RUSH IS A BAND

Neil Peart interviews Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on October 22, 1993 on MuchMusic

Harvard Lampoon's induction of Rush as Musicians of the Millennium

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Puerto Rico Press Conference for Snakes & Arrows Live tour 2008 - April 9, 2008

Commercial for Rush 2008 tour date in Puerto Rico

Rush reference in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "The Marines" (#508, aired Mar. 16, 2008):

A television commercial advertising Rush's 2008 leg of the Snakes & Arrows tour

Alex Lifeson at the 1995 Kumbaya Festival

Alex Lifeson performs at the 1993 Kumbaya Festival

A short soundcheck interview with Alex and Geddy on MuchMusic from the 2002 Toronto Rocks SARS benefit.

This is a short feature on Rush from MuchMusic. It includes an interview with Ray Daniels, a short clip of a Geddy Lee interview, concert and video footage.

Trailer for the video game Rock Band to be release Nov. 20, 2007.

An interview conducted by Guitar World magazine from 2007

Alex Lifeson examines the "smoke eater" at his Toronto restaurant The Orbit Room

Alex Lifeson shows off the "DexterMobile" ; the official transportation of "The Dexters" - the house band at Alex's Toronto restaurant The Orbit Room. It's a '62 Buick Special.

Alex Lifeson and The Dexters look out the "Chick Watching Window" at Alex's Toronto restaurant The Orbit Room

Geddy Lee reference in the 1997 film from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Orgazmo

A short skit with Geddy Lee from his appearance on the CBC's The Hour - 6/14/07

Rush interview on the CBC's The National - June 12, 2007

Geddy Lee Guitar World interview - August 2007

This is the pre-video interview with Geddy Lee for Tears Are Not Enough, a 1985 charity single recorded by a supergroup of Canadian artists, under the name Northern Lights, to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia.

This is the music video for Tears Are Not Enough, a 1985 charity single recorded by a supergroup of Canadian artists, under the name Northern Lights, to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. Included in this supergroup was Geddy Lee of Rush.

Geddy Lee appearance on Bob & Doug McKenzie 24th anniversary special. May 20, 2007 on the CBC.

A 19-second clip of Alex from the Snakes & Arrows making of documentary included on the MVI version.

A 40-second preview clip from the Snakes & Arrows making of documentary that will be included on the MVI version. This clip shows Geddy laying down vocals for Far Cry and Rush jamming on The Main Monkey Business

This is a video interview of Nick Raskulinecz found at Brightcove discussing Snakes & Arrows. The exact time and place is not known.

Rush - Induction into the Juno Hall of Fame - 1994. Part 2 of 2.

Rush - Induction into the Juno Hall of Fame - 1994. Part 1 of 2.

On the set of the Gilmore girls on the Warner Brothers lot, Geddy Lee teaches actors Sebastian Bach (Gil) , Todd Lowe (Zach) , & John Cabrera (Brian) a vocal harmony.

Rush Order of Canada presentation ceremony - conducted on February 26, 1997

This is a clip from a 1980 interview with all 3 members. The full interview was included as an extra on the R30 DVD bonus disc.

This is the electronic press kit (epk) for Geddy Lee's solo album My Favorite Headache.

This is a 3-minute video of Neil Peart warming up from his A Work in Progress instructiional DVD

In a recent episode of E!'s The Soup, host Joel McHale makes fun of a Walgreen's ad featuring Celine Dion where Celine appears as a gift under a family's Christmas tree. After showing the ad, Joel says oh man! but I already have an annoying Canadian chick. A girl with a hockey jersey on then runs out and Joel makes some more remarks making fun of Canadians and says, speaking of Rush fans then breaks into a Geddy Lee falsetto and proclaims it's reality show clip time!.

From episode #87 of "The Family Guy" (Season 5, #7 - "Chick Cancer"). Chester Cheetah (the Cheetohs mascot) is snorting orange powder (presumably cheese) from a tray as if it were cocaine and listening to Tom Sawyer. After taking a big sniff, he says "There is no f**king drummer better than Neil Peart!" A Rush poster is also seen in the background.

John Petrucci talks about Alex Lifeson's influence on his playing style. From a Guitar World January 2007 interview.

Neil Peart performing Cotton Tail from the Making of Burning for Buddy documentary

The world's finest drummers came together with the Buddy Rich Big Band on October 14, 1989, to honor Buddy Rich. This is a clip of Neil Peart's drum solo from the show.

Another preview clip of the video game Guitar Hero 2, featuring Rush's YYZ - this one is the whole song and features both guitar parts

Alex Lifeson Artist of the Decade interview outtakes. This was an easter egg on the R30 dvd.

A preview clip of the video game Guitar Hero 2, featuring Rush's YYZ

The trailer for the Trailer Park Boys movie

These are a collection of Geddy Lee interview clips from the documentary movie, Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (http://www.metalhistory.com/). Geddy discusses the origins of heavy metal among other things.

In the same spirit that discovered Dark Side of the Rainbow (playing Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" while watching "The Wizard Of Oz"), someone discovered back in 1999 that if you play 2112 while watching Willy Wonka beginning at a point near the entrance into the factory cools things happen.

Neil Peart playing "Test for Echo" on drums from his A Work in Progress DVD

Geddy Lee sings the Canadian National Anthem at the 1993 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

Alex and Geddy plugging Vapor Trails in a commercial for a Brazilian store.

This is the video for Fire Eye'd Boy from Canadian indie rock group Broken Social Scene off their self-titled third album. The video features a humorous cameo from Geddy Lee.

