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QUOTE (MUSICinTheABsTrAcT @ Feb 22 2006, 01:19 PM)
... Here is the "Rush Celebrity Fans" list I have been maintaining on the Counterparts website.

. . . by the way, I can vouch for the Brian Williams question: My good friend and Rush fan, John, relayed this to me after listening to an interview with Brian Williams on Q104.3 FM, in NY. Apparently he is a huge Rush fan and feels obligated to tell other people that he is a fan!!

:here goes:

Joaquin Phoenix
Robert Downey Jr.
Jack Black
Mike Meyers
Randy Johnson
Billy Joel
Artie Lange
Drea Dimatteo
Bubbles
Zack Wylde
Ted Nugent
Jason Priestly
Eddie Van Halen - (in doubt)
SEBASTIAN BACH
Billy Corgan
Mark Langston (Angels)
Storm Davis (Orioles)
Les Claypool
Mathew McConehey
David Lovering & Kim Deal from the Pixies
Dave Grohl
Trent Reznor
Dream Theater
Ben Folds
Tim Alexander
Matt Groening
Rocco Mediate (Pro golfer)
Matt Stone and Trey Parker - creators of South Park
Jamie Foxx
Brad Grayson
Jared Leto (30 Seconds to Mars)
Tommy Shaw
Larry Gowan
Billy Sheehan
Allan Handelman (Syndicated Talk Show host)
Danny Carey (Tool Drummer)
Steve Harris
Chip Carey (braves announcer)
"Jimmy" Page
Marylin Manson
Gordie Johnson (from Big Sugar)
Tino Martinez
Anderson Cooper, CNN
Carl Parker, The Weather Channel
Bryn Smith
Jeff Buckley
Barenaked Ladies
Bill Mueller, 3rd baseman Boston Red Sox
Nick Barker - The drummer from Dimmu Borgir
Chuck Knawblock (played for the Yankees)
Alice Cooper
Sully Erna (Godsmack)
Kevin Bacon
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam)
Robert Hewitt Wolfe (Andromeda producer )
Dimebag Darrell
Matt Clement - former Chicago Cub
Vernon Reid - guitarist from Living Colour
Chad Sexton - Drummer from 311
James Hetfield - Metallica
CLIFF BURTON
Rik Emmett
Warren Cromartie -MLB player for the expos
Kim Thayil, the (ex-)guitarist from Soundgarden
Catherine Wheel and Deadsy
David Spade
Kerry Wood (cubs pitcher )
Comedian, Marc Maron
Zack Braff (from Scrubs)
Badly Drawn Boy
Incubus
The writers for the shows: 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force,' 'Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law,' 'and 'Sealab 2021'
Mike Judge
Count Floyd, Bob & Doug McKenzie
Kreator
Sepultura
Chad & Pharrell of N.E.R.D.
Porn star, Inari Vachs
Maroon 5
Manic Street Preachers
Kiss
Andy Richter
Brendan Brown of "Wheatus"
Mastodon
Beastie Boys
DJ Mark Farina
3 Doors Down bassist
Catherine Bell (JAG)
George Clooney
Alice Cooper
Randy Johnson (Az Diamondbacks pitcher)
Bryn Smith (former Expos pitcher)
Chuck Finley (ex Angels pitcher
Rick Moranis
John McEnroe
Anthony Cumia (of Opie and Anthony)
former WWE Smackdown Champion Eddie Guerrero
Pantera
Vernon Reid
Chip Caray (grandson of Harry, & annoucer for the Cubs)
Chris Berman and Dan Patrick - ESPN.
Dennis Rodman
Nikki Taylor
Chris Jericho - wrestler
Anthony Michael Hall
Wendie Malick (Just Shoot Me)
Randy Johnson (Az pitcher)...
Elijah Blue (Cher and Gregg Allman's son )
Lee Janzen (golfer)
Tim McGraw (country singer)
Conan O'Brian
Woody Williams (San Diego pitcher)
Scott Rolen (Cardinals 3rd baseman)
Brad Wilk from Audioslave
Tim Commerford from Audioslave
Joey Belladonna from Anthrax
Chris Cornell
Umphrey's McGee
John Gordon Sinclair - actor
Zach deLaRocha - from Rage Against The Machine
Jani Lane - Warrant
Eddie Trunk (VH1-Classic)
comedian/actor Jay Mohr
The Mars Volta
**Brian Williams - NBC News Anchorman !!
Scott Kelly, frontman for Neurosis
Tom Glavine (NY Mets)
Kim Mitchell (Max Webster)


Cheers! trink39.gif - MitA

I was hoping for something a little more specific and comprehensive, but I guess this list will have to do for now. wink.gif

 

Thanks mita!

 

 

And thanks steelcaressed for the Mickey Hart heads up!

 

 

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Dale Earnhart Jr.

 

I went to a Nascar race at Kansas Speedway a few years ago and he said that he listens to The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits during his pre-race warmup laps

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I don't know if they were fans or not, but that novelty band Crash Test Dummies (mmm,mmm goofy song) On there tour bus they use to quiz each other try to name all the RUSH albums in chronological order.

And on MUSICinTheABsTrACT list Eddie VanHalen(in doubt) may be true and old article in Circus magazine David Lee Roth stated that Alex use to play Permanent Waves constantly on his boom box back stage before a concert and how much he hated hearing it. So perhaps Eddie is (was) a fan also. Another side note about Eddie awhile back I remember him saying that Van Halen and RUSH have the same manager? confused13.gif

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QUOTE (softfilter @ Feb 27 2006, 01:23 PM)
I don't know if they were fans or not, but that novelty band Crash Test Dummies (mmm,mmm goofy song) On there tour bus they use to quiz each other try to name all the RUSH albums in chronological order.
And on MUSICinTheABsTrACT list Eddie VanHalen(in doubt) may be true and old article in Circus magazine David Lee Roth stated that Alex use to play Permanent Waves constantly on his boom box back stage before a concert and how much he hated hearing it. So perhaps Eddie is (was) a fan also. Another side note about Eddie awhile back I remember him saying that Van Halen and RUSH have the same manager? confused13.gif

Yes, Ray Daniels.

