HeadRUSH

It has already been a week since the show? Wow! I just want to take the time to call out a big thank you to every­one who helped to make our last show at the Ramona Main­stage on the 7^th, a suc­cess. Despite the fact that it rained all day and into the night, there were quite a few diehard RUSH fans who attended any­way, includ­ing a really hot birth­day party who all just showed up to sup­port us.

By name, there are a few we should men­tion, we want to thank Ray, our techie friend who did an expert job of engi­neer­ing our sound, both on and off stage.  Josh, who cap­tured our intre­pid jour­ney on video and audio (more videos com­ing later). Doug, who illu­mi­nated the stage, Mark, who braved the rain with me to help set up, Orrin who pro­vided the fine the­ater and refresh­ments needed for us to play that night, my daugh­ter Sonya and friend Celine who took these pho­tos, and Robert, Mitch, and Tom for the pro­mo­tional help. I also want to thank Dave Hardin, our pre­vi­ous gui­tarist for all the friend­ship, hard work, and ded­i­ca­tion he put into the early stages of this band.

I talked with musi­cians from other bands, recon­nected with folks I haven’t seen for ages, and just gen­er­ally enjoyed myself. Also, it pretty much goes with­out say­ing that the whole band cut loose a bit that night. I never saw so many RUSH T-shirts out­side of an actual RUSH show. Heck I saw my very first RUSH tat­too that night.

We had some mile­stones to mark too:

• Bill Vil­helm, our newest mem­ber, showed his met­tle (metal?) as the new gui­tarist for HeadRUSH.
• Vin­nie Lee our illus­tri­ous Bassist, tried out some new gear and was again reminded of the rea­son why he put this band together…FUN,  RUSH,  and a lit­tle more fun…
• Mono, our “Pro­fes­sor” of the band gave us all a les­son in drum eti­quette dur­ing YYZ, and gen­er­ally amazed us all with his fly­ing sticks.
• Then there was Absa­lom the rat…who had the thrill of his life, but still perches him­self atop Vinnie’s key­board despite the abuse abuse I gave him dur­ing Subdivisions.

Don’t worry too much that you haven’t heard when we play next. We don’t know either. We are going to pol­ish our chops and show a bit over the next cou­ple of months and we’ll be sure to let you all know when and where the next show will be.

Speak­ing of T-shirts, some­time soon, we will be start­ing our Cafe Press site to offer Head­RUSH branded shirts, hats, mousepads, stick­ers, etc. Heck, any­thing any­one really wants should be avail­able in mul­ti­ple col­ors and sizes. Please stay tuned.

Until then,  remem­ber there is magic at your fingers…pull out a RUSH album you don’t know yet, and get famil­iar. We may just end up play­ing it for you at one of our future shows.

See ya then…