Posting will resume shortly. Sorry for the hiatus! Nedd to sit down and watch the new Snake & Arrows Live! DVD still.
There's a decent recent interview with Alex Lifeson over at Crawdaddy! today.
Not much new sadly. Here are some highlights.
On picking new songs to play:
We wanted to play the whole record live, but we had to settle for nine songs, otherwise we'd be playing for four hours and that's a little too much for us and, I think, for our audience. We had to make a decision about some of the songs we wanted to do. We all really wanted to do "Faithless", and we talked about actually doing it on the last half of the tour. We prepped it and we ran through it a couple of times, but in the end we just decided to kind of stick with what we had and just change up some of the older stuff.
On Rush being an influential group:
I think that younger bands look at us as perhaps a model that, you know what, you can do it your way. You can play the music that you want to play. You can find your audience, you can grow and not get stuck in all the things that, you know, people used to get stuck in. Now, granted, things have changed so much in the last five to 10 years in the industry, and things don't happen the way they used to happen...
Someone's uploaded a bit of VH! Classic's Rush Hashana from the other day and included the Fary Cry video from the upcoming DVD:
Looking good. Release date is November 25.
Sorry for the delays...we'll be back to posting soon.
Spotted the news at rushisaband.com this morning.
There's a greatest hits package coming out soon called Rush: 1989-2009. Word is that there's be unreleased live tracks from that era. Word also is that they're looking to sign with Rounder Records.
Well, the tour's over and Neil's updated his site for August.
On the hazards of playing at a casion in Atlantic City:
The arena in Atlantic City was inside a garish casino, where the management held back (denied us and our fans) the front section of seats. Those were “comped” to the “high rollers” (by definition, big losers), and thus we looked out from the stage at the first few rows (the ones we could see most) filled with people who had no idea why they were there except that it was free.In contrast to our real fans farther back, who would mortgage their Hemispheres picture discs, and perhaps internal organs, to get closer to the stage, we were confronted by mild curiosity at best, and at worst, rude indifference. As the show went on, we started to see empty seats where bored big losers had slipped away, a woman looking down and texting through whole songs, and a pair of slack-jawed, sulking teens (the Beavis and Butthead of the Guitar Hero generation—as Cartman from “South Park” says in the hilarious sample that Geddy uses in “The Trees,” “Real guitars are for old people”) actually yawning. Anyone would agree that yawning is not appropriate behavior at a rock concert. (Vomiting, yes, but not yawning.)
There's more about riding on the East coast and New England, riding without a helmet, looking forward to some time off, and some photos as well.
Looks like November 4 is the tentative release date, according to rushisaband.com
Well, after more than a year and over 100 shows, the Snakes & Arrows tours came to an end last night in Indianapolis. I imagine they guys will take at least six months off before even considering any new studio work. Word is the Atlanta show was filmed for inclusion as bonus material for the upcoming Snakes & Arrows Live DVD, due out some time this year.
