Welcome to our Rush extravaganza!
Welcome to Signals from Mars!
This is Victor, and this is our Rush albums countdown.
Man, I've already been receiving all types of comments about whether an album should be ranked here or there or someplace else.
Check out the episode next, see if you agree with the voting.
I'm ready. Let's do it!
The Rush fanbase is very passionate. If you've ever listened to this show, and you know our lovely panelist, guest Johan Edström from Sweden, he is very passionate about his Rush.
He's not the only one. There's plenty of people that have reached out to me or made comments online about, hey, this album should be in the top 10. That's nonsense.
There's no way that this album shouldn't be this place or the other place.
So if you're a fan of Rush, if you're checking this episode out for the very first time, how this all goes down is that I ask people to vote. I have them submit their 10 favorite albums, in this case by Rush.
And then I tally the votes up. And what I do is if an album is number one, it gets 10 points. Number two gets nine points. All the way down to the 10th album on the list, that gets one point.
For all the jokers that say, well, in no particular order, well, whatever order you sent it in and I see first, whichever album I see first, that's your number one.
So I compile the list and this is what we have. This episode is what we have. It is us discussing Rush.
And there's, as I mentioned during the episode, there's a lot of different kind of story arcs, different time periods within the band that make it unique and special.
And I don't want to give too much more away besides that.
But this episode was fun, was fun to do. I will confess to not being the hugest Rush fan in the world, but I love talking about music.
And I loved going back and rediscovering a lot of the music, which made me love this band. Yeah, I'm not the hugest fan, but I still love a lot of their music.
So it's fun to connect with people and just talk about bands. And I'm the type of person that I can watch a documentary, for example, and not enjoy a band and come out wanting to listen to the band or gain a certain sense of respect for them.
And with this, it's no different. I mean, I always mention this. These are just discussions about music amongst friends. And it's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun to go back, rediscover or check out a band for the first time for some people.
And hopefully this episode does that. And it doesn't mean that everyone has to love them. Doesn't mean that everyone has to enjoy what they've done over the years.
But it's still a fun, fun discussion. So this episode does contain some of my patrons. It does include Anthony Mackie. It does include Johan, who I mentioned. It includes metal Dan and the Brad doll as well as Mike Jones.
Outside of them, I do want to say thanks to Sean Richmond, Chris Sinczak, Tony Espin, who was in the chat for a little bit there, Ed Ferguson, who couldn't join us, Jose and Gabriel in Connecticut and New Jersey, respectfully.
Another person in New Jersey for now, Mr. Chris Vaglio.
And who else? Jeremy Weltman, who was at a show seeing Livewire and ACDC Tribute Band, which he gave excellent reviews for.
Steve Hoker and Mr. Steven Saylor. So thank you guys for all of your support. You can become a patron for as little as two bucks a month and appear during these shows if you so choose to.
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That's all, folks. Let's get on with the countdown.
Welcome one and all to the May 10th edition of Signals from Mars. If you've been under a rock and you haven't been following the show, tonight is our rush countdown.
Let me go around the horn and introduce our illustrious guests tonight.
Fresh off of M3.
We have Mike Jones in New Jersey. How are you, Mike?
Doing great, Victor. How about yourself?
Doing excellent.
Out on the West Coast, we have Metal Dan. Dan, how are you?
Hello, Victor. Cockroach Angels.
There you go.
With his bucket hat and also fresh off of M3.
Mr. YargMetal, YargMetal.com. Brad Doll. Brad, how are you?
Fantastic.
Wow.
Can I just say something about somebody on this panel? Actually, everybody here is awesome. This guy right here, if you ever need a wingman to go to a show with, that's the guy.
Okay. I had more fun hanging out with him and yeah, good times.
It was a great two days.
It's awesome that you guys had the time to spend together like that and you just didn't bust a quick hello out.
All right. And last but not least, the Rush Connoisseur, Johan, I dare not pronounce his name from Sweden.
Please try. Please try.
I don't have it spelled in front of me. Wait, I can find it. Where is it?
No, I know. It's okay, Victor. Edestrom in Swedish, Edestrom in English.
We can mispronounce both of those. Edestrom.
Why? Oh, excellent, Brad. Excellent.
Well, that's because he's Norwegian. Yeah, I know.
He's Norwegian. So he's got, you know, his tongue places itself in the right spots.
It does.
Anyway, all right. So we're here to talk about Rush.
Rush have 19 studio albums and every album was voted on at least once.
Wow.
So what we're going to do is we're going to recap real quickly, 19 through 11.
And then we'll take our time with 10 through one.
But at 19, it is more than one little victory.
It is Vapor Trail.
Wow.
At 18.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. I have a question before we go on.
Okay. Who here prefers the remixed version of Vapor Trails than the regular one?
I haven't heard a remix that.
I know what you mean, Brad.
I heard the album when it was new with the original mix.
And for me, that's normal.
I know the mix is bad, but it's like Born Again with Black Sabbath.
That's how it sounds.
So good songs on that album. Very good songs.
It's part of the ambiance.
All right. So at 18 is Counterparts.
At 17.
It's kind of surprised me, but is what it is.
Corressive Steel.
At 16.
Vertigo.
Test for Echo.
All right. At 15.
Hold your fire.
What?
There we go.
We need to make a drinking game out of this.
Every time Johan exclaims, we need to throw one back.
Okay.
At 14.
The one that does not have the man on Mike Jones' t-shirt.
At 15.
It is the self-titled debut.
From Rush.
13.
12.
Clockwork Angels.
And at 11.
My number one and my favorite.
Great album.
So any surprises for you guys that any of those did not crack the top 10?
Johan, obviously, hold your fire.
Yes.
That's a really underrated album for me.
Great songs.
And I think it's a soundtrack to the 80s as a lot of those albums that they made during that period.
Hold your fire is, I don't know, it's one of my favorite albums.
Perhaps it's soft, perhaps it's a little bit not so much rock, but I think there is songs in that album like, I mean, Mission, Prime Mover.
Greatly underrated album.
But I think I wasn't a Rush fan back then, but when they toured US, Canada, they had a great big audiences for that album, if I'm not mistaken.
It was a big album.
But it has gotten a lot of bad attention after years.
So comments.
Yeah, I think more than anything, like with a lot of other bands and just trends that come along, a lot of people say, oh, well, those are the albums where they use keyboards.
It's like, well, they use keyboards going all the way back to the 70s, all the way up to the end of their career.
