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Hold Your Fire Tour
The Hold Your Fire Tour was a concert tour by Canadian rock band Rush, in support of the band's twelfth studio album ''Hold Your Fire''. Background The band continued the trend of their usage of synthesizers, sequencers and onstage automation which continued from their Power Windows Tour, also featuring a laser system with red and green beams as well as a video screen that had animated segments of the three red orbs from the cover of ''Hold Your Fire''. Opening bands on the North American leg included Chalk Circle, the McAuley Schenker Group, and Tommy Shaw. Wishbone Ash was the support act for the band's performances in Europe. The first three European performances at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England were recorded for the band's live album and video, ''A Show of Hands''. Reception Reviewing the Lakeland concert on February 15, 1988, Philip Booth of the Lakeland Ledger who had given the concert a 'poor' review, criticized the band's performance, statin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hold Your Fire
''Hold Your Fire'' is the twelfth studio album by Canadian progressive rock band Rush, released on September 8, 1987. It was recorded at The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire, Ridge Farm Studio in Surrey, AIR Studios in Montserrat and McClear Place in Toronto. ''Hold Your Fire'' was the last Rush studio album released outside Canada by PolyGram/ Mercury. 'Til Tuesday bassist and vocalist Aimee Mann contributed vocals to " Time Stand Still" and appeared in the Zbigniew Rybczyński-directed video. The album was not as commercially successful as most of the band's releases of the 1980s, peaking at number 13 on the ''Billboard'' charts, the lowest chart peak for a Rush album since 1978's '' Hemispheres''. However, it was eventually certified Gold by the RIAA. Writing After Rush's 1986 '' Power Windows'' tour ended, the band members took the summer off to spend more time with their families. A few months passed, and the group decided to start getting back into writing material.Banasi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Stand Still (song)
"Time Stand Still" is a song by Canadian progressive rock band Rush, released in 1987 as the lead single from their twelfth studio album ''Hold Your Fire''. The song features American singer-songwriter Aimee Mann. It peaked at No. 3 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart on November 6, 1987, and was a minor hit single in the United Kingdom, peaking at No. 42 on the UK Singles Chart. A music video for the song was directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński. Development and composition "Time Stand Still" was the first track Neil Peart wrote for ''Hold Your Fire''. According to Peart, he wrote the lyrics for "Time Stand Still" based on his time with Rush: "Time Stand Still" is in the key of E major. The tempo is moderately fast. The song starts in before going to common time by the first verse.Time Stand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Peart
Neil Ellwood Peart ( ; September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020) was a Canadian and American musician, known as the drummer, percussionist, and primary lyricist of the rock band Rush (band), Rush. He was known to fans by the nickname "the Professor", derived from the ''Gilligan's Island'' The Professor (Gilligan's Island), character of the same name. His drumming was renowned for its technical proficiency and his live performances for their exacting nature and stamina. Peart earned numerous awards for his musical performances, including an induction into the ''Modern Drummer'' Modern Drummer#Readers poll, Readers Poll Hall of Fame in 1983 at the age of thirty, making him the youngest person ever so honoured. Peart was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and grew up in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, Port Dalhousie (now part of St. Catharines). During adolescence, he floated between regional bands in pursuit of a career as a full-time drummer. After a discouraging stint in England, Peart return ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Lifeson
Aleksandar Živojinović (born 27 August 1953), known professionally as Alex Lifeson (), is a Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist for the rock band Rush. In 1968, he co-founded a band (which later became Rush) with drummer John Rutsey and bassist and lead vocalist Jeff Jones. One month later, Jones was succeeded by Geddy Lee and in 1974, Rutsey was succeeded by Neil Peart. The lineup remained unchanged until the band's dissolution in 2018. Lifeson was the only member of Rush who stayed in the band throughout its entire existence, and he and Lee were the only members to appear on all of the band's albums. With Rush, Lifeson played electric and acoustic guitar, and other various string instruments such as mandola, mandolin, and bouzouki. He also performed backing vocals in live performances and select studio recordings, and occasionally played keyboards and bass pedal synthesizers. Each band member sometimes performed real-time on-stage triggering of sampled instrum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geddy Lee
Geddy Lee Weinrib (; born Gary Lee Weinrib, July 29, 1953) is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Rock music, rock band Rush (band), Rush. Lee joined the band in September 1968 at the request of his childhood friend Alex Lifeson, replacing original bassist and frontman Jeff Jones (bassist), Jeff Jones. Lee's solo effort, ''My Favourite Headache'', was released in 2000. Lee's style, technique, and skill on the bass have inspired many rock musicians such as Cliff Burton of Metallica; Steve Harris (musician), Steve Harris of Iron Maiden; John Myung of Dream Theater; Les Claypool of Primus (band), Primus; Steve Di Giorgio of Sadus, Death (metal band), Death and Testament (band), Testament; and Tim Commerford of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave. Along with his Rush bandmates – guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart – Lee was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on May 9, 1996. The trio was the first rock band to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Mood (Rush Song)
"In the Mood" is a song by the Canadian rock band Rush from their 1974 self-titled debut album. It was at least two years old when recorded for the album. Composition "In the Mood" is three minutes and 34 seconds long. The song was composed in the key of A major and is in 4/4 time. It is the only song on the album written entirely by Geddy Lee (the music on all other songs is co-written by guitarist Alex Lifeson). Lee said that this was the first song he wrote with Lifeson that they "kind of liked". Lifeson said It "was probably at least two years old, if not three, when we recorded the first album". He also said: "Ged came in and said, 'I've got a good idea for a song' and played it from beginning to end". The St. Louis classic rock radio station KSHE used to play the song every Friday night at 7:45 because of the song lyrics mentioning "a quarter to eight". Reception "In the Mood" was released as a single, reaching No. 31 in Canada ''Cash Box'' said that "the Led Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rush Instrumentals
The Canadian rock band Rush wrote, recorded, and performed several instrumentals throughout its career. Studio recordings La Villa Strangiato "La Villa Strangiato" was released on the 1978 album '' Hemispheres'', and is subtitled "An Exercise in Self-Indulgence". The 9:37 song, the fourth and final track of the album, was Rush's first entirely instrumental piece. The multi-part piece was inspired by a dream guitarist Alex Lifeson had, and the music in these sections correspond to the occurrences in his dream. The opening segment was played on a nylon-string classical guitar. The next segment introduces the main theme of La Villa, the Strangiato theme. The song progresses to include an increasingly complex guitar solo backed by string synthesizer, followed closely by bass and drum fills. The Strangiato theme is then revisited before the song ends abruptly with phased bass and drums. The piece is divided as follows: * I: "Buenas Noches, Mein Froinds!" (0:00–0:26) * II: "To sle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Sawyer (song)
"Tom Sawyer" is a song by Canadian rock music, rock band Rush (band), Rush, originally released on their 1981 album ''Moving Pictures (Rush album), Moving Pictures'' as its opener. The band's lead singer, bassist, and keyboardist, Geddy Lee, has referred to the track as the band's "defining piece ... from the early '80s". Drumeo.com has stated Tom Sawyer may be "the world's greatest air-drumming song of all-time". Background and recording The song was written by Geddy Lee, drummer Neil Peart, and guitarist Alex Lifeson in collaboration with lyricist Pye Dubois of the band Max Webster, who also co-wrote the Rush songs "Force Ten (song), Force Ten", "Between Sun and Moon", and "Test for Echo". According to the US radio show ''In the Studio with Redbeard'' (which devoted an episode to the making of ''Moving Pictures''), "Tom Sawyer" came about during a summer rehearsal vacation that Rush spent at Ronnie Hawkins' farm outside Toronto. Peart was presented with a poem by Dubois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spirit Of Radio
"The Spirit of Radio" is a song by Canadian rock band Rush, released from their 1980 album ''Permanent Waves''. The song's name was inspired by Brampton, Ontario based radio station CFNY-FM's slogan. It was significant in the growing popularity of the band, becoming their first top 30 single in Canada and reaching number 51 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Background The introduction of the song was composed in a mixolydian mode scale built on E; most of the rest, barring repetitions of the introductory guitar riff, is in conventional E major. Guitarist Alex Lifeson explained the song's opening riff as "I just wanted to give it something that gave it a sense of static – radio waves bouncing around, very electric. We had that sequence going underneath, and it was just really to try and get something that was sitting on top of it, that gave it that movement." "The Spirit of Radio" features the band experimenting with a reggae style in its closing section. Reggae would be ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Lenses
''Grace Under Pressure'' is the tenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released April 12, 1984, on Anthem Records. After touring for the band's previous album, ''Signals'' (1982), came to an end in mid-1983, Rush started work on a follow-up in August. The band had decided not to work with longtime producer Terry Brown, who had collaborated with Rush since 1974. The new material accentuated the group's change in direction towards a synthesizer-oriented sound like its previous album. After some difficulty finding a suitable producer who could commit, the album was recorded with Peter Henderson. ''Grace Under Pressure'' reached number 4 in Canada, number 5 in the UK, and number 10 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200. It was certified platinum in the U.S. for selling one million copies. Background and recording In July 1983, Rush ended their 1982–1983 tour of North America and the UK in support of their previous album, ''Signals'' (1982). The group reconvened in mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YYZ (instrumental)
"YYZ" (natively pronounced ) is an instrumental rock composition by the Canadian rock band Rush from their 1981 album '' Moving Pictures''. The live album '' Exit... Stage Left'' (1981) and the concert video recording ''A Show of Hands'' (1989) both include versions in which Neil Peart incorporates a drum soloas an interlude on the former, and as a segue out of the piece on the latter. Title and composition YYZ is the IATA airport identification code of Toronto Pearson International Airport, near Rush's hometown. The band was introduced to the rhythm as Alex Lifeson flew them into the airport. A VHF omnidirectional range system at the airport broadcasts the YYZ identifier code in Morse code. Peart said in interviews later that the rhythm stuck with them. Peart and Geddy Lee have both said "It's always a happy day when ''YYZ'' appears on our luggage tags." The piece's introduction, played in a time signature of , repeatedly renders "Y-Y-Z" in Morse Code using various musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
