Rush is a Canadian rock band consisting of Geddy Lee (bass, vocals, keyboards), Alex Lifeson (guitar) and Neil Peart (drums, percussion, lyrics). Formed in 1968, the band went through several configurations until arriving in the longest and most popular line-up when Peart replaced the original drummer John Rutsey in July 1974, two weeks before the group's first United States tour.
Rush is known for his music, complex compositions, and eclectic lyrical motifs that depend heavily on science fiction, fantasy, and philosophy. The band's musical style has changed several times over the years, from the early hard rock-inspired blues, then moves to progressive rock, and includes periods characterized by the use of large synthesizers. In the early 1990s, Rush returned to the guitar-driven hard rock sound, which continued for the rest of their careers.
According to the RIAA, Rush ranked 86th with sales of 25 million units in the US Although total worldwide album sales are not counted by a single entity, some industry sources estimate total worldwide album sales of Rush in more than 65 million units per 2017. awarded 24 gold, 14 platinum, and 3 multi-platinum albums.
Rush has received nominations for seven Grammy Awards. The band has won several Juno Awards, won the International Achievement Award at the 2009 SOCAN Awards, inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. Upon their career, Rush members have been recognized as some of the most proficient players on their respective instruments, with each band member winning numerous awards in a magazine reader poll. Rush announced plans to stop a large-scale tour by the end of 2015. After nearly three years of uncertain future, Lifeson reluctantly declared in January 2018 that the band was over.
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1968-1976: Blues dan hard rock tahun
The original line-up was formed in the Willowdale neighborhood in Toronto, Ontario, by guitarist Alex Lifeson, bassist and forward Jeff Jones, and drummer John Rutsey on September 18, 1968. Within a few weeks of formation, and before their second performance, bassist and lead vocalist Jones leaving the band and being replaced by Geddy Lee, a Lifeson classmate. After several line-up reforms, Rush's official incarnation formed in May 1971 consisting of Lee, Lifeson, and Rutsey. The name "Rush" is suggested by brother John Rutsey, Bill. The band is managed by Toronto local resident Ray Danniels, who often attends Rush's early performances.
After getting stability in the line-up and honing their skills at local bars and high school dance circuits, band members released their first single "Not Fade Away", a cover of Buddy Holly's song, in 1973. Side B contains the original composition, "You Can not Fight It ", credited to Lee and Rutsey. The single reaction generated was minimal (# 99 on the RPM chart) and, due to the indifference of the record company, the band formed their own independent record label, Moon Records.
With the help of Danniels and newly registered engineer Terry Brown, the band released their self-titled debut album in 1974, which is considered very derivative of Led Zeppelin. Rush has limited local popularity until the album was taken by WMMS, a radio station in Cleveland, Ohio. Donna Halper, a music director and DJ working at the station, chose "Working Man" for her regular playlist. The blue collar theme song echoed with hard rock fans, and this new popularity caused the album to be re-released by Mercury Records in the US.
Soon after the release of her debut album, Rutsey left the band due to health difficulties derived from diabetes and her dislike for the tour. His last appearance with the band was on July 25, 1974, at Centennial Hall in London, Ontario. Rush auditioned for a new drummer and chose Neil Peart as Rutsey's successor. Peart officially joined the band on July 29, 1974, two weeks before the group's first US tour. They performed their first concert together, opening for Uriah Heep and Manfred Mann with the attendance of over 11,000 people at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 14th. In addition to being the band's drummer, Peart assumed the role of main lyricist Lee, who had little interest in writing, despite having written the band's first album lyrics. Lee and Lifeson focused primarily on the instrumental aspects of Rush. Fly by Night (1975), Rush's first album after recruiting Peart, saw the entry of the band's first "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" mini-tale, full of complex and multi-part format settings. The lyrical themes also undergo dramatic changes due to Peart's love for fantasy and science fiction literature. Despite these differences, some music and songs still reflect the blues style found on Rush's debut.
The band followed Fly by Night quickly with Caress of Steel (1975), a five-song album featuring two extended multi-chore songs, "The Necromancer" and " The Fountain of Lamneth ". Some critics say Caress of Steel is unfocused and bold moves for the band due to the placement of two protracted back-to-back songs, as well as a heavier reliance on atmosphere and story-telling, a major deviation of Fly by Night . Aimed at being a break-through band album, Caress of Steel was sold below expectations and the promotional tour consisted of smaller places, which led to the "Bottom Tube Tour" moniker.
