** ____ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ** ** / /_/ /_ /\ / /__/ / / / / /\ / /__/ / ** ** / / / /__ / \/ / / / / /__/ / \/ / / /___ ** ** ** ** __ ___ ____ ** ** /\ /\ / / \ /\ / / / _ /__/ / ** ** / \/ \ / /___/ / \/ / /___/ / / / ** ** ** ** ____ ____ ___ ___ ** ** /__ / /__/ /__/ ** ** ____/ / / / / \ ** List posting/followup: rush@syrinx.umd.edu Administrative matters: rush-request@syrinx.umd.edu or rush-mgr@syrinx.umd.edu (Administrative postings to the posting address will be ignored!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The National Midnight Star, Number 478 Thursday, 30 April 1992 Today's Topics: Administrivia Re: 04/27/92 - The National Midnight Star #474 THE BRUINS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! T-Shirts (Questions answered) GOAC Video? Unsubscribe me please... The Compleat Singles Chart History Thanks The Video "Rushour" Lakeside Park Bio time! ... The Trees, and D&N Flame me! Rush at Great Woods Re: 04/24/92 - The National Midnight Star #473 Gawain, Cygnus, and Zivojinich Merriweather - Neil & Environment Tickets for Rush at GreatWoods Rush for Academic-Types Rushian Roulette Balt. - Merriweather ticket sales hidden faces Re: 04/27/92 - The National Midnight Star #474 _Rush-Profiled!_ CD Heresy Long Live the NMS! Rush at Great Woods, MA Great Woods date... 2112 and TRM Jones Beach & Meadowlands Directions to StarLake Amp. Wanted Merriweather Get-together? ---------------------------------------------------------- From: Editor, The National Midnight Star Subject: Administrivia First off, SEE TODAY'S NMS FOR DETAILS ON T-SHIRTS!!!!!! Secondly, I've caught up with the admin mail; once again, if you're expecting a response and haven't gotten one, it may have gotten lost. Mail me again, please. Thirdly, there is no third item. Lastly, PLEASE remember that administrative (remove me) postings to this list will be *ignored*. If you want to be taken off the list, send mail to the administrative address. It's at the beginning and end of every digest, and also in the header of the Administrivia posts. rush-mgr ---------------------------------------------------------- From: jewright@mtu.edu (JASON WRIGHT) Subject: Re: 04/27/92 - The National Midnight Star #474 Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 17:21:58 EDT Greetings fellow Rush types.... A few things this time around: First- To the person who asked about the lyrics to Diadects and Narpets. They are available in the current FAQ list which is available for anonymous FTP from syrinx.umd.edu. It's /rush/specail/FAQL01/24/92. The path is right, but the exact file name is wrong. But the first 4 letters are FAQL, so you should be able to find it...:) [ Actually, the current version is "rush/special/FAQL.041992". :rush-mgr ] Second- I give up. I'd like to know where I can get decent reviews of the available bootlegs. I've given up trying to find this stuff on my own. [ Don't feel bad, I can't find boot albums/CDs unless I go to record con- ventions... :rush-mgr ] Third- To the person who inquired about the "I scream" at the 43 second mark of the ASoH version of Red Sector A. I heard what you are talking about, but I think it's nothing. If it is a lyric, I cannot make it out. Maybe more to come later.... -PeeWee "My god...It's full of fish!!" -Geddy Lee's interpretation of 2010 Email: jewright@mtu.edu Phone: (906) 487-0646 Math undergrad from Michigan Technological University "The worst sex I ever had was still pretty good." -Unknown ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 18:11 EST From: AARON SILVERMAN Subject: THE BRUINS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hi Ho! Someone was wondering about Rush and Hockey. . .Well, at the New Haven show, I gave the sound board area the once-over before the show. Arrayed around the edges of the boards were hockey pucks, one with the logo of each NHL team(and a few minor leaguers, I think, but I don't remember for sure). Also, Neil wore a "Puckhead" cap, which is basically a large black dog food dish worn upside down on the head which says "Puckhead"(coincidence?) on it. I have seen people wearing these at NHL games. It's supposed to be a hockey puck (no, really?!). HATCHET AXE AND SAW ARE THINGS MEN USE TO CUT DOWN TREES WITH. Man comes in and negates the natural order of things. How PC! Where are those durn T-Shirts? I WANT ONE!! On a related note, a guy who was handing out flyers for A Show Of Fans at the last show I saw was wearing a 2112 T-Shirt, possibly the coolest shirt I have ever seen(Except the Yesshows Around The World In 80 Dates bootleg. . .), which he said he bought at K-Mart in 1976 for a few dollars. Hey Mercury! I finally heard from Mr. Objectivism. . .He's so fried out on Acid that his message was even more unintelligible than they used to be! Your X-Undergrad pal, Aaron Silverman ASILVERM@TRINCC P.S. I hate .sig files! ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1992 17:25 MDT From: HOLMES Subject: T-Shirts (Questions answered) First off, I posted to the NMS about how to order the shirts last week, and have seen several common questions. I'll try to answer them here. 1. What happened to the tabloid idea? I got in contact with Cheryl Crenshaw about doing the shirts. She did not forsee being able to do the shirts any time in the near future, but really wanted the opportunity to design the tabloid shirt. I'm not doing the tabloid shirt because I didn't want to spoil it for Cheryl. She said that she planned on doing them sometime but had no idea as to when. Since people were getting antsy about the shirts we both decided (with consent of rush-mgr) to have me go ahead and do a different shirt, with the idea in mind that the shirts could be an annual type deal - or whenever people feel like having a new one :) So no, the tabloid shirt idea has not been scrapped, but I wouldn't plan on seeing it done until *at least* next fall or so - but that's entirely up to Cheryl. 2. The names of cities on the back - could they be "Rush cities"? If you would like the name of a different city on the back other than your hometown, then send the name of that city with your order instead of your hometown - in fact put whatever you want for your city: the back is an opportunity for *you* to personalize *your* shirt. I only ask that it not be vulgar. If enough people send rush related cities then I will try to put all those together on your shirt. 3. How to order? Send to: Mark Adams 477 West 1800 North Provo, Utah 84604 Include: 1. Shirt size (up to XX large) 2. Name of city you want to appear on the back under 'World Tour 1992'. 3. Your return mailing address. 4. A check for $9.50 made out to Mark Adams (this includes $ for shipping back to you :) With over 1400 people on the list not everyone is going to be happy with or agree on the same design (even though we all love the same GREAT band:) I'm trying really hard to be as flexible as I can so that what I'm doing will make as many NMS readers as I can happy. One last comment: I can confirm the Salt Lake City date for May 29. It's in the Delta Center (go Jazz!) - I got my tickets last Saturday when they went on sale. A local radio station is giving away RTB cd's if you are the 10th caller whenever they play Rush - and then that caller gets to go down to the station's studio and 'roll the bones' - that is they give them a die to roll and whatever number they roll is how many of their friends they get to take with them to the concert. Pretty cool. -Mark ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 19:20:31 EDT From: "David S. Schmidt" Subject: GOAC Video? I seem to remember some talk of work on a video for "Ghost of a Chance." Has anyone heard any new news? ************************************************************************* **"I don't know how we got this image, maybe we wore too many robes in ** **the 70's. But they have this super-serious image of us..." ** ** -Geddy Lee ** ************************************************************************* ---------------------------------------------------------- From: Rick McGlinchey Subject: Unsubscribe me please... Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 19:11:03 EST Folks Please unsubscribe me from _Midnight Star_. Thanks, Rick ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 19:29:03 EST From: YES Subject: The Compleat Singles Chart History Let it be stated for the record - er, the cd - that Rush had 8 tunes make the top 100 Billboard Pop Chart. TITLE PEAK POS. DEBUT DATE 1. Fly By Night/In The Mood 88 1/8/77 2. Closer Too The Heart 76 11/26/77 3. The Spirit Of Radio 51 (not quite 40, eh?) 2/23/80 4. Limelight 55 3/14/81 5. Tom Sawyer 44 6/6/81 6. Closer To The Heart (ESL cut) 69 12/12/81 7. New World Man 21 9/18/82 8. The Big Money 45 11/9/85 Okay, I lied. It's not complete. My book only goes thru 12/31/86. If anyone has *accurate* info from 1986-now, please post it or send it to me. I would REALLY like this data!!! Glenn ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 21:26:23 EDT From: Tim Alberta Subject: Thanks I would like to thank whomever posted the June 26th date in Detroit. I called my