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Rush has released another exclusive video teaser to their YouTube channel. These clips are not found anywhere else on line!! This is the official Rush Beyond the Lighted Stage Youtube Channel so be sure to ‘fave’ it and check back often in the run up to the DVD/Blu Ray release.

The page did 25,000 views since the first announcement was made yesterday.

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Check out the Rush YouTube Channel (click the image below)

Check out the Rush Youtube Channel

Hi Folks. Fantastic news (for those of you in these areas) !! The Rush documentary is set to release to a select few Canadian Theatres on June 10, 2010. Be sure to keep an eye on the theatres and don’t miss out!! Here, I’ll just get to the point below:

EXPERIENCE IT.

ONE NIGHT ONLY THURSDAY, JUNE 10 at 7pm

RUSH: Beyond the Lighted Stage is Released to the Following Theaters:

SCOTIABANK THEATRE, TORONTO

CINEMARK TINSELTOWN, VANCOUVER

THE UPTOWN, CALGARY

CINEMA DU PARC, MONTREAL

CINEMA LE CLAP, QUEBEC CITY

* Additional Le Clap screenings on Fri June 11 at 7 & 9:15pm and Sat June 12th at 9:15pm *

There is a ton of great press out there and some scathingly terrible review as well, which are quite hilarious, and clearly do nothing to serve the good of the writer. Here, check this one out. Some fantastic quotes in here especially “Lead singer and bassist Geddy Lee‘s high-pitched voice, especially, is a demon wail of an epileptic cat with cancer — a banshee on helium.” => magic..

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/04/agonies_of_rush.php

Also to get you in the mood here are a few clips  from various places (thanks Darren for sending these over)

Lovely interview with a few dudes: You need to flip over to the Tube cuz they disabled embed. But come back and tell us what you think!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_UUsxoFWpo

Audio interview by Richard Crouse:

Part 2

Enjoy Kids, Good luck finding tickets to the shows cuz they’re gonna sell out!!

New York City – May 23, 2006

We traveled to NYC for our North American DVD release. It was great to finally see our DVD hit the shelves, especially because we put so much work in to the special features section. We are eager to hear what fans think of the extra Norwegian black metal doc, the interactive heavy metal family tree, and the extended interviews. We worked hard to put a disc together that could piece together the most discerning, die-hard-metaller.

The highlight of the trip was hanging with Mark Morton and Chris Adler of Lamb of God, who participated in a DVD signing session with us. They have always been very supportive of the film and have been helping us spread the word. Fans will obviously have different opinions of Lamb of God and their rise to (relative) popularity, but you can’t deny that they have worked their asses off and are exposing a whole new generation of kids to good old fashioned thrash metal (with a dash of Pantera, of course). Chris even played me a few advance tracks from the new album, “Sacrament”. Sounded great, folks; you’re in for a treat…

Japan – May 8-15, 2006

We have had some great opportunities to visit different parts of the world since making this doc (Norway, Bermuda, Austin, Sweded, etc…) but none can compare with Japan. I have wanted to visit japan for many years and to be able to travel with the film was a once in a lifetime opportunity.

We had one week to soak up as much as we could. The first couple of days were spent doing press for the Japanese release, so we did 25 interviews in two days! Thanks to Red Bull and some other mysterious Japanese concoctions we were able to battle through the jetlag and keep our engines firing. On the 3rd day we shot a mini-documentary for the Japanese version of the DVD that followed us around Tokyo interviewing different Japanese metal bands (hail Loudness) and visiting metal T-shirt shops, etc… in addition to interviewing Minoru of Loudness, we also met with Mirai of the avant-garde black metal band Sign and Mr. Ono, probably Japan’s biggest metal expert (he was the first person in Japan to interview Led Zeppelin!). In these interviews we talked about the relationship between Japanese culture and metal music and learned a little something about samurais and forest dieties along the way. We also plan to incorporate some of this material into our next film, “Global Metal”.

The most memorable chapter of our Japanese visit (with our visit to a rather eerie Deep Purple-inspired rock bar called Blackmore’s coming a close second) was meeting ex-Megadeth guitar wizard Marty Friedman. Marty has been living in Japan for years, speaks fluent Japanese, plays guitar on a kids’ variety show call “Fujiyama” and apparently has a soft spot for J-Pop and, believe it or not, the Polish death metal band Decapitated. Go Figger! He interviewed us for a Japanese pop culture mag and gave us some great support for the film. Definitely a surreal moment to be hanging with Marty in Tokyo…

But then again this pic of scot with a group of Geishas in the backstreets of Kyoto may be the most surreal of ‘em all. Let me hear you say “Geisha Metal”…