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CRIA identified Rush in 1990 with Bryan Adams and k.d. Presto (1989) won the inaugural Juno for hard rock/metal album of the year in 1991, followed by Roll the Bones (also for hard rock/metal album) in 1992, and music DVD of the year for Rush in Rio (2004). Nonetheless, Rush has won numerous music industry awards in Canada, such as Juno Awards for best new band in 1975, and group of the year in 19. By comparison, the band has met with, at best, mixed reception among rock critics. Four Rush tribute albums, reflecting all of these styles, appeared between 19.

#Rush drummer name professional#

Rush is equally known for its extended works (1975-81) - eg, 'By-Tor & The Snow Dog,' '2112,' 'Xanadu,' 'Cygnus X-1,' 'Hemispheres,' the instrumental 'La Villa Strangiato,' and 'Natural Science' - but it moved completely away from the extended format in its new music from 1982 to 2002.Ī substantial portion of Rush's 'hardcore' fans comprise hundreds of thousands of amateur and professional musicians, ranging from progressive/hard rock drummers, bassists, and keyboardists to classical violinists to death metal guitarists and vocalists. However, many of its songs have enjoyed considerable success on album-oriented rock formats in Canada and the US.

The band was moderately successfully as a Top 40 act in Canada, but 'New World Man' (1982) was the band's only Top 40 hit in the US. They also worked on solo projects in the 1990s, and Peart wrote several books, including Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road (2002), after his daughter and spouse died in 19, respectively.

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All three members - Peart in particular - came to be highly regarded for their technical skills, which are given full play in live performance. The band's best-selling (and, arguably, best) album, Moving Pictures (1981), has sold over four million copies in the US. The trio's success has come largely through its 30 albums which collectively have sold more than 43 million copies internationally, and through its concerts.

The Canadian bands April Wine, Chilliwack, Max Webster, the Pat Travers Band, Streetheart, Payola$, Tom Cochrane and Red Rider, Wrabit, FM, Chalk Circle and Voivod have all served as opening acts for Rush, as have dozens of US and British artists. In its early years, the trio gave more than 200 performances annually (often in smaller venues), but its dozen tours from 1980 to 2004 each consisted of about 70 concerts (in larger venues). Rush made its first European tour in 1977 (returning in 1981, 1983, 1988, 1992, 20) and also performed in Japan in 1984, in Mexico and Brazil in 2002, and in Puerto Rico in 2008. By the end of the decade its usual venues were sports arenas and outdoor stadiums - eg, Maple Leaf Gardens, the CNE Grandstand, and their US equivalents (Madison Square Garden, the Nassau County Coliseum, etc). Around the same period, when it co-produced its music with Terry Brown, the trio often fused elements of progressive rock (such as complex time signatures and virtuosity) with its early emphasis on heavy metal, but its adaptive/evolutionary style later involved elements of post-punk, synth-rock, and alternative rock.įrom 1974 to 1976, Rush often opened in the US for Kiss, Aerosmith and other hard-rock bands, but by 1975-76 it had started to headline concerts in the US and Canada. Neil Peart's 'semi-literary' fascination with Anglo-American literature (such as literary travelogues and science fiction) included an interest in the individualist writings of Ayn Rand that inspired certain songs from 1975 to 1982. Rutsey was replaced by the drummer-lyricist Neil Peart (b Hamilton, Ont, ) in time for an album deal with Mercury Records and the trio's first US tour in late 1974.

The trio performed in high school auditoriums and nightclubs in Ontario before recording its self-titled debut album in late 1973 and releasing it in Canada in January of 1974 on the band's own Moon label. Lee contributed the piercing, high, countertenor vocals that typified Rush's sound from the early 1970s to the early 1980s, and Lifeson contributed a riff-based, though also melodic, electric guitar style. Initially performing a wide variety of British and US rock cover songs, by 1969-70 the band began to write original songs influenced by the British 'proto-heavy metal' band Led Zeppelin. This rock trio was formed in 1968 in Toronto by the guitarist Alex Lifeson (b Zivojinovich, in Fernie, BC, ), the singer, bass guitarist and (later) keyboard player Geddy Lee (b Gary Lee Weinrib, in Toronto, ), and the drummer John Rutsey (b 1953, d Toronto ).