They just kind of pigeonholed them because they were a 70s band and they wanted to bring in bands from the 80s and kind of bring in a fresher.
Whatever they wanted to give Maiden and Priest and Scorpions and these bands more of a push at the time, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, so on and so forth.
And they wanted to push Rush out of the way.
They were still doing good at their shows, as you mentioned, Johan, because people were there for the bread and butter.
What people had become to love from the band.
And the band was looking to do different things, I think.
So, you know, being the band that they are, they were never a band that searched out radio hits.
I mean, that was till the end. They got on the radio due to the strength of of how good their music was.
I mean, they weren't selling, as you're saying, they weren't selling anything for some for some of these albums, even the ones that came after this.
But their shows are packed. They still had a diehard audience that was that was following them.
And it's funny because a lot of these albums, I remember as they came out, I mentioned the press, though I mentioned Test for Echo and Counterparts and even Vapor Trails.
When they came out, I remember people being super stoked about them being, oh, this is the old Rush back again and and so on.
And years later, it's funny how a lot of people with revisionist history don't give you that same kind of opinion on those albums.
Personally, I do think that probably their last two albums, Clockwork Angels and Snakes and Arrows are two great albums that unfortunately are overlooked by the general public.
And these albums are probably a lot more solid than some of these other albums that came before it and probably closer to kind of what got the band on a lot of people's radar.
But a lot of it has to do with what we've talked about in the past.
The producer was Nick Raska-Linnox, a huge fan of the band, who wanted the band to be Rush.
He didn't want the band to be Dream Theater, didn't want them to be, you know, he didn't want them to jump on the coattails of another band that was popular, that was influenced by them.
So he kind of got them back to where they needed to be in a lot of instances.
But I think that's why, I think like everything else, there's stigmas with people saying, oh, well, you know, Hold Your Fire wasn't a good album because it was the keyboard album, because it was this, because it was that.
But it really wasn't.
It's the shit that people were just being fed instead of people sitting down and listening to the album and figuring out if they liked it or not. They kind of went with the flow and decided to pan it.
Because, I mean, one last thing before we jump into the top ten. I don't see that Hold Your Fire varies that much from some of the other 80s albums that were a lot more popular than what's on that album.
I mentioned this before, the track that's gotten the most airplay in the US of all time, I would figure is Tom Sawyer. But it's actually New World Man.
And that's a track straight out of the 80s.
So, go figure.
All right. So, anyone else want to touch on any of those albums?
No, I mean, as far as my personal ranking went, I went ahead and did all 19 because I'm OCD and my wife is a huge Rush fan so I had to satisfy her curiosity as well.
But of those mentioned, I think Power or Clockwork Angels was the only one that hit my top ten. So, you know, it feels pretty much in line with my view as well.
Okay.
Excellent. So, let's jump on into the top ten.
At ten is Roll the Bones.
Again, this is an album that when it came out, I remember a lot of people saying, wow, it's them back to their rock roots, it's them being a little heavier.
This is, I hope I'm not screwing this up, but I believe it's Roll the Bones, then Presto, then Vapor Trails, if I'm not mistaken.
Presto came before Roll the Bones.
Yeah.
Presto came before Roll the Bones.
Yes.
All right. So, that was kind of the kickoff of them kind of quote unquote becoming rock again.
I think that the band has kind of gone in cycles where they've had like three or four albums that have, you can kind of interchange them, because it's almost as if they were doing their own story arcs.
You know, I think Presto, Roll the Bones, Counterparts, and Vapor Trails are kind of like an extended photo album between those four albums.
They kind of, at least to me, it feels like while they were recording and writing those albums, they were kind of influenced by the same stuff, and those four kind of follow the same flow.
But anyway, Roll the Bones, who wants to talk about this album?
I can talk about any album.
Okay, go ahead.
First of all, I like this album. It's well produced as every Rush album is. Great songs.
The opening track, Dreamline, is an all-time favorite. The lyrics, the music, it's fantastic.
And Bravado, amazing song, if you haven't heard it, check it out.
Neil writes great lyrics.
Easy lyrics, but good. Speaks to you.
So, this album is great, but not one of my biggest favorites, but the big songs are huge, and perhaps the not so big songs I don't listen to that much anymore.
Anyone else who has any comments on that album, or perhaps have seen them on this tour?
On the tour.
What?
Yeah, in the US they played a lot. They'd play Orange County, Los Angeles, often.
With Primus' opening act?
With Clayton.
Yeah, yeah, Primus.
That was a big tour.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.
Wow.
That was a tour.
I think that was the last tour I saw them, though. That's where I kind of stopped.
Did you stop because of this show, or did you say, they can't get better than this, I'm done?
I think I, yeah, I think I peaked. I'd seen Rush enough times, and then my wife, she was actually liked them more. She would go with her side of the family, and go to the shows, and I'd say, see ya.
So yeah, I think I, at that point, I had had enough. But that's just, it's nothing against Rush. It's just a kind of a been there, done that, because I'd seen about five of the tours.
Right? Yeah.
I think that's fair enough. Yeah.
I gotta say, I'd kind of drifted from buying their stuff and spent a lot of time listening to them, until this album. When this album came out, it brought me back in.
I think the quality of the songs is just incredible. I love the way it sounds. I think Getty's singing is, it's in a range that is actually really nice to listen to.
I mean, even Shelly, my wife, who doesn't really care for early Rush because of his voice, she loves this album. And she'll always be like, yeah, let's listen to that.
So this album was huge for me. And again, I think just across the board, it's a really, really solid album. I can listen to the whole thing and not skip anything, and have fun with it. It's fun to play bass along with, too.
There you go.
We are also joined by Anthony Mackie. Anthony, hope you're doing well today.
Yeah.
All good.
Awesome.
Mike, go ahead. It seems like you've been holding back this whole time. You've been about to talk and then someone else has interjected. So go ahead.
I mean, it's the Johann show, really. We're all just here to support.
No, I'm here to hear your memories from Rush, because you have probably more than me. So go ahead.
I was fortunate enough to see this show live as well. And yeah, it was a great one. I think that was my third in a row. I think it started with Hold Your Fire, so 87, 88, somewhere in there, and then caught most of them from there on out for the rest of their career.
So it was, you know, love this album myself. You know, all the songs are accessible. None of them are epic 20-minute songs. They're all reasonable length. So good ones to go in various mixes or to listen, start to finish, either way. Big fan.
All right.
