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Alex Lifeson’s Fans Storm Stage

Oh the humanity! Must be tough being Lerxst. Doing a horizontal flip in Photoshop reveals the contents of a couple of the fans’ signs: Mr. Potatohead’s sign says “Come to Daddy” One of the gals’ says “I like girls too!”

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S&A Tour Setlist

I must say, the setlist for Rush’s opening show tonight looks, really, really, really good to me! As with most people, there’s a song or two I could do without, but there’s a handful of old songs that haven’t been played in quite some time. To everyone out there going to the shows — enjoy!

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Nothing But Neil

Neil Peart has a drums only version of “The Main Monkey Business” up on his site. I wish the band would release tracks such as this for fans to download — imagine being a bass player and jamming with Neil and Alex. That would be extremely wicked. If anyone figures out how to save the file, [...]

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A-Frickin’-men

It’s nice to see that some industry folks are taking notice of the “loudness” issue in today’s music. To keep it Rush-relevant, the production of Moving Pictures highlights everything that is good about keeping some space/layers in your music. Who knows what Vapor Trails could have sounded like if it were produced/mastered using the same techniques?

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