The original 1968 line-up of Rush ; from left to right: Alex Lifeson, John Rutsey and Geddy Lee.

The original line-up formed in the neighbourhood of Willowdale in Toronto, Ontario, by Lifeson, bassist and front man Jeff Jones, and drummer John Rutsey.

In November 2011 it was announced they would be playing two shows in 2012 that will feature the original line-up as well as the classic line-up of the band reunited for the first time in many years ; these shows will take place on 25 May 2012 in Manchester at the O2 Apollo and on 26 May in Brixton at the O2 Academy.

They are one of only a handful of bands among them the Hoodoo Gurus ( half of the original line-up of the Hoodoo Gurus also came from Perth ) and The Sunnyboys ) that cracked the mainstream charts with an indie approach in the 1980s.

Although the album's cover features the original line-up of Kool Keith, Ced Gee, Moe Love and TR Love, TR ( along with Tim Dog ) is notably absent.

The original line-up also returned to the studio for the final time, with Ray Manzarek reprising his role as producer, to record a cover of The Doors ' The Crystal Ship for the soundtrack for The X-Files: Fight the Future.

Dan Dare was in the original line-up, and this transferred to Crisis when Revolver finished.

Shemp rejoined the group after Curly suffered a debilitating cerebral hemorrhage in May 1946, reinstating the original line-up until November 1955, when Shemp died of a heart attack.

The original line-up of the band was :-

Of the original Rubettes line-up only Richardson, Williams and Arnesen participated in the recording of " Sugar Baby Love " although all members featured on the Top of the Pops re-recording for playback purposes.

The core line-up of Steve Rothery ( lead guitar, and the sole ' pre-Fish ' original member ), Pete Trewavas ( bass ), Mark Kelly ( keyboards ) and Ian Mosley ( drums ) has been unchanged since 1984.

The band has been through multiple line-up changes in its history, but the current line-up is a reunion of that original line-up.

In early 2006, the partnership between Downes and Payne was dissolved when Downes left for a reunion of the original band line-up under the Asia name, a breakup that Payne described as " painful ".

And after a slew of rumours, they announced that this original line-up of Asia were planning a CD, DVD and world tour to celebrate the band's 25th anniversary.

The new line-up never garnered the wide spread acceptance or acclaim of the original group.

In the early years of the 2000s ( decade ), co-founder of Love and original guitarist Johnny Echols rejoined Lee, in this line-up and performed as " Love with Arthur Lee and Johnny Echols ".

Rumours of a possible reunion of the original Genesis line-up began circulating in 2004 after Phil Collins stated in an interview that he was open to the idea of sitting back behind the drums and " let Peter be the singer.

The original Time Team line-up from 1994 has altered over the years.

He began performing with his Captain Beefheart persona in 1964 and joined the original Magic Band line-up, initiated by Alexis Snouffer, in 1965.

albums featured the original four-piece line-up and a range of styles.

On October 11, 2011, Goomba Music released Worship the Animal, which is a newly titled version of Nile's demo, which the band's original line-up recorded in 1994.

The original line-up for Stolt's solo album consisted of Stolt ( vocals, electric guitar, bass, and keyboards ), Jaime Salazar ( drums ), and Hasse Fröberg ( vocals ).

Although not officially announced, the original backup crew consisted of Fred Haise ( CDR ), William R. Pogue ( CMP ) and Gerald Carr ( LMP ) who were targeted for the prime crew assignment on Apollo 19.

Before the Cheers pilot, " Give Me a Ring Sometime ", was finalized and then aired in 1982, the series originally consisted of four employees of Cheers, the bar, in the original script.

His original system consisted of the four classical elements found in the ancient Greek traditions ( air, earth, fire and water ), in addition to two philosophical elements: sulphur, ‘ the stone which burns ’, which characterized the principle of combustibility, and mercury, which contained the idealized principle of metallic properties.

According to William Burt, in his notes to Dartmoor, a Descriptive Poem by N. T. Carrington ( 1826 ), the original tomb consisted of a pedestal of three steps, the lowest of which was built of four stones each six feet long and twelve inches square.

The original band lineup consisted of Jello Biafra ( Eric Reed Boucher ) on vocals, East Bay Ray on guitar, Klaus Flouride ( Geoffrey Lyall ) on bass, and Ted ( Bruce Slesinger ) on drums and percussion.

Of the original thirteen books of which Arithmetica consisted only six have survived, though there are some who believe that four Arab books discovered in 1968 are also by Diophantus.

Traditionally, the original Roman calendar consisted of 10 months, totalling 304 days, winter being considered a monthless period.

It has been suggested that it consisted of a motte, an earthen mound surmounted by wooden buildings ; however, the stone great tower may have been part of the original design.

The original uniform design consisted of white pants, gold trim, and either purple or white jerseys.

The original Jodrell laboratory, named after Mr T. J. Phillips Jodrell who funded it was established in 1877 and consisted of four research rooms and an office.

Commanded by Emil Maurice, and known as the Stabswache ( Staff Guard ), the original group consisted of eight men and was modeled after the Erhardt Naval Brigade, a violent Freikorps of the time.

The original government structure was composed of a self-governed assembly known as the Arengo, which consisted of the heads of each family ( as in the original Roman Senate, the Patres ).

Another criticism of the software library was that most titles consisted of " shovelware ", in which a developer takes an existing title and adds minor new content ( usually a CD audio soundtrack, or video sequences ) while not expanding the original game itself.

Sinologists Isabelle Robinet and Livia Kohn agree that " Taoism has never been a unified religion, and has constantly consisted of a combination of teachings based on a variety of original revelations.

While there are no historical records that deal directly with the founding of Venice, tradition and the available evidence have led several historians to agree that the original population of Venice consisted of refugees from Roman cities near Venice such as Padua, Aquileia, Treviso, Altino and Concordia ( modern Portogruaro ) and from the undefended countryside, who were fleeing successive waves of Germanic and Hun invasions.

The " all-new, all-different X-Men " were led by Cyclops from the original team and consisted of the newly created Colossus ( from the Soviet Union ), Nightcrawler ( from West Germany ), Storm ( from Kenya ), and Thunderbird ( a Native American from the Apache nation ), along with three previously introduced characters, Banshee ( from Ireland ), Sunfire ( from Japan ), and Wolverine ( from Canada ), who eventually became the breakout character on the team and, in terms of comic sales and appearances, the most popular X-Men character.

The opera, as first published at the time of the première, consisted of Verdi's original conception, minus all of the above cuts but including the ballet.

The original uniform, which has created a familiar image in the public eye, consisted of a khaki button-up shirt, shorts and a broad-brimmed campaign hat.

The original MIDI Maze team consisted of James Yee as the business manager, Michael Park as the graphics and distributed processing guru, and George Miller writing the AI / drone logic.

In the original algorithm, the filter consisted of averaging two adjacent samples, a particularly cheap filter that can be done without a multiplier ( just shift and add operations ).

The stage performances consisted largely of music from Monty Python episodes and films, along with some original post-Python material.

The addition of modern to the name distinguished it from the original pentathlon of the ancient Olympic Games, which consisted of the stadion foot race, wrestling, long jump, javelin, and discus.

The original school consisted of only seventy scholars, half of whom had previously been educated at Winchester College, and all of these boys were educated at the king's expense. The only foreign student that received the King's Scholarship is from Turkey and spent a short time in Eton before going back to his homeland.

The second, Det nye chinesiske Gaadespil ( The new Chinese Puzzle Game ), consisted of 339 puzzles copied from The 8th Book of Tan, as well as one original.