Old Rush articles

[Animate]

I put these in Treeducks "Which Album is Metal" thread, but thought maybe it would be interesting to have as its own thread.

 

Yesterday, I came across a stack of 1977 to 1984 music magazines for 1$ each at a vintage store. Bought 11 of them, should have bought them all. Great articles on Zep, Black Sabbath, Floyd, Van Halen, Iron Maiden etc... some great stuff.

 

Thought I would go through them and share all the Rush related references in each one. First issue, which I posted in the other thread, is the April, 1980 issue of Circus. Rush is featured heavily in an article on Heavy Metal

 

First, the Floyd cover with the Metal topic setup "Heavy Metal for the 80's"

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/CIrcus%201980%20Rush/0811122310.jpg

 

Second, Geddy Lee quote on Metal: "From the audience point of view, heavy metal has never left" (sorry, poor focus)

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/CIrcus%201980%20Rush/0811122312.jpg

 

Third, list of heavy metal albums- note Zep is considered heavy metal, as is 2112, which is listed ahead of Black Sabbath. Note that 2112 is described as art rock fused with Rush's "mighty metal sound"

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/CIrcus%201980%20Rush/0811122313.jpg

 

Another quote by Geddy, about how much they have to tour so they do not dissappear. Guess the "keep on touring" approach paid off

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/CIrcus%201980%20Rush/0811122314.jpg

 

Total, unexpected bonus! Check out the inside back cover of magazine- a full page PerW ad!

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/CIrcus%201980%20Rush/0811122316.jpg

 

Beyond that, the normal ads for Rush t-shirts and posters.

 

 

Cool stuff! I have 10 more to dig through!

 

 

[Mika]

Hey, thanks for sharing! I like checking old Rush articles, and it's interesting to see the ads for old albums. I like the Hemispheres one: "It's a solid-gold mind."

[Animate]

Thanks! Please post your Hemispheres ad- I would like to see it! Also, any other old articles.

 

I have breezed through the rest, there is at least one full length interview with photos (pre-MP), at least one very young but clean shaven Neil full page drum ad, and a not-very-kind album review of GUP

 

Lots of ads for Rush lighter, t-shirts, posters, bandanas etc, the usual. In the oldest magazine, 1977, the only Rush reference is a starman logo t-shirt ad. Made me wonder when the very first starman logo t-shirt ads appeared in magazines?

[goose]

I look forward to the rest!

 

[Animate]

Thanks!

 

I went through them and put post-it-notes on the pages of Rush interest (although all the Zep and Iron Maiden articles are pretty interesting- when was the last time Dickenson was the centerfold in a general, popular music magazine?)

 

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/BoyHowdy.png

 

and will photo and upload the articles soon!

 

(FYI- Creem is a defunct music mag that featured Rock, Hard Rock (a term interchangeable with heavy metal at the time), Punk, and New Wave bands.

Edited August 14, 2012 by Animate

[Mika]

QUOTE (Animate @ Aug 12 2012, 07:58 PM)

Thanks! Please post your Hemispheres ad- I would like to see it! Also, any other old articles. I have breezed through the rest, there is at least one full length interview with photos (pre-MP), at least one very young but clean shaven Neil full page drum ad, and a not-very-kind album review of GUP Lots of ads for Rush lighter, t-shirts, posters, bandanas etc, the usual. In the oldest magazine, 1977, the only Rush reference is a starman logo t-shirt ad. Made me wonder when the very first starman logo t-shirt ads appeared in magazines?

I'll have to see if I can find the Hemispheres ad - I think I remember seeing it online somewhere, actually, but I should be able to find it and I'll post it here when I do.

[metaldad]

I had that mag, i wish i never got rid of all my zines. I had Hundreds

[rocket ignites]

Very cool. Thanks for posting. Definitely brings you back to a different time. Love reading old band quotes and interviews. That PW ad is just sweet.

[Principled Man]

We're a band that could very well fade off into obscurity. So we have to show people that we exist.

 

- Geddy Lee

 

 

A truly wise statement. A hundred different things could have caused the band to fade off into obscurity, but one thing prevailed over their very possible demise - their resolve.

 

[Animate]

Thanks Guys! If anyone else has interesting old articles, please post!

 

Well, lets see how Permanent Waves did, in the minds of 1980!

 

Next up, an issue of Creem from March 1981 with the results of Readers Polls from 1980.

 

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/Creem%20March%201981/0814122332.jpg

 

First Up, Best Album 1980, as voted for in 1980/early 81. PerW came in at # 21. Not bad!