This is the MTV Pop-Up Video for Limelight.

Part 4 of a Neil Peart appearance on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher from November 3, 1994 on Comedy Central.

Part 3 of a Neil Peart appearance on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher from November 3, 1994 on Comedy Central.

Part 2 of a Neil Peart appearance on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher from November 3, 1994 on Comedy Central.

Part 1 of a Neil Peart appearance on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher from November 3, 1994 on Comedy Central.

Part 4 of a 1997 Neil Peart Interview from Live On Life with John Oakley where Neil discusses his many projects.

Part 3 of a 1997 Neil Peart Interview from Live On Life with John Oakley where Neil discusses his many projects.

Part 2 of a 1997 Neil Peart Interview from Live On Life with John Oakley where Neil discusses his many projects.

Part 1 of a 1997 Neil Peart Interview from Live On Life with John Oakley where Neil discusses his many projects.

This is a Neil Peart Interview from 1997 that was shown on MuchMusic. It's one of the last live interviews that he's given; occurring not long before he suffered the dual tragedies of his daughter and wife dying within the span of a year.

This is a video of Alex Lifeson giving a tour of the "office" at his nightclub The Orbit Room.

This interview aired on 2/21/2003 on TechTV's The Screensavers. It's an interview conducted by Martin Sargent where they discuss their pioneering use of technology in their music and live shows.

In this clip Geddy Lee discusses J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and how it inspired the Rush song Rivendell. It's from the 2005 documentary film Ringers: Lord of the Fans.

In this video for the song "Sugarcube" the band (Yo La Tengo) is forced by their record company to go to "Rock School" to learn to be rock stars. About 2 minutes into the video the teacher reads the lyrics to "Closer To The Heart" to an outdoor class while holding the "A Farewell To Kings" album cover.

Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law episode #10, "Blackwatch Plaid". The alert level in the office is raised to "Moving Pictures", the highest level, and the Moving Pictures album cover is displayed.

DarkStar is a video game/'Interactive Movie' that will feature the music of Rush. This story sampler music features Rush's "One Little Victory". More information can be found at DarkStar.gs.

This is the scene from the 1999 movie SLC Punk toward the end of the film when Heroin Bob dies and Stevo flashes back to their teenage years at the funeral. Stevo and Bob are playing D&D and listening to The Trees. Bob questions the coolness of it all and of Rush. Stevo says "Rush is a very good band. Their music is very complex and the perfection.."

Neil Peart playing "Test for Echo" on drums from his A Work in Progress DVD

Rush, Bubbles from the Trailer Park Boys and Ed Robertson of The Barenaked Ladies perform Rush's Closer to the Heart for the CBC's tsunami relief telethon from Jan. 13, 2005

This is a clip from the movie School of Rock where Jack Black's character is handing out cds to the kids for inspiration. For the drummer he gives Rush's 2112 and says, "Rush, 2112. Neil Peart, one of the great drummers of all time, study up."

This clip is from the short-lived TV show Freaks and Geeks. It's the opening of episode #105 - "I'm with the Band". It has Nick in his basement singing and playing drums along with Rush's "The Spirit of Radio".

Here's a live performance of Bubbles from the Trailer Park Boys performing "Closer to the Heart" at The Puck Bunny Charity Ball in Vancouver, BC which was held on Feb. 4, 2006.

Bubbles and company from The Trailer Park Boys auction off the guitar that "Liquor and Whores" and "Closer to The Heart" was played on at The Puck Bunny Charity Ball in Vancouver, BC which was held on Feb. 4, 2006.

This is a video clip of "Run Willie Run" with Alex Lifeson on guitar with an unknown vocalist in the 1972 film Come on Children. Apparently filmed in 1971, this movie contains the oldest known recorded performance of Alex Lifeson. In the film, Alex performs "Run Willie Run", a Rush original written in 1969, on acoustic guitar with an unknown co-actor providing the vocals.

This video combines several live-action roleplaying clips with other random footage (including Triumph the Insult Dog) and displays the "nerdiness" of Dungeons & Dragons. The music is appropriately Rush's Subdivisions.

This humorous video piece is from the CBC's Rick Mercer report and aired in January of 2004. In it Geddy Lee gives some togogganing safety tips. "... small children and people worried about their brain should always wear a helmet..."

Here is an excerpt from a Canadian TV show from the 80s called Picture Comes to Life. In it they discuss the making of Rush's The Big Money music video which, at the time, used state of the art video animation.

Back in late 1989 Alex Lifeson and several other heavy metal and hard rock artists gathered for a humanitarian project to raise money to help those affected by the December 7th, 1988 earthquake in Gyumri, Armenia. It was called Rock Aid Armenia - The Earthquake Album and was released in 1990. It consisted of original tracks by the bands of the different contributors (including The Spirit of Radio from Rush) and this popular re-recording of one of Deep Purple's famous hit songs "Smoke on the water".

A scene from The Trailer Park Boys: "Closer To The Heart" (season 3, episode 5, aired May 18th, 2003): "Bubbles is so devastated about not getting tickets to the RUSH concert that Ricky decides to bring Alex Lifeson (played by Alex Lifeson) to the park to perform a private concert." This is the scene where Ricky kidnaps Alex.

The Trailer Park Boys: "Closer To The Heart" (season 3, episode 5, aired May 18th, 2003): "Bubbles is so devastated about not getting tickets to the RUSH concert that Ricky decides to bring Alex Lifeson (played by Alex Lifeson) to the park to perform a private concert."