Love both of these guys! Worked with Geddy on a 2112/ Moving pictures retrospective film and worked both Alex and Geddy all day and wanted one more take. Geddy, said "No, I think that's enough, I'm going home now and I'm going to pour myself a big glass of wine" These guys always knew when they had what they needed, but worked their asses off to get there. Thanks for the music!
@@scorpionsunbreakable I remember my buddy Julian, who was and still is a fantastic drummer, dropping his pen and his and Neil's head collided as they both went to pick it up. I distinctly remember Julian making a Mike Reid (Uk comedian) hand gesture of a bump growing on his head along with the sound of a small farty noise. I have a memory for these kind of things.
My first concert in 1974 RUSH, Montrose and Foghat at the RKO Orpheum Theatre in Davenport IA. I was 15. When they played Working Man, and Fly By Night i was a RUSH fan forever. Still have the original Fly By Night album, never been opened unless i can convince my 7 year old grandson to play bass guitar! Thanks
I have all my original Rush albums AND still play them. My worst off is the 1st album Rush. It's the 2 cardboard sides, back and front not held together by anything and inside sleeve missing. So just the album between 2 loose cardboard sheets 😂😂. Just had to tell that little story lol
About that tour in 1974: I remember that Rush opened for Rory Gallagher and Nazareth was also on the bill. It was at the Montreal Forum summer 1974. MY first time seeing Rush.
How fucking rad is Paul Rudd for doing this? He has been a Rush super fan since he was a teenager. He was the one who saw the opportunity to include them in I Love You Man. Rush had a day off on tour and they they shot it. He always wanted to somehow get them in a film.
I love you man wasn’t my kind of movie, but my respect for Rudd went off the scale because of the Rush inclusion. It’s a real shame Hollywood failed to include the band in Ready Player One as well , they totally missed a trick there and I think the movie would’ve been much more successful if they had. As it was, it turned out to be just another mediocre cgi action flick with the heart removed.
The function of a sound check is to test the equipment, cables, microphones and instruments on stage, get levels (volume, EQ, etc) on stage and through the front of house speakers. It has nothing to do with talent.
@@AndyActionduh he’s saying they were haters of their talent and were the big rock stars and pissed on the little nerds who could play circles around them
Not the whole band, it was Steve Tyler that was an a$&hole to any warm up band. I heard the story where he pulled cables when Kansas opened for them on their encore. The band had to apologize for Tyler to keep a fight from breaking out.
Yeah pretty sure Geddy was talking about Aerosmith. It's no secret that Aerosmith never gave RUSH a sound check. Funny, now when I hear or think Aerosmith I immediately think a-holes who never gave RUSH a sound check.
Met Geddy and got my big beautiful book of bass signed. He is such a humble nice man, and realizing that he was dealing with impending deaths of Neil and his mother while still being gracious to his fans… That hits me in the feels. But dammit, why isn’t he doing Pittsburgh this time around?😞
Guarantee you additional dates are added later. Especially as demand begins to spike, which as we know, demand always spikes as a tour progresses. I live outside of Morgantown, WV, so Pittsburgh would be the one I would want as well. My intuition gives me this feeling that Neil told Geddy “forget about me, you go out there and promote that book and meet those fans”. I can picture him saying that to Geddy or Alex Just a bit of side knowledge, since I mention that I live close to Morgantown… I remember in 1989 when Cinderella headlined the WVU Mountaineer coliseum. That band violated the ever living shit out of every noise ordinance and played around 30 to 45 minutes past curfew, which was also covered in the city ordinance. The band had to pay all kinds of fines and were issued a lifetime ban from playing the coliseum ever again 😂 I wasn’t at the show, but heard all about it. I was only 11 years old back then. But that’s hilarious knowing that Cinderella came in and straight up blew the dome off the coliseum before burning it to the ground with mega amounts of decibels 😂 When I saw RUSH at the then new Consolidated Coal arena in 2010… that was THEE LOUDEST I ever heard them play. I’m guessing you were there as well. Were they not WAY louder than usual? I’m definitely not complaining, as I wish all bands would play that loud. But RUSH was very much along the lines of AC⚡️DC loud that night. My equilibrium was off for a couple of days after that, as was those chic that I took with me. She had a hard time hearing for a couple of days after that. She said it was “too much” and that they delivered the goods in ways she never expected from RUSH I saw Roger’s Water there just a few days later. He was nowhere near as loud as RUSH was that night, or AC/DC in the Civic Arena