And this year, this time period, I was looking back, like, when's the best time of my life? And it was, you know, about 87 through 92. I think those are the best years of concerts coming through constantly. You could see, you know, pretty much any band coming through. There was a show practically every night in the Los Angeles, Orange County area, you know, with the Bon Jovis and I don't know who else and Rat and whatever. You know, it was just there. It was available.
Queen, you know, whatever. It was great time. Sorry.
No, that's fine. That, that, I mean, any, any story like that is always cool to throw in there because I mean, it does give you a sense of what was going on at the time and how all this kind of pieces together and fits in.
So, all right, cool. At number nine.
We have
ahead, Johan.
This is my number one.
Okay. Yeah, power windows is.
For me, the soundtrack of the 80s. It's the perfect 80s album. It's very, very much synthesizers. It's very cold. The songs are great.
Easy to listen to.
For me, every song is almost a hit. So, if you haven't checked that out, you should. It's so great.
Get it placed at heavy English base. I don't know how he does it at the same time as it plays keyboard and synthesizer on his feet, but it's it's a masterpiece. I don't I know that Alex Lifesome wasn't that pleased at that time because he wasn't getting enough space.
But the creativity of the band was not at the top. But to me, at the top, but I think they peaked here. This is the peak from the 80s rush.
Moving pictures started the 80s movement and power windows is the peak. So, this is.
I love this album.
Thank you.
Okay. Anyone else on power windows.
Why.
Because you know, on you, you said it so eloquently.
I really don't have much to add.
It's a very good sounding out.
There you go.
All right.
At number eight.
The Spheres.
wants to touch upon this one.
I can talk about any of them.
That one's too early for me that's 78 that's that's way before I was listening to rush.
I was almost way before I was born, but I think this is the first song.
The Cygnus, you know, the song that covers the whole a side. I don't listen to that song a lot. But circumstances, the trees and la via San Gato are three of Russia's most amazing songs ever made.
I think that's why rush have sold almost 50 million albums.
Those three songs songs are very important.
So, yeah.
It's, it's interesting how I mean with this and with other albums how they would just go ahead and do one long composition for one entire album side.
And given their popularity.
I've never heard anyone that's a fan of the band complain about that.
No, why would you, it's what it's what you want.
But I mean I think that you have a lot of fickle music fans out there that would come out of the woodworks to say oh well you know this is boring because it's 18 minutes long and it's this or that.
I mean, there's, there's pieces of what they have what they did here and their complete songs that have been that were staples of theirs up until the end, coming off of here.
And it was, they did a 40th anniversary reissue not that long ago.
So,
I think the thing if you look at what came before this I mean I bought this album on vinyl when it first came out.
And I loved it I mean they pretty much set it up with 20 you know starting with 2112 that hey we're going to have, you know, album sides that are going to be one song and I mean, the precedent was set.
One with all the previous albums doing four or five minute songs. And that's it and then came to this I could see them losing people, but it is as Anthony so eloquently said that's what you want that's what the people wanted at this time.
They wanted to hear this I think farewell to Kings wasn't quite as epic.
As a lot of the fans wanted.
This album, this album checked all those boxes and again, it's, it's a good lesson.
Absolutely. Yeah, I mean it's you know it's 18 minutes songs but they're a dynamic 18 minutes it's it's movements it's like, you know, listen to a symphony.
It's like those waxes and wanes and it takes you up and down with with the changes to the sound it's not a boring 18 minutes it's not just repetition and I think that's the key to, you know, putting out music like that that is still accessible.
Make sense.
This is trees was the first song I ever heard.
Okay.
Where did you hear it.
compilation album.
Okay.
Yeah.
I still love it. I think I think that was a good, a good first song. Yeah.
It's interesting as well because it isn't, quote unquote a radio hit.
Whereas, a lot of their.
Here's the thing, and I think, Johan mentioned it before each album has big songs on it.
They've, they've been able to.
And this is why I think as a touring band they've been able to throw in new music was play the classics as well. They have, they never.
They have a real nostalgia act. I don't think the only time that they really ever did a any nostalgia type.
Or was when they celebrated their 30th anniversary, where that was just strictly greatest hits.
But trees has always been a staple in their live show.
And you get trees or passage to Bangkok stuff like that where a lot of people would consider double that's a B side well to a rush fan that was kind of commonplace that was that would still one of the it's still part of the bread and butter behind the band.
Cool. All right. So, hemispheres was eight.
Seven.
Grace.
Under pressure.
Again this this to me is one of those that if we're talking about cycles to me grace on their pressure power windows and hold your fire kind of that are they had the
you on you were saying that to you it kind of started with moving pictures though.
Grace under pressure what's what's your take on that album.
One of the best, of course.
Surprise.
That I think I listen to the most together with power windows.
It's
great album.
No weak songs.
I like the sound of it it's very 80s course, they still have some more early it is of the star movement in it, but
it's
very, I can't say the English words but it's like it sounds very cold, as most of the band did during the 80s.
After the war.
The guys themselves were not happy with this records they thought it was badly produced.
Absolutely amazing.
That's, that's funny because they worked with all Northfield on this album I mean he wasn't the producer.
But he did quite a bit of work with the band over the years.
So, I guess he's credited for synthesizer programming.
All right, but he's done. I mean he's engineered and mixed other albums, which is actually done a lot worked on permanent waves as his left moving pictures signals.
I mentioned the show of hands.
And I think that maybe with the mix they still worked with somebody repeatedly over the years, who was somewhat involved in it, although yeah for that album it says synthesizer programming.
Yes.
Yeah.
I have read a little bit too many rush books.
Is that possible.
Yeah.
It's interesting to note that this is the first album that Terry Brown, you know that they they parted with him on.
Not, not badly or anything I think they just want to try something different. And they just couldn't find a producer.
They ended up doing all the pre production, just the band without any outside help.
So, yeah, it's kind of interesting to hear that they're they're not happy with the way it turned out. No, they weren't.
So I wonder if that.
So, well, they were really happy about the music videos though.
They use the same video producer as Apple did for someone their early computers. So you can tell that if you watch the video.
Cool.
The rush books that you're reading are they in Swedish or they in English.
Okay.
Do they have lots of pictures for Victor so if he wanted to try to read it.
No, I have a lot.
I have all Niels books of course, as well.
I will profess to not be the greatest reader in the world, although I did read a hundred page book in four days, a few weeks back and I read my very first book in Spanish.
After that, so there you go.
While we're talking about other things that are not.
