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Rush Blog Roundup

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It's been a while since I've done this so some of these posts are from back around Christmas. I'll try and be more timely in the future. So without further adieu I bring you these Rush tidbits from the blogosphere.

Sharon grudgingly accepts the fact that her son is a Rush fan. In discussing his Christmas present she says:

... The twelve-year-old wanted an acoustic guitar and a new CD player. Either I must finally acclimate myself at 36 to a grudging appreciation for Rush or grow new scar tissue over the eardrums, but either way Geddy Lee is wailing tinnily from the upstairs over a cacaphony of discordant chords that either are, or are not, coming from the stereo. ...

Rick Owens (an independent filmmaker) at The Cooling Tower inspired by R30 contemplates making a film with a soundtrack of all Rush songs. Cool.

It's Christmas Eve and as I sit here...alone, I have been watching [R30] ... I first discovered this incredible band back in 1977 after the 2112 album came out. ... When I heard the 2112 Overture and listened to the way Alex Lifeson made his guitar sing, I was completely sold and I have been a Rush fan ever since that day. ... Watching Rush perform some of their classics really brings back memories and just like in 1977, I get inspired all over again. I would love to do a movie and have every song in the soundtrack be by Rush. Who knows, maybe I'll do just that. ...

banjeroo meets the "greatest drummer in the world" ... on a bus! It's not who you think:

... There was a couple at the back of the bus where I was sitting. He was tall and sort of handsome, but very rough, and missing teeth. He was sitting with a pudgy homely woman with glasses and black hair streaked with grey, and they were holding hands tightly, fingers interlocked. ... He said he used to do repair work on the buses in this city. But before that, he did his Masters in Music. When I asked him what instrument, he said "all of them", and informed me that he was, in particular, an incredible drummer. He said he was once in a drumming workshop with Phil Collins and "that guy from Rush" (Neil Peart), and he kicked both their asses. Neil would play a piece, and then everyone in the workshop had to copy what he did, and it was timed, and they were rated on accuracy and speed. But the bus guy, he said "I did everything that guy from Rush did, and then added my own stuff, and still came in under time, and they all wanted to know how I did that. And Neil said 'You could be the best drummer in the world' and I said 'Thanks'." ...

Der Mensch thinks that ...

... Owen Wilson looks a lot like Alex Lifeson did back in the 70s. Why do I notice this? I don't know. ...

New World Man talks at length about the Rush song Peaceable Kingdom and it's relationship to the current political climate.

John King thinks that chicks dig him. Here's one of the many reasons he gives as to why:

... Women want John King because they are guaranteed a lecture on the merits of Neil Peart's drumming, Alex Lifeson's guitar work and the soaring majesty of Geddy Lee's voice. Make no mistake: Rush is sexy. ...

accidental man reflects on the Rush song Time Stand Still:

... It strikes me as funny that in thinking about when that song was part of the soundtrack of my young life, it was 1987. Seventeen years have passed ... and it did not have much impact for me at the time, as I was too young to conceive of a life where you weren't perpetually looking forward to your next birthday. When getting older meant new and exciting things like getting your driver's license, graduating, moving out on your own, being served in a pub. (Legally!) It was at a time when your skills and abilities in general grew from year to year. I was learning to play bass guitar at the time, playing and practicing every day. And I got better all the time. My body seemingly took care of itself; I never worried about physical maladies, and ate whatever I wanted with no negative effect. Things do change.

But I know that even if the good old days were golden days, the past is a terrible place to live. I realize at the time I had my share of issues and problems, certainly different than I do now, but I'm know that they were just as troubling. So I'm not That Guy, the one tenaciously hanging on the end of the bar, talking about how things were so much better when he was younger, brasher, better. Let us know that Nostalgia is the device that paves the potholes over on Memory Lane. ...

Man Family catches Geddy Lee on film at a recent Raptors game.

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