Given this event, Russel's record label tries to suppress its members to make the next album in a more friendly and commercially accessible way; the band ignored the request and developed the next album 2112 with the title song 20 minutes divided into seven sections. Nonetheless, this album is the first taste of the band's first commercial success and their first platinum album in Canada. The support tour culminated in a three-night stand at Massey Hall in Toronto, which the band recorded for the release of their first live album, All the World's a Stage . AllMusic critic Greg Prato noted the album demarcates the line between the band's early years and the next era of their music.
1977-1981: The Progressive Era
After 2112 , Rush went to Great Britain to record A Farewell to Kings (1977) and Hemispheres (1978) at Rockfield Studios in Wales. The album sees the band members expanding the progressive elements in their music. "As our tastes become increasingly unclear," Lee said in an interview, "we found more progressive rock-based bands such as Yes, Van der Graaf Generator and King Crimson, and we are very inspired by the bands. want to make our music more interesting and more complex and we try to blend it with our own personality to see what we can find with our undeniable. "Increased synthesizer usage, long songs, and highly dynamic games featuring changes to the mark Complex time becomes the subject of Rush compositions. To achieve a wider and more progressive sound, Lifeson began experimenting with classical guitars and twelve strings, and Lee added bass-pedal and Minimoog synthesizers. Likewise, Peart percussion varies in triangles, glockenspiel, wooden beams, cowbells, tympani, gongs, and bells. In addition to the additional instruments, the band still goes with progressive rock trends by continuously composing long and conceptual songs with science fiction and fantasy nuances. As the new decade gets closer, Rush gradually begins to discard older styles of music for shorter and sometimes softer settings. The lyrics to this point are heavily influenced by classical poetry, fantasy literature, science fiction, and writings of novelist Ayn Rand, as exhibited most prominently by the 1975 "Anthem" song of Fly By Night and the acknowledged derivation at 2112 (1976).
Permanent Wave (1980) changed the style of Rush music by introducing reggae and new wave elements. Although the hard rock style is still evident, more synthesizers are introduced. In addition, due to the limited duration of long songs played by Airplay Rush, Permanent Wave shortens, more radio-friendly songs like "The Spirit of Radio" and "Freewill", the two songs help Permanent Waves be Rush Top 5's first album in Rush. Meanwhile, Peart's lyrics shifted toward expository tones with less subject matter at fantastic or allegorical storytelling and more weight on topics that explored humanistic, social, and emotional elements. Rush joined fellow Toronto rock band Max Webster on July 28, 1980, to record "Battle Scar" for their 1980 release, Universal Juveniles . The lyricist Max Webster Pye Dubois offers the band lyrics on the song he wrote. Band received; the song continued, after being reworked by Peart, into "Tom Sawyer".
Rush's popularity culminated with the release of Movie Pictures in 1981. Moving Pictures basically continued where Permanent Waves abandoned, expanding accessible trends. and commercial-friendly progressive rock that helped push them into the spotlight. The main song, "Tom Sawyer", is probably the band's most famous song with "Limelight" also received a satisfactory response from listeners and radio stations. Moving Draw is Rush's last album to feature an extended song, eleven minutes "The Camera Eye". The song also contains the band's heaviest synthesizer usage, hinting Rush's music shifted once more. Moving Pictures reached No. 3 on the Billboard album chart 200 and has been certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Following the success of Moving Images and after completing four other studio albums, Rush released the second live recording, Exit... Left Stage , in 1981.
1982-1989: Era-oriented Synthesizer
The band underwent another style change with the recording of Signal in 1982. While Lee's synthesizer has been shown the instrument since the late 1970s, the keyboard suddenly shifts from the contrapril background to the melodic frontline on songs like "Count Backward "and the opening track" Subdivision ". Both feature leading lead synthesizer lines with minimalist and solo guitar chords. The addition of another previously unused instrument is seen in the song "Losing It", which features Ben Mink's collaborators on the electric violin.
Signal also represents a drastic style transformation apart from instrumental changes. The album contains only US Rush's top-40 hit, "New World Man", while other experimental songs such as "Digital Man", "The Weapon", and "Chemistry" expand the use of ska, reggae, and funk bands. Although the band members consciously decided to move towards this whole, creative differences between the band and the old producer Terry Brown began to emerge. The band was dissatisfied with Brown's studio treatment of Signal , while Brown became more uncomfortable with the increasing use of synthesizers in music. In the end, Rush and Brown split up in 1983, and experiments with new electronic instruments and various musical styles will come to play further in the next studio album.