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/Creem%20March%201981/0814122321.jpg

 

Second, Best Bassist and Best Drummer.... well, we all know who belongs here:

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/Creem%20March%201981/0814122324.jpg

 

Finally, Thankfully NOT Rush related, but an update on why 1980 was a sad year with the deaths of Lennon, Bonham, and Bon Scott

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/Creem%20March%201981/0814122326.jpg

 

The t-shirt ads in this issue are for the Rush 1980 World Tour

[Animate]

Ooops- forgot the poll results for the best live band, with our favorite trio at #22:

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/Creem%20March%201981/0814122323a.jpg

 

See? Rush WERE cool, VERY COOL for a couple of years- at least with the high school to 20-something year olds that read magazines like Creem.

 

If it were not for the Delta Bravo reviewers at powerhouses like Rolling Stones (which did have older fart readers- as in 30+ something year olds), with their constant ridicule, who knows what might have been.

[Khan]

Bun over Neil? Pfft....

[metaldad]

Charlie Watts ahead of Neil , i had that mag as well

[Animate]

Neil (and Geddy) both did pretty well, considering this was as much a fan gossip magazine and less of a musicians magazine.

 

 

 

[Animate]

QUOTE (metaldad @ Aug 15 2012, 09:26 AM)

Charlie Watts ahead of Neil , i had that mag as well

Did you throw your old mags out willingly, or were you "encouraged" to?

[metaldad]

Edited August 15, 2012 by metaldad

[Animate]

Here is Magazine #3. Circus, August 1982.

Guess that makes it about a month before Signals was released?

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/Circus%201982%20Cymbal%20ad/0815122117.jpg

 

Ads include t-shirt ads for Exit, Stage Left and one for Dr. Licks magazine YYZ guitar solo tabs.

 

And.... full page ad featuring Neil Peart for Zildjian cymbals...

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/Circus%201982%20Cymbal%20ad/0815122122.jpg

 

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/Circus%201982%20Cymbal%20ad/0815122123.jpg

 

Finally, on back page, one tiny indication that a new album is on its way:

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/Circus%201982%20Cymbal%20ad/0815122124.jpg

[Mika]

Thank you for posting these!

 

I've been searching for that Hemispheres ad, but haven't come across it yet... I'll keep looking, and wish I could remember where it was that I had seen it before!

[goose]

Love this from the cover!:

 

Will Good Trouble match the impact of High Infidelity? Yes, predicts Kevin Cronin.

 

 

Not quite...

[OGr8imL84AD8inF8sBlackSedan]

QUOTE (Animate @ Aug 15 2012, 09:16 AM)

Thanks Guys! If anyone else has interesting old articles, please post! Well, lets see how Permanent Waves did, in the minds of 1980! Next up, an issue of Creem from March 1981 with the results of Readers Polls from 1980. http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/Creem%20March%201981/0814122332.jpg First Up, Best Album 1980, as voted for in 1980/early 81. PerW came in at # 21. Not bad! http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/Creem%20March%201981/0814122321.jpg Second, Best Bassist and Best Drummer.... well, we all know who belongs here: http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/Creem%20March%201981/0814122324.jpg Finally, Thankfully NOT Rush related, but an update on why 1980 was a sad year with the deaths of Lennon, Bonham, and Bon Scott http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/Creem%20March%201981/0814122326.jpg The t-shirt ads in this issue are for the Rush 1980 World Tour

This is great!!!

 

Look at the variety of rock 'n roll listed in these categories!!!! And the stuff that was popular!!!

 

Devo, The B-52s, The Clash, The Ramones and Talking Heads in there with Zep, The Stones, Springsteen and The Who.

 

Those were the days. I like how it sort of shows the transition from that classic period into new wave with newer R 'n R bands like Van Halen...Which BTW way got second worst band !!!!

 

Nice time capsule, thanks!!!

[Xanadoood]

These mags bring back such great memories. I still have quite a few from

the mid to late 80s.

[Animate]

Here is the best of all, a Moving Pictures era interview from the April, 1981 issue of Hit Parade. I scanned these, so the image quality is much higher and more readable.

 

 

 

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/HitParade1981RushCover.png

 

Page 1. The start of the interview makes me want to give Alex a great big hug and tell him how much we love him! But then again, I felt that way while listening to him play before reading the interview

 

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/HitParade1981Rush25.png

 

Page 2. OMG- that picture of Alex

 

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/HitParade1981Rush26.png

 

Page 3. Just for Treeduck... For all those in Rush Metal Denial- read it and weep! Forefront of Metal Evolution. Right here in glorious, 1981 black and white.