Oh, this is excellent. So I had this all set up before we started the show and it now disappeared.
As soon as I saw Mr Mackey.
I wanted to talk about his great logo.
So, if you are so inclined to want to support the show, we have some nice merch.
And we have two new pieces of merch,
which I mentioned the last time we have.
Since we have a kind of a great out logo. I've, I've named it the distressed logo and have a distressed woman's premium v-neck shirt.
And we have a distressed classic pullover hoodie now. When I set this up originally you could see the planet more and for some reason with the screenshot that I took today.
It's hardly visible, but I'm assuming that that gets printed on as well. So I will see it in a few days.
That design. It was designed to go on black. So I don't know you're going to see it as much on gray. I'm sure you still will.
Yeah, but not as much.
Okay.
We do have the Brad bucket hat.
It's it's been concert tested.
I got I got so many compliments about it.
I can vouch for its effectiveness.
It's dirt. It was raining held up in the rain.
It's still it travel you put it in your suitcase or whatever comes out looking fresh as a daisy.
And, and yeah, don't go to sleep on the beautiful graphics.
You can't go wrong with this.
So, moving on here.
At number six.
Let's see.
buzzing here I gotta mute some of the other stuff here anyway.
At number six.
All right.
All right. Who wants to touch on this album.
Go ahead, Mike.
That's my number two. So, big, big fan.
So this hurts a little bit to be as far down a little bit for me personally.
I think I'm going to say Xanadu, one of the greatest epic rush songs of all time.
Closer to the heart, Cygnus X, like, just awesome awesome songs.
I can listen to this song album every day and not get sick of it. Just amazing.
Okay.
Anyone else.
I'll chime in here.
When this album came out.
Of course we bought it.
Listen to it. The production was quite different than the previous albums.
Everything was kind of on the dry side and I know they recorded this over in England, I believe.
Where's Jeremy when you need him.
They recorded in Wales.
Wales. Oh, I apologize.
Wales.
First, this is the first time I saw Rush was on this tour.
Headlining the Santa Monica Civic.
Wow.
And UFO warming up on their, let's see, lights out tour.
And this is the first time they really, well, they brought the keyboards on stage and the pedals and all that.
And it was an impressive event to watch them, well, mostly watch Getty do all that stuff.
But it just didn't, I don't know, at the time it just kind of landed a little soft for me.
I like it much better now. It's aged very well for me.
But at the time it wasn't. Yeah, that's the problem when you're young and you're a fan.
You kind of have an idea of what you want the band to do.
And when they don't do that, you're like, crap. And I think that's kind of where I was at at the time.
But I think it's a great album.
Johan, what do you think of the album?
Well, obviously I was just close to being born when it was released.
I think it's great. Good songs.
It's, for me, it's a part of the journey to become the band that I love.
It's like the prequel to Hemispheres. So it's good, but not perfection.
OK, cool. So before we jump on into the top five here, let me just recap 10 through 6.
At 10 we had Roll the Bones. At 9 we had Power Windows.
At 8 we had Hemispheres. At 7 we had Grace Under Pressure.
And at 6 we had a Farewell to Kings.
Up next, this album has been already mentioned by more than one of you.
It is 2112.
Question to Brad. Was there ever anyone saying that they were satanic due to the album cover?
Oh, hell yeah. Yeah. You've got to remember back in the 70s, I mean, it was hard to go to a rock concert
and not have a bunch of Bible thumpers out there with megaphones yelling at you
and telling you you're going to hell and all that kind of stuff, which of course I thrived on.
I was like, bring it, boys. Bring it.
Yeah, so there was plenty. Oh, yeah, people went nuts over that album cover.
So yeah, the answer is yes. OK, definitely Satan. Definitely Satan influenced.
All right. Who wants to talk about the album itself?
I will. Everybody's not jumping at this one. This is my number one.
My address here is 2114 and I was going to try to change it, you know, go to the county.
But you know what a hassle that is because I thought wouldn't it be cool to live at 2112 something, you know?
That'd be great to have a street address, but it ain't going to happen.
So anyway, this is the very first Rush album I ever heard.
Picked it up based on I'm not sure what it was.
It certainly wasn't the kimonos on the back. I mean, that looked a little bit squirrely,
you know, because I was looking for hard rock.
But I think I heard something somewhere about these guys being a really hard rock band.
So got it. And yeah, totally, totally blown away.
Because the first thing you hear is 2112, whole side one of the album.
And that to me is like one of the greatest songs ever written.
It's just unbelievable. I feel like the whole side, too, is just B sides.
I mean, because it's the B side of the album and there's some great, great songs on that side as well.
And so this album to me, this is what this is what got me into Rush.
And everything else was measured against it until I got older
and realized that you should just take each album based on its own merits.
Yeah, it's interesting how much side one got played on on US radio.
That is incredible. I mean, because it's how let me see. How long is it?
Twenty minutes, twenty minutes, thirty four seconds.
And up until when I lived in the States in the early 2000s, this still got radio play where it was amazing
how you couldn't get a four minute song on the radio, but Rush was getting a 20 minute plus song on the radio.
It's the ultimate peace song for the DJ. Actually, this is more probably the poops on.
Put it on and go. Bingo. That was on my card.
You're going to have to throw that on a T-shirt to put it on and go.
There you go. Anyway, all right. 2112. Who else?
This was the second Rush self I heard not long after Hearing Trees.
One of my older brothers got I think maybe a real tape or a taped tape of this.
Oh, wow. And we used to listen to it in my parents' van on long journeys.
That's my memory of it. Anyway, off of one of those tape recorders that are flat, they lie down.
Yeah. And it would be played on that. So like mono. Cool.
And I just remember being in on long journeys at night and, you know, the whole section where he finds the guitar
just sort of echoing around this transit van driving at night. That's my memory of this.
You know, and when you're probably 13 or something, you know, it's quite impressive.
You know, you feel very grown up listening to something like that.
And yeah, so that's 2112 was basically it for a long time for as far as Rush was concerned.
Right. My older brother got ex-says left later on.
But yeah, like we were we were happy enough with just that.
So wait a second. So Anthony, let me get this right. You're on a trip.
Were you playing this out loud or did you have headphones?
Oh, no, this is before the days of headphones. Like we'd be in the vehicle.
No, they would. They would have been driving it.
But they could hear it. Yeah. They weren't like. No, they were cool.
So we had a we used to travel around in a van with the whole family in the back.
I think you might have the coolest parents ever then. Well done.