brother in Michigan (I live in Newport News, VA) and told him about it. He was able to find out when the tickets go on sale, so it looks like I'm making an 800 mile trek up North to see the Boyz (for the second time this tour) in June. If it weren't for you there would be no chance (people who live in Michigan understand why - you usually have about two hours to get your tickets) Actually, they will be at Pine Knob, which is an outdoor theater with somewhat limited seating, so it's a double bonus. Once again Thanks. I remember a Neil Peart interview in which he stated that the song "The Trees" had no social significance at all - it was just a song that they wrote one day about trees. As for the song "Mission", I think it is a song about people who create, and that sometimes we wish we could do things like that, but as another post said, "Be careful what you wish for...". Interestingly enough, I argued with a friend who thought it was about the shuttle disaster... and now I see both hypotheses appearing here. Cool. Keep up the good work, fellow Rushians! Tim Alberta (alberta@sarsun.larc.nasa.gov) ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 19:52:11 -0700 From: Mikael Sheikh Subject: The Video "Rushour" I saw a video called "Rushour", that is supposedly a set of interviews from around the time of HYF. Has anyone else heard of this and if so, is it worth spending $20 on? It's cover is the HYF cover (red with three spheres) and the text is more or less typed on. Mikael Sheikh sheikh@ocf.berkeley.edu ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 00:32:44 -0400 From: cwg@acpub.duke.edu (CLAY GOLDWEIN) Subject: Lakeside Park I was dumb enough to rent "Strange Brew" to find out more about Lakeside Park. Don't bother doing so yourself. The movie is third rate, and I didn't learn a thing about the park except that it's in Toronto somewhere, eh? ---- Clay Goldwein "Now's the time to turn the tide. cwg@acpub.duke.edu Now's the time to fight. Let us not go gently To the endless winter night." -Neil Peart ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 21:16:29 EDT From: dpm@terranet.cts.com (Dave Mitchell) Subject: Bio time! ... I don't know if I should post something like this to the list... So here goes! I'm Dave Mitchell. I live in Mississauga Ontario (just outside of Toronto for the un-geographic, uuh, that's Ontario Canada... :) Anyway -- I am an avid Rush fan. I have to admit that they are the 'rockiest' band I listen to as I am more into the alternative scene. (People come over and say "Got enough Rush CD's?" this amongst groups like NewOrder, Depeche Mode, The Cure and stuff no one has ever heard of outside Toronto) I do have all of their released discs, and (I think) 3 videos including a bootleg of the Hold Your Fire tour at Maple Leaf Gardens (snuck in a HandyCam !) I am also a drummer with many inspirations, but Peart is the one that actually got me interested (indirectly or course.) I have been playing for almost 7 years now and I can play anything he can (EXCEPT WHEN HE SOLOS!!!! But then again -- who could copy that?!) Don't get me wrong, he's not God -- just the next best thing! The reason I am posting this Bio is because I have a special link to Rush. (My claim to fame if you will.) -- Approxamatly 5 years ago my father was out looking for a house (parents are divorced, I live with Mom) He came across a nice, big place in Northren Richmond Hill (again Ontario...) The deal was finalized and I went to help him move in. -- I COULDN'T BELIEVE MY EYES -- I pulled up the driveway with my dad, and there was his wife talking to Alex Lifeson and his wife! (Alex's real last name is something like Zivoyinavitch - The spelling is way off, but that's how you pronounce it) Anyway, I bolteed out of the car and immediatly introduced myself! I didn't want to seem too excited, but I think he could tell that I was wetting my pants a little! -- Anyway, to make a long story short -- The house has, of course, a studio in the basement, a pool, and a tennis court in the ravine behind the house. (It's aprox 4 acres of property) I have played tennis with Alex at his new house (not far away from the old house :) better court than my Dad's! (He actually had the court built before the house was completed!) There have been times when he will call John McEnroe up to play (no I havn't met him...) ! BTW-- His new house? The basement is where they filmed 'Time Stand Still' (from what I was told, and it looks the same...) And the place is PINK! Yes, PINK... He's still in the North end of Richmond Hill, but I won't tell