Post subject: [2010-06-29] Rush "Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage" DVD/Blu-ray (Zoe/Rounder)
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To any New Yorkers who go to this-I am jealous!
According to Rushisaband.com, RUSH - The Documentary will indeed receive a red carpet premier at the Tribeca Film Festival in in Lower Manhattan on Saturday, April 24th and that all three members - singer/bassist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart - will be on hand.
The Rush documentary was created by Banger Films Inc., the home of filmmakers Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen (Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, Global Metal and IRON MAIDEN's Flight 666).
The film will feature contributions from a host of musicians who have toured with or been inspired by Rush, including KISS, TOOL, FOO FIGHTERS, URIAH HEEP, SMASHING PUMPKINS' Billy Corgan, NINE INCH NAILS' Trent Reznor and PRIMUS.
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Post subject: [2010-06-29] Rush "Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage" DVD/Blu-ray (Zoe/Rounder)
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I hope it plays Philly. The guys who put this together do pretty good work. I'm sure this has a sense of humor as well, as the critics who have always misunderstood the band and destroyed them, never got that despite their musical excellence, they have never taken themselves seriously. Hell, they used to come out to the Three Stooges Theme!
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Post subject: [2010-06-29] Rush "Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage" DVD/Blu-ray (Zoe/Rounder)
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From Rock Radio:
Neil Peart of Rush says the band don't need induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – it would mean more to the fans, while the band's induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame on Sunday means much more because it recognises their songwriting ability.
The drummer, who's also the main writer behind the prog trio's output, tells the Canadian Press: "We really don't care. It matters a lot to the fans to have that validation, but it doesn't matter to me.
"We've got the success and respect, and the opportunity to do exactly what we wanted for 35 years. Do we need someone to make us feel better? Not at all.
"Being in the Canadian Hall of Fame – that's ten, a hundred times, more than being on some critics' list.
"The distinction is the songwriter part. We've been appreciated as musicians and performers, but not for the craft of the thing. Praise from our peers as songwriters means a great deal."
Rush are being inducted on the basis of five leading tracks: Limelight, Tom Sawyer, The Spirit of Radio, Subdivisions and Closer to the Heart. The ceremony on Sunday will feature Alexisonfire playing Tom Sawyer, Jacob Moon performing Subdivisions and Les Claypool of Primus doing Spirit – which he describes as "a bitch to play".
Peart says Rush are continuing to think hard about the future of their output, after having concluded the album format is dead and unlikely to be a valid format for them in the future.
They've considered recording a handful of tracks, releasing them and touring on the back of them, rather than following the traditional album-tour cycle, and Peart believes it's still an option.
"We're doing pre-production on two songs just now. We'll put them together and if they turn out well, we'll maybe release them. It would be an interesting way to shake it up. But there's nothing I can confirm yet – these things are immensely complicated. All I can say is we're considering that."
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_________________ "We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors."—College Basketball player Weldon Drew
Zoë Vision, in association with Banger Films, is thrilled to announce the premiere of the documentary, “Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage” at The Tribeca Film Festival on April 24.
Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, along with the documentary’s filmmakers, Scot McFadyen & Sam Dunn (whose filmography also includes: “Iron Maiden: Flight 666,” “Metal, A Headbangers Journey” and “Global Metal”) will all be on hand in New York to celebrate the release of this much-anticipated film.
A poster for "Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage", the long-awaited RUSH documentary produced by Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn of Toronto, Ontario, Canada's Banger Films Inc., can be viewed below. The film will receive its Canadian premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, which runs from April 29 to May 9 in Toronto, Ontario.
The film will be shown on the following dates/times:
* Thursday, April 29 at 9:30 p.m. at the Winter Garden Theatre * Friday, April 30 at 4:00 p.m. at the Isabel Bader Theatre
The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America's largest documentary film festival, conference and market, held annually in Toronto.
"Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage" will receive a red-carpet premier at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on Saturday, April 24. All three members of RUSH — singer/bassist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart — will be on hand for the event.
For more information, go to this location.
Dunn and McFadyen were interviewed last year by Classic Rock magazine's Jerry Ewing about the first-ever feature film documentary on Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart.
"Geddy had been in [Dunn and McFadyen's previous documentary] 'Metal: A Headbanger's Journey' and we were thinking about other bands we could work with," explained McFadyen. "We felt that RUSH had always been overlooked by the critics so we met them on tour and they liked what we said. We started working on it, then IRON MAIDEN came about so we took a break to do that and raised the financing for the RUSH film. We've started on it now and done a load of interviews so now we're editing with a load of archival footage."
"We've been lucky. Not only have we had access to [RUSH management] SRO's archives but also Geddy, Alex and Neil's own personal archives," enthuses director Dunn. "I was just at Geddy's house this week. Going through his personal collection of memorabilia. I dug up some gems I don't think RUSH fans have ever seen so we're hoping to offer something new."
As RUSH fans themselves, Dunn admitted this made him feel like a kid let loose in a candy store.
"Well, Geddy's definitely the premier band archivist," Dunn said. "He has a massive collection of photographs and clippings. We even got our hands on Neil's handwritten lyric sheets from back when they were making 'Fly By Night', '2112' and 'A Farewell To Kings', and I don't think they've ever been seen before."
Post subject: [2010-06-29] Rush "Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage" DVD/Blu-ray (Zoe/Rounder)
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From FMQB.com:
The new Rush documentary, Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, will have its TV debut on June 26 on VH1 and VH1 Classic. The film will get a Canadian premiere at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, which runs from April 29 to May 9 in Toronto. There will also be a red carpet premiere of the film at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City this Saturday, April 24 with the band members in attendance.