Well, they might not be able to hear it because it was just on this little tape recorder.
But OK, you know, I'm a memory and maybe I'm sort of misremembering this, but it was it's a memory that's always stuck with me.
It's a great memory. Yeah, that's that's very cool.
Anyone else with 2112?
Johan, you're saying no. You mean you're turning down the ability to talk about a Rush album?
Well, a lot to be said, so I don't have so much memories of that album.
I listened to it, of course, a lot afterwards.
And I love the Tyler tracks and Side A, but that's not an album that I go back to a lot.
OK. Yeah, that's the way it is.
I think it is an interesting contrast to having 2112 on Side One and then a whole bunch of three minute some odd songs on Side Two, you know, just to fill the space.
A passage to Bangkok. Of course, I've seen live, but it's a good song.
Yeah, that's the way it is now.
I like 80s Rush. Yes.
All right. Real quick hello to Tony, who is in our chat. Hope you are doing well tonight, sir.
All right. So at number four, you find the right album cover.
It is fly by night.
How is that number four?
You can't step on over step all over Johan's part.
Oh, sorry.
I'm not I'm not screaming that it should be higher.
I'm just like, you know, OK, go ahead.
You guys talk about this.
This is why it should be number four. Come on, bring it.
This is what always happens when we do these lists.
No one is ever 100 percent happy.
And also, we have to take into consideration what lies ahead.
Because of the fact that, you know, we've there's 19 albums we've already discussed what 15 of them.
There has to be something that's, you know, that that.
And I'll say this, the top three albums were clearly ahead of everything else.
The number one is a landslide. But anyway, fly by night.
Why do you think it shouldn't be for Brad?
Well, I think the quality of the songs is just I mean, I think they were still figuring things out.
And so I just don't think the songs are that strong.
I mean, I like the album. OK.
But it's yeah, it's nothing. It's not one I would go. I want to put that album on this and the whole thing.
OK, so I get it. You're saying it's too high as opposed to why isn't it higher?
Correct. Yeah, this is the reverse. You're in effect. All right. All right. All right.
I I misunderstood you. I thought you were saying that you wanted this album to be higher.
And now you're saying that it should be lower. OK, gotcha.
And that is interesting because exactly what you said for a lot of people,
you know, the first album was them trying to be zeppelin.
The second album was kind of a more of them experimenting.
I think for a lot of people, 2112 is probably the first.
Authentic Rush album is the album that saved them because I think they were about to get dropped after recording this album.
It didn't do very well at all. And 2112 saved the band.
So I don't like I said, convince me that it needs that it should be their fourth best album.
Somebody tell me why you think it's that great because somebody had to vote for it higher than four for it to get the four.
Yeah, absolutely. Mike, it's a bad album.
I mean, I like it, but I mean, I went by touring the Snow Dog, which I do like now.
At first, I was like, this is like a this is like eight minutes of noise.
So there's a song in there somewhere now. Now, like I said, I do I do enjoy it, but it's still it's a ridiculous event, in my opinion.
Go ahead, Mike. Yeah, I had this one.
You know, my 10 spot just from a nostalgia standpoint, this was actually the first out Rush album that I ever had personally picked it up.
Probably that's a that's a great reason to put it up in the top 79.
It means something to you that the factor is is stronger in this one.
But to Brad's point, you know, the quality of the songs isn't quite there yet.
So, yeah, it does feel a little high at four. But, you know, like, you know, it's like asking, you know, what's the worst chocolate you've ever had?
You know, all chocolate is good. Come on.
It's all good. You know, 19 albums.
They all have their their strong points. So not going to knock it.
Johan, where did this album sit on your list?
I don't think it were on my top 10.
But it's good. I like by Thorne the Snow Dog.
I'm best I can. But it's good.
But not not my rush yet.
OK, Anthony, sum this album up in one sentence.
I listened to it the other day and I enjoyed it.
That's perfect. Yeah, we should put that in a review somewhere. That's great.
So let's see.
Seventy five percent of the people that voted voted for this album, whether it was a high it was slotted higher or not. A lot of people voted for it.
So that's ended up at four.
OK.
All right.
Number three.
It is signals.
All right. Who wants to take signals on first?
I think Mike would agree with me. It should have been a greyhound on the cover, not a Dalmatian.
But it would have probably moved faster.
Yeah, I think for me, I think all of you wise, great album top to bottom.
You know, I mean, you've got subdivisions analog, digital man, New World Man, Countdown, some great, great songs to throw out.
Yeah, I think this is a very accessible album.
You know, nothing too extreme, nothing too out there.
So I can see the popularity of it definitely being out there.
And, you know, no 20 minute epics here. So a little easier to listen.
It's Victor. Victor, didn't you say New World Man was the most played song of theirs?
Most played song on U.S. radio by the band.
Wow, that is unbelievable.
That's cool. But I would not have picked that. I would think subdivisions.
I think I've heard that a lot more than New World Man, but maybe it just stood out more.
Subdivisions is that's like one of their top 10 songs.
Yeah, I think New World Man got a lot of airplay at the time when this album came out.
I don't recall if there was a video for it or not. I'm assuming that there was.
So, I mean, there's that MTV factor.
Yeah, I'm okay. If you got a band, Anthony, back me up on this.
And something's gone wrong with the drums and he's fixing his snare or whatever.
And you got a keyboard up there.
If you started playing the keyboard part to subdivisions, everybody in the crowd would go nuts.
It's true.
It depends. Are you at a Travis Scott show or what show are you at?
I think it would even go over to Travis Scott show.
I'm just talking about playing down the pub or something.
Yeah, it kind of shows that we do.
I know for a fact because I've been in that position and the guys started playing on the keyboards and everybody in the crowd just like focused all of a sudden.
It's like, yeah, you can play the rest of it. Unfortunately, the rest of us don't know this song, but we got nobody who can sing it.
So that's a problem. But I'm just telling you that keyboard riff is it'll it'll bring everybody in the audience on board for a moment.
You know, hopefully that will be an upcoming show.
You want spoilers, though.
All right. Cool. Anyone else on signals?
Yes, of course. It's an amazing album. Mike said it all.
Ten out of ten album all strong together. It's fantastic. Very inspired by the police, of course.
But I think this album is amazing.
So many hit songs.
I mean, subdivisions, if I listen to that, if I'm there in the right or say wrong mood, it still moves me today.
It's absolutely amazing. I love this album.
What moves you the most of that? Alex's vocals?
