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Updates and other random Rush stuff

Fri, Feb 23, 2007@11:07PM | comments removed/disabled

Here are a few post updates and other random Rush-related stuff that I've accumulated over the last few days. I thought I'd just lump everything in one post.

A few days ago I put up a post about Richard Chycki - the man charged with mixing the new Rush album. He put a post about his experience working with Rush on his blog last weekend. He mentioned that the album was mixed in LA at Ocean Way Studios (Studio D). Reader Samuel S located the studio's website which contains a lot of great pics. Check it out here.

Earlier this week I put up a post about jazz trio The Bad Plus and how their upcoming album will contain a jazzed-up cover of Tom Sawyer. Today I found this article on the Bad Plus from The Daily Record. It confirms that the Tom Sawyer cover will appear on the new album along with covers of Burt Bacharach's This Guy's in Love with You, David Bowie's Life on Mars, and Tears for Fears' Everybody Wants to Rule the World.

Today's Cleveland Plain Dealer had a short feature titled A brief history of grandeur in rock 'n' roll. Included was a blurb about Rush's 2112.

I found this bootleg of Earthshine from the Vapor Trails tour on YouTube - exact date and venue unknown.

BlogCritics.org's blog critic of the month for February is Tom Johnson, who happens to be a huge Rush fan. He even met his wife through a Rush mailing list (the National Midnight Star I assume). When asked What book/CD/DVD do you have more than one copy of, in case something happens to the original one? he answers like a true Rush fan would:

You know, it's funny, I don't really think like that. I don't really keep backups of stuff. I have "extras" of things in odd ways, such as the fact that I have two copies each of Rush's Signals, Moving Pictures, and 2112. Not because they're all my favorites (although Signals actually is one of my personal faves) but because I have both the standard CD version that you can find in most stores as well as the high-falutin' Mobile Fidelity gold-CD versions that are long out of print now. And I have dual copies of the remasters of their four more recent albums on Atlantic simply because the original booklets are far superior printings (the remasters are very cheap looking scans of the originals.) But this is the only occasion where I've doubled up and kept them.

And this brings up kind of a funny story of having two copies of the same thing – Rush-related again. Back when Roll The Bones came out, I picked it up after whatever classes I was taking at ASU were over and headed to a friend's apartment to listen. Not more than three songs in, the power went out and stayed out until I had to leave, hoping that it would come back on and I could continue listening. It was not to be, and my brand new, unlistened-to Rush CD was bound to be stuck in the CD player hours. There was obviously only one option. I headed right back to the store and bought another copy to listen to until I got back to her place to pick it up a few days later!

Great story. Congratulations to Tom!

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