Posted on 12/08/2023 3:44:10 AM PST by Squawk 8888
Absolutely love this band.
Geddy Lee’s vocals must be an acquired taste. I never acquired it. Legendary band though.
I heard Tom Sawyer on a friends stereo in 1981 as a H.S. Freshman and was hooked. They’re still on my playlist.
They first came on my radar in 6th or 7th grade when a classmate played “2112” while we were both in his parents’ basement. That would be around 1975 IIRC. At the time I didn’t think much of them.
The song that got my attention was released as a single that the AM rock stations here played to death in 1981: “Subdivisions” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7_fdU7kUBI
My bad- per rush.com, “Subdivisions” came out in 1982.
The video was shot entirely in Toronto and its immediate suburbs. The opening aerial view is of the Financial District and is part of a complex that housed the HQ of a major Bank; the tallest building is less than 800’ and was completed in the early 1970s. It was Canada’s tallest skyscraper until another major bank opened a skyscraper diagonally across from it on the same intersection. All of the five largest Canadian banks have skyscrapers within a few blocks that connect underground with each other and back then at least three subway stations as well.
As a UK visitor once told my mom back in the late 1960s, “Toronto will be a wonderful city- if they ever get it finished!”
What drove me nuts about architecture that was all the rage here throughout the 1980s: Houses with a garage where the verandah or front lawn should be! I grew up in a subdivision that was built in the mid-1950s and the houses were designed to be customized and/or expanded from the design stage. A couple of hundred houses from no more than half a dozen blueprints. The same is no doubt true of American suburbs; the older they are, the more livable they get.
What’s with the naked guy reaching out to embrace a red star?
I must have seen them in concert 6-8 times over the years.
Pure Amazement.
The Professor still rules !!!
God has quite the roster being built up in Heaven.
Hendrix
SRV
Edward Van Halen
Neil Peart
Back in the day... $20 Concert Tickets (great/good seats), $8 T-Shirts, $0.50 beer ~~~~
In my mind Neil Peart is the finest drummer who ever lived. Always loved “Limelight”.
Pretty rare to have two guys, in Geddy and Alex who have been best friends since childhood, and let never let the business aspect of the band get in between that friendship.
What’s the history behind the “Starman” emblem? What made you come up with it?
The evolution of the star and man was Neil’s and mine’s first true collaboration. He simply described the Red Star Of The Solar Federation as being all that is contrary to free thought and creativity, and the man as our hero. I simply combined the two. Never was this intended to be the band’s brand or logo, with such a strong and enduring association with all things Rush.
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/qa-with-rush-starman-hugh-syme/
What’s funny is that, some labelled Rush as a “Fascist” band, because of Neil’s admiration for Ayn Rand. Even though Geddy’s mother was a Holocaust survivor.
That’s interesting, thank you!
From Wiki:
“A galaxy-wide war resulted in the planets forcefully joining the Solar Federation (symbolized by the “Red Star”).
Gee, that sounds just like where we are heading, as Biden and his cronies are pushing us towards WWIII.
One my favorite bands. Legendary, iconic... The talent from these musicians and song writing skill is something rarely repeated, rarely seen.
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