Alex, he does some vocals.
He does on the song subdivisions.
Yeah. Yeah.
No, I think he's on the record.
Yeah, that's him saying subdivisions.
Yeah. Yeah.
All right. Is that true?
Yes, it is. One hundred percent.
Watch it live.
Yeah. Rush do a lot of things live that nowadays it's yeah.
But Alex's voice isn't that great in singing.
But yeah, he does subdivisions. That's true.
He no.
What rush has one really good thing they do.
I think at Geddy, one of his strengths is to make the vocal lines in the verses.
His melody line is often better than the chorus.
I don't know if you guys have ever thought about it, but that's how I feel about them.
They often do have a strong melody line in the verses.
In the vocal harmony.
My opinion. Yep.
No, no, no, that's fine.
Glad you brought it up because I'm sure that there are others that feel that same way.
Cool. So two albums left.
What order do you guys think this is in?
Metal Dan, if you had to wager a bet.
What do you think? Presto, presto.
Yeah.
Okay.
Mike, what do you think?
I'm thinking moving pictures is going to be number one.
Okay.
Anthony. Yeah, I agree with Mike.
I can't actually think what could be number two.
I'm not deep in rush, but I'm, you know.
Number two is a huge album for them as well.
They'll be permanent waves.
Just by looking at the tracks on it as well.
Johan, what do you think? What's two and what's one?
Johan can't hear you.
Feminine waves and moving pictures.
Okay.
Brad, what do you think is two and one?
It's going to be permanent waves and then, yeah, moving pictures.
Okay. Well, we'll see.
We'll see if the voters have been a little strange with number two.
So at number two.
Number two.
All right.
Number two.
It is permanent waves.
Here's the thing with that.
You know, you try to think of.
As Anthony said, he couldn't think of what other album.
You have an album that is spirit of radio, free will and Jacob's ladder.
Three huge songs for not only the band, but for again, US radio.
These at least two of the three got played every single day.
And Jacob's ladder got thrown in there every once in a while.
At least in quote unquote modern US radio.
Permanent waves. Who wants to talk about this one?
Go ahead, Dan.
Oh, no, you were shutting the mic off. I thought you were turning it on. Okay.
Dan Dan's been a little silent during this show. He needs to jump in there.
Maybe he's waiting for number one.
Yeah, you know, I probably got this list all wrong and I don't know.
I know that my most memorable rush moment was probably when Mr. Big actually opened on that Presto tour.
Yeah, I remember that quite well.
You know, I saw, like I said, Russia a couple of times, but for some reason, you know, and then now Mr. Big is retiring.
So it was a good connection package there with the bass players on that.
But that's nothing to do with moving pictures and these albums.
So you did. You prefer Billy Sheehan to Les Claypool then?
Yeah, yeah, totally.
Even though Primus is now going around doing Rush songs.
Yeah, that's cool. I wish Rush would do Rush songs.
I wish the two could, you know, there's no bad feelings.
I wish they could just carry on, you know, but they can't do it.
Well, since I know that you don't read blabbermouth, one of the headlines this week was that they were kind of throwing songs around together
and that they sound about as good as the worst Rush cover band out there.
So the new Guitar World magazine has Alex has a new guitar line coming out.
You know, they're still around. They're still heavy.
They're still likable and would sell a lot of tickets and they would do great for a Vegas residency and stuff like that.
And, you know, I don't know. I realized the death of their drummer was a big deal to them.
But carry on, you know, I don't know. That's it.
OK.
They have their reasons. You know, I can't change it, but I can see it as a fan.
And yeah, you know, I wish I had probably seen a few of those tours that I ignored of theirs.
But, you know, like I said, I had my five years or so of shows and I was good and I had moved on.
But they're still relevant today. That's the thing I want to key on.
So back to you guys and go on mute.
So so just just to play devil's advocate, Dan,
my reason for not wanting them to do anything is all Rogers with Queen.
All I'll say.
All right. Permanent Waves, who wants to talk about this one?
It's it. I mean, it's a great album, of course.
And Spirit Radio is one of the best rock songs ever made.
I think it's a happy song. I love it.
Of course, you've got the reggae in there, as you mentioned before, which possibly is
maybe police influenced, as you mentioned.
The thing that I always loved about that song, not only the guitar intro
and not only the reggae part, but coming out of.
I mean, how do you even describe that part, that reggae part?
There's and not only that, there's right.
They're like the solo part where everything all of a sudden like kicks into just weird time signatures, where again.
Just think of just think of that, how fickle radio is
and how good this song is that today it's still played
on US radio just because of how important a song it is.
But yet you'll have pundits tell you, well, you can't mix this style with that style with the other thing.
Yet Russian, this song is mixing progressive reggae rock and whatever else you want to throw in there.
So, yeah. Sorry, Johan, I cut you off.
No problem.
Spirit of Radio is just another song that Russia.
The melody line in the verse is amazing.
Begin the day with a friendly voice.
You know, it's wow. It's so good.
It makes you happy.
You said it, the happy song.
But I had the opportunity to see Entre Nous.
They played it live in Malmö here in Sweden when I saw them, I don't know, 2010 or 11 or 12.
I don't remember, but great that they put back that song.
Yeah. Great song. Yeah, really.
This album really put them on the map for the world.
You got to figure they came out of hemispheres here and they kind of hung on a little bit with natural science to their long song thing.
But the rest of them are all just great songs.
I mean, maybe a little bit on the long side, but for radio.
Yeah, when I heard this album, I was like, holy crap, this is like they figured it all out how to tie their kind of past with where they're going kind of a thing.
I think I think it's a brilliant album definitely deserves to be number two.
Okay.
All right, so quickly here, I'll just count down.
19 to one.
Okay, before you before you go real quick, I just just a little note when I saw him on this tour, the opening band 38 not so special.
Still don't understand why with two drummers there, they're not even doing half of what Neil Peart's doing.
Why did they have two drummers?
They play the same thing.
No, they're, they're, they.
No, they are playing the same damn thing.
I mean, obviously somebody's got a picture of one of the guys with the goat or something or, or they're related and I don't I don't know what's going on there.
Anyway, I apologize for the tangent so go back to the countdown Victor.
That's fine Brad just hold on loosely.
Don't let go.
Oh, there you go.
All right.
I think we all talk about how great you on singing was of spirit of radio.
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
School.
19 vapor trails.
18 was number one.
Three parts 17 Chris of steel.
16 test for echo.
