Rush is a highly-decorated, award-winning Canadian rock band comprised of Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart (pronounced: 'Peert') that has consistently produced 24 superior quality releases since 1973 (28 years!). John Rutsey played drums for Rush on the first album, but resigned for health concerns shortly thereafter. Since Peart's 1974 arrival, they have endured remarkably intact.
Their style can probably best be described as falling somewhere between heavy metal and progressive rock. The music has the power of the former but something of the intelligence, complexity and virtuosity of the latter. The band can be considered an early prototype of the progressive metal genre.
Each of the three individual artists has successfully produced & released work independent of the band's innate structure.
Discography:
- Rush (March 1974)
- Fly by Night (February 1975)
- Caress of Steel (September 1975)
- 2112 (February 1976)
- All The World's a Stage - Live w/ mat'ls from 1st 4(September 1976)
- A Farewell To Kings (September 1977)
- Archives (April 1978) - Repackage of the first three Gold/Platinum (?) albums
- Hemispheres (October 1978)
- Permanent Waves (January 1980)
- Moving Pictures (January 1981)
- Exit...Stage Left - Live (October 1981)
- Signals (September 1982)
- Grace Under Pressure (April 1984)
- Power Windows (October 1985)
- Hold Your Fire (September 1987)
- A Show Of Hands - Live (December 1988)
- Presto (November 1989)
- Chronicles (September 1990) - Essentially a "Greatest Hits" release
- Roll The Bones (September 1991)
- The Story of Kings - Interview (1992) - Interview with Alex Lifeson
- Counterparts (October 1993)
- Burning for Buddy, Volume 1 - (Solo), Peart, et al (1994)
- Burning for Buddy, Volume 2 - (Solo), Peart, et al (1994/-5?)
- The Interviews - Vol 2 (October 1995) - Interview with Geddy Lee
- Victor - (Solo), Lifeson, et al (1996)
- Test For Echo (September 1996)
- Retrospective I 1974-1980 (1997) - Repackaging of best songs from the First Decade.
- Retrospective II 1981-1987 (1997) - Repackaging of best songs from the Second Decade.
- Different Stages - Live (November 1998)
- My Favorite Headache - (Solo), Lee, et al (November 2000)
- Vapor Trails - (May 2002)
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