Transcript: "Rush Drummer Peart Chronicles Life On The 'Road'" - Billboard.com, September 14, 2006

Eight years ago today, Neil Peart's book Roadshow: Landscape With Drums - A Concert Tour by Motorcycle was released.  In advance of the release, the September 14, 2006 issue of Billboard magazine included an interview with Neil Peart titled "Rush Drummer Peart Chronicles Life On The 'Road'" where Neil talks about the book, the people he writes about, progress on Rush's upcoming album (Snakes & Arrows), and what is left in "the vault".

Transcript: "'Rush' Makes Name" - Las Cruces Sun, December 20, 1974

As Rush continues to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the debut album, here's a new transcript to mark the occasion.  By December 1974, Rush had begun making headway on their first United Stages tour, here's a newspaper report from the Las Cruces Sun (about as far from Toronto as they could get), confirming "'Rush' Makes Name" for themselves, and how besides another new trio, ZZ Top, Rush was "a band to keep an eye on", and added "Rush's second album will be out after the first of the year and the band promises a more diverse and original collection."

Transcript: "A Conversation With Geddy Lee" - The Music Paper, May 1986

Here's an interesting comment from Geddy Lee, considering it was made 28 years ago: "I'd be real surprised if we're together in ten years, but you never know; stranger things have happened." That is from my latest transcript addition, "A Conversation With Geddy Lee" from the May 1986 issue of The Music Paper. Geddy discusses Power Windows, and how the band had shifted their focus from songwriting first, musicianship second, versus the other way around as in the past. "It's still important to us to be musicians and to play real well - those values are always there - but we're more challenged now by the songwriting thing because it's not as simple to figure out."

Transcript: 'Geddy Lee On The Music Of The '70s, The Order Of Canada, And The Full-Time Job Of Rush' - Georgia Straight, May 15, 1997

Test For Echo was released 18 years ago today, and today's transcript is from the May 15, 1997 issue of Vancouver's Georgia Straight, published the day before Rush's performance there on the Test for Echo tour.  Interviewed to promote their new album, the interview includes 'Geddy Lee On The Music Of The '70s, The Order Of Canada, And The Full-Time Job Of Rush'.

Transcript: "Prolific Rush Surprises Lee" - Billboard, October 3, 1987

Hold Your Fire was released 27 years ago today, and to celebrate I've transcribed an article from the October 3, 1987 issue of Billboard magazine.  This is a long lost interview with Geddy Lee by Steve Gett, who published the Rush biography Success Under Pressure just two years before. In "Prolific Rush Surprises Lee", Geddy attributes the band's longevity to the loyalty of the Rush fans, the band's practice of staying away from each other when not recording or touring, and making the recording processing more interesting.

Transcript: 'Alex Lifeson Says Rush's No-Compromise Approach Is Key To Its Staying Power' - Georgia Straight, January 30, 1992

Roll The Bones was released 23 years ago today, and today's transcript addition is 'Alex Lifeson Says Rush's No-Compromise Approach Is Key To Its Staying Power' which appeared in the January 30, 1992 issue of Vancouver's Georgia Straight, three days before Rush's performance there on the Roll The Bones tour  Alex talks about the keys to Rush's longevity, the process of writing Roll The Bones, and thoughts on doing his own solo album.

Transcript: "Caress Of Steel (review)" - Record Mirror, February 12, 1977

Happy September!  Although the exact date of its release is unknown, Caress of Steel was released 39 years ago this month (1975).  And while it is strange that my next transcript was published nearly a year and a half after the album's release, the "Caress Of Steel (review)" from the February 12, 1977 issue of Record Mirror is at least a positive one.