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.
Female non-Canadian.
I LOVE Rush!
(even their first album!)
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!
Male. Not my cup of tea, but I will listen to the occassional tune.
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.
Male, love 'em. (But I don’t loove them. 
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Female, like them.
When I saw them a couple years ago it was with 3 huge fans - one female and 2 male.
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.
Female - love 'em and have for years.
Hate em hard. Male.
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.
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.
Male. My hand has reached light speed to change the radio station when they come on.
Canadian woman: hate 'em.
European male. Never heard them.
But the word ‘prog-rock’ gives me horrible associations I must say.
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.
Female, can’t abide 'em.
Live with male who thinks they’re the mutt’s gonads.
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]
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.
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…)