Rush Were Wrong – You Can Have Something For Nothing!

I’ve been looking back at my blog since day one and I’ve been rather alarmed at the lack of Rush posts. Plenty of Elite Dangerous ones and nowhere near enough Rush. The problem is – I am by no means an expert on Rush. Not one little bit. I’m wary of exploring some of the biggest subjects that exist amongst the Rush fandom (for example: By opting out of “meet and greets”, did Neil Peart let down his fans? The answer to which is a resounding “NO!!!”) because despite being in love with their music since the late 80’s, I’m just not knowledgeable, nor cognitively agile enough to effectively deal with these kinds of questions.

Yet.

What I can do, however, is write about various Rush themed treasures I have discovered that a few of you Rush fanatics may not. If I can turn just one more fan onto just one of these gems then I will have done my job. And the first of these delights is the podcast – Something For Nothing.

Run by two, plainly very close friends Steve and Gerry, the ‘cast purports to be nothing more than just two lifelong chums geeking out about their favourite band. For the first few episodes, at least, this is exactly what you get. And it’s possibly the most heart-warming podcast Rush fans could ever listen to.

They plough through each of the Rush albums, song by song, sometimes taking multiple episodes to do so. They interview prominent figures to do with Rush and prominent fans. They discuss major events and concerts in Rush’s history. It’s all there! And it’s all delivered in such a friendly, warm and infectious manner it’s impossible not to fall in love with Rush all over again.

I only discovered them a fortnight ago and I’m already a third of the way through the 180 or so episodes, and will only interrupt my binge listening of past episodes to listen to the latest brand new one.

I am thoroughly enjoying myself listening to these two. They have opened up my eyes to look at Rush in a whole new light, pointed out things about the lyrics and song arrangements that I had never realised before and taken me to new vistas of Rush resources I had no idea existed.

In fact, Something For Nothing (A Rush Fancast) {you love those parentheses, don’t you, Gerry} is solely responsible for inspiring me to expand the Rush section of my site!

So, I want to thank you, Steve and Gerry, for giving me a new goal to work towards. For giving me new things to become obsessed with and excitedly write about. For making me love Rush even more than before.

Here’s to more wonderful episodes, fellas!