The COMPLETE version of the Rush scene from "I Love You Man." Features the Boys playing "Limelight." This is the full performance of the song, which (to my understanding, I haven't seen the film) is cut down to about a minute in the theaters.

Prepare to experience awesomeness--and this is pretty accurate.

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My "top ten bands" list is something I have maintained since high school. For once I decided to expand it to twenty.

There are requirements to be on it!

• Bands must be active--must have toured or released an album within the past five years.
  
• Bands that break up or are on hiatus do not make this list. So Led Zeppelin, The Replacements, Midnight ( Read more... )

Rush just played the Colbert Report--their first live TV performance in 30 years. This might have been even better than the recent Cookie Monster episode. A top-notch job even tho the show was forced to cut away to crappy commercials during Tom Sawyer. There was a short, jovial interview in which I had a total "wavelength moment" with Neil--the ( Read more... )

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Yesterday I slept most of the day and worked on my Fantasy Football draft. It's tiring to do the data entry every year but it also helps me get reacquainted with the rosters and the teams that have shuffled players around in the off-season. I've decided that I'm keeping ( Read more... )

Although today got off to a slow start it proved to be a productive Monday, with lots of stuff getting done. Well, several major tasks anyway ( Read more... )

Two really good pieces about Neil Peart and his motorcycle riding. (Neil rides his BMW from show to show while Geddy and Alex take the bus.) First one is by Richard S. Foster, author of the story "A Nice Morning Drive", which inspired NP to write the classic track "Red Barchetta" on 1981's Moving Pictures. You can read The Drummer, The Private Eye ( Read more... )

The new Rush tour has brought some classic cuts back to the set. That said, here's my own personal Rush Request List: ten songs I'd really like to see "the boys" play one of these days. Man can dream, can't he?

1) "The Camera Eye". From 1981's Moving Pictures this song, an 11-minute look at life in the "big city" using New York and London as its ( Read more... )