Style and production Signals are added and brought to new heights at Grace Under Pressure (1984). It was Peart who named the album, when he borrowed Ernest Hemingway's words to describe what the band had to go through after making the decision to leave Terry Brown. Producer Steve Lillywhite, who gained fame with the successful production of Simple Minds and U2, is registered to produce Grace Under Pressure . He retreated at the last moment, however, much to the anger of Lee, Lifeson and Peart. Lee said "Steve Lillywhite really is not a man of his words... after agreeing to do our records, he gets an offer from Simple Minds, change his mind, blow us... so that puts us in a terrible position." Rush eventually hired Peter Henderson to work together and fabricate his album.
Musically, although the use of Lee's sequencer and synthesizer remains the cornerstone of the band, his focus on new technology comes with Peart's adaptation of Simmons's electronic drums and percussion. Lifeson's contribution on the album clearly improved, in response to the minimalist role he played on Signals . However, much of the trademark guitar texture remains intact in the form of open reggae chords and funk and rhythm of new waves.
With new producer Peter Collins, the band released Power Windows (1985) and Hold Your Fire (1987). The music on both albums gave a much bigger and prominent emphasis on Lee's multi-layered synthesizer work. While fans and critics pay attention to Lifeson's reduced guitar work, his presence is still noticeable. Lifeson, like many guitarists in the mid to late 1980s, experimented with processors that reduced their instruments to echo chord and thin lead explosions. Hold Your Fire represents both the extensions of the guitar stylings found in Power Windows , and, according to Allmusic critic Eduardo Rivadavia, the culmination of this Rush era. While Rush's five previous albums sold platinum or better, Hold Your Fire only became gold in November 1987, despite reaching its peak at number 13 on Billboards 200.
The third live album and video, A Show of Hands (1989), also released by Anthem and Mercury after Power Windows and Hold Your Fire tours, demonstrated aspects of Rush in the '80s. A Show of Hands met with the approval of a strong fan, but Rolling Stone critic Michael Azerrad dismissed it as "muscle music" with 1.5 stars, claiming Rush fans saw a trio of favorite powers they are "sacred trinity". However, A Show of Hands successfully surpassed the gold album's mark, reaching number 21 on Billboard 200. At this point, the group decided to change the international record label from Mercury. to the Atlantic. After Rush's departure in 1989, Mercury released a two-volume two-platinum compilation of their Rush catalog, Chronicles (1990).
1989-2002: Return to voice-oriented guitar , hiatus
Rush began to deviate from the 1980s style with the album Presto and Roll the Bones . Produced by recording engineer and musician Rupert Hine, these two albums saw Rush shed a lot of his keyboard-saturated sound. Beginning with Presto (1989), the band chose settings primarily more centered on the guitar than the previous two studio albums. Although the synthesizer is still used in many songs, this instrument is no longer displayed as a center of Rush composition. Continuing this trend, Roll the Bones (1991) extended the use of the three standard instrument approach with less focus on the synthesizer than its predecessor. While the music of this album does not deviate significantly from popular pop-rock sounds, Rush incorporates other musical style traces. "Bone Rolls", for example shows funk and hip hop elements, and the instrumental track "Where's My Thing?" features some jazz components. This return to the three-piece instrumentation helps pave the way for future albums, which will adopt a more streamlined rock formula.
The transition from the synthesizer to the more guitar-oriented and organic instrumentation followed by Counterparts (1993) and its follow-up, Test for Echo (1996), again both of which resulted in a collaboration with Peter Collins. Up to this point, Counterparts and Test For Echo are two of Rush's most-driven albums. The last album also incorporated jazz and swing-style drum elements by Peart, which he had learned from Freddie Gruber during the interim between Counterparts and Test For Echo. In October 1996, to support Test for Echo, the band embarked on a North American tour, the band was first without an opening and was dubbed "An Evening with Rush". The tour was split into two segments covering October to December 1996 and May to July 1997.
After the conclusion of the 1997 Test tour of Test for Echo, the band entered its five-year absence mainly due to personal tragedies in Peart's life. Princess Peart, Selena died in a car accident in August 1997, followed by the death of his wife Jacqueline due to cancer in June 1998. Peart took a hiatus to mourn and contemplate, where he traveled extensively throughout North America on his BMW motorcycle, covering 88,000 Ã, km (55.000Ã, mi). At some point in his journey, Peart decided to return to the band. The Ghost Rider Peart Book: The Journey on Healing Road is the travel record. In the book, he writes about how he told his band friends at Selena's funeral, "assuming I'm retired". On November 10, 1998, a three-disc live album titled Different Stages was released, dedicated to the memory of Selena and Jacqueline. Mixed by producer Paul Northfield and engineered by Terry Brown, he performed performances recorded from the Counterparts band, Test for Echo, and A Farewell to Kings. tour, marking the band's fourth live album.
