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Geddy and Alex Send a Message to Rush Fans [4:47]
YouTube ^ | October 6, 2025 | Rush

Posted on 10/06/2025 12:07:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: Telepathic Intruder
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.

In other words, the AOC/Mamdani regime - God forbid!

41 posted on 10/06/2025 12:58:52 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Red Badger

I saw them during their tour in support of Works. Or rather, it started as that. Turns out, it costs a fortune to tour with a full orchestra, especially when the venues aren’t full. They did Tarkus in entire (I’m more of a Trilogy guy), and pretty much had to do “Fanfare for the Common Man”, using the recording of the intro. We were so close, we could see E and L exchanging “what have we become” looks as they stood there while the tape rolled.


42 posted on 10/06/2025 1:00:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Time Stand Still.


43 posted on 10/06/2025 1:02:46 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: montag813

Before I retired I worked with an arch Todd fan (she’s a couple years older) who went to see him at a Grand Rapids venue (I think it was 20 Monroe, more of a club atmosphere), she said he still sings great. I’ve seen him, uh, hmm, three times, but the last time was over 40 years ago. 🎵


44 posted on 10/06/2025 1:02:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Red Badger

So did I and 24 more times after that


45 posted on 10/06/2025 1:03:17 PM PDT by NavyShoe
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To: crusty old prospector

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FL7SWLMTM4

lyrics:
https://www.rush.com/songs/time-stand-still/


46 posted on 10/06/2025 1:06:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: God luvs America

Nice! What a great memory.


47 posted on 10/06/2025 1:07:20 PM PDT by NavyShoe
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Not to mention Ayan Rand.
48 posted on 10/06/2025 1:09:32 PM PDT by NavyShoe
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To: SunkenCiv

When I saw them, there was a problem with the sound and electricals.

It kept interrupting the show until finally one of them threw their guitar way up in the air and it crashed and busted into several pieces.

After about ten minutes the problems were fixed.........................


49 posted on 10/06/2025 1:17:13 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: NavyShoe

I think I’ve heard that before, I just forgot.


50 posted on 10/06/2025 1:18:13 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: SunkenCiv
Neal was their lyricist, which rarely happens. Maybe Dave Clark...

Karen Carpenter. Singer, lyricist... drummer. I'm Sirius.

51 posted on 10/06/2025 1:21:45 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: SunkenCiv
My high school band just want ed to be Rush…and Zeppelin.
I could improvise through the guitar solos pretty good but we could never find a Bonham or Peart so yeah….we had fun, drank a lot and smoked a lot.

Now I get a headache thinking about it.

The two guys getting back on stage is totally cool.
I caught their last tour through, and it was so nice how they got back to more of their roots.
There is a lot of it on youtube.

If they are smart they stay away from political issues.

They were libs back when libs could still be cool.

52 posted on 10/06/2025 1:23:28 PM PDT by right way right (“May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: Red Badger

Saw ELP in Spokane, Brain Salad Surgery tour. Incredible! Had to have been before 1976, that’s when I graduated from Gonzaga.


53 posted on 10/06/2025 1:35:18 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Fledermaus

Neil Peart did not join the band until the album 2112.

Rush was very big in Buffalo, where I grew up.
Mostly because we listened to the radio stations from across the lake from Toronto, their hometown. A lot of the Toronto radio stations broadcast from the top of the CN tower. So, they had a much bigger range than the stations in Buffalo.

Rush was big in all the blue collar rust belt cities around the Great lakes. They were huge in Cleveland. Everyone could identify with “Working Man”. “Seems to me I could live my life, a lot better than I think I can, that’s why they call me the working man!”


54 posted on 10/06/2025 1:48:53 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Sirius Lee

Don Henley, singer, lyricist, drummer

Phil Collins, singer, lyricist, drummer after that Peter Gabriel left the band.


55 posted on 10/06/2025 1:51:38 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

Big fan of middle period Phil.


56 posted on 10/06/2025 1:54:00 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Neil Peart did not join the band until the album 2112

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Neil was in the band on Fly by Night (1975) and Caress of Steel (1975). The first album (RUSH - 1973) is the one with John Rutsey.


57 posted on 10/06/2025 2:03:04 PM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: montag813

I find it amazing how many people I have known that “survived the holocaust”

it is almost like the germans were not actually trying to kill the jews


58 posted on 10/06/2025 2:06:22 PM PDT by algore
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To: God luvs America

NOTHING beats Alex Lifeson’s “Blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah” acceptance speech.


59 posted on 10/06/2025 2:09:15 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: 1Old Pro
He had a stand up piano/organ and he would rock the thing back and forth to get all this crazy sound.

A Hammond B3. I saw them in Boston (1979?). To end the show. Keith Emerson picked the thing up and smashed it to pieces. What a racket that made. Good times.

60 posted on 10/06/2025 2:14:30 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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