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Post subject: [2010-06-29] Rush "Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage" DVD/Blu-ray (Zoe/Rounder)
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 4:14 pm
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There will also be a red carpet premiere of the film at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City this Saturday, April 24 with the band members in attendance.
Based on past experience, it'll be impossible for regular folks to get tickets for this. I'm sure all tix went to industry types and subscribers to the Film Festival.
A few years ago, we tried to score tix for a screening of Tideland hosted by Terry Gilliam at the IFC theater--fuggedaboudit!
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Tribeca Review: Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage By Katey Rich: 2010-04-22 06:06:34 | Rush fans are the most obvious intended audience for the loving documentary Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage. After all, the band has been around long enough for the battle lines to be clearly drawn, and the documentary by Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen makes no bones about the fact that Rush has never been critically accepted or particularly hip. In the cruel world of heavy metal you're either with Rush or against them, and though the film kicks off with some talking head interviews with more than a dozen notable musicians-- Billy Corgan, Gene Simmons, even Jack Black-- confessing their love for the band, you can tell there's a little shame attached.
But dammit, if liking Rush is wrong, I don't wanna be right. Going into the film knowing nothing about the band beyond that one scene in I Love You Man, I didn't come out instantly dying to track down their filmography and memorize Neil Peart's drum solos, but I was utterly charmed all the same. The band's trajectory from high school wannabes to "overnight sensations" several years later is a standard issue rock biography, but the energy with which Peart, Geedy Lee and Alex Lifeson still approach their music and their careers is infectious. Early promotional photos of the band feature them in ridiculous outfits and goofy poses, and though, sure, some of the good vibes and brotherhood today could have been faked for the camera, it's clear these guys aren't a rock band who ever threw each other out of hotel windows, or even went to rehab. They're the world's most straight and narrow rock stars, and you've got to love them for it.
The early sections of the film suffer most for their fannishness, skipping over key musical biography elements like influences and how they even named the band, and never really making a case for the band's well-documented talents. But Dunn and McFadyen make up for it with revealing interviews with Lifeson and Lee's parents-- all European refugees to Canada after World War II-- and tons and tons of archival photos and video. The film zips along nicely as the band finds success on the radio and releases their first album, goes on tour with Kiss (those are some great backstage photos), and basically eschews the standard rock star lifestyle.
When the band's music goes a little sour in the 80s, the film does too, seemingly dragging endlessly but also telling us nothing about the period between the early 80s and 1997, when Peart suffered the loss of both his daughter and wife and left the band for a few years. That tragedy is presented as the only one suffered by the band over 40+ years, and it's handled extremely delicately by the filmmakers-- probably too delicately for anyone looking for insight or a glimpse behind Peart's extremely collected shell. But by then, as with the band, you're either on board or you're not; the best thing to do is to accept that the filmmakers are primarily fans, and enjoy all the affectionate energy that comes out of that.
It's hard to imagine a theatrical future for Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, but then again, a 3D Phish movie is on its way soon, so anything is possible. Beyond the obvious service to fans, the movie does serve as a document and testament to the skill of a band that, in their own way, really are important to the history of rock and roll. If your Rush-loving friend drags you to see it, stick around-- you might get beyond Geddy Lee's screechy vocals and find something to love too.
Rush documentary premiere tonight, in theaters 6/10, DVD 6/29 Posted at 11:01AM
The long-awaited Rush documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage will have its US and world premier tonight at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. The official trailer for the film was posted online earlier today and you can check it out at this link, along with these 2 preview clips that had been posted online a couple weeks ago. The Canadian premiere will occur at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto next Thursday, April 29th. Earlier this week we learned that the documentary will get its television premiere on VH1 and VH1 Classic on June 26th, and now the official Banger Films blog is reporting that the film will appear in select theaters for one night only on Thursday, June 10th and be released on DVD June 29th. For any RIABers who are attending the premiere, there will be a pre-screening meet-up at The Molly Wee which is located at 30th and 8th.
Maybe Jimbo and John G could show up at the Molly Wee (I've been there!) and score a mercy ticket....?
Post subject: [2010-06-29] Rush "Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage" DVD/Blu-ray (Zoe/Rounder)
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 2:23 pm
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Congrats to Rush!
According to Rushisaband.com, RUSH will be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, June 25th.
According to Wikipedia, the Hollywood Walk Of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, that serves as an entertainment museum. It is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of not only human celebrities but also fictional characters honored by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for their contributions to the entertainment industry.
In an interview with New York City's Q104.3 that aired today, Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson shed more light on the band's upcoming album.
"There's less emphasis on doing an album," Lifeson reveals. "I think as modern as we want to be and as contemporary as we want to be, we've always been an album band. All of our albums are conceptual in nature, whether it's obvious or not. And that's certainly the case with this album that we are doing. What's interesting for us and refreshing is to do a couple of songs and release them before a tour and play them live. And then go back in and continue writing. The intention from the beginning was just do a couple of songs and not record them, just play them live. What happened was that we started writing and we had six songs we were quite happy with. There were always the two we thought we the candidates to do live, but we decided to record them. They sounded so great when we recorded them that we want to release them now. We'll release one to radio in about a month, and the two of them will be released around the same time at the beginning of the tour. And then we'll go back into the studio, continue writing more material, then we'll recorded everything in the new year, next year."
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