# Poll: Gender Preference for Rock Band "Rush" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 23, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593 "2006-11-23T23:39:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/21 "2006-11-24T02:58:58Z")
Male. I have nine of their early albums on CD, some in audiophile editions. But I’m not a rabid fan. I _like_ them, but I don’t _love_ them. I don’t think you can come from Toronto and not have some Rush in your collection. It’d kinda be sacrelige. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/22 "2006-11-24T03:05:24Z")
Female non-Canadian. I LOVE Rush! (even their first album!) ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/23 "2006-11-24T03:07:37Z")
I know some folks hate it when you chime in again to correct yourself, but I actually do know how to spell _sacrilege_. It’s typing I have trouble with. I did see Geddy come out to sing “Battlescar” with Max Webster at their last New Years Eve gig at Maple Leaf Gardens. It brought the house down! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/24 "2006-11-24T03:11:27Z")
Male. Not my cup of tea, but I will listen to the occassional tune. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/25 "2006-11-24T03:16:52Z")
Male, and a huge, huge fan. When I took up the drums in high school, I had to get a Tama drum kit and Zildjian cymbals to emulate Neil Peart. I take some undeserved secondary pride that my brothers happened to see their first show as Rush with Neil Peart on drums. They went to see Uriah Heep in Pittsburgh, and Rush opened for them. My wife is also a huge fan, but that’s probably on account of me, so I don’t know if she counts. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/26 "2006-11-24T03:45:41Z")
Male, love 'em. (But I don’t _loove_ them. 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/27 "2006-11-24T03:53:57Z")
Female, like them. When I saw them a couple years ago it was with 3 huge fans - one female and 2 male. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/28 "2006-11-24T04:31:50Z")
[QUOTE=Rushgeekgirl] I believe my user name says it all. 🙂 [/QUOTE] How _you_ doin’? 😃 Male, Rush fanatic. I first heard them in junior high school, right around the same time I was first learning to play the guitar. I heard the bass line to “Freewill”, and I said, “That’s it, I’m switching to the bass.” Hell, I wasn’t even really aware of the bass guitar as a distinct instrument until I heard that song. So you could say Geddy Lee turned me into a bass player with that song. I drifted away in high school and into my early 20s, because I was getting into heavy metal around the same time Rush was going all “new wave” on me (or so it seemed at the time), but I came back to them in the '90s and haven’t looked back. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/29 "2006-11-24T04:42:55Z")
Female - love 'em and have for years. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/30 "2006-11-24T04:45:31Z")
Hate em hard. Male. ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/31 "2006-11-24T05:39:39Z")
Male. Devoted fan. Still find new stuff to capture my imagination in songs of theirs I’ve been listening to for over twenty years. I like the sensibility they communicate through their music. ---
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/32 "2006-11-24T08:20:49Z")
I like 'em. Male. But I came in here to mention that a co-worker of mine will name his soon-to-be-born son (with the evident assent of his wife) Geddy. Now that’s a yes vote. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/33 "2006-11-24T08:24:11Z")
Male. My hand has reached light speed to change the radio station when they come on. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/34 "2006-11-24T08:35:54Z")
Canadian woman: hate 'em. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/35 "2006-11-24T08:45:14Z")
European male. Never heard them. But the word ‘prog-rock’ gives me horrible associations I must say. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/36 "2006-11-24T10:40:20Z")
45-year-old male. Also a musician. Don’t care for them. Feel much the same about the rest of their overwrought prog-rock brethren. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/37 "2006-11-24T10:57:23Z")
Female, can’t abide 'em. Live with male who thinks they’re the mutt’s gonads. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/38 "2006-11-24T11:20:22Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] It has come to my attention that liking the rock band “Rush” might be divided along gender lines - women often have little or no interest in this band, and men think they are the greatest thing since sliced bread. So, a simple poll: Do you like the band “Rush?” Are you a man or a woman? I’ll start - woman, don’t care for 'em. [/QUOTE] Female, been listening to them since the mid 70s, love them [have every album they have ever made, including the one that is nothing but covers - kicking version of crossroads that beats the hell out of the clapton version] ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/39 "2006-11-24T13:36:39Z")
When we were teenagers, my brother loved them. I really didn’t care for them, but that may have had something to do with hearing their records played incessanlty and loudly. My brother even tried to convince Mum of the depths of wisdom in their lyrics. Nowadays, I rather like them and even own a CD by them. I’m female and my brother and I are both musicians. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593/40 "2006-11-24T13:43:11Z")
Ugh. NO. Female. Can’t think of one song that I like. Did they ever have a hit? Should they have? They tortured my teen days-do we have to revisit them? 🙂 (yes, I know that hit doesn’t = quality, but still…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-gender-preference-for-rock-band-rush/381593.md?page=3)