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When we worked on “Discovery,” I think it was honey oil that was around at the time, so that was a wonderful inspiration. I remember there was a lot of smoky haze in the room. We were working with Terry Brown at the time, at Toronto Sound, which was a very small 16-track studio. I remember it being a lot of fun, and we felt really positively about it. It was about two weeks to record and mix.

The great thing was that we had a chance to rehearse it during soundchecks, so we were well prepared by the time we got into the studio. We were touring so much that we wrote it mostly in arena dressing rooms, and in the car and the van. We were still quite young, 22 years old, when we did that. This strange blend earned the band a triple-platinum plaque from the RIAA and changed the members’ lives forever.Īlex Lifeson, now 62, spoke to Rolling Stone from his home in Toronto in early March to reflect on how the album set into motion four decades of defying expectations.

#Rush 2112 album review series#

To the chagrin of the record company, one half of the LP contained the 20-minute, eight-movement suite “2112,” an Ayn Rand–inspired science-fiction ode to individualism, while the other found the trio singing about marijuana tourism (“A Passage to Bangkok”), the TV series The Twilight Zone (the song “The Twilight Zone”) and more individualism (“Something for Nothing”), among other subjects. Meet the Beatle: A Guide to Ringo Starr's Solo Career in 20 Songs The band members, which by that point included drummer-lyricist Neil Peart, were all in their early twenties, and they let their imaginations run wild on 2112. On their lofty follow-up to 1975’s commercially unsuccessful Caress of Steel, Rush finally reached the pivotal moment where they became capital-R Rush, the bigger-than-life hard-rock dreamers they always knew they could be, ever since vocalist-bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson formed the group as Toronto high schoolers during the late Sixties.

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Everything will change, however, in 2112 when an optimistic, anonymous free thinker finds a “strange device” (a guitar) and martyrs himself while attempting to bring melody to the stars. They predicted that in less than half a century, in the year 2062 to be precise, the universe will finally find peace - and oppression - as the Solar Federation unifies warring planets and instates the music-hating Priests of the Temples of Syrinx as overlords. Forty years ago this week, the three white-tunic-clad prophets of Rush foretold an intergalactic war on their prog-rock magnum opus, 2112.