was recently challenged by a fellow blogger to create a list of 10 albums that changed his life; not necessarily his all time favorites, but those that have had the biggest impact on him. At the very top of his list is Rush’s 1981 classic Moving Pictures. Here’s what he said about it.
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DarkStar update November 26, 2007
DarkStar is a first-person role-playing video game that’s been in development for over 7 years. It’s usually described as more of an interactive movie than a video game because the characters in the game are live actors. The game is of interest to Rush fans because it will feature the music of Rush; over 20 songs spanning 12 albums. Back in July of 2004 they released a teaser trailer online that featured One Little Victory. It’s also interesting to note that a number of people who worked on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 TV show - which included many Rush references - are involved with this project. Unfortunately, development of DarkStar has been very slow going although there have recently (November 5th, 20th) been a couple of promising updates posted on the game’s official website; the game may actually see the light of day sometime next year. In the meantime here’s what the website says about using the music of Rush along with the complete song list:
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Updates and other random Rush stuff November 23, 2007
I hope everybody in the States had a great Thanksgiving yesterday. As Rush fans, we all had a lot to be thankful for this past year … and it looks like 2008 won’t be any different.
As the members of Rush take a break from the grind of touring for a few months, behind the scenes planning for the 2008 tour leg is underway. We learned this week that dates in Argentina, Chile and Puerto Rico are being finalized and I heard a recent rumor (take with a grain of salt) that the Honda Center in Anaheim may be one of the west coast dates.
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New Alex Lifeson interview in Guitarist November 22, 2007
The December 2007 issue of Guitarist magazine (issue #297) features an interview with Alex Lifeson. It also includes a backstage video of Alex and the band from the Birmingham show last month. Alex shows off all his gear and talks about the tour. Thanks to Simon B for the heads up and the cover shot.
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Interview with Snakes & Arrows engineer Rich Chycki
RICHARD CHYCKI: Sound Decisions
Carl Begai of Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles recently spoke with Snakes & Arrows sound engineer Rich Chycki. Rich touched on several subjects including working with Rush and Nick Raskulinecz on Snakes & Arrows:
RICHARD CHYCKI: Sound Decisions
… "I recorded and mixed Snakes & Arrows, Nick Raskulinecz produced it," Chycki says of his latest Rush experience. "We both had a common goal to make a modern yet more vintage sounding Rush CD so it was a very complementary relationship. Nick’s an accomplished engineer in his own right having worked with the Foo Fighters, so I very much respect the trust he put in me. Regardless of which band I’m working with, I never feel like my gig is just a job. I’m not the weekend nightshift boy at 7-11 so I’m very grateful. But I will say that in between all the listening and meter watching, once in a while you look up and see Geddy riffing out and the thought crosses your mind - ‘Holy Fuck! I’m recording Rush!’" …
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Rush 2008 South American tour news November 21, 2007
In my last update on the 2008 tour I mentioned that Rush would be spending around 2 weeks in South America - covering Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Chile. Now it looks like 2 newspapers in Chile have essentially confirmed that Rush will be playing there although the final location and date are still being determined. In an article titled Santiago Rush Concert In The Works, Chile’s La Tercera newspaper states (rough translation):
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