I also met Geddy many years ago when i was 18 night after the Moving pictures tour in Vancouver BC was dehydrated and just hung out with my friends from Vancouver Island told them I'd stay another night so went into Pacific center mall around 11:30 am a got a Orange Julius 🍊 sitting on a bench sipping away when all of a sudden a side door opened up and it was Geddy Lee i was in shock since seeing Rush the night before Moving pictures tour as Geddy walked by me and went down the escalator i was frozen didn't know what to do and within a few minutes he came back up and as he walked pass me i made my move i walked up behind Geddy and said excuse me are you Geddy Lee and he replied yes and i said WOW what a RUSH and we both started laughing he said we're you at the concert last night and i replied yes 10th row on the floor told Geddy i attended Hemisphere tour in Nanaimo and Farewell to kings tour in Victoria BC talked for about 10min and i said where's Alex and Neil and he said we like going are own ways after a show finally words very nice to me you and I've got a few places to go and meeting up with Alex and Neil in Edmonton tonight memories I'll never forget such a wonderful 👏 person Rush for life 🤝👏
@@by-torandthesnowdog1647 back when I was in college… I was in my junior year in 2007 and was out one night at this club having a few drinks and seeing what I could pull out of there. There was this chic named Alex who DJd in one of the smaller bar rooms where she had her laptop playing 80s new wave / top 40 stuff I was talking to her and told her she should play some RUSH, like from Power Windows… one of their real “80s sounding” records. She then said “ewwww… I can’t STAND Geddy Lee!!!” Like she was a real BITCH about it and took offense that I would bring up RUSH and the likes of Geddy Lee at “her” beloved DJ table I was like “wow… i get that RUSH is an acquired taste for many, but man… you come as being very hateful in the most unhealthy of ways…” and I then went on the lay out a bit of history and such to help build a better picture for her as to who Geddy Lee really is. But she was having none of it I then told her “Shit… Geddy Lee is gong to sing at your wedding. What do you think about that?” And she said “oh HELL NO!!!” I then told her, I said “actually I think you might be right about that. Because of you hold that much hate and resentment to those who you perceive as different and not in line with your pristine interests that YOU believe are so superior to others, then either you will NEVER find a husband…. Or he’s a damn simp FOOL and you know it, and you like people who you can manipulate… and with that being said, you’re not RUSH material, and are NOR someone Geddy Lee would even claim as part of his base anyways… so enjoy your hits that the masses told you were timeless classics “ It was something like that. I was a bit drunk too. She was like “I don’t carrree!!” That also sums up what my time was like attending a “football first, football always” BIG 12 university after spending 8 years in the army with 2 combat tours and 31 combat equipped mass tactical parachute jumps under my belt, many of those conducted in the middle of the night at 800 feet. Add RUSH to the mix, and how the hell does one even begin to relate to anyone around you in that environment? How the hell I put up with 5 years of that and graduated is beyond me
7:01 "We just tried to play the notes in the right order." -- Gotta love Geddy's wry deadpan humour and self-deprecation. It's like Michelangelo saying all a sculptor needs to do is chip away the bits that don't belong.
Geddy is so sensitive and compassionate and real that I’m jealous as a personification of me but more scattered. Cheers from Barrie, I bet you never played here?
Geddy is such a mensch. Giving praise to Kiss for how to be professional and treat the back up band respectfully, allow them to use their sound checks etc … and then NOT naming Aerosmith and Uriah Heep as bands that did nothing of the sort. Revealing.
I can’t find any evidence that Rush ever opened for Van Halen. Can somebody find a link. I do know that Alex Van Halen always listened to Rush before a gig to hype himself up.
The only thing that i dont like from paul rudd... Is the joke he made about ASIA frame poster (the old virgin with steve carrell)... Jonh Wetton was a first class bass player as well as an awesome vocalist.... But i forgive him, because of his.love for RUSH We are cool man, send my regards and appreciation to phoebe buffay Long live RUSH!!! Kind regards from México
Van Halen and RUSH never had problems. There is one story where Ged spilled a beer on a cassette player Eddie was playing a song on, but there was never really a beef. The manager of RUSH is married to Eddie and Alex's sister
This is cool. Audience is annoying... as usual. "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Love both of these guys! Worked with Geddy on a 2112/ Moving pictures retrospective film and worked both Alex and Geddy all day and wanted one more take. Geddy, said "No, I think that's enough, I'm going home now and I'm going to pour myself a big glass of wine" These guys always knew when they had what they needed, but worked their asses off to get there. Thanks for the music!