After a period of sadness and recovery, and while visiting Rush's long-time photographer, Andrew MacNaughtan in Los Angeles, Peart was introduced to his future wife, photographer Carrie Nuttall. Peart married Nuttall on 9 September 2000. In early 2001 he announced to his bandmates that he was ready to once again enter the studio and return to the music-making business.
2002-2009 : Back, Vapor Path , and Snake & amp; Arrow
With the help of producer Paul Northfield, the band returned in May 2002 with Vapor Trails , written and recorded in Toronto. To welcome the band's comeback, the single and lead tracks of the album, "One Little Victory", are designed to attract the attention of listeners with their fast guitar tempo and drums. Vapor Trails marks the first Rush studio recordings that did not include a keyboard or synthesizer since Caress of Steel , released 27 years earlier. While the album is almost completely driven by guitars, most lack the traditional guitar solos, a conscious decision by Lifeson. According to the band, the entire development process for Vapor Trails is very heavy and takes about 14 months to complete, so far the longest band ever spent writing and recording studio albums. The album was supported by the band's first tour in six years, including the first concert in Mexico City and Brazil, where they played for most of the biggest crowds of their careers.
A live album and DVD, Rush in Rio , released in late October 2003 featured the entire concert performance recorded on November 23, 2002, at the MaracanÃÆ'Â £ Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event was the last of the Vapor Trails Tour. To celebrate the band's 30th anniversary, June 2004 saw the release of Feedback , an extended drama recorded on the outskirts of Toronto featuring eight artist covers such as Cream, The Who and The Yardbirds, bands Rush members cite as inspiration around their early time. To help support Feedback and continue to celebrate their 30th anniversary as a band, Rush hit the road again for their 30th Anniversary Tour in the summer of 2004 while playing in the United States, Canada, UK , Germany, Italy, Sweden, Czech Republic, and the Netherlands. On September 24, 2004, the concert at The Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany was filmed for a DVD titled R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour, which was released on November 22, 2005. This release eliminates eight songs also included in Rush in Rio ; a complete concert was released on Blu-ray on December 8, 2009.
During the promotional interview for DVD R30, band members expressed their intention to start writing new material in early 2006. While in Toronto, Lifeson and Lee started the songwriting process in January 2006. During this time, Peart simultaneously assumed his role in writing lyrics while living in Southern California. In the following September, Rush chose to hire American producer Nick Raskulinecz to co-produce the album. The band officially entered Allaire Studios in Shokan, New York in November 2006 to record most of the material. Taking the band five weeks, the session ends in December. On February 14, 2007, an announcement was made on Rush's official website that the new album title was Snake & amp; Arrow . The first single, entitled "Far Cry", was released to North American radio stations on March 12, 2007 and reached No.2 in Mediagram Mainstream and Radio and Note Charts.
The newly redesigned Rush website on March 12, 2007 to support the new album, also announced the band will start the tour starting in the summer. Snake & amp; Arrows was released May 1, 2007 in North America, where it debuted at No. 3 on Billboard 200 with approximately 93,000 units sold within the first week. It will continue to sell about 611,000 copies worldwide. Coinciding with the start of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season, "Spindrift" was released as the second official radio single on June 1, 2007, while "The Larger Bowl (A Pantoum)" saw its sole status on June 25, 2007. "The Bigger Bowl" peaked in the top 20 from the Billboard Mainstream Rock and Media Base Mainstream graphs, but "Spindrift" failed to show up on any commercial chart. Intercontinental Tour planned to support Snake & amp; The arrow starting on June 13, 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia, will end on October 29, 2007 at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland.
Section 2008 of Snake & amp; Arrows tour began on April 11, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico at the Josà © Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, and closed on July 24, 2008 in Noblesville, Indiana at Verizon Wireless Music Center. On April 15, 2008, the band released Snakes & amp; Arrows Live, a double live album documenting the first leg of the tour, was recorded in Ahoy arena in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on 16 and 17 October 2007. A DVD and Blu-ray recording of the same concert was released on November 24, 2008. Video it also includes four songs added to the 2008 tour section, which were recorded at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Atlanta, Georgia.
