# The absolute latest straight dope on Rush **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 2000, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-latest-straight-dope-on-rush/45527 "2000-12-14T14:15:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cygnus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e0b2c6/32.png) [@cygnus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cygnus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-latest-straight-dope-on-rush/45527/1 "2000-12-14T14:15:13Z")
I fear overloading the board by starting the second Rush thread in two days, but I just have to share. I have, I believe, the genuninely and absolutely most current word on our Canadian pals, having just finished listening to Geddy doing a by-phone interview on the morning radio show - only minutes old and straight from the bassist’s mouth. Geddy reports that no work has yet been done by the group in regard to a new album, but that they will be meeting as they typically do (holing up together in some private and doubtlessly lovely chateau or resort) in January to begin writing. Paraphrasing only slightly, his comment was, “and hopefully we will end up with some decent material, and that will lead to the album, which will lead to a tour”. So live shows are definitely in the plan! After the writing is done Geddy hopes to do a bit of solo touring “in the spring” in support of his own album. (I haven’t heard it yet myself, but am hoping maybe Santa will bring it). After that, the trio will enter the studio to begin recording, so if the album does make it out in 2001, it will certainly be late in the year, and touring would seem highly unlikely before 2002. Geddy, as usual, was charming and fun to listen to, low-key, modest, and funny as always. He discussed making his album, answering the “why a solo project” question by saying that several serious events in other bandmembers’ personal lives (I know about Neil’s losses but don’t know what might have happened with Alex) made it obvious that no collaborative work would be done for, he figured, about five years (so this haitus does not appear to have been as excessive or uncertain as we fans feared), which was too long for him to go without working; he made some insightful comments about how crucial writing is to him, at one point describing hiself as a “failed perfectionist”. He chatted about baseball, told the story of his name again, revealed that the name of the first band he was ever in, in junior high, was “The Dusty Coconuts” (my favorite mundane and pointless tidbit), and most of all, told how much he was looking forward to getting back to work with the band. Hope that I have managed to bring a brief, tiny, happy moment to the day of other Rushians out there - cheers! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-latest-straight-dope-on-rush/45527/2 "2000-12-14T14:34:59Z")
Woohoo!! Thanks, cygnus. Can’t wait for the new album. ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-latest-straight-dope-on-rush/45527/3 "2000-12-14T14:36:29Z")
Oh, Rats. I thought you were talking about Rush Limbaugh. 🙂 (Yes, I like Rush; he’s great.) ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-latest-straight-dope-on-rush/45527/4 "2000-12-14T14:56:37Z")
I got my husband Geddy’s new album for Xmas. I’m looking forward to listening to it. If Rush toured again, that would be cool. I wasn’t a Rush fan when we went last time and I fell asleep during Neil’s drum solo. Hey, put those stones down! ::runs:: ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-latest-straight-dope-on-rush/45527/5 "2000-12-14T15:36:45Z")
And thus, the SDMB’s Canadian content laws are now satisfied. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-latest-straight-dope-on-rush/45527/6 "2000-12-14T15:43:59Z")
What Ged’s said is pretty much the line I’ve heard all year about Rush’s future, but it’s nice to learn that it’s “official” and really going to happen. Also, Ged solo, live. In a small club. Gah. 🙂 (This will be _almost_ as good as being in the front row in Pittsburgh, April 1994. :p) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-latest-straight-dope-on-rush/45527/7 "2000-12-14T15:47:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nineiron \* > **Oh, Rats. I thought you were talking about Rush Limbaugh.** This isn’t the first time I’ve been glad I’m not a fan of (either) Rush. It would be really irritating if the predominant reactionary radio jerk in the US was named “The Grateful Dead Limbaugh,” and I opened up every thread titled _I Love the Grateful Dead_ or _The Grateful Dead Sucks!_ only to read OPs like “Boy, Limbaugh really socked it to the coloreds today, didn’t he?” ---
**Author:** ![cygnus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e0b2c6/32.png) [@cygnus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cygnus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-latest-straight-dope-on-rush/45527/8 "2000-12-14T18:32:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Montfort \* > \*\*What Ged’s said is pretty much the line I’ve heard all year about Rush’s future, but it’s nice to learn that it’s “official” and really going to happen. > \*\* Yeah, I concur, there was nothing earth-shaking or new to report that we hadn’t heard before, but I was pleased to hear it SFTBM, since we never know how much of the rumors to believe. As for the other questionable remarks?, 😕 Whatever…just a message to those who were interested.