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Alex Lifeson and Allan Holdsworth Alex Lifeson comments on Allan below. Guitar Player - June 1980 Why do you like Alan Holdsworth? I've only heard the stuff he's done with UK and with [drummer] Bill Bruford-his first two albums-and I especially like his use of the vibrato arm. It's not like the typical wang wang stuff a lot of players do. Alan uses it so tastefully, and uses it in conjunction with bending notes and moving around the fingerboard. I also like his tone; to me it sounds at times very much like a saxophone. Guitar Player - April 1986 Parts of "Grand Designs" almost sound like slide guitar. Yeah. It's whammy. I was very much influenced by Allan Holdsworth a number of years ago, the way he uses the whammy bar to slur notes and move around. That got me interested in using one and trying to develop a style with one. So many people use it now that it's not that unique, and actually I've started to move away from it a bit. I've gotten a bit lazy with my natural vibrato since I've been relying a lot more on the whammy bar. It's time for a change. Guitar Player - September 2007 A defining characteristic of your soloing-especially on tunes like "The Trees" and "YYZ"-is your use of really wide interval skips, often involving open strings. Where do you think that comes from? I got a lot of that from Allan Holdsworth. Around that time in the late '70s, I was quite influenced by his left-hand work-the way he pulled and played without picking. GuitarOne - September/October 1996 Were you ever influenced by jazz? Allan Holdsworth really touched me. The playing he did with U.K. and Bill Bruford was so incredibly fluid, more like a sax or violin than a guitar. His solo on U.K.'s "In the Dead of Night" influenced my whammy bar playing tremendously. Guitar World - November 1981 "The Hiwatts are inefficient but they push and they have a particular sound which I liked at the time. We were in England and I saw Bill Bruford and Allan Holdsworth was using two Marshall combos and it sounded amazing. I rented one and tried it out while we made Moving Pictures and I ended up using it pretty well exclusively. I was very happy with the results." Guitar World - July 2006 "In The Dead Of Night" - U.K., U.K., 1978 "Allan Holdsworth has an amazing, out-of-this-world liquidity. What a genius! His fingers are constantly moving. Pulls make up the bulk of his playing; I don't think he does much picking. I was listening to Holdsworth around the time of Moving Pictures [1981], and you can indirectly hear his influence on my playing on 'YYZ.'" Neil Peart comments on Allan below: Canadian Musician - October 1981 "You see a horn player or a violinist whose phrasing is so nice, like the way Allan Holdsworth plays guitar; the way he phrases his instrument it sounds like a saxophone sometimes. That sort of syncopation amazes me."

It makes me think of the video for by SAGA. There's a point where it has to stop. Wind him up, he can't stop He's wound up tight just like the clock That's winding its second hand down Wind him up, he can't stop He keeps on going 'round the clock He's winding his second hand down

Geddy, Alex, and Neil should look to the guys in SAGA for making the decision to hang up RUSH and make an official post. Michael Sadler has said that SAGA are done their final chapter this year (except for a special one-off performance on the 2018 Cruise to the Edge) according to this news post here. To me progressive-rock has a 40 year life span and shouldn't continue after that. If the genre does progress to 50 years for a band, then it becomes a joke.

I listened to ''Live At Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 31, 1972' by Yes on Spotify and it's great.

Jeff still performs in the Red Rider lineup with Tom Cochrane. I saw Tom Cochrane and Red Rider live in early March of this year on the 'MMW25 ('Mad Mad World' 25th Anniversary Album Tour)' that took place across various cities in Canada. I took my vinyl copy of 'Put Your Hand In The Hand' by Ocean and got to meet Jeff before the concert. I spoke with Jeff for about five minutes and got a photo holding the album with him. I also had my vinyl copy of 'Neruda' by Red Rider. I also showed Jeff the 'meet and greet' photo with Geddy and Alex and he thought it was cool that I met them both. Jeff balances doing gigs with Tom Cochrane, Burton Cummings and The Carpet Frogs. A recent 2012 interview with The Carpet Frogs is posted featuring Jeff.

In the induction speech for Yes, Geddy mentioned that he and Alex saw Yes live in concert (1972) at Maple Leaf Gardens (Toronto). The exact date of the concert is October 31, 1972 here. Yes (courtesy of Rhino Records) released a box set of live recordings (in 2015) from various dates on the 'Close To The Edge Tour', which can be viewed here. The concerts compiled in the box set can be purchased as individual digital downloads from Amazon or iTunes and/or streamed on Spotify or other streaming services. This particular one is titled 'Live At Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 31, 1972' by Yes. Also here's ' ' that can be heard on YouTube.

I just realized that "The Early Days of Neil Peart" pre-roll isn't included on the package either. I just bought the RUSH: Time Stand Still DVD today.

The limited-edition Rush Gumby keychain made me think of when Kim Mitchell interviewed Geddy and Alex in 2007 from this clip at the 2:30 mark and beyond. Kim asked Geddy and Alex if he was nicknamed 'Gumby' by them in the early days.