As Rush approaches the conclusion of Snake & amp; Arrows tour, they announced their first appearance on American television in over 30 years. They appeared on The Colbert Report on July 16, 2008, where they were interviewed by Stephen Colbert and performed "Tom Sawyer". Continuing to ride a so-called film critic as a wave of pop culture, the band emerged as themselves in the 2009 I Love You, Man comedy film, starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel. 2009- 2018: Time Machine Tour,
On February 16, 2009, Lifeson said the band might start working on a new album in the fall of 2009 with American producer Nick Raskulinecz once again producing. In November 2009, Lee, Lifeson and Peart were awarded the International Achievement Award at the annual SOCAN Award in Toronto. On March 19, 2010, the CBC posted a video interview with Lee and Lifeson, where they discussed the induction of Rush into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on March 28, 2010, at the George Weston Retreat Center at the Toronto Center for Arts. The band is known for the songs "Limelight", "Closer to the Heart", "The Spirit of Radio", "Tom Sawyer" and "Subdivision". In addition to discussing their induction, Lee and Lifeson touch the material of the future, and Lee said, "Only about a month and a half ago we did not have a song and now we've written and now we have about 6 songs that we just love..." On March 26, 2010, in an interview with The Globe and Mail, Lifeson reiterated the band had written half a dozen songs and there was potential for two supporting tours, planned for Summer 2010 and a wider tour planned for Summer 2011. While still uncertain exactly how and when new material will be released, as he projects a tentative Spring 2011 release date. Soon after, Peart confirmed that Nick Raskulinecz has returned as a co-producer.
In April 2010, Rush entered Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee with Raskulinecz to record "Caravan" and "BU2B", two new songs to be featured on the band's studio album Clockwork Angels. Mixing was done by recording engineer Richard Chycki at Sound Kitchen in Franklin, Tennessee. "Karavan" was released June 1 to the radio station and is available for digital download today along with "BU2B". Lifeson's predictions from March are confirmed, and the first leg of the Time Machine Tour begins on June 29 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and ends October 17 in Santiago, Chile, at the National Stadium. It displays albums of Moving Pictures that are played as a whole, as well as "Caravan" and "BU2B". It is recommended that Rush return to the studio after the completion of the Time Machine Tour with plans to release Clockwork Angels in 2011. However, Rush announced on November 19, 2010 that they will extend the Time Machine Tour. The second leg starts on March 30, 2011, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and ends on July 2, 2011, in George, Washington. On November 8, 2011, the band released Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland , a concert DVD, Blu-ray and a double CD documenting the 15 April 2011 concert at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. After the second leg of the tour finished, Rush entered the Revolution Recording studio in Toronto, Ontario, to complete the recording of Clockwork Angels. The second single, "Headlong Flight", was released April 19, 2012. Peart and author Kevin J. Anderson collaborated on a Clockwork Angels novelization released in September 2012.
Clockwork Angels was released in the United States and Canada on June 12, 2012, and its Clockwork Angels Tour support began on September 7, 2012. On August 31, 2011, Rush shifted their American distribution from Atlantic Notes to Warner Brothers, metal labels owned majority, Roadrunner Records. Roadrunner handles American distribution of Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland and Clockwork Angels . Anthem/Universal Music will continue to release their music in Canada. On April 18, 2013, Rush was inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
During the Rush European journey of the Clockwork Angels Tour, the June 8, 2013 show at the Swedish Rock Festival is the group's first festival appearance in 30 years. The band's performance on November 25, 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona and November 28, 2012 in Dallas, Texas was recorded to create a live CD/DVD/Blu-ray which was released on November 19, 2013.
On November 18, 2013, guitarist Alex Lifeson said the band had committed to taking a year off, after the completion of the world tour to support Clockwork Angels. "We are committed to taking about a year off," says Lifeson. "We all agree when we finish this ('Clockwork Angels') tour (in early August) we will take this time off and we will not talk about bands or make plans.We commit for a year, so it will take us until the end of the season hot upcoming, definitely it's the minimum, We have not stopped or stopped, Right now we just relax, We do it easily and just enjoy our current job. "
In September 2014, the box set R40 was announced to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the release of a self-titled band debut album. This includes five previously released live video albums, as well as a variety of previously unreleased recordings of all the band's careers. On January 22, 2015, the band officially announced the Rush R40 Tour, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Neil Peart's drummer in the band. The tour starts on May 8th at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and closes on August 1 at The Forum in Los Angeles.
