To reiterate a point, Rush truly and specifically invented something: progressive metal. Rush’s legacy would be floodlit night and day had they done no more. A Farewell To Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and finally the crowning glory of Moving Pictures would comprise a quartet of gravely influential records to cap off the band’s fecund ‘70s. Successive albums would send future rock stars – then pimply misfits – back to the woodshed, to become more proficient, faster, more disciplined, and yes, better read.
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In essence, Rush made you want to play better than that other guy in class, also providing a reading list for mind-feeding while you recovered from bleeding fingers, tender blood blisters and tendonitis.Īnd they did this in waves, to full currents of aspiring rockers, beginning thereabouts with underground breakthrough 2112 in 1976, that record combining science fiction with philosophy (Ayn Rand) and literature (George Orwell), metal with progressive rock (Rush single-handedly birthed progressive metal – a huge musical genre today), also delivering one of the early concept albums, even if only half the record went to the future black and red and silver world dramatically imagined. Rush were heavy when heavy was not cool, Rush comprised a clear and clear-headed three guys playing their hearts and minds out on sleeve and stage, all the while Neil Peart aspiring to barbarian wordsmithing invasions into the sacrosanct realm of literature. These are bands cited to this writer over and over in interviews when the subject of that first unquenchable spark of influence comes nostalgically to mind, smile cracked, ice broken, floodgates open.Īs preposterous or at least surprising during the first five seconds of scoffed reflection that may sound, through seconds six through 20, it becomes plausible, logical, even inevitable. Later on, it was Kiss, The Ramones and Metallica. Then you had The Who, Cream, the Yardbirds, Zeppelin, Sabbath. Staring into the blue TV, thousands said “Now I see the path for me” and the rock map was redrawn - scribbled all over in crayon in fact – after the first sketches were crudely etched down south in the mid-‘50s.
Sure, #1 are The Beatles – that band will never be surpassed in the rock ‘n’ roll light bulb category. The all-walks array of musicians you see gathered here is testimony to that fact.
Whether through brush, a tapping, anointing touch, a finger of responsibility pointed, or a vigorous two-handed grab and full-body shake, Lee, Lifeson and Peart have provided an often obsessive lifetime mission for countless of hopeful, thoughtful, ambitious musicians through a wide scope of times and climes. (Jordan Rudess), Randy Jackson (Zebra), Andreas Kisser (Sepultura), Jani Lane (Warrant), Mike Mangini (Extreme, Steve Vai), Vinnie Moore (Solo Artist, UFO), Alex Skolnick (Testament, Tran Siberian Orchestra, Attention Deficit), Jeff Stinco (Simple Plan), Kip Winger (Winger) Featuring Performances By: Sebastian Bach (Skid Row), Robert Berry (“3”, Ambrosia), Dave Brooks (Slammin’ Gladys), Dominic Cifarelli (Pulse Ultra), Jeff Feldman (Pulse Ultra), Stu Hamm (Joe Satriani, Steve Vai), Daniel J.
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