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RUSH - InTheStudio With Redbeard Rock Hall Induction Special Now Online




It is fitting that the first year the Rock Hall allows the public to
vote in the selection process, that RUSH would come out on top.
Overlooked for years, Rush has learned to be quite comfortable with the
underdog position. This week InTheStudio congratulates Rush on the eve
of their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.





Says Readbeard: Rush has recorded and released twenty studio albums (
and additionally about half that many as live albums and DVDs) ,
selling an estimated forty million copies worldwide in a four decade
recording career. So you see our obvious dilemma in choosing just one
album, or even just one era to feature, as we honor Rush for their
long-overdue induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame this week. So
we polled our In the Studio Rush fans on Facebook, and while there was
considerable support for practically any period of the Toronto band’s
history, the consensus was for the first half-dozen years starting with
their 1974 debut Rush, through formative albums A Farewell To Kings ,
Hemispheres, 2112 , Permanent Waves, and book-ended with their
masterpiece Moving Pictures in 1981, all conveniently dubbed Sector 1 by
my guests Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart."





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According to The Associated Press,
Rush bassist and frontman Geddy Lee has given one of his guitars to the
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in advance of the band's induction.





Lee used the hybrid Fender on the recording of 'Tom Sawyer', one of
the Canadian trio's best-known songs from 1981's Moving Pictures. The
instrument was installed Wednesday into the new inductees exhibit at the
Cleveland museum, where it will be displayed with mementos from the
other members of an eclectic 2013 class that includes HEART, ALBERT
KING, RANDY NEWMAN, PUBLIC ENEMY and DONNA SUMMER.


Scheduled for Thursday, April 18th, the 28th Annual Rock And Roll
Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held at the Nokia Theatre L.A.
LIVE in Los Angeles. This marks the first time since 1993 that the Rock
And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held on the West Coast.



Rush - who will perform at the event - wasn't on the ballot for
induction until this year. Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil
Peart had been eligible for enshrinement since 1998.