 

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o586/animate2112/HitParade1981Rush27.png

Edited August 19, 2012 by Animate

[Silas Lang]

This is the earliest article I have on the band, from Creem magazine (March 1976 issue).

 

RUSH: Pebbles & Bam-Bam In Alphaville by Rick Johnson

 

The first thing you notice about Rush, according to one observer, is that they're not as gross looking as Bachman Turner Overdrive and they have a somewhat lower thud weight than most other Canadian bands. True enough - Canuck rockers do seem to have some sort of uglier-than-thou competition going among themselves along with a tendency to pounce on unsuspecting ears like a carnivorous dumptruck.

But Rush isn't exactly a bunch of Joni Mitchell cupcakes either, as anyone who's caught one of their numerous appearances with Kiss or increasing number of headlining gigs can attest to.

Mistaken assumptions and bent comparisons have confounded the band from the very beginning. "We've been compared to everybody from the New York Dolls to Led Zeppelin and Humble Pie, but all those comparisons are just superficial," asserts vocalist Geddy Lee who, along with guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart make up one of the few remaining classic power trios. "Like, Robert Plant and I both have high voices so they expect us to play 'Whole Lotta Love'."

"It's not like we're suffering from The Dreaded Led Zeppelin Stigma," explains Neil in his best imitation of a foot odor commercial. "We're essentially pursuing the same idea as them - playing rock & roll but saying something too." Two mints in one.

It would indeed appear that Rush, who are the number two group in Canada after the late BTO and very big as well in the northern half of this country, aren't just after terrorist audiences playing frisbee with plastic explosives and taking hostages at random. "We get frustrated when they're just out for a good time and we're not getting through," Neil complains. "Our favorite audiences are the ones that sit and listen to the song and go wild afterwards."

Seeing the band's main thrust as rezoning the elusive progressive artisms of bands like Yes and Genesis for a three-piece formula, he doesn't think that heavy metal as a strict jungle doctrine will be staying around much longer. "It was great for awhile, but no type of music can stay in that embryonic stage for long. I mean, why just do teenage my-period-is-late tunes when you can put some meaning behind it? We like to tell stories and hide things in our songs for people to figure out."

Their latest project is an epic science fiction slab called 2112, which will take up an entire side of their next album, due this month. Set in the city of Megadon on another planet (Earth having been snuffed in 2062) in the cartoon light of the future, it concerns a society where everything is controlled by quasi-religious priests who take all their orders from gigantic banks of computers called Temples. All individuality and creativity have been stamped out and everyone treadmills out their lives in a cathode palsy of day to day nullness.

"The Temples totally control everything - work, education, even entertainment," says Neil, who came up with the entire conceptual whoopee cushion and wrote all the lyrics. "All their music has been taken to the final limits of the average. It's total commercialism that's put out strictly for people to like."

Luckily enough for the Megadunces, a curious young punk accidentally stumbles upon the ruins of a great university one day. He starts digging around in the rubble and comes across a room of perfectly preserved artifacts he's never seen before. Books, magazines, WIN buttons, hula hoops, records, the home version of Match Game '84 - all kinds of things that don't exist in 2112. He keeps it a secret and goes back every night to sort through the cheese of the past.

The one night he makes the fateful discovery - an electric guitar - and eventually sets out to change the world. What finally happens is a "double surprise ending" according to Neil, who declined to fill in the details but assured me it's "a real Hitchcock killer".

Does he see the city of Megadon as a parallel of the tedious fear fridge of 1976? "Well, things aren't all that bad now, but it's a logical progression from some of the things that are going on. All of the best science fiction is a warning. We want to let people know what's going on so they at least have a chance to change it."

But does he really think they can change anyone? After all, the "Eve of Destruction" school of pop propoganda sounded ok on the radio but didn't exactly alter the course of Western civilization. "Well, it's not going to change anybody's life or anything, but if you just put the germ of an idea in someone's head then you've done your job."

Grim-globed hippies of the future or not, Rush's music is still very loudly in the present. Unlike some concept pieces that get bogged down in their own stray dogma, 2112 is still going to come under the Rush stage hammer on their next tour.

"Believe me, we'd never short-change the music for the lyrics," promised Geddy. "It still rocks." And Pebbles and Bam-Bam too, no doubt.

