rush

The first time that I saw the legendary Rush was in 1983 at Wembley Arena, London. This was my first ever concert and it will remain with me for all my days as a truly seminal moment, well evening. The fourth time that I saw Rush was last week at the NEC in Birmingham UK and nothing has changed much – I even went with the same two friends from 1983.

A few years ago I bought the first Alex Skolnick trio album ‘Goodbye to Romance’ not knowing what to expect. I was suitably impressed by the Jazz take on metal songs from Kiss, Sabbath, Aerosmith and Scorpions. They were good imaginative and well composed arrangements and of course featured the very excellent and tasteful guitar noodling of mr Skolnick. The next album, ‘Transformation’ featured a few originals alongside some Judas Priest, Dio and Deep Purple classics.