Mark_L Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Hi all, this is my first post. I became a Rush fan in 2002, at age 14... right around the time Vapor Trails came out. They announced a show in my town and, with very limited knowledge of who Rush even was, I decided to go because I'd heard they were a great live act. I acquainted myself a bit with their catalog before the concert, but it was that show that ensured I would be a Rush fan forever after... amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USB Connector Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 I've been into Guitar Hero since it first came out years ago. When YYZ was put into GHII, I thought "Man, these guys are talented." Eventually, I moved on to Rock Band and Tom Sawyer was introduced and I thought "Them again, awesome song too". Finally Moving Pictures came out as DLC, I downloaded it and was blown away. Two weeks later I bought volumes 1 and 2 of the retrospect albums and I got the third one a few months later when it was released. Even though I missed the snakes and arrows tour by a few weeks, I drove to Toronto to see them at the ACC for the TM tour and I've got half of their albums on CD. I've also got some awesome seats to see them in Montreal in April. Moving Pictures also inspired me to buy a real drum kit and re-try my hand at guitar. I've been playing drums for about 2 years now (I gave up on guitar again after learning Tom Sawyer) and half the songs I know how to play on Drums are Rush songs. Can't believe I managed to find a band I can connect to so easily. I love the stuff Neil writes about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamelight Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 QUOTE (Mark_L @ Jan 1 2011, 08:40 PM)Hi all, this is my first post. Mark, welcome here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
priest_of_syrinx Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 I started liking Rush in early 2006 when I was 13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Whompus Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 For me it was late 07, i started listening to them before the 08 tour and they ended up becoming my favorite band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Owl Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 I've known Rush's stuff all my life because my dad is a hardcore fan, and I was born in 86....... I personally started getting real big into Rush around the time Vapor Trails came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushCanuck Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 I'm a recent fan in my 50's. It's been around 3 years since I woke up and started to love the music of Rush. My son helped me open my ears and eyes. I could kick myself for not paying attention to them before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalii Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 About 2 years ago I started to listen to them as a discovering fan. It started with a local rock station...It was the station I listened to at work, this was back with their more mixed active rock format (a almost equal mix of old/new, now they don't play older stuff nearly as much). Anyway, this station used to play Rush, a lot, going 4 hours without a Rush song was rare (oh how I wish they would do that again). They would play all of the Rush singles, including one that got stuck in my head. All I could remember was one single line, but it was unlike any song I've heard...a Google search on that line brought up Distant Early Warning. After that I went and got the whole Grace Under Pressure album, and immediately became a fan. However I was merely a casual fan at that point, dabbling in their more well known stuff, and touching upon a few lesser known tracks. A few months I stumbled on to the Trailer Park Boys episode with Alex. This didn't really do anything for me as a fan, but I was also a blooming Trailer Park Boys fan at the time, so it was very cool, and worth mentioning. I didn't really become much more interested in Rush until one great coincidence. I was bored, and flipping through the TV, and on one of the channels, probably VH1 Classic, they were playing what I would later find out to be Rush in Rio, I recognized Geddy. I happened to stumble on it at just the right time, it was right before the song that would absolutely blow me away, and make me a the fan I am now. Right from the beginning of Natural Science I was hooked for life. Flash forward a few months to the end of August, State Fair time. Walking around the fair, and toward the Grandstand gave me a dream that would become a reality a year later, seeing a Rush concert there, which brings us to this past April when the tour dates were announced. It was probably the most ecstatic I've ever been for reading some announcement on the internet, a dream come true...well maybe not a dream, since it wouldn't matter if I had to travel east on the thruway a couple hours to see them, but the thought definitely went through my mind. That was a lot longer than I thought it would be. I just always thought that the strange coincidences that surround me with regards to Rush to be extremely cool, which is probably why I remember it so vividly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostnotes Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 QUOTE (Mark_L @ Jan 1 2011, 12:40 PM) Hi all, this is my first post. I became a Rush fan in 2002, at age 14... right around the time Vapor Trails came out. They announced a show in my town and, with very limited knowledge of who Rush even was, I decided to go because I'd heard they were a great live act. I acquainted myself a bit with their catalog before the concert, but it was that show that ensured I would be a Rush fan forever after... amazing Welcome!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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