I first heard Rush when he was in Sacramento, CA on KFBK. Listened once and was hooked. Also, he described how he quit smoking, cold turkey by listing all the BENEFITS of quittIng. Until then all we heard were the DANGERS. Right then and there I quit after being a smoker for 50 years. Later I listened to him up in Reno, NV.
I loved the way he would vigorously shake a piece of paper with a story printed on it right next to the microphone. He’d go at it so hard you just KNEW the paper was going to be torn to bits, but it never did. Then he’d always say he was holding it in “my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.”