Rush have boxed up their career.
Rush 50, available today, is their first career-spanning anthology, containing 50 tracks spread over four CDs and seven LPs.
Geddy Lee says, “50? Is that all?…seriously…it’s a cool collection…but look at all those songs – I’m exhausted just reading the effin list!”
And while the band has had a hand in putting together previous retrospective collections, Alex Lifeson tells us that wasn't the case this time.
There are songs off every studio, live and deluxe reissue album, plus seven unreleased tracks. These include five live selections from 1974 with the non-album songs "Bad Boy" and "Garden Road"; a Vault Edition of "The Trees" with an alternate guitar solo; and the very last performance with Neil Peart in Los Angeles on August 1st, 2015 of "What You're Doing / Working Man / Garden Road."
This set also contains a 104-page hardcover book, and exclusive to the Super Deluxe edition are 20 lithographs illustrating one song from each studio album. There is also a second 100-page hardcover book, The Fullness of Time, a brand-new graphic novel in which Geddy and Alex reminisce on the trials, tribulations and successes recording each studio album and how the band's sound evolved with contributions from the producers and engineers they worked with.
IN OTHER RUSH NEWS....
Rush's Geddy Lee was known for playing Moog synthesizers on stage in the '70s and '80s, and now he's got his own signature model.
The synth company has launched the Moog Music Geddy Lee Minimoog Model D. It comes packaged with a 10-inch red vinyl single with the Rush tracks "Xanadu" and "Jacob's Ladder," and a certificate of authenticity hand-signed and numbered by Lee. Each one costs $5500 and can be bought through Reverb.
Lee says, "The Minimoog Model D was the first synth that made dreaming big accessible to a schlub like me. Its intuitive design lets you learn waveforms, blend sounds and experiment with the modulation wheel. That's its legacy: a fat, sophisticated sound in a package that's not daunting to get your hands on."
Watch a video of Geddy Lee talking about Moog below.