TheGhostRider Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Figured this would make an interesting topic. Sometimes I like looking through the archived versions of websites, and recently i looked through the archives of Rush.com, and at one point the url did not belong to the band. Back in 2001, someone named Bob Ames owned it, and lost the ownership after not renewing the url in 2003 or so. Here's a screenshot of how the website looked then. https://web.archive.org/web/20010210062643/http://www.rush.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ST3V Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 If you click on the albums it brings you to 2001 amazon pages. very interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grep Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 There was some talk back then about whether or not that guy would ever sell the domain to the band. I have no idea what happened. But I guess every man has his price. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostRider Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 There was some talk back then about whether or not that guy would ever sell the domain to the band. I have no idea what happened. But I guess every man has his price. :) Interesting. I looked through his website and minus the section on Rush it was a lot of rambling and random information all linked together. It seems like the primary purpose of his website was to argue for the legalization of marijuana, (which I agree with) but that has absolutely nothing to do with the music of Rush. (Except for maybe A Passage To Bangkok) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BastillePark Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 There was some talk back then about whether or not that guy would ever sell the domain to the band. I have no idea what happened. But I guess every man has his price. :) Interesting. I looked through his website and minus the section on Rush it was a lot of rambling and random information all linked together. It seems like the primary purpose of his website was to argue for the legalization of marijuana, (which I agree with) but that has absolutely nothing to do with the music of Rush. (Except for maybe A Passage To Bangkok) Don't know about that. From things read and heard over the years, they were smokers of the weed and I'd figure it played a part in lots of the song writing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostRider Posted September 29, 2021 Author Share Posted September 29, 2021 (edited) There was some talk back then about whether or not that guy would ever sell the domain to the band. I have no idea what happened. But I guess every man has his price. :) Interesting. I looked through his website and minus the section on Rush it was a lot of rambling and random information all linked together. It seems like the primary purpose of his website was to argue for the legalization of marijuana, (which I agree with) but that has absolutely nothing to do with the music of Rush. (Except for maybe A Passage To Bangkok) Don't know about that. From things read and heard over the years, they were smokers of the weed and I'd figure it played a part in lots of the song writing.Idk probably. I do remember Geddy saying he thought they were high when they made Caress Of Steel so there’s a big possibility of that being true. Also welcome to the forum BastillePark. Edited September 29, 2021 by TheGhostRider 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 There was some talk back then about whether or not that guy would ever sell the domain to the band. I have no idea what happened. But I guess every man has his price. :) Interesting. I looked through his website and minus the section on Rush it was a lot of rambling and random information all linked together. It seems like the primary purpose of his website was to argue for the legalization of marijuana, (which I agree with) but that has absolutely nothing to do with the music of Rush. (Except for maybe A Passage To Bangkok) Don't know about that. From things read and heard over the years, they were smokers of the weed and I'd figure it played a part in lots of the song writing.Idk probably. I do remember Geddy saying he thought they were high when they made Caress Of Steel so there’s a big possibility of that being true. Also welcome to the forum BastillePark.What's the line he uses...you can smell the hash oil emanating from the album? Yeah, weed was a BIG influence on their sensibilities at the time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytserush Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 Figured this would make an interesting topic. Sometimes I like looking through the archived versions of websites, and recently i looked through the archives of Rush.com, and at one point the url did not belong to the band. Back in 2001, someone named Bob Ames owned it, and lost the ownership after not renewing the url in 2003 or so. Here's a screenshot of how the website looked then. https://web.archive....//www.rush.com/ I think Bob Ames was their attorney. Still might be...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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