celebrating 30 years in 2004, show your love for RUSH!!!















what are your favorite songs? any favorite rush memories? how did you first get turned on to rush?

i didn't always like rush, in fact i used to hate them. but that was only because my big sister liked them (loved them in fact) so i was morally obligated to be firmly opposed to anything she found delight in.

then i grew up. lately i've been listening to RUSH a lot more lately. so now i have to say "thank you" to my sister for exposing me to some fine music in my formative years.

no rush fans??

YAY i'm a huge RUSH fan

Love this band but it seems that people either love them or hate them.

Personally, I think that they're ahead of their time and people will be figuring them out in 10 years.

Concerts are a little too perfect and their new album of covers is just alright but they've got an extensive library of music that I never get sick of.

Ever check out the Neil Peart tribute to Buddy Rich? I haven't I was just wondering if anybody else had. Neil set a standard for percussion that's yet to be duplicated.

i'm not the only RUSH fan!! yay!!

Slave2daGroove said:

the drums on Tam Sawyer are awesome my fave!! but, who's buddy rich?
[Edited 10/28/04 9:46am]

LOOOOVE RUSH!!! i've seen 'em severla times: 82 signals tour, 84 g/p tour, 88 hold your fire, and two times on counterparts. rush has never made a bad album imo. so, no, u're no the only rush fan at the org.
btw, does anyone remeber the kmoj new power generation radio show from december 1989? michael anthony (a/k/a levi seacer, jr.) started to play a new rush song, and then pretended there was ometing wrong with the CD player! it was funny. not sure if it was a dig at rush or the audience.

I've been a fan for many years, but they are not in my top 10 favourites. Being a Canadian, we hear plenty of Rush on the radio and they were very popular when I was in high school and university.

Red Barchetta was one of my first favorite songs by any artist. When will they be inducted into the Hall of Fame or have they arlready been. They deserve it without a doubt. Weren't they pioneers using lasers and big screen video during their concerts? I think I got my first contact high going to one of their shows. Funny that burnouts liked them. Then they got haircuts and started wearing suits.

fantasyislander said:

Just a legend on drums, this all coutesy of allmusic.com



When it came to technique, speed, power, and the ability to put together incredible drum solos, Buddy Rich lived up to the billing of "the world's greatest drummer." Although some other drummers were more innovative, in reality none were in his league even during the early days. A genius, Buddy Rich started playing drums in vaudeville as "Traps, the Drum Wonder" when he was only 18 months old; he was completely self-taught. Rich performed in vaudeville throughout his childhood and developed into a decent singer and a fine tap dancer. But drumming was his purpose in life, and by 1938 he had discovered jazz and was playing with Joe Marsala's combo. Rich was soon propelling Bunny Berigan's orchestra, he spent most of 1939 with Artie Shaw (at a time when the clarinetist had the most popular band in swing), and then from 1939-1945 (except for a stint in the military) he was making history with Tommy Dorsey. During this era it became obvious that Buddy Rich was the king of drummers, easily dethroning his friend Gene Krupa. Rich had a bop-ish band during 1945-1947 that did not catch on, toured with Jazz at the Philharmonic, recorded with a countless number of all-stars in the 1950s for Verve (including Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Art Tatum, and Lionel Hampton), and worked with Les Brown, Charlie Ventura, Tommy Dorsey (1954-1955), and Harry James (off and on during 1953-1966). A heart attack in 1959 only slowed him down briefly and, although he contemplated becoming a full-time vocalist, Rich never gave up the drums.

In 1966, Buddy Rich beat the odds and put together a successful big band that would be his main outlet for his final 20 years. His heart began giving him trouble starting in 1983, but Rich never gave his music less than 100 percent and was still pushing himself at the end. A perfectionist who expected the same from his sidemen (some of whom he treated cruelly), Buddy Rich is definitively documented in Mel Tormé's book Traps the Drum Wonder. His incredible playing can be viewed on several readily available videotapes, although surprisingly few of his later big band albums have been made available yet on CD.

creed *and* rush all in one day?


RUN TO THE HILLS!!

sosgemini said:

You didn't just compare those 2 bands

One has a recording career and the other will be on a where are they now VH1 special in a couple of years

Slave2daGroove said:

well, the only thing these two bands have in common are lead singers who's vocals make my bladder itch...

comparing Rush to Creed is like comparing Prince to Jermaine Stewart.

JonSnow said:

anyone actually reading my comments?

sosgemini said:

my favorite rush songs are:

limelight
tom sawyer
fly by night
2112 and the temples of syrinx series
time stand still
nobody's hero
everyday glory
mystic rhythms
stick it out
the spirit of radio


. . . to mention just a few . . .

My friend is a diehard Rush fan, they don't really appeal to me from what little I've been exposed to of theirs. Plus I find it discouraging that they based a concept album off an Ayn Rand novel

Slave2daGroove said:

I am a diehard Rush fan...I first got turned onto them back in 1990/1991....I was about 11 and my best friend at that time had just bought the PRESTO album and he told me that I should check it out and I did and I loved it! Its funny because now, PRESTO is one of my least fav Rush albums(too melodic for me)..but then I began re-searching the band and I got a lot of their older albums and became a DIEHARD fan.....

my favs by Rush....my fav albums are PERMANENT WAVES,HEMISPHERES,SIGNALS, GRACE UNDER PRESSURE, ALL THE WORLDS A STAGE, RUSH IN RIO

minneapolisgenius said:

and still people arent reading my comments...

it was a fucking joke damn it!!

LoveAlive said:

my sister is a diehard fan. i'm not quite as diehard as she is, but they are one of my fave bands.

JonSnow said:

hey now i think Jermaine was excellent

I RUSH, grew up with their music. Don't forget they were on the Great White North record with Geddy Lee doing "Take Off....

Spirit of Radio, my alltime fave.

Mazerati said:

oops, sorry! I only know that one song, "We Don't Have to take our Clothes Off"... and i remember people comparing him to Prince, which I never understood. ah well.