Rush Is Cool

April 20th, 2009

The Chicago Tribune says what I’ve known for years.

Recently, the band played a major role on “The Colbert Report”; they have had gushing profiles in Rolling Stone and non-ironic interviews in Entertainment Weekly; they’ve been a plot thread in “I Love You, Man,” referenced on “Family Guy” and effusively adored in the new coming-of-age drama “Adventureland.” Later this year, the band will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“Just yesterday I got an e-mail from an astronaut,” Lifeson said. “A guy up in the space station. He brought a copy of our last album with him into space. I mean, this is amazing. You know how many Rush fans there are within NASA? A lot. I’ll leave it at that. And I’m not just talking about the guys out in the field. Our fans are inside, close to the big programs. They run everything.”

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