Great.
15.
Hold your fire.
14 rush.
13 Presto.
12 clockwork angels.
11 snakes and arrows.
10 roll the bones.
Nine power windows.
Eight hemispheres.
Seven grace under pressure.
Six a farewell to Kings.
521 12.
For fly by night.
Three signals.
Two permanent waves.
And we all know it.
Number one by a lot.
Moving pictures.
For me moving pictures.
I had a cousin who was kind of a fair weather music fan.
But usually when he would bring bands to my attention.
There have been a few over the years that I've really gotten into.
And he told me that rush was going to be the next big thing.
And I was like, who's rush.
You have to hear the song Tom Sawyer.
So it was before it.
Became huge on the radio.
Slightly before that.
But then once it hit radio, I mean, it's never left essentially.
It's always been a big thing.
And we've been talking about how.
How big some of these albums are.
One through four on side one of, of moving pictures.
Tom Sawyer.
Red bear Cheta.
YYZ.
And limelight.
Again.
Every single day on us radio.
Since the early eighties.
So this album is huge and no surprise to me anyway.
That it was number one.
Who wants to talk some moving pictures?
Yes. Who wants.
Johan is awake.
Yeah, it's I mean, it's all amazing.
And I'm not going to lie.
My favorite song is right now.
Witch hunt.
And vital signs.
Those two are.
Wow.
Especially those two I listened to a lot.
Yeah.
It's worthy of all.
The good comments.
Amazing album.
I think it's.
It's so fresh when it came out.
And.
I think it's.
It's so far to read about that period of time.
To rush when they played.
Because they made from.
Yeah.
I think it's.
Well worth it.
Mass piece.
As you said, Victor, it's.
Big record in the US.
Not here.
Not at all.
But.
No.
US UK.
It's big, but not in Sweden.
What?
What rush album was big in Sweden?
And.
But they have.
You know.
A big following.
But.
When they played here the first time.
Since the seventies.
They sold out the biggest stadiums here.
So.
It was.
They were well.
We all waited for them.
But.
They all play.
When after that.
They came back for every tour.
And it was sold out.
So.
Rush was big in Sweden.
But they never had any hit.
And I don't think I ever heard.
Thomas Sawyer played on Swedish radio.
I can hear Ghost.
One time.
Two times a day on Swedish national radio.
But you never hear Rush.
Interesting.
Yeah.
This album got up to 32.
In Sweden.
Which I'm guessing that's not that great.
UK was number three.
At its peak.
And US was number three at its peak.
Canada, believe it or not.
Number one.
Rishak.
Yeah.
I'm finding it very hard.
To imagine.
Any Rush song on the radio.
So when I hear you describing.
US radio.
I just can't get my head around it.
You know.
The thing is back then.
Radio was kind of left up to the DJ.
The DJ picked the songs.
That's not the case nowadays.
Oh no.
I know.
I'm talking about even.
Ever.
Yeah.
But it's amazing.
I mean I watch some.
Not a lot.
NHL hockey.
But you can hear from.
From the arena.
They play Tom Sawyer.
Oh yeah.
At the NHL hockey game.
In 2024.
Amazing.
Any US sport.
Has it.
Because I mean that the intro.
Neil Purt's intro to that has been.
Sampled a million times.
So.
You'll even hear it.
With other music.
That they'll play in the arenas.
Yeah.
Well that's the intro.
It's just.
It sounds like it was recorded yesterday.
Yeah.
Just to give you guys an idea.
I'm going to go through their 19 albums real quickly.
And not all of them have songs that are.
Still on the radio all the time.
But.
Find my way in working man.
Get played on US radio.
Fly by night.
Anthem.
Bastille day.
That's probably the only one off of that album.
They said 2112.
All of side one.
The poop song.
Yeah.
Closer to the heart.
Yeah.
Let's see.
I guess hemispheres is probably the one.
Out of these right now.
That one.
Didn't have a song.
Made it on the radio.
Yeah.
Then you come back with like I said before.
Spirit of the radio.
Free will.
Jacob's ladder every now and then.
Moving pictures.
All of side one.
Signals subdivision.
New world man as I mentioned before.
When the album came out.
The analog kid got on radio.
Distant early warning.
Red sector A got played when that album came out.
Off of power windows.
Big money.
Big money still gets played every now and then.
I think Marathon was a single.
I think.
Yes.
I think Manhattan Project too, wasn't it?
Yeah, could be.
I remember there was a few.
They played both Marathon and Manhattan Project.
Sweden Rock.
I think I was.
The tears were running down my eyes.
So amazing.
Just yeah.
Hold your fire.
So time stands still.
At the time got a lot of airplay because of the
Amy Mann sings on that.
Until Tuesday was a big band at that time.
At least.
Their one song was big.
Yep.
I mean, it's saying that Prime Mover was a second single.
I personally don't remember that track.
Show don't tell off of Presto.
Still got played every now and then.
Roll the bones surprisingly enough.
That song.
I think it was a big hit.
Roll the bones surprisingly enough.
That song.
Still got still gets played.
And then after that.
Go ahead.
Who's doing the rapping on that one?
On which one?
Roll the bones.
Geddy Lee.
Geddy Lee did that?
Yeah, they pitched down the vocals.
Wow.
Look at Geddy rapping.
That's crazy.
Geddy's jack of all trades.
True.
And then after that.
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong guys.
I mean, I've heard Test for Echo and Driven on the radio.
But I can't say that.
They still get played.
One little victory.
They played live ever since Vapor Trails came out.
But I don't remember that really getting any airplay.
And the last two albums.
A Far Cry got on the radio when that first came out.
Yep.
And Clockwork Angels.
I was living over here by then.
But on the look of things, they released five singles off of that album.
So go for it.
Well, while we're still talking about moving pictures, I might have told this story on here before.
Rush have only ever played Ireland once.
And it was on that tour where they were doing moving pictures and 2112.
So that was recent enough.
I mean, I think it was a really good time.
It was a big gig and it did really well.
I went as a fair weather fan, but it was such an enjoyable concert.
I didn't want it to end.
I'm having such a great time here.
That's awesome.
Because it was their personalities just coming across.
They were such nice, friendly guys.
And that was pouring out into the arena.
Everyone was having a great time.
Yeah, I think that speaks to them a lot with all the tragedy that they had.
And whatever broken personalities they may have had, where you see that probably a lot more with other bands,
I think especially after they thought that the band was over when when Neil kind of came back and they kind of circled back again.
