Posted on 10/13/2021 5:21:23 AM PDT by mylife
Surviving Rush members said they were "speechless" after seeing a video of the Ohio State University Marching Band performing the music of the influential Canadian prog-rockers over the weekend.
The Buckeyes' tribute happened at halftime on Saturday (Oct. 9) during their home game against the Maryland Terrapins in Columbus, Ohio.
The marching band added extra drums in honor of the late Neil Peart, the Rush drummer who died last year. The percussion section used 20 more toms and 20 more cymbals than usual, with the percussion players at the front of the group, per Ohio State News.
The Buckeyes played several classic Rush tunes during the showcase, called "The Music of Rush," including "Tom Sawyer, "Red Barchetta," and "Fly by Night." At one point, the marching band moved together to spell out "2112" and "YYZ," the titles of two other Rush songs.
One formation replicated Rush's guitar parts as the bolstered percussion section, led by the band's five percussion alternates for the week, drummed away in celebration of Peart.
Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson seemed pleased with the tribute, retweeting a video excerpt of it on Saturday. "We're speechless," they remarked, adding hand clap emojis.
The Buckeyes' football team, currently ranked sixth in the nation, beat Maryland 66-17.
In other Rush news, Lifeson last week revealed that he may be done with extensive touring. Lee got out of the pandemic blues by starting on his memoir.
I’m a dirt bike guy but OK
New World Man is one of my favourites too. I see allusions to the Kent State incident, but also to the present crisis. America was “wise enough to win the world” but the present occupants of the White House and Congress seem “fool enough to lose it”. To answer President Trump’s question, the Democrats and their leftist fellow travellers in the MSM, Big Tech and Academia are “tired of [America] winning”. Their policies are not inadvertently destroying the country, that is their intended purpose.
“ I am not sure if Mr Lee is conservative or liberal, but the lyrics to ‘The Trees’ are an indictment of communism.”
Sorry, I get more Das Kapital than Animal Farm from that and other songs.
Yes, it is a very evocative song...
http://stuffnobodycaresabout.com/2019/12/15/what-is-the-song-the-trees-by-rush-really-about/
That was amazing.
BFLR
I understand. But if you don’t stay young, ya get old.
Heh, I have decided to embrace my codgeriness...
My wife is forcing me to go have a hearing test, so maybe I’ll get two big flesh colored ones, one behind each ear...:)
I’m aware that Neil Peart (RIP) wrote the lyrics.
I was unaware of his affection for Ayn Rand…but happy to hear about it.
Even more happy to hear the story from him about the lyrics to Trees!
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