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Mic Todd, Josh Eppard, and Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria.

 

The developers of World of Warcraft. I don't know if they're "famous" but they sure made one hell of a game!

 

(Mentions rush in the credits and has many references to Rush songs throughout the game.)

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Three other 'unconfirmed' ones are:

 

One of the members of Anthrax (don't know which but I remember seing him wearing a Show of Hands)

 

Elijah Wood (my wife has got a picture of him wearing a Rush shirt somewhere)

 

Phil Jupitus (UK comedian - I've seen him wearing a Signals shirt on a couple of occasions on 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks').

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QUOTE (Slaine mac Roth @ Mar 24 2006, 12:08 PM)
Three other 'unconfirmed' ones are:

One of the members of Anthrax (don't know which but I remember seing him wearing a Show of Hands)

Elijah Wood (my wife has got a picture of him wearing a Rush shirt somewhere)

Phil Jupitus (UK comedian - I've seen him wearing a Signals shirt on a couple of occasions on 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks').

I also saw Phil Jupitus wearing an R30 tour T shirt

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I GOT DRAGGED TO A POISON CONCERT YEARS AGO. THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE SHOW WAS C.C. DEVILLE PLAYING THE INTRO TO A FAREWEEL TO KINGS.

 

P/G

 

FLY/DIVE/JAM SAFE

 

BLAKE

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QUOTE (wmsb72673 @ Apr 1 2006, 09:06 AM)
I GOT DRAGGED TO A POISON CONCERT YEARS AGO. THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE SHOW WAS C.C. DEVILLE PLAYING THE INTRO TO A FAREWEEL TO KINGS.

I remember a concert review in local music mag of Poison saying they did a very sloppy version of La Villa Strangiato.

Flea from the Chili Peppers in a Rolling Stone interview was asked about his high school years and said, As close as he got to high school was the school parking lot smoking pot and listening to RUSH Hemispheres on 8 track with his buddies.

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QUOTE (softfilter @ Apr 1 2006, 04:05 PM)
QUOTE (wmsb72673 @ Apr 1 2006, 09:06 AM)
I GOT DRAGGED TO A POISON CONCERT YEARS AGO. THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE SHOW WAS C.C. DEVILLE PLAYING THE INTRO TO A FAREWEEL TO KINGS.

I remember a concert review in local music mag of Poison saying they did a very sloppy version of La Villa Strangiato.

Flea from the Chili Peppers in a Rolling Stone interview was asked about his high school years and said, As close as he got to high school was the school parking lot smoking pot and listening to RUSH Hemispheres on 8 track with his buddies.

I wish I would have had rush on eight track. I got tired of flipping lp's over and over.

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QUOTE (wmsb72673 @ Apr 29 2006, 05:07 AM)
QUOTE (softfilter @ Apr 1 2006, 04:05 PM)
QUOTE (wmsb72673 @ Apr 1 2006, 09:06 AM)
I GOT DRAGGED TO A POISON CONCERT YEARS AGO. THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE SHOW WAS C.C. DEVILLE PLAYING THE INTRO TO A FAREWEEL TO KINGS.

I remember a concert review in local music mag of Poison saying they did a very sloppy version of La Villa Strangiato.

Flea from the Chili Peppers in a Rolling Stone interview was asked about his high school years and said, As close as he got to high school was the school parking lot smoking pot and listening to RUSH Hemispheres on 8 track with his buddies.

I wish I would have had rush on eight track. I got tired of flipping lp's over and over.

I have a few Rush 8-Tracks. Now the hard thing is finding an 8-Track player that works to play them on! tongue.gif

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One of the Maroon 5 (unsure.gif) band members was wearing a Power Windows shirt during their episode of MTV Cribs (unsure.gif)

 

Also, Coheed and Cambria have a song called 2113. While the song has nothing to do with Rush, I'd guess that they were fans.

 

The bassist of an underground hardcore band, Sadaharu, I saw last night had a Rush sticker on his case. I yelled "RUSH!! YEAH!!!!" to him as he was walking off the stage, he laughed and was like "Yeah man!". Good stuff.

 

 

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QUOTE (Slaine mac Roth @ Mar 24 2006, 11:08 AM)
Three other 'unconfirmed' ones are:

One of the members of Anthrax (don't know which but I remember seing him wearing a Show of Hands)

Elijah Wood (my wife has got a picture of him wearing a Rush shirt somewhere)

Phil Jupitus (UK comedian - I've seen him wearing a Signals shirt on a couple of occasions on 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks').

Cool about Elijah!

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The Toronto Star paper interviewed Blue Jays' catcher Greg Zaun and he said this when asked about his current musical taste...

 

"Predominantly hard rock. Right now, this year, I'm listening to a lot of Rush and Jefferson Starship/Airplane old stuff. I met (Rush's) Geddy Lee the other night. We were over at Barberian's Steak House and he was having dinner with Randy Johnson and I'd told the waiter how much of a fan I was and, sure enough, here he comes. I'd been trying to get his attention for two years. I've been waving at him. He sits behind home plate a lot."

 

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentSe...93064&t=TS_Home

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