you the address.. (or his phone number for that matter! :) [ Thank you for your discretion. :rush-mgr ] He's a VERY nice and VERY funny guy, and I have a standing invitation to come up and play on Peart's studio set some day. Now... I just have to wait until they all stop touring!!! --- My apologies for this post being so long, but I hope I made it interesting enough to justify it. I also thought it would add something 'special'? to the list. Thanks [ You should let him know about the NMS sometime, and get the band's general impression on band-fan relations. "Your mission, should you choose to accept it...." :-) :rush-mgr ] -dpm +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ David P. Mitchell - "I think it's dark, and it looks like rain." - R.Smith INET: dpm@generic.uucp - dpm@terranet.cts.com - UUCP: utzoo!terranet!dpm 'This .signature could be worth a million someday!' NOT! +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: 29 Apr 92 04:29:33 EDT From: Bruce Holtgren <70724.1622@CompuServe.COM> Subject: The Trees, and D&N Just my .02 on The Great Trees Debate ... and yes, just to thoroughly exasperate everyone, my own opinion is completely different from any others offered so far: I originally interpreted "The Trees" as a parable about labor- management relations, taking the line "so the maples formed a union" more literally. However, I think it's about conflict in general. Furthermore, I don't think Peart "takes sides" with *either* the maples or the oaks. The theme of the song is that extremism - use of force and refusal to negotiate in particular - is foolhardy and will inevitably lead only to a bad end for *all* parties that are otherwise supposedly working for a common goal. ("We must all hang together, or surely we will hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin) I must admit I do like the Canada/Britain model, though - the potential maple symbolism, in particular, is too strong to dismiss this possibility. And re "Didacts and Narpets," since it's come up (again) ... I've said it before and I'll say it again: The lyrics are almost certainly deliberately ambiguous. You pretty much hear what you want to hear, which is probably the idea. And if "one of the boyz" really did say in an interview that the lyrics are along the Adult/Child theme, I sure wish the specific interview and specific quotes could be cited - that would be the most definitive answer yet to this enduring mystery. ORQ: "Uyk wuo! Xzk mbq! Zal koiq! Ux siqe! Iygh! Wbizeh! LISTEN!" ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1992 09:58:54 EDT From: The Doug-meister Subject: Rush at Great Woods Does anyone know when tickets will go on sale for the Great Woods show in Mansfield, MA in June? Doug B. "What can this thing be that I've found?" - 2112 ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1992 11:19 EST From: STU_AMBOWEN@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU Subject: Re: 04/24/92 - The National Midnight Star #473 Hello and thank you for all your work putting this out.Unfortunately I will have no access to a vax for a few months , so please cancel my subscription until I can get back to you.Again--thanks!! ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 11:50:27 EDT From: "Mercury" Subject: Gawain, Cygnus, and Zivojinich Just some quick trivia I stumbled across: 1) JRR Tolkien seems to have been the authoritative editor of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (and Beowulf, or so Steve says.) 2) Cygnus X-1 is an actual black hole. I did NOT know that. 3) If Alex is of Russian descent, then Zivojinich is an awful lot like a patronymic where Zivo is like zhizn, the russian word for "life". Therefore, if your name is Bob, and your dad's name is Fred, then your patronymic is Bob Fredovich. What I'm getting at is that Zivojinich is as close to Lifeson as you can get in Russian. Assuming Russian descent. Mercury ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1992 12:45 EST From: "Hey! Neil Peart has cancer!! ... NOT!!" Subject: Merriweather - Neil & Environment I have heard that tickets for the Merriweather Post show in June go on sale May 2nd? Kinda sucks.. I have a final exam that day (yes, on a SATURDAY! LAME!) ALSO! I was at work Sunday 4/26 and I happened to turn on the radio (98 rock) at about noon to discover some sort of show about Rock and the environment. They played environmentally concerned songs by several groups and had a couple interviews with band members. Well, to get to the point, they played a Phil Collins/Genesis song abuot the environment (dont