New Rush "CONCEPT" album won't be ready for a year according to Geddy

Travis The Dragon

Travis The Dragon

AFTERGLOW!!!
A new video interview with bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee of the Canadian rock trio RUSH conducted by Brazil's TV UOL can be viewed below. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow.

On the next RUSH studio album:

Geddy: "The new album is still in production. We've recorded two songs so far, one of them called 'Caravan' and the other one called 'Brought Up To Believe' ['BU2B']. That's the beginning two songs of a whole kind of a concept album called 'Clockwork Angels'. We have about four other songs... five songs written, but not recorded yet. And we still have a couple of more songs that we want to write and then put the whole thing together. So I don't think the album will be ready for about a year."

On whether there will be a new DVD/CD documenting the current tour:

Geddy: "We record every night. We don't film every night but we have lots of cameras around. So invariably by the time this [tour] is finished we'll put together some sort of live representation of it. But what form that will take I'm not sure yet."

On the recent award-winning film "Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage":

Geddy: "It's a weird experience to watch that for me. First of all, I don't like to watch myself talking about myself; it's strange [and] not normal. But I was very complimented to hear the nice things that the other musicians had to say. And I was very relieved that the people that made the film had a good sense of humor, and that the sense of humor that we have in the band came through in that film. So that made me happy. And so although it's not my favorite thing to do — to watch a movie about us — I'm glad that so many people seem to enjoy it."
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I was hoping it wouldn't be quite that long, but I'm sure it will be WELL worth the wait! And OMG! A concept album! YES! :yey:
 
What's so great about a concept album? It's not like that is any grade of quality.
 
I can't speak for everybody but the reason I like Concept Albums is they add another dimension to the music. Albums like The Wall would be shit if it wern't for the stories. Even an album like Nostrodamus has an added dimension and different elements that add to the album in a big way. If Judas Priest used those elements rightly Nostrodamus could've been a classic. That being said I think a Rush concept album would be epic.
 
Also, some concept albums are known to have longer songs, sometimes over 10 minutes and it's been WAY too long since Rush did a song that long. Hopefully, we'll get something like that.
 
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwork_Angels

In late August, Lifeson remarked that an additional three songs were almost complete and that the album is turning out to be very musically diverse. In particular, Lifeson refers to the nearly finished title track "Clockwork Angels" as an "epic song" and a "multi-parted piece". He describes it as "very dynamic"
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That means it could be a longer song like 2112 and Cygnus X-1! Oh, I'm SO excited for this!
 
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