Bi-Sexual Editor of Rolling Stone and head of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Jann Wenner has said Rush will never get in under his watch because they have not contributed anything to rock and roll other than Tom Sawyer. As a fan of this band...this is our thorn. 40 million records sold worlwide and one of the top ten grossing tours this year not to mention a #3 Billboard debut.
I wouldn’t worry about him. He’ll probably die of some STD before they release their next record. You only have to watch their concert from Brazil to understand that hearing tens of thousands of people singing YYZ has had a more profound effect on music than anything RS has ever printed.
Period.
On Rush:
Maybe a bit late on this thread, but I'll chime in anyways.
Rush is a band which I got into when they were just breaking big, "Permanent Waves" was the album, and I saw them live and close up at the Paramount Theater in NYC (formerly Academy of Music, now a dorm building for NYU) ... they were good, they were hot, they were ROCK n ROOL (!!!!)
I was in a band, playing guitar at the time .. and we did Rush tunes "Hemispheres", "The Trees", "2112", "Circumstances", "Passage to Bankok"(-5sp?), and of course "Spirit of Radio" ... eeenywees, Rush was the best thing to come along in Rock since the Disco crap blew its last line of cocaine ...
Fast forward, 28 years later ... I went to a Rush concert this past summer, and they STILL ROCK !!! Geddy's bass was actually shaking the venue(!), something which I haven't experienced at a concert in decades! It used to be when a rock band played you'd be thrown back from the power of the bass, but not anymore ... Geddy turned this around and just pounded out the most magnificently powerful Bass riffs that I've experienced in decades!
All in all it was a happy experience .. Rock n ROOL is back (not that it ever went away:) The RnR HOF is a complete joke, how could they *not* have Alice Cooper, Moody Blues, or YES, or ELP, or Genesis in there? What a joke !