[Animate]

QUOTE (Silas Lang @ Aug 22 2012, 01:16 AM)

This is the earliest article I have on the band, from Creem magazine (March 1976 issue). RUSH: Pebbles & Bam-Bam In Alphaville by Rick Johnson The first thing you notice about Rush, according to one observer, is that they're not as gross looking as Bachman Turner Overdrive and they have a somewhat lower thud weight than most other Canadian bands. True enough - Canuck rockers do seem to have some sort of uglier-than-thou competition going among themselves along with a tendency to pounce on unsuspecting ears like a carnivorous dumptruck. But Rush isn't exactly a bunch of Joni Mitchell cupcakes either, as anyone who's caught one of their numerous appearances with Kiss or increasing number of headlining gigs can attest to. Mistaken assumptions and bent comparisons have confounded the band from the very beginning. "We've been compared to everybody from the New York Dolls to Led Zeppelin and Humble Pie, but all those comparisons are just superficial," asserts vocalist Geddy Lee who, along with guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart make up one of the few remaining classic power trios. "Like, Robert Plant and I both have high voices so they expect us to play 'Whole Lotta Love'." "It's not like we're suffering from The Dreaded Led Zeppelin Stigma," explains Neil in his best imitation of a foot odor commercial. "We're essentially pursuing the same idea as them - playing rock & roll but saying something too." Two mints in one. It would indeed appear that Rush, who are the number two group in Canada after the late BTO and very big as well in the northern half of this country, aren't just after terrorist audiences playing frisbee with plastic explosives and taking hostages at random. "We get frustrated when they're just out for a good time and we're not getting through," Neil complains. "Our favorite audiences are the ones that sit and listen to the song and go wild afterwards." Seeing the band's main thrust as rezoning the elusive progressive artisms of bands like Yes and Genesis for a three-piece formula, he doesn't think that heavy metal as a strict jungle doctrine will be staying around much longer. "It was great for awhile, but no type of music can stay in that embryonic stage for long. I mean, why just do teenage my-period-is-late tunes when you can put some meaning behind it? We like to tell stories and hide things in our songs for people to figure out." Their latest project is an epic science fiction slab called 2112, which will take up an entire side of their next album, due this month. Set in the city of Megadon on another planet (Earth having been snuffed in 2062) in the cartoon light of the future, it concerns a society where everything is controlled by quasi-religious priests who take all their orders from gigantic banks of computers called Temples. All individuality and creativity have been stamped out and everyone treadmills out their lives in a cathode palsy of day to day nullness. "The Temples totally control everything - work, education, even entertainment," says Neil, who came up with the entire conceptual whoopee cushion and wrote all the lyrics. "All their music has been taken to the final limits of the average. It's total commercialism that's put out strictly for people to like." Luckily enough for the Megadunces, a curious young punk accidentally stumbles upon the ruins of a great university one day. He starts digging around in the rubble and comes across a room of perfectly preserved artifacts he's never seen before. Books, magazines, WIN buttons, hula hoops, records, the home version of Match Game '84 - all kinds of things that don't exist in 2112. He keeps it a secret and goes back every night to sort through the cheese of the past. The one night he makes the fateful discovery - an electric guitar - and eventually sets out to change the world. What finally happens is a "double surprise ending" according to Neil, who declined to fill in the details but assured me it's "a real Hitchcock killer". Does he see the city of Megadon as a parallel of the tedious fear fridge of 1976? "Well, things aren't all that bad now, but it's a logical progression from some of the things that are going on. All of the best science fiction is a warning. We want to let people know what's going on so they at least have a chance to change it." But does he really think they can change anyone? After all, the "Eve of Destruction" school of pop propoganda sounded ok on the radio but didn't exactly alter the course of Western civilization. "Well, it's not going to change anybody's life or anything, but if you just put the germ of an idea in someone's head then you've done your job." Grim-globed hippies of the future or not, Rush's music is still very loudly in the present. Unlike some concept pieces that get bogged down in their own stray dogma, 2112 is still going to come under the Rush stage hammer on their next tour. "Believe me, we'd never short-change the music for the lyrics," promised Geddy. "It still rocks." And Pebbles and Bam-Bam too, no doubt.

Thanks! Cool article! To summarize, we have digs at the boys appearance (obviously, he was not paying close attention to Alex), bombastic descriptions of the story behind 2112.

 

Perhaps best of all, a quote from Neil saying that he does not write "my period is late" tunes soooo... which groups exactly were writing about their periods?

 

 

[Silas Lang]

QUOTE (Animate @ Aug 22 2012, 08:26 AM)

Perhaps best of all, a quote from Neil saying that he does not write "my period is late" tunes    soooo... which groups exactly were writing about their periods?

The Runaways, maybe?