On April 29, 2015, Alex Lifeson stated in an R40 interview it may be Rush's last major tour due to psoriatic arthritis and chronic tendonitis Peart. He noted that it did not necessarily mean ending the band, suggesting the possibility of smaller tours and limited performances. He also said he wanted to work on the soundtrack with Geddy Lee. On December 7, 2015, Peart stated in an interview that he retired. The next day, Lee insisted that Peart's statement was out of context, and suggested he "just take a break". Lifeson confirmed in 2016 R40 tour is a massive tour of the last band. The band's latest documentary, Time Stand Still , was announced in November 2016.
On January 19, 2018, Lifeson said: "We have no plans for touring or recording anymore, we're basically finished, after 41 years, we feel that's enough."
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The style and influence of music
Rush's musical style has changed a lot over the years. His debut album was heavily influenced by British blues-based hard rock: a mixture of sound and style from rock bands such as Black Sabbath, Who, Cream and Led Zeppelin. Rush became increasingly influenced by British progressive rock movement bands, notably Genesis, Yes and Jethro Tull. In the progressive rock tradition, Rush wrote an extended song with irregular and shifting time tags, combined with fantasy lyrics and science-themed fiction. In the 1980s, Rush combined their voices with this period trend, experimenting with new waves, reggae and pop rock. This period includes the use of the most extensive band instruments such as synthesizers, sequencers, and electronic percussion. In the early 1990s, the band changed their style once more to harmonize with alternative rock movements.
band members
- End formation
- Geddy LeeÃ, - vocals, bass guitar, keyboard, synthesizer (September 1968-May 1969, September 1969-2015)
- Alex Lifeson - leads and rhythm guitars, vocals, synthesizers (1968-2015)
- Neil Peart - drums, percussion (1974-2015)
- Former member
- John Rutsey - drums, percussion, vocals (1968-1974, died 2008)
- Jeff JonesÃ, - bass guitar, vocals (August-September 1968)
- Lindy YoungÃ, - keyboard, vocals, rhythm and lead guitars, percussion, harmonica (January-July 1969)
- Joe PernaÃ, - bass guitar, vocals (May-July 1969)
- Mitchel BossiÃ, - rhythm and lead guitars, vocals (February-May 1971)
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Reputation and inheritance
Over 40 years of activity has provided Rush with an opportunity to diversify music throughout their discography. As many bands are known to experiment, change has certainly generated dissent among critics and fans. Most of the band's music has always included synthetic instruments, and this has been a source of contention among fans and critics, especially the band's heavy dependence on synthesizers and keyboards during the 1980s, especially on the Grace Under Pressure album < i> Power Windows , and Hold your Fire .
The members of Rush have recorded people "like Rush or hate Rush", which produces powerful detractors and a very loyal fan base. In 1979, the Rolling Stone Record Guide called it a "power boogie band for the magazine's 16th graders class. ." The article in July 2008 Rolling Stone states "Fans in a hurry is Trekkies/trekker rock". They have been cited as influences by various musical artists, including Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Fishbone, Foo Fighters, Jane's Addiction, Manic Street Preachers, Metallica, No Doubt, Pixies, Porcupine Tree, Primus, QueensrÃÆ'¿che, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith and Soundgarden as well as progressive metal bands like Meshuggah, Prototype, Dream Theater, Puya, Tool, Sinik, and Symphony X. Trent Reznor considers Rush as one of his favorite bands in a documentary 2010 Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage and has specifically cited album Signals as a major influence on how to combine keyboard and synthesizer into hard rock.
Rush qualified to be nominated for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame starting in 1998; the band was nominated for entry in 2012 and their induction was announced on December 11, 2012. The reason their previous exceptions might be their genre. USA Today writer Edna Gunderson criticized the Hall of Fame for excluding several genres, including progressive rock. Proponents mention band achievements including longevity, proficiency, and influence, as well as commercial sales figures and RIAA certifications. In the years before induction, Lifeson expressed his indifference to the little saying, "I do not care, look who's looking for induction, it's a joke".
On April 24, 2010, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage documentary, directed by Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. He went on to receive the Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award. The film explores the band's influence on popular music and the reason why it's underrepresented over the years. This was done through interviews with popular musicians, music industry professionals, and band members themselves.
