Rush Archives » Featured http://www.rusharchives.com Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:41:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Rush Information Dashboard http://www.rusharchives.com/2008/05/14/rush-information-dashboard/ http://www.rusharchives.com/2008/05/14/rush-information-dashboard/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 19:21:49 +0000 The Archivist http://www.rusharchives.com/?p=103 I was tooling around with a concept I’ve had — combining various RSS feeds with a Rush specific search engine — and have launched PantFlap. The site aggregates news feeds for Rush, Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and Neil Peart, as well as giving you a snapshot of what’s been posted online in various discussion forums/ boards and blogs.

If you have any sites that you think I should add, please let me know.

]]> http://www.rusharchives.com/2008/05/14/rush-information-dashboard/feed/ RIP: John Rutsey http://www.rusharchives.com/2008/05/13/rip-john-rutsey/ http://www.rusharchives.com/2008/05/13/rip-john-rutsey/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 13:32:29 +0000 The Archivist http://www.rusharchives.com/?p=100 Wow. Like the debut album or not… John Rutsey is a part of Rush history and his passing at 55 has thrown me for a loop. Here’s a guy who was a founding member who has basically become a footnote in the band’s history. Compound that by the skill set that Neil Peart brought to the band and their subsequent rise… it must have been hard to live in that constant shadow.

Having not heard anything from or about John over the years makes you wonder what kind of life he had: Was he happy? What was he doing? What does he think about Rush?

Regardless. Gone at 55 — that’s young. Let’s hope he didn’t have any regrets.

]]> http://www.rusharchives.com/2008/05/13/rip-john-rutsey/feed/ Subdivisions http://www.rusharchives.com/2008/04/21/subdivisions/ http://www.rusharchives.com/2008/04/21/subdivisions/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:51:47 +0000 The Archivist http://www.rusharchives.com/?p=96 Do you have a growing family? Have an extra 5.7 million to spare? Alex Lifeson is selling his home in the Rosedale section of Toronto.

Property details from mls.ca.

]]> http://www.rusharchives.com/2008/04/21/subdivisions/feed/ “Working With Neil Peart” http://www.rusharchives.com/2008/03/25/working-with-neil-peart/ http://www.rusharchives.com/2008/03/25/working-with-neil-peart/#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:53:45 +0000 The Archivist http://www.rusharchives.com/archives/92 Over the years I’ve been pretty “vocal” in various forums about things I’d like to see Rush do: add interactive content to their CD releases, make raw track files available for re-mixing, sell their music direct to fans via their site, etc. It’s great to see that Neil Peart is getting his entire drum set sampled.

Who knows what the end product will be? In the past, Bun E. Carlos from Cheap Trick was selling CDs of his drum licks… you could piece them together to get a performance and then record on top of them. I’m wondering what they’re thinking of doing with Neil’s set? Maybe loops? Certainly, we’ll get samples. This’ll be great for keyboard drummers!

Check out the Studio ProFiles site for a clue as to what may be coming… it appears that they’re doing the sampling work.

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