All The Worlds a Stage for me and they are still touring.
I first noticed them when Permanent Waves came out.
Not 25, but around 22 years (wow). I always listened to talk radio in Philly. Sometime around the time Frank Rizzo died (coulda been before or after), the station I listened to changed its lineup and started playing Rush.
I wasn’t quite a Republican then, more leaning toward libertarian. I was also afraid of Rush - I expected him to be mean, racist, just awful.
Well, the only channel I could get in my office was that talk channel and there was no choice but listen to Rush if I was going to listen to anything at all. And, as Rush often points out, I was one of those people who realized that Rush was echoing what I was already feeling and thinking.
So, twenty plus years later, is he still relevant? Yes, I still get a fair amount of inside info from him, though I think I get a lot of the news first here on FR. I could care less about golf, flying, or football, so I often tune out mentally when he starts on about those topics. I also think he can be repetitive and a bit reactionary. Sometimes I think he says something clever in reaction to an event, without thinking through what he’s said or really analyzing the issue.
But all in all, I’m still a Rush fan. I belong to Rush 24/7 and haven’t had a reason to stop subscribing. The world is better with Rush than without him.
Saw them w/Nugent back in the 70’s...