On June 25, 2010, Rush received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6752 Hollywood Boulevard. Critical confidence continued to increase for Rush in 2010 when, on September 28, Classic Rock Magazine announced Rush would become this year's Living Legends awarded at the Marshall Classic Rock Roll of Honor Awards in the UK. The award was presented on November 10, 2010. On September 29th, Billboard.com announced that Rush will also receive the Legends of Live 2010 award for significant and lasting contributions to live music and art performing concerts and reaching fans through the concert experience. The award was presented at the Billboard Touring Awards on November 4, 2010.
The band members were made into Canadian Orders Officials in 1996. In May 2012, the band received the Governor-General Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Performance at a ceremony at Rideau Hall followed by a gala at the National Art Center that celebrated the awardees the following day. By 2017, band members have three new microbial species named in honor of them.
Geddy Lee
The high vocal style of Geddy Lee has always been the signature of the band - and occasionally a focal point for criticism, especially during the early years of Rush's career when Lee's vocals were high-pitched, with strong resemblance to other singers like Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin. A review in The New York Times expressed Lee's opinion "showing a munchkin giving a sermon". Although his voice has softened, it is often described as "lamentation". His instructional skills, on the other hand, are rarely criticized. He has cited Jeff Berlin, Jack Casady, John Entwistle, Jack Bruce and Chris Squire as bassists who have the greatest impact on his style of play. Lee's style, technique, and ability on bass guitar have influenced rock and heavy metal musicians, inspiring players including Steve Harris, John Myung, Les Claypool and Cliff Burton. Lee was able to operate various pieces of instrumentation simultaneously during the concert, most clearly when Lee played the bass and keyboard, sang, and triggered the foot pedal as in the song "Tom Sawyer".
Alex Lifeson
Lifeson as a famous guitarist for his signature riffing, electronic effects and processing, orthodox chord structures, and equipment warehouse used for many years.
During his teenage years, he was influenced by Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page. Lifeson incorporated a touch of Spanish and classical music into Rush's voice during the 1970s, reflecting his interest in progressive rock guitarists such as Steve Hackett and Steve Howe. To adapt to the widespread use of Lee's synthesizer in the 1980s, Lifeson took inspiration from guitarists like Andy Summers of The Police and The Edge of U2, who gave him a model to rethink the role of guitar in Rush music. Guitar Lifeson returned to the frontline in the 1990s, and especially on Vapor Trails (2002). During live performances, he is still responsible for various guitar effects, the use of bass-pedal synthesizers and backing vocals.
Neil Peart
Peart has been voted the biggest rock drummer by music fans, critics and fellow musicians, according to Drummerworld. He is also considered one of the best practitioners of the drum solo in concert. Originally inspired by Keith Moon, Peart absorbed the influence of other rock drummers from the 1960s and 1970s such as Ginger Baker, Carmine Appice, and John Bonham. The unusual merging of instruments (for rock drummers at the time) such as glockenspiel and tubular bells, along with some standard kit elements, helped to create highly variable settings. Constantly modified to this day, Peart drummer offers a large number of percussion instruments for sonic diversity. For two decades Peart honed his technique; each new Rush album introduces an expanded percussion vocabulary. In the 1990s, he rediscovered his style with the help of drummer Freddie Gruber.
Peart also serves as the main lyricist of Rush, drawing much attention over the years for his eclectic style. Known for writing concept suites and songs inspired by literature, music fans' opinions of his writing vary widely, running the whole of the cerebral and insightful to pretentious and preaching. During the band's early years, Peart's lyrics largely focused on fiction/science fiction, though since 1980 he has focused more on social, emotional, and humanitarian issues. In 2007, he was placed second in the magazine list of "40 Worst Lyrics Writers in the Rock" by Blender . Allmusic, but has called Peart "one of the most successful lyricists", Gibson.com describes Rush's lyrics as "great", and others believe that the lyrics are "brilliant".
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Sales
Rush has released 24 gold notes and 14 platinum notes (including 3 multi-platinum), placing them third behind the Beatles and Rolling Stones for the band's most consecutive gold or platinum studio album. In 2005, Rush sold about 25 million albums in the US (ranked 79th amongst the recordings) and 40 million worldwide. In 2012, Moving Pictures is the band's best-selling album (4.4 million units).
Though out of the public eye for five years after the gold sale of Test for Echo (which reached position 5 on the Billboard 200 chart) and the band were relegated almost solely to classic rock stations in the US, Vapor Trails reached No. 6 on Billboard 200 in its first week of release in 2002 with 108,000 albums sold. It has sold about 343,000 units to date. The next Vapor Trails tour resulted in gross revenues of over $ 24 million and included the largest audience ever to see a Rush headlining show: 60,000 fans at SÃÆ'Â £ Paulo, Brazil. Nevertheless, Vapor Trails remain their first album not to reach at least a gold status in the US.