I watched all of this with a huge grin. Thank you for posting!
Yeah, me too!😊
I met Rush backstage at The Hammersmith Odeon in 1980, they signed my programme and I still have it.
Permant Waves tour I saw 3 times. Just curious if Neil was there as he never does meet n greets
@@scorpionsunbreakable Yes, he was. My programme is signed by all three.
@@scorpionsunbreakable I remember my buddy Julian, who was and still is a fantastic drummer, dropping his pen and his and Neil's head collided as they both went to pick it up. I distinctly remember Julian making a Mike Reid (Uk comedian) hand gesture of a bump growing on his head along with the sound of a small farty noise. I have a memory for these kind of things.
My first concert in 1974 RUSH, Montrose and Foghat at the RKO Orpheum Theatre in Davenport IA. I was 15. When they played Working Man, and Fly By Night i was a RUSH fan forever. Still have the original Fly By Night album, never been opened unless i can convince my 7 year old grandson to play bass guitar! Thanks
I have all my original Rush albums AND still play them. My worst off is the 1st album Rush. It's the 2 cardboard sides, back and front not held together by anything and inside sleeve missing. So just the album between 2 loose cardboard sheets 😂😂. Just had to tell that little story lol
About that tour in 1974: I remember that Rush opened for Rory Gallagher and Nazareth was also on the bill. It was at the Montreal Forum summer 1974. MY first time seeing Rush.
How fucking rad is Paul Rudd for doing this? He has been a Rush super fan since he was a teenager. He was the one who saw the opportunity to include them in I Love You Man. Rush had a day off on tour and they they shot it. He always wanted to somehow get them in a film.
Watch your language. No need to spell out the filth in your head, just dance around it so we can enjoy your point, chum.
@@hankgarza4975 Oh. Fuck. I’m sorry I offended you.
I love you man wasn’t my kind of movie, but my respect for Rudd went off the scale because of the Rush inclusion. It’s a real shame Hollywood failed to include the band in Ready Player One as well , they totally missed a trick there and I think the movie would’ve been much more successful if they had. As it was, it turned out to be just another mediocre cgi action flick with the heart removed.
What do you mean "my kind of movie", you don't don't laugh? @@funkydozer
Hearing Geddy say "keep. Slappin dat bass" in the part 2 sketch, 'The Acccess all areas' backstage bit. 😂🤣👍🏻
What a cool Suprise seeing Paul with Him. I Met Geddy During the U2 zoo TV tour. I Met him and Alex Both were super cool.
My impression is that Aerosmith never gave Rush a sound check because they knew they were a threat to be far more talented
The function of a sound check is to test the equipment, cables, microphones and instruments on stage, get levels (volume, EQ, etc) on stage and through the front of house speakers.
It has nothing to do with talent.
@@AndyActionduh he’s saying they were haters of their talent and were the big rock stars and pissed on the little nerds who could play circles around them
Not the whole band, it was Steve Tyler that was an a$&hole to any warm up band. I heard the story where he pulled cables when Kansas opened for them on their encore. The band had to apologize for Tyler to keep a fight from breaking out.
Yeah pretty sure Geddy was talking about Aerosmith. It's no secret that Aerosmith never gave RUSH a sound check. Funny, now when I hear or think Aerosmith I immediately think a-holes who never gave RUSH a sound check.
No headlining band would EVER give the opening band a sound check or full volume of the P.A. EVER!!