I hope that the RUSH: A Salute To Kings 20 minute pre-roll that was in the theater premiere of the 'Time Stand Still' documentary will be included as a possible 'easter egg' in the DVD/Blu-Ray package. The description of the DVD/Blu-Ray package doesn't specify this. http://www.rounder.com/2016/11/rush-time-stand-still/ If Rounder doesn't include this, I hope the clip will be posted on their YouTube channel for all to see.

A review about the 'Canadiana' album here and an interview with David Clayton-Thomas here.

Some of the musical acts from the late 70's - early 80's were categorized as 'pomp rock'.

I understand that this Afro-Cuban salsa version of 'Closer To The Heart' isn't for everyone. However there's music fans who'll either not like another band covering a note-for-note version of a musical acts song or if a different arrangement spin is put on it. Again you can't please everyone, but at least hear it and maybe give it a chance.

Vocalist David Clayton-Thomas of 'Blood, Sweat & Tears' has released a new solo album titled 'Canadiana' last month. It's an album of cover songs done in different arrangements written by legendary Canadian musical acts and songwriters. There's a salsa arrangement of 'Closer To The Heart' that he discusses in four parts .

I just finished reading Springsteen's new book 'Born To Run', which is great. I learned that Springsteen's spouse Patti Scialfa shares a birthday with Geddy Lee and are both the same age.

I fixed my mistake.

My guess is that Geddy did this in 1994-95 when RUSH was off the road after his wife gave birth to their daughter. Ben was producing k.d's 1995 album 'All You Can Eat' and then didn't collaborate with her again until 2004. I doubt Geddy would've played bass on the demos for 'Ingénue' in 1992 because RUSH was on the road then.

Ben resides in Vancouver and Geddy in Toronto.

I don't think my post and comments are stretching it by any means. Neil made the following comments in 'Far and Wide: Bring That Horizon to Me!' "Even after a couple of years, the Clockwork Angels album still seemed as good as I could do, in lyrics and drumming. That feeling had never happened before. As a band, I felt it stood as the masterpiece we had spent our career working toward. We were not going to beat it. The subsequent tour, featuring the Clockwork Angels String Ensemble, likewise felt like a high-water mark that did not need to be challenged." So either Geddy is going to do a solo album with Ben Mink involved possibly or maybe Geddy and Alex will do a project with Ben.

In recognition of yesterday's 40th anniversary of the release of Rush's first live album "All the World's a Stage", TeamRock.com posted portions of this old interview (originally published in Classic Rock magazine in 2003) with Geddy and Alex where they talk about the album ... http://teamrock.com/...ound-after-2112

From a Reverb Roland Canada (rolandca.com), August 2000 Interview with Ben Mink: Well, Geddy and I have been close friends for years. Rush were fans of FM, and at one point (1979), we'd toured with them. I also recorded with Rush on the Signals album. (A violin solo on the song "Losing It"). From that period on, I guess it was about 1980, we've been friends. During that entire time, we've never tried to write anything. It's always been just hanging around although he used to play bass on some of the k.d. lang demos; sometimes he'd casually come over, play bass, and then we'd catch a Blue Jays game afterwards. http://www.2112.net/...800rolandca.htm

Here's the proof below. https://www.youtube....h?v=RzZeCr2aD0U Possible second Geddy Lee solo album with the two of them?

From this 2013 Rolling Stone interview with Geddy Lee. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-rushs-geddy-lee-on-finally-taking-a-break-from-the-road-20130923 I know lots of artists complain that too many people are using cameraphones at concert. Does it annoy you? It doesn't really bother me. Sometimes there will be a guy who is holding a camera phone and recording the entire song (laughs) and you just want to look at him and go, "Really?" But for the most part, that's their own personal thing that they show their friends. I don't have a problem with that. Even tattoos are considered copyright infringement now. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/who-owns-your-ink-tattoos-are-at-the-heart-of-lawsuits-involving-celebs-artists-and-even-coffee-shops

Here's a recent interview with Cameron Hawkins of FM that was posted late Feb 2016 on Teamrock. http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-02-26/fm-discuss-the-turbulent-past-touring-with-rush-and-their-big-return

From the following article posted in Sept 2011 below: Gordon Lightfoot brings legendary sounds of the open seas http://www.heraldnews.com/article/20110909/NEWS/309099963 Since then, it seems it has become easier for Canadian artists to get a toehold; Rush maybe is the most notable example. I love them. They’re great. I know Geddy [Geddy Lee, Rush lead vocalist and bassist] very well. In terms of acceptance, I think that the American side has kind of an appetite for Canadian talent. We are cousins in a certain kind of way. Here's an older photo of Gedd Lee and Gordon Lightfoot below, which took place at the Toronto Music Awards in December 1989 when Lightfoot was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award according to photographer Algis Kemezys that i contacted about it. http://www.pbase.com/alkeme/image/6603044/original

I vote for Ben. I met Ben on the Time Machine Tour in Vancouver back in June 2011. I've been a fan of all of his musical output after that encounter that I checked out. I got to meet Geddy and Alex this year as well and bumped into Ben again and had a brief chat with him which was great. Ben did 'Losing It' with the guys in Vancouver which was excellent to see live.