UPDATE - 5/20@11:08AM: Paul from The Canadian Music Scene was at the event along with longtime Rush producer Terry Brown and Anthem/SRO's Pegi Cecconi. Paul posted a great write-up along with photos to the website here.
UPDATE - 5/18@2:04PM: Alex spoke a little about Rush's archive of material according to this tweet:
Lifeson: wants everything that exists to be i n @rushtheband 's archive. So important to studying band. Won't censor #UTLRocks
- Media Commons Uof T (@MediaCommons_TO) May 17, 2016
Lifeson: Music tied to the place. We all remember where we were when heard it #UTLRocks
- Media Commons Uof T (@MediaCommons_TO) May 17, 2016
Lifeson: Is a bias, you just do what you do and try to do your best at it. #UTLRocks
- Media Commons Uof T (@MediaCommons_TO) May 17, 2016
Lifeson: Really important to keep record of our lives #UTLRocks
- Media Commons Uof T (@MediaCommons_TO) May 17, 2016
Alex Lifeson: 41 years of touring w/@rushtheband has created massive amounts of documents: hand-written lyrics, much more #UTLRocks
- Media Commons Uof T (@MediaCommons_TO) May 17, 2016
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Yesterday evening Alex Lifeson participated as one of the panel members for an evening of discussion on the importance of popular music to the creative life of Canada, and the need to preserve the archival record of its creators and distributors. The Preserving Popular Music in Canada panel took place at Innis Town Hall, Innis College, at the University of Toronto, and there was also a wine and cheese reception immediately following at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. The discussion was moderated by Denise Donlon and also included on the panel were Martin Melhuish, Lorraine Segato, and Rob Bowman. Karen Bliss attended the panel and posted a brief report along with a couple of photos to here Facebook page here. Reader Ken M also attended and sent along this photo of Alex and Rob Bowman. They also live-tweeted the event using the hashtag #UTLRocks, where you can find a few more photos and report.
