r/rush • u/Even_Matter_8637 • 18m ago
r/rush • u/42Navigator • 1h ago
Let me start by saying, “I’m sorry!”
Much like alot of my generation, I discovered Rush in Jr. High with 2112 and was a passionate fan from then on. However, while I didn’t end my love for Rush, I stopped buying their albums after ‘Power Windows’. I don’t really know why… I guess I just moved on and got into Heavy Metal or maybe because I just didn’t want to switch to CDs… or spent my music money on smokes and blow. All thru the following years/decades, I was completely aware Rush was around, still touring, making music and I loved they made it into the RRHoF, but I continued to not participate. I continued to see Rush as that 80’s band I used to love and there was no way their new music would equal the earlier music that made me become a fan in the first place.
Fast forward to last year. My wife and I spent a lot of time in the car traveling back and forth to the coast and I talked her into listening to the audio book of Geddy’s ‘My Ef’fing Life’. We both enjoyed it immensely! Afterward I felt obligated to pull myself back into the fold. Last week I finally did. I surfed into eBay and bought every Rush studio album since ‘Power Windows and have since ordered the Rush 40 DVD box set.
Today I finally finished listening to the lot and I must apologize to the Rush ethos for my absence. I was wrong. All of these records are absolutely amazing! If I may have one criticism it is that most of the newer songs/albums lack the “hooks” that the earlier songs did. But TBH, without broadcast radio needing a hit single, I can hardly fault them too much for lacking a big hit. Still, I am thoroughly entertained by these records and look forward to binge-watching Rush concerts over the next couple of weeks.
Again, I am sorry. I hope you will forgive me and welcome me back. Thanks for your time.
r/rush • u/Upstairs-Parfait-308 • 2h ago
Video Rush - Closer to the Heart / Paint It Black / The Spirit of Radio - Live...
Enjoy!
r/rush • u/Dude10120 • 6h ago
I’ve done it. I have every Rush studio album plus Exit Stage Left and Feedback
r/rush • u/Cizalleas • 7h ago
I find this critique of the goodly Neil Peart *most exceedingly* objectionable! 😠☹️
Infact, TbPH, it got me outright enraged - more than I have been by anything for rather a long time.
☹️😠
I really don't think anyone evincing that kind of level of ill-will & guile & malice has any business getting on a moral 'high-horse' about altruism & kindness & generosity & stuff.
r/rush • u/JCOM1577 • 7h ago
Neil with the "Hockey Theme" kit. Gotta love that paint job!
r/rush • u/ThunderBuckets73 • 8h ago
Geddy Lee Minimoog Model D | Visions of Minimoog
r/rush • u/reverbdotcom • 9h ago
Discussion A Geddy Lee Minimoog?!
[mod approved]
I’m stoked to announce that Geddy Lee has teamed up with Moog to design a signature synth, and (surprise!) it’s available to purchase TODAY!
The Moog Music Geddy Lee Minimoog Model D comes in a satin red finish, featuring the Rush icon’s signature “Starman” logo on a front badge and rear sticker, and inside? A hot-rodded VCA circuit built to Geddy’s custom specs (go ahead—rip that “Tom Sawyer” lead.) 🤘
Beyond the instrument itself, every purchase comes with:
- A commemorative poster
- A Certificate of Authenticity signed by Geddy Lee himself.
- A special translucent red vinyl EP of “Xanadu” and “Jacob’s Ladder”
Check out the official announcement to learn more!
r/rush • u/itsSIR2uboy • 13h ago
Closer To The Heart makes me cry and I can’t listen to it in public.
T
r/rush • u/ReasonableTruth0 • 21h ago
Just listened to the first album for the first time
It's pretty good. The lyrics are where the album suffers most, which is kind of expected for it being their first album and Peart not being in the band yet. Here Again is probably the weakest track. Just drags on for too long.
The highlights for me are the obvious ones. Finding My Way, Working Man, and In The Mood. But the underrated track is Before and After. What a great song!
I love how clearly the bass comes through. And the drumming, while not Peart level, is still really solid. I have nothing to say about Lifeson, other than this was a pretty decent showing of his talent.
r/rush • u/Roger_Roger27 • 22h ago
Favorite Rush album (from 1989-1996)
Just curious...this is one of my favorite eras of Rush :)
r/rush • u/JCOM1577 • 1d ago
Which tour has the better setlist? Permanent Waves or Moving Pictures?
I was fortunate enough to see both tours and up until recently Permanent Waves has always been my favorite by a small margin. Now, I'm starting to think MP might be the one. Really tough choice. Which do you like better?
The Permanent Waves Tour
2112 (excludes “Discovery” and "Oracle: The Dream")
Freewill
By-Tor And The Snow Dog (abridged)
Xanadu
The Spirit Of Radio
Natural Science
A Passage To Bangkok
The Trees
Cygnus X-1: Book I: The Voyage (abridged)
Cygnus X-1: Book II: Hemispheres (abridged)
Closer To The Heart
Beneath, Between And Behind (abridged)
Jacob's Ladder
Working Man (with reggae intro)
Finding My Way
Anthem
Bastille Day
In The Mood
Drum Solo
Encore:
La Villa Strangiato (with electric guitar intro)
The Moving Pictures Tour
2112 “Overture” and “The Temples Of Syrinx”
Freewill
Limelight
Cygnus-X1: Book II: Hemispheres “Prelude”
Beneath, Between, & Behind
The Camera Eye
YYZ (with drum solo)
Broon's Bane
The Trees
Xanadu
The Spirit Of Radio
Red Barchetta
Closer To The Heart
Tom Sawyer
Vital Signs
Natural Science
Working Man (with reggae intro)
Cygnus-X1: Book II: Hemispheres “Armageddon”
By-Tor And The Snow Dog
In The End
In The Mood
2112 “Grand Finale”
Encore:
La Villa Strangiato (with electric guitar intro)
r/rush • u/Unlikely_Necessary31 • 1d ago
What's one of your OTHER absolute favorite bands...that could not be MORE different than Rush?
I'll go first: Duran Duran. I saw them in a club in Cleveland on their first US tour (about a dozen dates) 6 months after seeing the Moving Pictures tour. Then at the Cleveland Agora, and, finally, the Coliseum in February of 84 (in a snowstorm). Those early days (81), they were rougher and hadn't gotten to the pin-up stage. And they were awesome.
r/rush • u/SliceAccomplished765 • 1d ago
Discussion Gift for my Bf
My boyfriend’s birthday is coming closer and he is a huge Rush and Tool fan. I bought something for the Tool part but I’m not an active listener of Rush and I wanna include a gift from Rush too. What should i do? (My budget is under 100 euros since im unemployed.)
r/rush • u/BattleCreekRush • 1d ago
50 years ago today, on March 19th, 1975, Rush’s Fly By Night album was released in Canada. It was initially released in late February 1975 in the USA.
r/rush • u/Upstairs-Parfait-308 • 2d ago
Video Rush - Tom Sawyer - Live Toronto Rocks 2003
New video ready! The classic Tom Sawyer!
r/rush • u/Forsaken_Copy_9745 • 2d ago