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“#How Rush lived, worked and rocked through the 1980s<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n ‘Rush were celebrating everything it meant to be Canadian,’ writes Martin Popoff in ‘Limelight:\u00a0Rush\u00a0in the \u201980s.’ Read this excerpt from the second volume of Popoff’s biography of the legendary band.\n <\/div>\n
\n Fans of a certain legendary Canadian rock trio eagerly anticipated Martin Popoff\u2019s latest biography. That band is Rush, and Popoff\u2014who has penned dozens of books on hard rock, heavy metal, prog rock and punk\u2014just published the second of a three-volume bio of the band.\u00a0<\/em>Limelight:\u00a0Rush<\/span>\u00a0in the \u201980s<\/a>\u00a0was released on Oct. 13, and it covers Rush\u2019s iconic albums from that decade,\u00a0<\/em>Moving Pictures\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Power Windows. Read this excerpt from the second chapter of the book.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

\"\"Pleased with the living\/working arrangements for A Farewell to Kings<\/em>, Rush tried it again for Hemispheres<\/em>. Pleased with the living\/working arrangements for Permanent Waves<\/em>, Rush tried it again for Moving Pictures<\/em>. Fortunately, the sequel effort this time didn\u2019t disapp<\/a>oint, and the guys found themselves more Canadian than ever. Living and raising families in Canada, writing on Canadian farms, recording immersed in the Canadian forest, bridging the divide between English Canada and French Canada, winning Junos and paddling canoes . . . Rush were celebrating everything it meant to be Canadian.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went out to Ronnie Hawkins\u2019s farm, out in the Stony Lake area,\u201d begins Alex, on preparations for the record that would serve as Rush\u2019s Machine Head<\/em> and Paranoid<\/em>, or Fragile<\/em> and Not Fragile<\/em>, as it were. \u201cI guess it\u2019s just north of Peterborough. He had a really nice little home up there, nice cottage with a big barn on it. We converted the barn into the studio, and set Neil\u2019s drums up, and had areas for Geddy and myself. And it was a really nice location.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were there in the summer, and everybody was in good spirits. There was a good energy to the work. We started writing there and basically wrote everything in rehearsal there, and then moved into Le Studio later that fall and started recording. There was a real positive energy, not unlike what we went through with Snakes & Arrows<\/em> years later. But at that time, there was just something that was very strong and positive about where we were with that record. I don\u2019t want to say it was effortless, but the effort seemed to be very smooth. We had some guests visit, and we had a lot of fun across the whole process. It wasn\u2019t just in the studio \u2014 it was a really nice place to be at that point in our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

The guys were enthusiastic about carrying on the concept kicked off with the last album. \u201cYeah, it was great, really exciting,\u201d Alex continues. \u201cBecause instead of one story you had five stories in the same time span, but you could link them with a sentiment or with an idea. A little bit less so with Permanent Waves<\/em> but more so with Moving Pictures<\/em>\u2014that whole idea of a collection of short stories is what we were after and that\u2019s what Moving Pictures<\/em> is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Consensus is that Moving Pictures<\/em> is the record where Geddy toned down his patented high shriek. \u201cI bought it at Kresge\u2019s,\u201d laughs Lee on coming up with it in the first place. \u201cI keep it downstairs in my studio for when I need it. Lifetime guarantee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I can still shriek if the music requires it,\u201d figures Geddy. \u201cI have no conceptual adverse feelings about it. As the music changed, it became more interesting for me to write melodies as opposed to shrieking. It was basically used for cutting through the density of the music. And sometimes we would write without any consideration for what key we were in in the early days, and I would find myself with twelve tracks recorded in a key that was real tough to sing in, so I didn\u2019t have a choice at that point. Re-record the record in a different key or just go for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlex started getting really heavily into model airplanes,\u201d says Geddy, offering further glimpses into Rush\u2019s release valves during writing and recording. \u201cIt started when we were writing Permanent Waves<\/em>, when we were at Lakewood Farms, in a little farmhouse out of the city. And even Terry Brown got into it. In fact, we had a lot of fun. In August of \u201980, writing Moving Pictures<\/em>, we were working on Ronnie Hawkins\u2019s farm out near Stony Lake, and Alex was really into these remote control airplanes. He would spend hours building them. And of course, they would always go haywire, where they would get up too high, or lose control or something. And I remember, there was one that went completely haywire and ended up crashing and exploding on the top of Ronnie Hawkins\u2019s truck, put a big hole in the top of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then Terry Brown had this fantastic giant one, this giant plane he had been working on. It was so big you had to have this kind of tether so it would fly around in circles. And it had a huge engine on it. And I remember he finally cranked it up and man, it took off! And suddenly, we all had to hit the deck! It was like this charge went out, and everybody is diving for the ground, and poor Broon is holding onto this thing going around in circles. He\u2019s going around and around and around [laughs]. Finally the plane ran out of gas and landed, and he basically fell over in the grass. He was completely dizzy; it was hilarious.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we continued that at Morin Heights. Alex, and in fact, Tony Geranios, who is also known as Jack Secret, started working on rockets, and we would have these rocket launches, sometimes at dinner, sometimes at breakfast. I remember one time he launched one in the backyard, and the thing just took off the wrong way completely and missed exploding in Alex\u2019s brand-new Mercedes by inches. It was always great fun. And Alex got into water planes at Morin Heights, because they had a lake. He would land it in the water and take off from the water.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notes Terry, on the way the band had been evolving at this juncture, \u201cWe went for a bigger sound. But then looking at the instrumentation, there were more keyboards. So the guitar needed to be textured differently. But then we used chorus for many, many years; this was not something new. It was just the way it was used. Alex was always into delays. I loved working with him for that reason. He had all these delays he would put through the amp, so we were always getting these great guitar sounds right through the amplifier\u2014we weren\u2019t adding delay afterwards. But yeah, the guitar sound changed, and it needed to change. The material was different. You can\u2019t go back in and do the same thing every time. You\u2019ve got to move forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were working forty-eight-tracks,\u201d continues Terry, \u201cand we would cut the drums and some guide guitar and bass parts on one twenty-four and put it away until we were finished, and then put a guide track on another twenty-four-track and then fill it up with all our overdubs. So we didn\u2019t really approach it a lot differently than we had before, but there was some magic going on, certainly that day when we loaded in and set up the drum sounds for \u2018Tom Sawyer,\u2019 and it just blew everyone away. It was very, very exciting. It\u2019s a hard thing to break down though. It\u2019s a combination of the right time, the right place, the right song, the right parts and the energy that was around us at that time. But it definitely has a magic to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Excerpted from \u201cLimelight:\u00a0Rush<\/span>\u00a0in the \u201980s\u201d by\u00a0Martin Popoff.\u00a0\u00a9 by\u00a0Martin Popoff.\u00a0Published by\u00a0ECW Press Ltd<\/a>.<\/b>
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