RUSH: 2112 & Why It Should Be A Movie

Because we’re living in it right now! 🤘

Neil Peart spoke to US ALL through his Rhythms and his Prose. RIP Perfesser Pratt 😢😢😢😢😢

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.

Yes, I always wanted to see 2112 as movie. Frankly Red Barchetta would make a great short as well.

RUSH The greatest rock band that ever was or ever will be.

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 🤘🏼👺🤘🏼

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.

On Side 2 is "Tears" by Gary "Geddy Lee" Weinrib is often overlooked... A great make out song.

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.

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. 👍

Funny you bring this up. I've considered this very thing for years. I actually decided to cast Jude Law as our hero.

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).

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.

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!!!

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!

Caress of steel is a good album. Found it in 76. That same year I seen them in concert. 😊

HELL YEAH!! WHAT A Great COMMENTARY! Great band!

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.

Excellent video! Right on, brother!

Its fun to think about. But Im good with leaving visualizations to my imagination when listening to it.