"There are so many memories associated with the re-release of our very first album that one hardly knows where to begin. Like most first albums, it is sort of a miracle that it came into being at all. We originally recorded most of the songs in a studio in downtown Toronto, between the hours of 2 a.m. until 8 a.m. AFTER we had finished playing 5 sets a night at a local rock club. You can imagine the logistics of that.. good thing that we were so.. er... resilient!
We managed to record an album's worth of material in a matter of days and the engineer who worked with us then mixed the entire record in one evening. After the club date ended we came in to hear the final mix and we were crushed with disappointment, it sounded so ..well... polite .... nothing at all like the way we sounded live and not at all what we wanted. He simply did not understand us. So the next day we ran to our manager for help and we were directed to an ex-pat British engineer and producer named Terry Brown.
We met with Terry and instantly felt we were on better footing. After he had come to hear us play live, he suggested that we come to his studio, Toronto Sound, and re-record many of the overdubs and record a few of the "newer" songs that we had written and then re-mix the rest. It wasn't perfect but it sounded sooo much better and more importantly it sounded like us! Terry saved the album.. no question about that! It began a very happy collaboration between us that endured until 1981 after we had completed the Signals album."
- Geddy Lee on the making of Rush self-titled debut album
I primi ascolti del vinile di RUSH ReDISCovered mi fanno dire che la ri-masterizzazione è ottima ma non aggiunge molto di più alla precedente versione remaster che si trova in Sector 1 La confezione è bellissima con vari gadgets e in particolare il Family Tree della band molto interessante mostrando tutti i nomi dei ragazzi che sono entrati e usciti dalla band nei primi tempi studenteschi ma che dimostra anche come il membro fondatore e leader della band fosse all'inizio Rutsey. Opera per completisti e collezionisti del trio canadese, per gli amanti del vinile e del vintage in generale ; per gli altri mi permettono di consigliare di tenersi ( o comprarsi per chi non lo ha) il remaster in cd già ottimo del primo album che non sarà un capolavoro e sicuramente mostra una band ancora ingenua e derivativa ma contiene i primordi di quella grandezza che già dal secondo album comincerà a crescere e maturare.
