We lost the definitive guitar god of the post-Hendrix
era when Eddie Van Halen passed away on October 6th, 2020. It's not an
overstatement to say that he reinv...
With All The World's A Stage, Rush established a pattern of making every fifth album in their Mercury Records run a live album. This pattern was continued in 1...
If 2112 is the album that proved Rush could have a career, Moving Pictures is the album that ensured they would stay in the business on a long-term basis. A lo...
As the '80s dawned, progressive rock was becoming an endangered species. Bands were either fading out or knuckling under to record company pressure to find a m...
Hemispheres is
the "difficult birth" of Rush's classic era. They spent a month writing the songs and then
pushed themselves to the limit by crafting tric...
"Tears," an elegant ballad tucked away on side two of 2112, hinted at the future for Rush: guest Hugh Syme's contribution of mellotron to this tune, along with...
2112 is considered the album that established Rush but it didn't do the job alone. They were not a singles band so they couldn't count on radio to carry them u...
Caress Of Steel's blend of prog rock and hard rock was an adventurous step forward for Rush but the muted reception it got almost killed the young band, prompt...
When album number three arrived, Rush were primed to
take the next step forward in their career: they were a successful touring act
in Canada and the U.S. and ...
What a difference a drummer change can make. Changing a
band's percussionist often reshapes their sound but when Rush brought in Neil
Peart to replace John Rut...
The '70s was arguably THE era of the live album,
producing an array of classics, often in double-album form, that allowed
punters to have their own concert exp...
This is Rush... but not the way you know it. There are
no tricky time signatures, brainy lyrics, keyboard embellishments, side-length
epics or mathematically c...
