Modern digital technology has also enabled a power trio to duplicate their studio performances in concert, as evidenced by Rush's 1989 live album, A Show of Hands, where Lee simultaneously sings, plays bass, and plays keyboard with foot pedals.

It was also the site of Canadian rock band Rush's concert DVD shoot for their 2010 – 2011 Time Machine Tour, due to Cleveland being the first U. S. city to give the band radio airplay in the early 70s.

For live shows in 2002 and 2004, Lee and his keyboard technician used the playback capabilities of the XV-5080 to generate virtually all of Rush's keyboard sounds to date, as well as additional complex sound passages that previously required several machines at once to produce.

* Drummer Neil Peart of the Canadian rock band Rush recorded a version of " One O ' Clock Jump " with the Buddy Rich Big Band, and has used it at the end of his drum solos on the 2002 Vapor Trails Tour and Rush's 30th Anniversary Tour.

Rush's formal inauguration was held on April 19, 2002.

For Rush's 2010 tour, Lee is using 2 × Orange AD200 bass heads together with 2 × OBC410 4x10 Bass Cabinets.

A staple of Rush's concerts is a Neil Peart drum solo.

* The Red Star is banned together under the Solar Federation in Rush's song " 2112 ".

The first video played is Rush's " The Enemy Within ".

It is also one of Rush's shortest songs at 2: 35.

Rush's Led Zeppelin influence is still prominent on this record, most obviously in the song " Bastille Day " ( which discusses the storming of the Bastille in the French Revolution ), though it is apparent on all three of the shorter songs on the album.

Gene Krupa is tributed during a drum solo by Neil Peart on Rush's " Snakes and Arrows " live DVD.

Anthem is also credited by Neil Peart for influencing Rush's " 2112 " with strong parallels to the plot, structure, and theme of Anthem.

The show's title character retrieves the code by achieving a score of 2, 000, 000 points after realizing that " the mathematical pattern underlying the game is the same " as Rush's 1981 hit " Tom Sawyer ".

* The Rush's official mascot is a construction worker named Grabowski, a reference to Chicago's blue collar background, which was coined by Mike Ditka in January 1986 to describe the difference between his Chicago Bears and the Los Angeles Rams.

Rush's songs Xanadu from their 1977 album A Farewell To Kings and The Trees from their 1978 album Hemispheres also use temple blocks-the blocks that Neil Peart is striking in these tracks can be heard very clearly.

The original music was the opening bars of " Overture " from Rush's 2112, whereas the current theme song is an interpolation of Pigbag's " Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag ". Pigbag's " Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag " was also used as the show's theme during the early 1980's.

Rush's Water Nymph and Bittern ( 1809 ) is the statue at center.

Rush's life-sized statue of George Washington ( 1815 ), long exhibited at Independence Hall, is now at the Second Bank of the United States.

Evelyn Stockard-Price ( Famke Janssen ), a spoiled trophy wife, is in a disintegrating marriage with Stephen Price ( Geoffrey Rush ) (" Price ", as well as Rush's appearance, is a nod to actor Vincent Price, who played the same character " Frederick Loren " in the original film ), an amusement park mogul with a wicked sense of humor, each of whom would gladly kill the other.

The main riff from Rush's " Tom Sawyer " is quoted in Metallica's song.

Barney Rush's 1960s song " The Crack Was Ninety in the Isle of Man " does not use the Irish-language spelling, neither is it used in Christy Moore's 1978 version.

Syme is notably responsible for all of Rush's album cover art since 1975's Caress of Steel as well as creating Rush's famous Starman logo.

The Rush's highest home attendance is 16, 391 on June 23, 2007 against the Kansas City Brigade.

Rush's version of " Angel of the Morning " would be featured on the soundtrack of the 1999 film Girl, Interrupted-whose time frame is 1967-68-in which composer Chip Taylor's niece Angelina Jolie had a starring role.

Rush's crew loaded the dryers with specially designed Rush-themed T-shirts, different from the shirts on sale to the general public.

Neil Peart used the form for the lyrics of " The Larger Bowl ( A Pantoum )" on Rush's 2007 album, Snakes & Arrows ( with one difference from the format listed above ).

Rush's music style has changed over the years, beginning with blues-inspired heavy metal on their first album, then encompassing hard rock, progressive rock, and a period with heavy use of synthesizers.

However, despite these many differences some of the music and songs still closely mirrored the blues style found on Rush's debut.

Hugh Syme, creator of graphics on many of Rush's albums, stated in a 1983 interview that the Starman " didn't begin as an identity factor for the band, it just got adopted.

Moreover, because of the limited airplay Rush's previous extended-length songs received, Permanent Waves included shorter, more radio-friendly songs such as " The Spirit of Radio " and " Freewill ", two songs that helped Permanent Waves become Rush's first U. S. Top 5 album ; both songs continue to make appearances on classic rock radio stations in Canada and the United States to this day.

On March 19, 2010, the CBC posted a video interview with Lee and Lifeson where they discussed Rush's induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on March 28, 2010, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts ' George Weston Recital Hall.

The band's 2007 album, Snakes & Arrows, debuted at No. 3 ( just one position shy of Rush's highest peaking albums, Counterparts ( 1992 ) and " Clockwork Angels " ( 2012 ), which both debuted at No. 2 ) on the Billboard 200 selling approximately 93, 000 its first week of release.

Shaw also recorded sessions with Peterik's group, Survivor, on 1986's When Seconds Count, and Shaw's solo band opened the majority of the U. S. shows for Rush's 1987-88 Hold Your Fire Tour.

Several of the 12 tracks were covers of pure Chicago blues ( side 1 kicking off strong with Otis Rush's " All Your Love " and Freddy King's hit instrumental " Hide Away " spelled without a space as “ Hideaway ”); Mayall wrote or arranged 5 ( such as " Double Crossing Time ", a slow blues with a scorching solo by cowriter Clapton ); and Eric debuted as lead vocalist, and began his practice of paying tribute to Robert Johnson, with " Ramblin ' on My Mind ".

Following themes going back to Rush's second album, Fly by Night, on Hemispheres lyricist Neil Peart continues to heavily utilize fantasy and science fiction motifs.

* Edmund Blackadder wrote on Sputnikmusic. com that Farewell was " Rush's masterpiece ( closely followed by Hemispheres )", describing the instrumentation as " absolutely brilliant, with every musician at the peak of their talents " and praised the album for its " wide variety of different song types and structures ".

The same year, Simon provided vocals on Tom Rush's album Ladies Love Outlaws and co-sang with Rush on " No Regrets " and as backup on " Claim On Me ".

At nine he was captain and and at ten he had smashed Ian Rush's twenty-year record for the same team by scoring a record breaking 97 goals in a single season, improving on Rush's record by 25 goals.

All the World's a Stage would be Rush's first US Top 40 charting album and would go gold, alongside A Farewell to Kings and 2112 on November 16, 1977.

* Neil Peart's drum solo " Moto perpetuo " on Rush's 2011 album Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland