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Geddy and Alex Send a Message to Rush Fans | 4:47
Rush | 763K subscribers | over 166K views | October 6, 2025
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If you only heard Rush, you would never believe that those three guys could put out that much sound....and sound that sounds good.
I didn’t see AC/DC until, hmm, this century. Everyone was still alive and on the stage. I got a ticket, at the grocery store, then went over to pharmacy and got a box of earplugs.
I wore them. Glad I did. The show was completely enjoyable, heard everything, including my ribs rattling. Brian’s voice was and still is long gone, but boy, he can work a crowd.
Prior to that, the loudest show I ever went to was early 90s, the Black Crowes, and the ringing in my ears from that one went away a year ago Christmas.
1978... I saw a number of shows, mostly the folk acts that came through, but ELP... right up front on the left end of the stage, Emerson would have been enjoyable even without sound. What a keyboardist.
The Seeker (Rush cover the Who)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ueU7HCB26Q
BOTH his parents were:
Geddy Lee
He was born Gary Lee Weinrib on July 29, 1953, in Willowdale, Toronto, to Morris Weinrib (born Moshe Meir Weinrib; 1920–1965) from Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland; and Mary "Manya" Rubinstein (born Malka Rubinstein; 1925–2021), who was also from Poland: born in Warsaw and later raised in Wierzbnik.
His parents were Jewish Holocaust survivors from Poland who had survived the ghetto in Starachowice (where they met), followed by their imprisonments at Auschwitz and later Dachau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps during the Holocaust and World War II. They were in their teens when they were initially imprisoned at Auschwitz.
"It was kind of surreal pre-teen shit", says Lee, describing how his father bribed guards to bring shoes to his mother. After a period, his mother was transferred to Bergen-Belsen and his father to Dachau. When the war ended four years later, and the Allies liberated the camps, Morris set out in search of Manya and found her at a Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. They married there and eventually emigrated to Canada.
I saw them too! One of the best concerts I ever attended..............Brain Salad Surgery Tour!...............
Same. Great live band.
Their first 3 albums (re-released in a 3 album set) were basic hard rock. I don’t think Peart was with them then.
Working Man is a good one.
Peart was a fan of Ayn Rand. "Red Barchetta" is a paean to personal freedom and property in the face of (leftist) government control which one could still imagine coming true in the not-so-distant future if Democrats get complete control.
Wasn’t his mother a holocaust survivor??
Both his parents. Geddy goes in depth on the subject in his autobiography.
He had a stand up piano/organ and he would rock the thing back and forth to get all this crazy sound. I think that when he learned he could no longer play a few years ago he got very depressed....
Which makes it really funny that some called Rush a “Fascist” band, because Neil was into Ayn Rand at the time.
She is smoking hot, too!
Saw them once. That was enough.
I won’t travel far, but have never seen them live, and kinda want to now. Some major acts begin their tours in Grand Rapids because they know no one who’s widely studied will be there to write a review. 😎
Whoops, I was trying to reply to all in thread, mea culpa!
Their new (female) drummer was also Jeff Beck’s last tour drummer.
After ELP konked out years ago, probably after Emerson Lake & Powell didn’t work out, there was a story around that said E was trying to reassemble The Nice, which was the same kind of personnel (with Lee Jackson bass & vocals, uh, Davison on drums). I don’t think that took place.
Yes, I heard “Red Barchetta” is based on a real book. It has a futuristic sci-fi theme to it. In it, the “motor law” made internal combustion engines illegal, and the protagonist is a rebel who secretly drives an old car along country roads and almost gets caught.
I’m grateful that I saw Jeff Beck. That was in the late 90s I think, it was entirely instrumental. That show has really stuck with me, despite not having a clue what was played. 😊
Yeah Todd Rundgren is similar. He will play 90% of things you don't know, and still be blown away.
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