Lee, Lifeson and Peart quickly worked their way up from the bottom of arena bills, playing power-blues about trouble and women, to headlining status and the epic storytelling and instrumental complexity on Fly By Night and Caress of Steel, both released in 1975. Delany and Ray Bradbury and the controversial novelist Ayn Rand. He soon became Rush's lyricist as well, drawing on his avid reading of science-fiction writers such as Samuel R. Born outside Hamilton, Ontario, Peart came with a furious Keith Moon streak in his precise, orchestral drumming. "They got so many complaints from the neighbors next door we decided it was best just to get out of there."īut Rush really started when: Neil Peart replaced Rutsey in the summer of 1974, just before a U.S. "Their big concern was that the waitresses couldn't hear the beer orders." He remembered a club gig in Oakdale, a town near the Ontario-Michigan border, which lasted half a set. "Club owners didn't want to hear it," Lee said with a laugh, recalling Rush's Cream-and-Led Zeppelin-inspired racket with original drummer John Rutsey.
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Lee quit school in the eleventh grade to be in Rush full time. Lifeson was already in a band called Rush when he asked Lee to join. He and guitarist Alex Lifeson began playing together shortly after they met in 1967, in a Toronto junior high school. There was also ample evidence of Rush's recent, accelerating success, after a decade of hard touring, musical advance and baffled, sometimes vicious reviews: gold and platinum albums for the 1976 live set, All the World's a Stage the 1977 studio LP, A Farewell to Kings and 1976's 2112, Rush's fourth album and the group's creative and commercial breakthrough.
He wore a promo sweatshirt for the British art-rock band Barclay James Harvest, and there was a vintage mellotron against one wall. Lee was sitting in the living room of his home in a suburb of Toronto, Canada, the city where he was born and his band was founded. "There may be ways of becoming bigger," he added, "but I'm not complaining." If what we were doing wasn't right, we wouldn't be where we are.
"Then we take it to the fans, and they respond to it. The only justification I need for what I'm doing with Rush is that we finish an album and we love it," singer-bassist Geddy Lee told me one afternoon in the fall of 1978. | Comments | - | Lyrics | - | Liner Notes | - | Articles | - | Album Artwork | - | Comic Book | - | Album Review | - | Tour Dates | - | Purchase | Deluxe EditionOriginally Released: March 1976ĭeluxe Edition Release: December 18th, 2012Ĭertified Gold by RIAA: November 16, 1977Ĭertified Platinum by RIAA: February 25, 1981Ĭertified 2x Platinum by RIAA: December 1, 1993Ĭertified 3x Platinum by RIAA: November 17, 1995
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