Henne Music reports that Concord Records will release a Rush DVD - title TBD - on September 27. Rush's Cleveland performance of its Time Machine show was filmed as a tribute to the U.S. city that first played the band's music; the event marked Rush's first live full-length filming on U.S. soil.
Cleveland, Henne Music notes, is notable for being one of the very first U.S. cities where Rush performed, in addition to being the first city to provide American airplay. Rush are finishing their European dates this weekend before bringing the Time Machine tour back to North America, picking things up again June 8 in Greenville, South Carolina; the full tour wraps July 2 in Seattle.
As an aside, Henne Music is also reporting that Rush drummer Neil Peart is scheduled to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman on June 9 as part of the show’s Drum Solo Week.
That’s right: Drum Solo Week. Is Letterman plumbing new levels of chat-show hipster irony, or is he just getting desperate for concepts? One wonders… it would have been oddly wonderful (if not ratings-killing) to do Bass Solo Week instead.
Anyhoo, apparently June 9 is Rush’s off-day between Greenville and New Orleans, so the schedule syncs up for an extremely rare Peart TV appearance.
Rush fans, go nuts.
