I now have a complete set of Moving Pictures 40th Anniversary Edition desktop wallpaper images available for your enjoyment, found on my main Wallpaper page as well as on my MP40 wallpaper page (where you'll also find tabs linking to the linernotes essays and other notes about the release). - Thanks to John Patuto for help with the scans.
Monday, July 25, 2022
Friday, July 22, 2022
Rush in Pop Culture Update - July '22
It's been awhile since I've updated my Rush Pop Culture References In Literature And Film page, and here's a quick update with a few additions:
- During the season 4 premier of the Netflix series Stranger Things, at the 11 minute mark, Jonathan Byers (Charlie Heaton) disperses pot smoke in his bedroom using Rush's debut album cover (the back of which is more recognizable).
- During the season 3 finale of the Amazon series The Boys "The Instant White-Hot Wild", ) Hughie (Jack Quaid) wears a Hold Your Fire t-shirt.
- During the Netflix series God’s Favorite Idiot, Melissa McCarthy's character is a Rush fan. Early in the series premiere "B-Minus", Amily (Melissa McCarthy) plays “The Temples of Syrinx” from her scooter. Then during episode 4 "God, Satan and All the Good Smells", "Tom Sawyer" is played in the breakroom and Amily screams out "I love Rush!" then begins playing air flute as she misidentifies the keyboard solo saying "I think it's a flute"..
- During the June 19th episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, a shady character is seen wearing a RUSH hat, and John Oliver mentions RUSH twice and later refers to the "Ontario's Power Trio".
- 2112 sighting: the LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens video game, released in June 2016, has an unlockable stormtrooper designated FN-2112, which wears only his helmet and Rush colored boxers (i.e. red and black), possibly a PG rated nod to the naked starman. Check him out in this video at the 40 second mark.
- Destination Ontario's "Share Your Love For Local" television commercial which first aired December 16, 2020 features a cover of "Closer To The Heart".
Thanks to Kenny Bratz, Ab Rooswinkel, Tod O'Donnell, Darren DrDual, Jesse Maddox, and Horus Threesixteen for sharing these! If you're aware of other references I'm missing on my page, please drop me a line.
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Transcript: "Rush: Sound With A Score To Settle" - Toronto Globe And Mail, August 23, 1977
Friday, April 22, 2022
Smartphone Wallpapers
Monday, April 4, 2022
Transcript: "Grammy Nomination For Rush Instrumental Track" - RPM Weekly, January 25, 1992
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Transcript: "From the Riser: A Drummer's Perspective II" foreword by Neil Peart
One of the last things he wrote, I've just added the transcript of Neil's foreword to David Lawrence Phillips' "From the Riser: A Drummer's Perspective II", published in September 2016.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Transcript: "Rush Album Art: The Stories Behind All 19 LP Covers" - UltimateClassicRock.com, December 24, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2022
Transcript: "Introduction to 'Rush Gigs' by Ray Wawrzyniak" from Power Windows
Friday, March 11, 2022
Rush Reference in "The Expanse: One Ship" webisode "Night Watch"
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Transcript: "The Art of Rush" - PROG #125, November 2021
"I enjoyed creating that cover. There was a slight nod to the fact that there had been retirements, so the thrones were empty now, just to say the band weren't there anymore. And then highlighting their specific interests: the set of golf clubs standing in the window waiting for Al to play a round, Neil's love of reading in those stacks of books, the open bottle of red, drinking obscenely expensive wine. I think everything's accounted for in that image."
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Transcipt: "Alex Lifeson: New World Man" - Guitar Player, November 2021
It's been awhile since I added a new story to the Transcript Archive, but last fall Alex Lifeson appeared on the cover of Guitar Player magazine once again. In the feature story, "Alex Lifeson: New World Man" , he discusses his new Epiphone Alex Lifeson Les Paul Axcess Standard as well as his upcoming new solo album (can we call it a solo album?) Envy of None, among other things.
Monday, March 22, 2021
Transcript: "What's The Rush?" - Des Moines Register, October 31, 2002
Monday, March 8, 2021
Rush Reference in "Goon: Last of the Enforcers"
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Transcript: "Geddy Lee of Rush" - Greenwich Shoppers Helper, November 10, 1987
I have just transcribed "Geddy Lee of Rush", an interview which appeared in the November 10, 1987 issue of the Ohio Greenwich Shoppers Helper. Geddy addresses the maturity of the band and the music reflected on Hold Your Fire... "As much as some of our fans would hate to view it like that...we're changing and our music's changing with us." - Thanks to RushFanForever for providing the original article!
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Tourbooks for Rush, Fly By Night and Caress of Steel - new transcripts and wallpaper
Last October, official tourbooks for the Rush 1974, Fly By Night, and Caress of Steel tours were published as the "Missing Tourbooks Collection". Each tourbook offers many rare photographs as well as three never before seen press reviews written by Raymond Michael for Buffalo's Courier Express. You can now check out each tourbook by visiting the Rush Bibliography page, or simply visit the Rush, Fly By Night or Caress of Steel discography pages and click on their respective Tourbook tabs. All photographs are also now available as wallpaper; accessible on each album's Wallpaper tab, or on the main Wallpaper page. - A huge thank you to John Patuto for providing the transcripts and raw scans!
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Transcript: "Rush's Music Reflects Work Ethic" - Orange County Register, February 15, 1983
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Ready Player Two - small Rush reference
Finally was able to read Ready Player Two which was published in November. You may remember the first book had a slew of Rush references. This one picks up where the first book left off (after a deranged A.I. takes control of the OASIS), with all new pop culture references. In this book in the real world, Wade Watts (aka Parzival) lives at "2112 Monsalvat Boulevard" (Monsalvat was the mythical castle of the Knights of the Roundtable searching for the Holy Grail in Richard Wagner's opera, Parzival).