Rush by Martin Popoff

Author:Martin Popoff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MBI
Published: 2013-09-14T04:00:00+00:00

The live set A Show of Hands was the last record the band owed Mercury, with neither party all that enthused about renewing the partnership.

“It was kind of a reactionary record for me,” mused Geddy, shortly after the album was done and the band was on the road for what was to be a short tour by Rush standards, mid-February through the end of June. “This record was a reaction against five years of being involved with synthesizers and drum machines and computer writing tools, and sequencers and samplers. I think we were kind of, like, up to our eyebrows with all that technology, and by the end of the last tour, I felt like I was kind of trapped, a victim of my own design. Alex felt a bit of that too, because so much of my keyboard responsibilities were overspilling to his side of the stage. He was having to do more and more to give me a break, so I could play more bass. He was doing more keyboard stuff. We became so locked into this thing that when it came time to take a break from it, we took a good long break after releasing the live album, and I really think we reacted against it. We didn’t want to put ourselves in that trap again. We had this rebellious kind of spirit and a little anger, which is really healthy. We said, screw it, let’s do a rock record. Let’s try to do a record that pulls the trio back into focus, and have more fun with it. I think that was really the goal, and the first song that we wrote for the record was ‘Show Don’t Tell.’ It really set us off, because it was exactly what we talked about doing. That song accomplished exactly what our frustrations led to. We said, ‘OK, here’s this track,’ and we went with it, and we got off so much listening back to it, that we just kept going in that direction. There were a couple of tunes that, for variety’s sake, we started falling into saying, ‘Let’s throw a few more keyboards here; let’s not be ridiculous. We know how to use all these colors; let’s have some in this song.’ So we didn’t completely ignore it, and I think for dynamics it’s good to have that, to be able to go to it, but generally the attitude was, let’s keep technology and use it to make backdrops for us, and let’s keep the trio a little more up front.”

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