remember the name) and then talked to Phil for about 30 seconds and then suddenly the woman interviewing says: "Neil Peart of Rush." And there's Neil! He starts talking about the damage cars cause to the environment and how electric cars are the wave of the future and will be widespread soon, etc... as he was finishing up they started playing Dreamline but cut it off after about 15-20 seconds... Pretty neat! Did anybody else hear this? I am assuming it was a national show cuz at abuot 12:30 the 98 rock DJ finally came back on after credits for the environment show were given.. Maybe everyone else knew about this and I was just in the dark, but it was a pretty cool surprise and I thought I would pass it along. It was also the first time I heard Neil's voice (besides just saying "SUBDIVISIONS" :))... he has a very good voice though... pretty deep... would make a good radio voice IMHO. _____________________________________________________________________________ O*****************************************************************************O | From the Amiga | Multitasking... | Live for yourself, | | of... | --------------- | There's no-one else more | | -.EZ.- | A M I G A S T Y L E | Worth living for... | |cmcvey@loyola.edu | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | -- N.Peart (RUSH) | O*****************************************************************************O ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 13:24:21 -0400 From: Doug Keller Subject: Tickets for Rush at GreatWoods Tickets for Rush at GreatWoods, in Mansfield, MA go on sale this Saturday, May 2. -- Doug Keller f303@nuvlsi.coe.northeastern.edu Northeastern University, Boston, MA Bix: dkeller Computer Engineering ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 13:53 EST From: AARON SILVERMAN Subject: Rush for Academic-Types Hey dudes, Several people have said that they're writing papers which involve Rush. Well, I recently read a book called "Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology", by a college professor named Deena Weinstein. She mentions Rush a few times, mainly a part about standing outside a Rush concert and discussing lyrics with the fans. It also mentions another book she wrote(which I haven't seen) which is called "Serious Rock: The Lyrics of Pink Floyd, Rush and Bruce Springsteen" (Weird Trio there!). This title may not be exactly right, but you get the picture. Good luck to you paper-writing folks out there. Until Later, Aaron Silverman ASILVERM@TRINCC ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 14:27:03 EDT From: Ace Subject: Rushian Roulette A few years ago, a friend of mine told me about a bootleg album called Rushian (Or Rush In) Roulette. He also said that this album (Yes, it's on vinyl) would randomly pick a song on whichever side was playing...(???) Has anyone heard of this boot? And if so, is it any good, and what about that random song thing??? As far as I know, there's no real way to make that happen since records have to be set up in a certain order for a reason... That's the way the turn table moves... Any info would be appreciated... [ This could be "Russian Roulette" or "Rush 'N Roulette"; one is a double album boot from Chicago in 1981, the other is from Geleen, Holland PinkPop Music Festival from sometime in 1979. As for the "random" playing, I've heard about doulbe-grooved albums, where two album sides are pressed into the same side of an LP. You wouldn't know which one you were going to get until the needle actually set down, and fell into one or the other set of grooves. I'd not heard about either of the above-mentioned being done like this, though... Anyone else? :rush-mgr ] Latle........................... Ace "I do these interviews and people ask me, 'How come you can write all that sensitive stuff and then write all that trash?' and I tell them 'Well, I can be real sensitive on occaision and be real trashy on others.'" -Jimmy Buffet ---------------------------------------------------------- From: spn@ideas.com (Shawn P. Neugebauer) Subject: Balt. - Merriweather ticket sales Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 14:16:28 EST Since I haven't seen this posted yet... Merriweather tickets on sale 16 May! I talked to the Merriweather office today, and discovered that tickets for the 16 June concert go on sale 16 May. The person confirmed this (at least, she put me on hold while she confirmed it) while I was on the phone. No information on ticket prices, but Merriweather sells through TicketBastard, so they may (not!) have some information soon. -shawn- --