It seemed like the band got to a different level where they enjoyed every moment that they could when they were on stage.
So I think you see that.
I mean, I've never seen them live, but I have several of their live albums on Blu-ray and DVD.
And it always seems like they're having fun when they're playing.
So I think it speaks to that.
And I mean, I think for a lot of the fans outside of the music, that's kind of the allure is seeing the specialness, the uniqueness of the band,
the individual parts, but also how they all kind of came together as a band.
Yeah. And amazing for three guys to have been together as long as they have and not had the infighting and the conflict,
to the extent that a lot of other long term bands have.
They all seem to be friends.
And there were times, and mentioned earlier, where Alex was a little upset with his guitars getting pushed back in the mix and things like that.
But they still stuck it out.
They kept putting out quality music for a long, long time.
Yeah, I think a lot of that kind of leans towards and again, I'm not the connoisseur that Johan is.
It isn't like in Aerosmith or at Kiss or Black Sabbath, where there were a lot of issues with substance abuse and with personalities where
the issues that you're saying with Alex Lifeson in other bands, people were gone or they would just bring in ghost musicians to just play the parts.
Whereas they were able to keep things together for that long of a time.
And let's be honest, there aren't too many bands that went away as gracefully as they did, where they didn't have to say, oh, well, this is us going away.
Please come see us.
Please come check out this nostalgia thing that we're going to stretch out for 15 years.
They didn't need to, because the amazing thing about these guys is that once they hit the point of arenas, they never dipped.
I mean, they kind of just stayed there and they kind of even just kind of nice, steady incline.
They didn't. And what I really loved about them is the last, I don't know how many years, 15, probably plus years that they would do the whole show.
No warm up band. They do three hours plus with an intermission.
And how many don't you wish your favorite band would do that kind of stuff?
No, they're they're they're sloths. Most most other bands, you know, let's let's be honest.
I mean, they were they were switching their set list up every every leg of their tour, every tour.
You know, they were bringing in, like I said, they they vapor trails had zero play on it.
Yet one little one one little victory was was played continuously live.
And that's not an easy song to play either. It's it's a hard song to play.
I mean, that's that's the thing. They they could have easily.
Gone the way that a lot of other bands and they just did it their way.
And, you know, that kind of what kills me when I see other musicians slag them.
There's there's there's one famous person that wrote a book about being a junkie in a closet
who continuously complains about their popularity.
But let's be honest, they never made clowns out of themselves like this person.
So anyway. Yeah.
And any any any final words about Rush?
Anyone want to say anything before we wrap things up here?
Yes, I would like to say something.
Rush is for me the best lyrics combined with sometimes strange music.
But it's for me, Lyrk, Niels lyrics are most important.
He writes words that speaks to me and get he has amazing voice
and he combines that with the music that's not so I mean, it's not docking.
It's it's something else.
It's something that when you like it, you like it and it's for life.
Yeah. It's for us. Yeah, it's for us.
It's something else. It's not for everybody.
But if you like music, I think if you are a true fan of music, you like Rush.
That's the words for tonight.
Sorry. Yeah, that's fine.
And anyone else? Final words?
Yeah, I had the privilege of seeing what their sixth to the last show in Portland, Oregon on the R40 tour.
Talk about like the best tour set up to go out on and the you know, just the way that they progressed.
So it started with full stage, full everything.
And about every two or three songs, they had guys coming out in coveralls, slowly stripping back the stage.
And each section of the show was like from a different album.
And they went back in time with it and were using elements of each stage set from all of their history.
And when they got to the very end, there were just two little crate camps sitting on fold up chairs and a five piece drum set and just three guys out there.
And they went out and it was like, wow, we're done.
And one of the one of the greatest visual things and auditory things that I've ever experienced in my life.
That sounds great. Yeah.
Yeah, a lot of a lot of people that's that's interesting that you bring that up because a lot of people don't realize how into the shows they were as well.
You wouldn't think of them as a quote unquote theatrical band, but they always had an interesting stage set up.
They always had something that caught your eye and made the shows worthwhile outside of the music and lyrics and everything else.
So, yeah, that's awesome.
Anyone else before we wrap it up here? Yeah, I'm going to say this.
I think they defied all record company logic to being as successful as they were and to being again, being able to maintain that.
They were always classy.
They I mean, I'm pretty sure they were just doing what they wanted to do.
They weren't chasing the hit or anything.
It's just like, man, this is what we want to do.
And they are the fans that they had were cool enough like Johan to go along for the ride and stick with them.
And yeah, how many bands can say that?
That's that's incredible.
And then the three guys, of course, stuck together.
Yeah, incredible legacy.
They're one of the greatest bands ever.
Hmm.
Dan, anything you'd like to say on this subject?
No, but you guys have done great.
Positive reinforcement from metal, Dan.
Anthony, any other story you want to tell before we wrap things up here?
No, no, I, you know, of the 19 albums, is it?
Yeah, 19.
You know, I'm only really familiar with four or five of them.
You know, so it's good to hear you guys talk about the likes of Permanent Waves where, you know, I've never actually heard that album.
So yeah, there's your homework.
These are these are album covers and albums I've been aware of my whole life.
It feels like.
It's just, you know, I've got some work to do.
There you go.
Yeah, that's a homework assignment for everybody watching this, too, is that if there's an album that was in our top 10 that you haven't heard, listen to it this week.
Yeah, I, Anthony sent me something else that was pretty cool is that he he sent me as the graphic guru that he is, in his opinion, what his favorite Rush logos were from throughout the years.
So it's pretty neat.
Cool.
Go ahead.
Obviously, number one was the first album.
It is iconic.
Funny thing we're talking about Russia stage shows that day I saw them.
Getty was wearing a rash t shirt.
Yeah.
You probably know they come out and I can't remember the story, they were going to see a band or something that we call rash that was this.
The intro was a video piece, and then they ended up once I can't remember it was funny.
Right.
Yeah, they've always had a great sense of humor.
And then they ended up with, you know, the guys from that film I love you man you know but that's all about rush as well so right.
They had the, the exit piece video screen of that and that's great.
Cool. That's cool.
Awesome. So on that note, with our super long rush episode here that again, goes, goes to show how much people love this band, and how easy it is to talk about them.
So, on that note, we will leave you. Thanks to Johan Dan Mike, Anthony and Brad for joining me thank you to Tony for joining us in the chat for a second there.
And we will see you next time right here on signals from Mars. See ya.
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