Spotted the news at rushisaband.com this morning.
There's a greatest hits package coming out soon called Rush: 1989-2009. Word is that there's be unreleased live tracks from that era. Word also is that they're looking to sign with Rounder Records.
Returning to television after a 33-year gap, Rush will play Tom Sawyer on The Colbert Report tonight at 11:30 pm EST. Set those VCRs/TIVOs.
It's among the largest single donations the museum has had, according to director of marketing Bob Kendrick. It also represents some history the museum didn't previously have. "Some of these guys have been dead for some time, and we could not get these (signatures) before no matter what their significance was in the Negro Leagues," he said.
The members of Canadian rock band Rush have donated $100,000 from the sale of tickets to last weekend's Winnipeg concert to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The three band mates -- Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart -- also announced today they will be selling museum T-shirts at all of the remaining Canadian stops on their Snakes and Arrows Live concert tour, and donating all of the proceeds from those sales to the museum's $105-million private sector fund-raising campaign. "My band mates and I are proud to be associated with the creation of a Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg," Lee said in a written statement.Quite cool! Word is that the shirts are already available for sale at the shows. Not sure if they'll have them for the US dates.
Seen at rushisaband.com the other day. Official obituary is here at the National Post.
There's a new interview with Alex over at Billboard.com. He talks about the live album/dvd and the upcoming tour.
Lots of tidbits:
DVD in later summer/early fall. Shot in HD.
"We thought we should maybe revisit some older songs we're not playing currently or haven't been in the last little while. So we changed out a few songs in the set. We're gonna keep it loose and maybe kind of bounce back and forth."
New album news?
"I'm guessing that we're probably going to take a little bit of the break at the end of this tour," says Lifeson, who's been updating his Web site with a number of new features he hopes to roll out soon. "I don't see us really doing much in the way of any new material probably until the spring of next year, and then we'll see where we go."
A 12-year -old Rush fan and guitarist named Zack Tabori comes up to the Hughes & Kettner booth at the NAMM show last month and asks to play the Alex Lifeson Signature TriAmp. They let him go ahead and do so and are impressed by his playing and offer to take his conact info so that Big Al can hook him up with some swag and tickets. Alex decided to give the kid one of his amps as well.
You can see a video of the whole story here. Well worth watching, the kid is blown away.
Clearing out a backlog here....
Alex & Geddy showed up on stage during the drum solo at a Foo FIghters show in Toronto last month.
Rushisaband.com has more, including YouTube clips
Well, Rush lost to Bruce Springsteen for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Springsteen won for Once Upon A Time In The West. Rush was nominated for Malignant Narcissism. This is the fifth time they've been nominated and lost. Previous nominations/losses were for YYZ in 1981, Where's My Thing? in 1992, Leave That Thing Alone in 1995, and O Baterista in 2004. (OK, getting nominated for a drum solo? That was a bit much.)
Got this news a little late: Geddy was a judge at the Canadian Culinary Championships, according to this press release. More information is online at the Gold Medal Plates web site.
Interesting news: There's a Rush documentary in the works from the guys who did 2005's Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. main quote from the article:
"The doc will include new interviews with some of rock's biggest names -- including members of Metallica, Nirvana and Iron Maiden -- plus never-before-seen footage shot by singer Geddy Lee himself, which Grindstone hopes will attract Canadian broadcasters."
I'll keep an eye out for more info on this.
See online at Ross Halfin's site: three songs soundchecked in Milan were Cinderella Man, Analog Kid, and Here Again. I'd like the see them played live in the next, rumored North American leg of the tour.
Rush makes the #1 spot in "Rolling Stone’s List of the 25 Undisputed Guilty Pleasure Bands". Nice to see a little recognition for once.