WHERE did you first hear RUSH?

[Powderfinger]

The "Tom Sawyer" video on MTV. As a child I was especially enamored of the drummer's massive kit, and I tried to recreate it in my bedroom using Lincoln Log boxes and pots from the kitchen.

[tkdryan]

Sometime around 2005 I was listening to Pandora, and MArathon came on,, Still in my top five fav Rush songs

[hobo73]

my dad always blasted music in the basement when he worked out. Our playroom was down there so my brother and I always listened to good stuff ;)

I remember, very clearly, hearing Tom Sawyer. I'm positive he played other songs by Rush, but that one sticks out because as a kid I thought it was so insanely catchy, and I fell in love with it :)

[Tony R]

Sat in my bedroom at home listening to a mix-tape in 1976. The tracklist included the live versions of Bytor and 2112.

[Tony R]

I'm guessing that ATWAS came out in August or September of 76 as it was "new" when I first heard it towards Xmas.

[treeduck]

I heard it them in 1976 too, a faint echo as I creeped telepathically through Tony's mind looking for clues to his humanity! It kind of scared me at the time... :o :smoke:

[fritz44]

I may have heard Rush at rock discos in '78, but I wouldn't have known it and I could never catch/understand the name of the artist when the 'DJ' announced them, mainly due to piss-poor sound quality. With that in mind it took ages to discover that distinctive riff belonged to a song called Layla, by Derek & the Dominoes, which wasn't played tirelessly on the radio at the time.

 

Coming back to thread, I read a review of Hemispheres in Sounds (3 out 5 stars I think, but should have been a 5!) and was tempted. Wasn't too sure about the vocals, but the music was canny and eventually you come to love Ged's early singing.

[Mr. JD]

On the radio. It was 1974 on "101 WMMS, The Home Of The Buzzard" out of Cleveland Ohio. Working Man was the song. I've been hooked ever since!

[Tony R]

I heard it them in 1976 too, a faint echo as I creeped telepathically through Tony's mind looking for clues to his humanity! It kind of scared me at the time... :o :smoke:

 

Flaming telepath, the joke's on you!!!

[Tony R]

On the radio. It was 1974 on "101 WMMS, The Home Of The Buzzard" out of Cleveland Ohio. Working Man was the song. I've been hooked ever since!

 

Old bastard!

 

;)

[treeduck]

I heard it them in 1976 too, a faint echo as I creeped telepathically through Tony's mind looking for clues to his humanity! It kind of scared me at the time... :o :smoke:

 

Flaming telepath, the joke's on you!!!

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[circumstantial tree]

My older cousins would always listen to Rush. I'd hear them talking about them all the time, but when we had family get togethers, I was excluded from the listening parties. I guess 15 year olds don't want 10 year olds cramping their style. One day back in 1980, I was listening to the radio, and I heard the DJ say "and that's Fly By Night, from Rush". I had heard that song many times before, but never knew it was Rush. I was so excited to finally know what my cousins were listening to. I asked for the Fly By Night album for Christmas that year, and the first time I heard Bytor and the Snowdog...I was in love. :haz:

You are therefore the Illinois Snow Pooch!

[JARG]

Blasting from my brother's friend's car...I didn't like it.

[GeddysMullet]

I don't remember exactly, I just know that it was some time in the 70s on a rock radio station and that the song was almost certainly Fly By Night. I knew of Rush from Fly By Night when I first started hearing The Spirit Of Radio and Freewill on WRCN, which was the station I listened to constantly at that time. After that, it only took me 30 years to start liking them!

[lachrymal]

When I was little, like maybe 5 years old or so, my dad would put on 2112 and kinda play along to the guitar parts. I had a little toy microphone and I would sing the vocals. However, I couldn't understand a word Geddy was saying. I actually thought he was just singing nonsensical noises that sounded good, so that's what I would sing too. Hilarious stuff, I'm sure. After that I listened to albums as they came out in the 90's, but I rediscovered the older stuff in middle school (including the actual lyrics).

[third hand grace]

in basement bars?

in backs of cars?

[goose]

Not sure. Bryan's house, I think. It was either Chronicles or ATWAS.

[LedRush]

The bathroom. My brother had borrowed ESL from a friend and bought RTB for Dreamline and Ghose of a Chance and left the CDs in the bathroom where one of our 2 CD players was located.

[sun dog]

When I was about 11 I heard TSOR, fittingly, on a little portable radio tuned to DC101. I remember thinking initially that I couldn't believe that Styx was so good. Not much later I was enamored with TS, but the big moment came when I was at a friend's house in Fairfax, VA, and asked if he had heard TS. He marched me over to the stereo, put headphones on me and fired up side A of MP. 33 years, and I can trace it back to that moment...

[tas7]

I tell this story repeatedly so will cut it short. 1979, in a pint race with a mate, we'd been drinking all day and ended up at the Floral Hall, a rock night club with a10,000 watt PA. Fell asleep and woke up thinking I was at the beach as Natural Science started and the rest is history.

[Blue J]

My brother put on 2112 and Fly By Night for me, about 1979 or '80. And just Xanadu from A Farewell to Kings. That was all it took. It's been a very long time, and here I still am. :)

[Rutlefan]

Home, 1976, when my older brother bought ATWAS.

[RushCanuck]

Canadian AM radio - when Fly by Night was current.