Formation and early albums Rush formed in 1968 in Toronto as the last of multiple bands that teenagers Alex Lifeson and John Rutsey attempted to form that year. The lineup included Lifeson on guitar, Rutsey on drums, and Jeff Jones on bass and vocals; Jones was quickly replaced, however,...
All the albums in order, by Jonathan Lee #1 of 2 Ladies and Gents I present to you RUSH! So this one was a bit tougher than ourKISS ranking/review. Mainly because I had to go back and listen to a good bit of the catalogue. I haven’t listened to some of this damn stuff in ye...
in quick succession. This awful event isn't really dwelled on here though. Mostly this is about the music. Most of the albums are covered in at least some detail, so this is great for fans of the group. Also, of great interest is the input of their many famous fans. There are ...
in many ways), or even in the late ’90s when Peart lost his first daughter and wife to a car crash and cancer within a year of each other. But their multigenerational fan base still had cause to hope after the final 2015 show in Los Angeles, even if it only entailed more albums....
Rush masterfully juggle awe-inspiring musicianship and instinctive songcraft here like few albums in their mighty musical canon. On one hand, the trio still pushes prog to its limits on epic sonic adventures like "Xanadu" and "Cygnus X-1"; on the other hand, they refined their knack for ca...
or what additional extras it might contain. Although the website lists a release date of November 15th (indicating that they had likely planned to release it this year), it seems that they were forced to delay until February (whenopened in the Apple Music app itself, it saysexpected Feb 7...
Alex Lifeson Legacy features four amplifiers never before captured in TONEX, handpicked by Alex as key landmarks from his 50+ year tone journey. From coveted vintage treasures to his LERXST signature amplifier, these guitar tones have shaped iconic Rush albums like "Moving Pictures" and "Clockw...
The first Rush album in six years after the personal tragedies suffered by Neil Peart. (In 1997 his daughter was killed in a tragic car accident; a year later his wife died of cancer.) In anycase, despite the long time between studio albums, Vapor Trails picks up where 'Test for Echo'...
by responding to fair and valid critique rather than shirking away from them. That they’d then obscure this coming-of-age conceptual thread indicates as well the first clear instance of how the group would come to use conceptual frameworks in almost all of their albums from this point ...
a far cry from the sophisticated layers of melodically and harmonically driving synthesizers from the previous Collins-produced albums. All of this is presented with a laid-back groove situated deeper in the pocket than the past few records, which had become increasingly stiffened through adherence ...