Rush Red Sector A R30 Live
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Neil is all over the metronomic map this time around. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
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*along
Oops!
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Ok while the song has a sad origin, Geddy is dancing a long so why can't anyone else. Every song sends a different message to every person. They wouldn't make it so catchy if they didn't want people to feel like they could dance to it.
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@ryanman212 Right. Rush is thier own League. There is Rock -N Roll, and then there is R U S H.
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@2333jim you are correct. i mis spoke (wrote). no worries. great song. I never knew it was partly inspired by the stories of his mother's experiences in Nazi concentration camps until I heard Geddy's cd launch w/ Uncle Joe Benson on the radio in 2000. There I was alone in my car listening to Geddy tell that story. It made me cry. That was one of the saddest things I've ever heard.
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@bewitchedblonde: Yes, he absolutely is. Both of his parents were Dachau concentration camp survivors. Both Polish Jews with tattoos on their arms.
Neil's inspiration for the song was Geddy's mom's recollection about the last year of the war: She thought that all of Europe had been killed by the Nazi's already, they were so cut off from the news.
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@bewitchedblonde: Gary Lee Weinrib has a mother, who is still alive, that pronounced his name as "Geddy" when he was a child. So all of his friends called him Geddy.
Mary Rubenstein Weinrib, a holocaust survivor, inspired this song.
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@earthshine2k: Actually it is Geddy's mom. His name is Gary, and she still pronounces it "Geddy". She is still alive and healthy, and was interviewed for "Beyond the Lighted Stage".
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Neil waited until Geddy was ready to talk about it before he admitted it was inspired by Geddy's mom.
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This song is mostly about Geddy's mother, Mary Weinrib. She was a Polish Jew caught in Dachau concentration camp with Geddy's father.
She honestly thought that WWII had killed every human being in Europe. She thought her fellow inmates and herself were the only ones left.
Disturbed? Disturbed, "other good bands", and RUSH should not be used in the same utterance.
avantexec 3 years ago 26
They should have done this one on the R-30 DVD ... I am sure the Germans would have fell down and wept.
From Canada, with Love
RUSH - CANADA'S GREATEST EXPORT
visionmaster153 2 years ago 4