RUSH: 2112 & Why It Should Be A Movie
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Published 2024-01-22
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All Comments (21)
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Because we’re living in it right now! 🤘
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Neil Peart spoke to US ALL through his Rhythms and his Prose. RIP Perfesser Pratt 😢😢😢😢😢
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I will never see it, but I do hope that in the actual year 2112 that (at least in Canada) there will be major concerts and celebrations of RUSH.
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Yes, I always wanted to see 2112 as movie. Frankly Red Barchetta would make a great short as well.
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RUSH The greatest rock band that ever was or ever will be.
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I started playing drums in 6th grade band, late ‘80’s. My older cousin said “if you’re into drums, you need to listen to this” gave me a record from the future with a star on the front that blew my mind and forever changed my life. I still play drums and must play at least one Rush song every time I sit behind the kit. In fact I just played along to side A a few days ago. Still have never played it 100% accurately. Neil was a legend 🤘🏼👺🤘🏼
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It's a day I never forgot: I walked into Buzzard's Nest Records on Route 161 in Columbus, Ohio, to hear a fast tune playing with a wild, wah-wah guitar lead that ended with one last vibrating note. Then mysterious and echoey chords came on, soon joined by a voice, and the whole band burst into a triumphant guitar-charged verse. (Later I would know this was the last part of "Presentation" and the first part of "Oracle: the Dream.") By now I had to ask the guy at the counter what it was. "New Rush," he said. And someone came up and placed the album on the counter: RUSH 2112. I bought my own copy, took it home, put it on and it took me away to a fantastic and wonderful place. I knew I was hearing an album for the ages.
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On Side 2 is "Tears" by Gary "Geddy Lee" Weinrib is often overlooked... A great make out song.
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That artwork is awesome! The 2112 story follows Rand’s “Anthem” quite closely until the end. Instead of discovering a guitar, the Anthem hero “rediscovers” electricity and begins to develop it in secret.
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I also bought 2112 when I was 11, in 1980, right after buying & obsessing over Permanent Waves. Been a Rush diehard ever since. Power Windows is in my Rush top 5, even though I didn't appreciate it so much in '85. Subscribed. 👍
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Funny you bring this up. I've considered this very thing for years. I actually decided to cast Jude Law as our hero.
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I blagged my copy at Probe Records in Liverpool in 1978 as a 14-year-old and 45 years later when playing with my motorbikes in the shed 2112 is always on the playlist (along with most of the other albums).
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2112 was the first Rush album that I bought. I had heard probably two Rush songs on the radio; Working Man and Fly By Night. The cover art initially got me to pick up the album from the record store race. Then I read the back of the cover that introduced the story. Since I was a sci-fi fan, I bought it and was a fan for life. It was like a big bang to me. More than I bargained for. Neil acknowledged the genius of Ayn (rhymes with pine) Rand in the liner notes because 2112 is a shortened story line of her novella Anthem.
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Pickett, LOVE your content, delivery, demeanor, and your wit! Liked and subbed! Long live: Rush, Yes, Genesis, Kansas, Zebra, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Asia, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Uriah Heep, and Saga!!!
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2112 the full length movie, followed by Clockwork Angles the movie, followed by the short films of Fountain of Lamneth, By-Tor and the Snow Dog and The Necromancer. Now that would be a good weekend at the movies!
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Caress of steel is a good album. Found it in 76. That same year I seen them in concert. 😊
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HELL YEAH!! WHAT A Great COMMENTARY! Great band!
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2112's storyline is Ayn Rand's novella Anthem (1938) with a guitar element added to the plot, Logan's Run (1967) is a variation on that with rockets (as well as a sci-fi movie later on). I read Anthem and The Fountainhead in 1969, discovered Rush in 1975, so I was thrilled my new favorite drummer Neil Peart was into her writing as well. If you read The Fountainhead (1943) you'll see what made Neil Peart tick. Howard Roark, a roman à clef for Frank Lloyd Wright, is an unyielding architect (much like you say at 6:45 ) who stands on principle to the point of obstinacy---even if threatened with hard time in the pen. He's scorned and reviled throughout but outclasses all his enemies, i.e. he fought many of the same existential battles I imagine Peart fought.
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Excellent video! Right on, brother!
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Its fun to think about. But Im good with leaving visualizations to my imagination when listening to it.