VH1 Classic Rush Hashanah special airs tonight September 29, 2008
Tonight and tomorrow VH1 Classic will be airing a special in celebration of the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah dubbed Rush Hashanah. Beginning tonight at sunset and running for the next 24 hours VH1 Classic will play Rush concert videos, music videos and interviews. Here’s the complete schedule:
Monday 9/29
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Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandCamp Brutus hits the campaign trail September 28, 2008
If you’ve read Neil Peart’s book Roadshow you are no doubt familiar with his tour bus driver Dave. Dave drove the bus affectionately known as Camp Brutus that ferried Neil Peart and friends and their bikes from show to show on the last few Rush tours. Dave has a MySpace page and posted an interesting bit of news yesterday regarding this particular bus and the 2008 presidential election:
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Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandUpdates and other random Rush stuff September 26, 2008
UPDATE - 9/26@11:30AM: In what is arguably the strangest poll of all time, Rush (live act) is up against Bruce Dickinson (frontman) for the title of Greatest of Everything at the Greatest of All Time Blog. As of this posting, they are tied at 50% each. So go vote for Rush! Thanks to ashpkt for the heads up.
Only 8 more weeks to go until the release of Rush’s Snakes & Arrows DVD and shortly after that we’ll be getting the new Retrospective 3 greatest hits package. So it stands to be a stellar holiday season for us Rush fans. Just last week we learned all the juicy details about the DVD and are now waiting for some more information regarding the greatest hits package. At this point all we know is that it’s due out December 9th, will cover the Atlantic era, will have a CD+DVD version available (possibly with Atlantic-era videos?), and it’s rumored to contain some unreleased live tracks.
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Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandRush makes-a-wish come true for one special fan September 24, 2008
Samantha is a 16-year-old Rush fan from Summerville, Georgia who was diagnosed with cancer back in August of 2007. 3 months into her treatment she was approached by the Make-A-Wish Foundation and asked how they could help to make her wish come true. The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a nonprofit organization that grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. They’ve granted wishes to 1000s of children since their inception in 1980 and are run entirely on donations. Samantha’s wish was to meet her favorite band - Rush. This marked the first time Rush had ever been approached for a Make-A-Wish request. Here is Samantha’s amazing story in her own words.
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Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandMoving Pictures released for Rock Band September 23, 2008
After a 4-week delay, Harmonix Music Systems has finally worked out all the bugs and today released Rush”s Moving Pictures album for download for the Rock Band video game. Moving Pictures is the fifth complete album to be made available for download for the game and all 7 tracks are the original recordings. Moving Pictures joins the five other Rush tracks in the Rock Band catalog including the recently released master track vault edition of Working Man and cover versions of Closer To The Heart, Tom Sawyer, Limelight and Working Man. The full album will be available for $10.99 (880 Microsoft Points) or $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) per track individually.
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Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandRush Snakes & Arrows DVD official press release September 22, 2008
We only just learned a few days ago that the release date for the upcoming Snakes & Arrows DVD would be November 18th and already it’s been pushed back to November 25th. The official press release announcing the DVD just came out today and confirms the details I posted on Friday but with the new release date and a couple of corrections/clarifications to report. It looks like the extras will be included on the first disc and the Atlanta footage will have a disc all to itself. Also, it looks like the additional versions of Far Cry and The Way the Wind Blows are simply alternate cuts and not completely different versions (such as from Atlanta). Without further adieu, here’s the press release in its entirety:
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Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandRush passed over for the Rock Hall in 2009
It’s time for the annual snubbing of Rush by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The list of nominees for induction in 2009 was just announced and once again Rush is not on the list. No surprise there. This year’s list of nominees are Jeff Beck, Chic, Wanda Jackson, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Metallica, RUN DMC, the Stooges, War, and Bobby Womack. Yikes. I’m rooting for Metallica. For a great running history of Rush’s now 10-year-old annual snubbing by the Rock Hall, check out this page at the Power Windows site.
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Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandUpdates and other random Rush stuff September 20, 2008
When it rains it pours. After several weeks of relative quiet, we were flooded with various bits of Rush news over the last few days. Wednesday we learned that the 2009 Rush wall calendar is now available for purchase at the Rush Backstage Club and that there’s a petition drive in Hamilton, Ontario (Neil Peart’s birthplace) to get a stretch of the new Red Hill Expressway named after Neil Peart. Thursday was the 40th anniversary of Rush’s (the initial incarnation consisting of Alex Lifeson, Jeff Jones, and John Rutsey) first paying gig at The Coff-In coffeehouse located in the basement of an Anglican Church in Toronto. The Drum Channel officially launched this week and the website features an introductory video from Neil Peart. The channel will be streaming live the upcoming Buddy Rich Memorial Concert on October 18th. On Friday we received confirmation of a December 9th release of a Retrospective 3 greatest hits package from Rush covering the Atlantic era. And we also got some long-awaited details regarding the Snakes & Arrows DVD; it will be released on November 18th on both DVD and Blu-ray and include footage from the Rotterdam shows and the 2008 leg’s Atlanta show, and also contain a bonus DVD.
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Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandRush Snakes & Arrows Live DVD details September 19, 2008
UPDATE - 9/19@5:06PM: It’s been a very busy last few days so I probably won’t have my weekly Updates and other random Rush stuff post up until sometime over the weekend.
Yesterday we learned that the upcoming Snake & Arrows Live DVD would be released this coming November 18th. I now have several more details about the release to report including confirmation that it will be available on Blu-ray! It will be a 3-disc package which will include 2 discs containing footage from the Rotterdam shows from the 2007 leg and a bonus DVD. The bonus DVD will contain footage from the Atlanta show on the 2008 leg (Red Barchetta, The Trees, Ghost of a Chance and 2112), alternate versions of Far Cry and The Way the Wind Blows either from the other Rotterdam show or the Atlanta show, the What’s That Smell intermission video (along with outtakes and a trailer), outtakes from the 2007 tour and Red Sector A from the R30 Tour. Promos for the DVD will be running on VH1 Classic during their Rush Hashanah special this coming Monday, September 29th. This is all I know right now. More details as I learn them.
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Original Article syndicated via RSS from Rush is a BandThe Drum Channel now live; will stream Buddy Rich Concert
We’d first heard about the Drum Channel this past March in relation to the upcoming Buddy Rich Memorial Concert. It was to be the first major event streamed live on the new channel. Well, the Drum Channel is now up and running including an introductory video featuring Neil Peart (in the intro and outro). Check it out at this link. A little about the Drum Channel from the website:
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