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Neil Peart, Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson

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Updates and other random Rush stuff

Fri, Oct 26, 2007@7:45AM | comments removed/disabled

UPDATE - 10/29@11:51PM: It looks like the Rush tribute bands special can now be viewed online but only if you're in Canada. :( The link is here). Thanks to Kelly C for the info.

UPDATE - 10/27@11:12AM: More attendance figures are in for the following dates: Raleigh, Virginia Beach, Pittsburgh, Scranton, Darien Lake, Uncasville, Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, and Cleveland. That brings us up-to-date throught the Madision Square Garden show on September 17th. To check out the numbers, go to the tour section. Many thanks to Mark S for providing the missing numbers.

This is it. The 2007 leg of the Snakes & Arrows tour is about to come to a close. Rush will play Norway and Sweden over the weekend and finish up in Helsinki, Finland. Attendance figures are in for the following shows: Cincinnati, Columbus, Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Paul, London, Quebec City and Montreal. Check the tour section to see the numbers. Thanks to JordanRud and Scott_PA for providing the info.

If Ross Halfin is to be believed, the band played some interesting songs during soundcheck in Milan. Perhaps a clue to some additions to the 2008 leg's setlist? We'll see.

I've added some more info to the Rotterdam thread regarding why the band chose to film there.

Last week the first part of a 4-part documentary on tribute bands aired on the E! Network in Canada. Part 2 airs this Sunday at 7PM and will focus on Rush tribute bands. For details see this post. Unfortunately there's no word on whether this will air in the US. So if any of you resourceful Canucks can give us a report and/or tape it that'd be great.

I'm just going to keep the current poll going this week. So if you haven't let us know which of Rush's live DVDs/Videos is your favorite yet take the poll.

Snakes & Arrows was recently certified Gold in Canada (50,000 albums sold). Thanks to rimy over at Counterparts for the heads up.

Toronto's Q107 recently released their list of the top 50 albums of all time as chosen by listeners. Rush's Moving Pictures made the list at #35. Thanks to ghost__rider for the heads up.

Canadian NASCAR driver Patrick Carpentier was recently interviewed on ESPN by host Erik Kuselias. In this brief exchange from the interview the 2 discuss Neil Peart and Rush. Apparently they're both Rush fans. Thanks to Will C for the heads up.

Reader ssravp noticed that a 1926 bottle of Neil Peart's favorite brand of scotch - The Macallan - tops Wine and Alcohol's list of the world's top 10 most expensive scotches. The bottle costs a whopping $75,000. Wow. Now we know what to get Neil for his next birthday. :)

gag2man alerted me to this Rush sighting in a humorous piece in the Chicago Tribune's Red Eye Magazine. They listed a fictional ipod mix from Franken Berry and Friends (from the General Mills cereal) for Halloween. One of the songs is Rush's The Larger Bowl. :) You can see a scan of the piece here.

Reader RushFan82 located this funny little article about a dog (a pug to be exact) who is the manager of Portland-based indie rockers Menomena. Oh yeah ... and her name is Geddy Lee. :)

Reader Wim is a moderator over at the Dutch section of The National Midday Sun and wanted to let me know that they just added a German section to the site too.

That's all for now. Have a great weekend!

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