Met Geddy and got my big beautiful book of bass signed. He is such a humble nice man, and realizing that he was dealing with impending deaths of Neil and his mother while still being gracious to his fans… That hits me in the feels. But dammit, why isn’t he doing Pittsburgh this time around?😞
I was there in Pittsburgh, and he was awesome! 😊🫶🕺
Guarantee you additional dates are added later. Especially as demand begins to spike, which as we know, demand always spikes as a tour progresses. I live outside of Morgantown, WV, so Pittsburgh would be the one I would want as well. My intuition gives me this feeling that Neil told Geddy “forget about me, you go out there and promote that book and meet those fans”. I can picture him saying that to Geddy or Alex
Just a bit of side knowledge, since I mention that I live close to Morgantown… I remember in 1989 when Cinderella headlined the WVU Mountaineer coliseum. That band violated the ever living shit out of every noise ordinance and played around 30 to 45 minutes past curfew, which was also covered in the city ordinance. The band had to pay all kinds of fines and were issued a lifetime ban from playing the coliseum ever again 😂
I wasn’t at the show, but heard all about it. I was only 11 years old back then. But that’s hilarious knowing that Cinderella came in and straight up blew the dome off the coliseum before burning it to the ground with mega amounts of decibels 😂
When I saw RUSH at the then new Consolidated Coal arena in 2010… that was THEE LOUDEST I ever heard them play. I’m guessing you were there as well. Were they not WAY louder than usual? I’m definitely not complaining, as I wish all bands would play that loud. But RUSH was very much along the lines of AC⚡️DC loud that night. My equilibrium was off for a couple of days after that, as was those chic that I took with me. She had a hard time hearing for a couple of days after that. She said it was “too much” and that they delivered the goods in ways she never expected from RUSH
I saw Roger’s Water there just a few days later. He was nowhere near as loud as RUSH was that night, or AC/DC in the Civic Arena
I also met Geddy many years ago when i was 18 night after the Moving pictures tour in Vancouver BC was dehydrated and just hung out with my friends from Vancouver Island told them I'd stay another night so went into Pacific center mall around 11:30 am a got a Orange Julius 🍊 sitting on a bench sipping away when all of a sudden a side door opened up and it was Geddy Lee i was in shock since seeing Rush the night before Moving pictures tour as Geddy walked by me and went down the escalator i was frozen didn't know what to do and within a few minutes he came back up and as he walked pass me i made my move i walked up behind Geddy and said excuse me are you Geddy Lee and he replied yes and i said WOW what a RUSH and we both started laughing he said we're you at the concert last night and i replied yes 10th row on the floor told Geddy i attended Hemisphere tour in Nanaimo and Farewell to kings tour in Victoria BC talked for about 10min and i said where's Alex and Neil and he said we like going are own ways after a show finally words very nice to me you and I've got a few places to go and meeting up with Alex and Neil in Edmonton tonight memories I'll never forget such a wonderful 👏 person Rush for life 🤝👏
@@by-torandthesnowdog1647 back when I was in college… I was in my junior year in 2007 and was out one night at this club having a few drinks and seeing what I could pull out of there. There was this chic named Alex who DJd in one of the smaller bar rooms where she had her laptop playing 80s new wave / top 40 stuff
I was talking to her and told her she should play some RUSH, like from Power Windows… one of their real “80s sounding” records. She then said “ewwww… I can’t STAND Geddy Lee!!!” Like she was a real BITCH about it and took offense that I would bring up RUSH and the likes of Geddy Lee at “her” beloved DJ table
I was like “wow… i get that RUSH is an acquired taste for many, but man… you come as being very hateful in the most unhealthy of ways…” and I then went on the lay out a bit of history and such to help build a better picture for her as to who Geddy Lee really is. But she was having none of it
I then told her “Shit… Geddy Lee is gong to sing at your wedding. What do you think about that?” And she said “oh HELL NO!!!”
I then told her, I said “actually I think you might be right about that. Because of you hold that much hate and resentment to those who you perceive as different and not in line with your pristine interests that YOU believe are so superior to others, then either you will NEVER find a husband…. Or he’s a damn simp FOOL and you know it, and you like people who you can manipulate… and with that being said, you’re not RUSH material, and are NOR someone Geddy Lee would even claim as part of his base anyways… so enjoy your hits that the masses told you were timeless classics “
It was something like that. I was a bit drunk too. She was like “I don’t carrree!!”
That also sums up what my time was like attending a “football first, football always” BIG 12 university after spending 8 years in the army with 2 combat tours and 31 combat equipped mass tactical parachute jumps under my belt, many of those conducted in the middle of the night at 800 feet. Add RUSH to the mix, and how the hell does one even begin to relate to anyone around you in that environment? How the hell I put up with 5 years of that and graduated is beyond me
Because Pitt is Thug Ridden. Not to mention the communist that occupy that hell-hole ghetto.
Such a great story teller and a true gentleman.
Thank you for sharing these!