The live triple-CD Rush album, Rush in Rio (2003), certified gold, marks the fourth decade in which Rush's album has been released and certified at least gold. In 2004, Feedback broke the top twenty on Billboard 200 and received a radio broadcast. 2007 band album, Snake & amp; Arrows , debuted at number 3 (only one position away from Rush's top peak album, Counterparts (1993) and Clockwork Angels (2012), both debuted at number 2) on Billboard 200, selling about 93,000 the first week of its release. This marks the 13th studio album appearing in the Top 20 and the band's 27th album appears on the charts. The album also debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Top Rock Album chart, and, when the album was released in MVI format a month later, peaked at number 1 on the Top Internet Albums chart.
Supported tour Snake & amp; Arrows in 2007 and 2008 earned $ 21 million and $ 18.3 million, respectively, resulting in Rush number 6 and 8th place among summer rock concerts.
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Live show
The members of Rush share a strong work ethic, wanting to accurately re-create songs from their albums while playing live shows. To achieve this goal, starting in the late 1980s, Rush has incorporated large digital rack samplers in their concert equipment to recreate the sound of non-traditional instruments, companions, vocal harmonies, and other voice "events" in real-time matching sounds on studio version of the songs. In live performances, band members share assignments in most of the songs. Each member has one or more MIDI controllers, which are loaded with different sounds for each song, and uses available limbs to trigger sound while simultaneously playing their main instrument. With this technology the group is able to present their settings in a straightforward setting with the level of complexity and loyalty fans have come to expect, and without the need to use backing tracks or hiring additional band members. The use of pedal keyboards coordinated by band members and other electronic triggers to "play" sample instruments and audio shows is subtly seen in their live performances, especially on the R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour, their 2005 concert DVD.
The highlight of Rush's concert is Neil Peart's drum solo. Solo Peart drums include a basic framework of routines connected by the improvisation section, making each appearance unique. Each successive tour sees a more advanced solo, with some routines dropping for the newer, more complex. Since the mid-1980s, Peart has used MIDI trigger pads to trigger sample sounds from various acoustic percussion pieces that will take up too much of the stage area, such as marimba, harp, temple block, triangle, glockenspiel, orchestra, tubular bells, and vibraslap and percussion others are more esoteric.
One prominent feature of the Rush concert is the props on stage, at a point called diversion. These props may include washing machines or animations and rubber bunnies emerging from the gigantic cap behind the band.
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Philanthropy
Rush actively participates in philanthropic. The band is one of the few favorite places in the village to play Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto, also dubbed SARStock, at Downsview Park in Toronto on July 30, 2003, with the presence of over half a million people. The concert was intended to benefit the Toronto economy after the SARS outbreak earlier in the year. The band also has an interest in promoting human rights. They donated $ 100,000 to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights after the concert they held in Winnipeg on May 24, 2008. Rush continued to sell T-shirts and donated the proceeds to the museum.
On July 24, 2013, Rush performs a charity concert in Red Deer, Alberta, at ENMAX Centrium with all proceeds going to the Canadian Red Cross to help flood victims in 2013 that devastate many areas in southern Alberta. The original venue for the show, Scotiabank Saddledome, was heavily damaged by the flood and was not available for the concert dates as originally planned.
The individual members of Rush have also become part of the philanthropist. Hughes & amp; Kettner zenTera and TriAmp electronics have been supported and used by Lifeson for many years. A special sign booster was engineered by Lifeson and released in April 2005 provided that UNICEF will receive a $ 50 contribution for each Alex Lifeson Signature TriAmp sold. Lee, a big fan of baseball, donated 200 balls signed by well-known Negro players, including Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Josh Gibson, to the Negro League Baseball Museum in June 2008. At the end of 2009, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson launched an auction for their initiative "Grapes Under Pressure", to support the cause of "Wine for Humanity". The auctions consist of items from bands such as signed guitars, cymbals and bass, as well as signatures on all items by band members. There are also signatures by band members from Depeche Mode, Tools, Fray, Judas Priest, Pearl Jam and more, as well as signatures from Ricky, Julian and Bubbles from "Trailer Park Boys: The Movie" on rare Epiphone guitars.
The band performed on the album Songs for Tibet , performing alongside other celebrities as an initiative to support Tibetan and the current Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso. The album was made available for download on August 5, 2008 via iTunes and was released commercially on August 12, 2008.
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