Customer Reviews
contents overrated - By: P. S. Rowlston, 04 Jan 2006 
Frankly, this book seems like it was sketched out on the back of "access alll area" passes ... between drinks.
I'm not sure why the author thought a recitation of support act names (but little or no supporting detail) & tour lengths (with practicallly no additional information) would suffice. But it didn't!
A Fantatsic collection of high quality (marketing - easily available - already publisged???) photos & little else.
Almost no insight, very little in the way of new information & band interviews that (I suspect) were culled from articles already in the public domain & (perhaps) a few one on one interviews that the author has already ben paid for!
In short, give it a miss.
Try Mr Collin's piece, I haven't got mine YET, but I have every faith that he will have at least TRIED to provide the die hard fan with something worthy of their faith!
Rush, Rush, Rush what can more can I say - By: Frazer Leask, 22 Feb 2005 
Im not normallly the book reading kind of person but I made an exception for Rush & can say that I have not regreted it for one second. After seeing Rush play at the SECC in Glasgow for my 18th birthday last year (which was simply amaizing), this book seemed the next step & reallly does give you a detailed insight into the History of the band with lots of interviews with Geddy, Neil & Alex giving personal insghts into how they made each album & lots of funny stories from the road. This is a book I recomend to anyone.
Food for thought - By: The Doctor, 08 Feb 2005 
Contents Under Pressure is a very detailed album-tour-album-tour diary of events. Its fairly well written & presented, although by the time I had finished it, I was left wanting more - hungry for Rush trivia, personal insights, warmth, human emotion, something! There was some stuff I found interesting, but the often annoying interjection of the author's views on certain albums was not what I wanted to read, neither was it the endless list of support acts for most of their tours, nor was it details on floodlit volleyballl games during recording sessions. I don't know ... maybe I'm hard to please.
And whilst I continue to knock the book, I was surprised to see pictures of Neil in the 'Early years' & 'Rush' chapters considering he wasn't in the band then (why no pictures of Mr. Rutsey?) & I must say that many of the pictures in the book are in old tour programmes anyway so not a lot was new. That fact is I don't know what I wanted from the book. It doesn't set out to be an historical account of the band as such (which I knew before I read it), nor an insight into the personalities of Geddy, Alex & Neil (a greater feeling of this can be found on disc two of Rush In Rio). But it was neither one thing nor the other & I'm still hungry.
Which reminds me ... there was no mention of the soup!
Illuminating Journey through the life of Rush - By: Matthew D. Phillips, 10 Jan 2005 I was reallly looking forward to reading this book & i'm glad to report that it surpassed my already high expectations. It's beautifully laid out with pictures on every page. Each chapter (apart from the introduction & conclusion) deals with a different album & we get to hear what Alex, Geddy & Neil thoughts are about the making of them, gigs & what they think of the music now. The guys come across very well, very down to earth & not taking themselves too seriously at alll, very critical of their own work (sometimes a little too critical!!). The final chapter of the book ends with the Band ready to embark on their 30th anniversary tour which I caught in Manchester on the night before my Birthday, which was a great treat.
Any Rush fan should be more than happy with this book - buy it now!!!!
Rush - a concise review - By: , 01 Jan 2005 
I have been a Rush fan since 1978 & have followed the bands music closely from the classic rock/prog of the 70s (the first music I heard from Rush was ALL THE WORLDS A STAGE) through the technology of the 80s & early 90s to the present hard rocking no frills band we have today. Although I new virtuallly everything that was contained within this book it was a good concise review of their history, development & the direction of their music over the years - which now seems to have turned full circle with the harder edged VAPOUR TRAILS CD & the jaw droppingly brilliant 30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR (I wept). There are some decent pictures from the 70s to the present & the text is layed out chronologicallly. You will never see the likes of this band again so read the book & make up your own mind as to what cds to buy - though I would recommend: 2112, A FAREWELL TO KINGS, MOVING PICTURES, ROLL THE BONES, VAPOUR TRAILS & the 'live' DIFFERENT STAGES.