Fun interview. Opening for Rory Gallagher was no shame.
I think I saw Rush one time and Rory was opening for them in 1982ish
Emotions run high! I watched I love you man Tuesday when my buddy came over. Had a good time.
7:01 "We just tried to play the notes in the right order." -- Gotta love Geddy's wry deadpan humour and self-deprecation. It's like Michelangelo saying all a sculptor needs to do is chip away the bits that don't belong.
Thanks for these 👍🏿
literally just got my copy of the book at my door from amazon while i was watching this video.nice
Does Paul still Slappa da' bass?????
Nostalgic even after retirement.
Seen Arrowheads in Toronto Derringer opened mopped the stag with them thay Sucked so bad we left
Seen them way back in 1979, Sept 2 at Varsity Stadium in Toronto! I believe Nash The Slash was the opening band. 🎸🇨🇦
At 6:00 I believe Ged is talking about opening for Aerosmith, and how shitty they were to Rush
Thanks for posting. Gettin the book!
I forgot about the whole “slappa da bass thing”
Dammit! As a member of a new band, about to produce our first album, I was really itching those words of wisdom in the last couple seconds haha
Thanks so much for sharing!
How cool is it, that Geddy got to meet ANT MAN😁👍🏻
2 of my favorite humans in conversation ❤❤
26 minute set is about 2 Rush song. :)
One of Getty’s most famous comedic bits was for a Bob & Doug Mackenzie skit, “Take off for the Great White North, take off!”
I loved that!
More please!!
Geddy is so sensitive and compassionate and real that I’m jealous as a personification of me but more scattered. Cheers from Barrie, I bet you never played here?
Thanks for posting. Although very hard to understand . Hope there’s a production company putting something together. 🙏
I guess they didn't have time for a sound check. : )
Geddy is such a mensch. Giving praise to Kiss for how to be professional and treat the back up band respectfully, allow them to use their sound checks etc … and then NOT naming Aerosmith and Uriah Heep as bands that did nothing of the sort. Revealing.
I'm not super concert enthusiast but Rush is the band that I have seen live the most times
Its funny how they are both standing and talking with their hands in their front pockets.
LEGEND....Thanks Ged
Where's the rest? :)
holy shit. thats awesome!
The front end & stage mixing of sound is extremely important. Bad sound can ruin a good performance. In-ear monitors are the only way to go.
I can’t find any evidence that Rush ever opened for Van Halen. Can somebody find a link. I do know that Alex Van Halen always listened to Rush before a gig to hype himself up.
The only thing that i dont like from paul rudd... Is the joke he made about ASIA frame poster (the old virgin with steve carrell)... Jonh Wetton was a first class bass player as well as an awesome vocalist.... But i forgive him, because of his.love for RUSH
We are cool man, send my regards and appreciation to phoebe buffay
Long live RUSH!!!
Kind regards from México
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is this because Mike Hannigan mimed a good piano player on #FRIENDS? ✌🧡
🎵🎶Quantum rhythms.... Capture my ants.... Carry them away 🎵🎶
Saw him in Cleveland last night. I notice that the chairs were swapped out for chairs that don't have mile high super-inconvenient arm rests.
The venues usually provide the chairs. They're probably different every place he goes
Teddy is really pushing this book. Wow!
Wish i could smoke some reefer with Geddy.
van halen was the band that was not nice / shitty to them , alex was probably intimidated with neil on the drum set .
Aerosmith, I think
That is correct ! :) @@PrattDirkLerxst
Van Halen wasn't a tour headliner until 1979. Rush was headlining in 1977. Van Halen was never in a position to have Rush open for them.
thanks for setting me straight .@@stevebean1543
Van Halen and RUSH never had problems. There is one story where Ged spilled a beer on a cassette player Eddie was playing a song on, but there was never really a beef. The manager of RUSH is married to Eddie and Alex's sister
Tom Sawyee’
This is cool.
Audience is annoying... as usual.
"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
How come actors always out glasses on when they try to do something interlectual
Maybe he needs glasses to read?
Why do you talk about things you know nothing about to people you do not know?
Those two are 124 years old. They Need the glasses to See.
Guess which one has real talent.
Good with Geddy. You can keep Rudd, though.
IF was a great band and certainly a lot more musically advanced than Rush were at that stage, a bit sad they are cracking snide comments about them.