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Youtube Gems: Rush

By Ed Brayton

There are few bands as polarizing as Rush. There's rarely an in-between with this band, you either love them to the point of slavish devotion or hate them so much that you want to stab yourself in the ears with an icepick when you hear them. I was probably in the first group for most of my adolescence. If you grew up playing drums in the late 70s/early 80s, you worshiped Rush - it was the law. And this was when they really were in their prime, I think. Here are some great live clips, mostly from the Exit Stage Left time era, including some of their more obscure and musically brilliant stuff. Like Xanadu:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 24, 2008 (boomark / email).