As you probably know by now, Neil Peart has an official page on MySpace and occasionally will send out a bulletin to his friends. In a couple of bulletins that went out yesterday he addressed some of the recent Rush rumors. The first dealt with all the unconfirmed tour dates that were leaked to the Net earlier this week:

From: Neil Peart
Subject: Myths and Up & Coming Facts
Body: My trusty MySpace Music Soldiers,
Tour dates floating around are not confirmed.
Check out Rush.com for the confirmed 2007 tour schedule!
We can't wait to see you on the road!
-NEP

So Neil basically confirms that the unconfirmed tour dates are unconfirmed. :) Don't worry Neil - we already knew that. The second bulletin deals with this unofficial MySpace page which claims to be the official Rush page. I had figured that it wasn't and didn't even bother to mention it here. But Mr. Peart felt obliged to address it and says the following:

From: Neil Peart
Subject: I hate it when this happens...
Yet another site is pretending to be the "Official RUSH" page.
Users even leave messages to band mates there.
To clear the air....
Body: There is NO official RUSH page on MySpace.
Poor users. Lied to. Lonely Page maker...
I am sure someone knows a way to remove this?
http://www.myspace.com/rushband

So unless you hear it from one of the official Rush sites like Rush.com, Rush.net or NeilPeart.net, don't believe stuff like this. More than likely Neil Peart will send out a bulletin about it when it happens long before we see it on Rush.com or Rush.net though. These sites have been next to useless when it comes to Rush news. But props to Neil for keeping us all informed. Thanks goes to readers Neil C and Peggy for the heads up.

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