Rush Album "Permanent Waves" is 39-Years-Old

Prior to making the album "Permanent Waves, our usual schedule was tour, tour, tour, write, rehearse, record and perhaps a couple of weeks of Domestic Therapy Neil Peart, Rush drummer & lyricist said on "Personal Waves, The Story of An Album."

The trio of Rush began the infancy of "Permanent Waves" in a place called Lakewoods Farm with a somewhat modernized farmhouse and a cottage set on a tiny jewel of a lake residing on a hundred acres of farmland, ideal for the lyrical writing flow Peart said.

Alex Lifeson, guitarist, was adept at making Lasagna, and bassist / singer, Geddy Lee unleashed the Interface. The Interface is a device that would allow Geddy to trigger all the voices in his polyphonic synthesizer by pressing one pedal on his Taurus bass pedals. This gave us a rich and readily attainable texture to add our sound, and it came in very useful as did Alex's cooking Peart said.

They finished the album at Le Studio nestled in the valley of the Laurentian Mountains, about 60 miles north of Montreal on 250 acres of hilly foliaged woodlands. Take note of the newspaper in the left corner of the albums cover. Initially Rush wanted the cover of the Chicago Daily Tribune News paper with the head-line, "Dewey Defeats Truman." More then thirty years prior to the release of the Jan. 14, 1980 album, "Permanent Waves," the Chicago Tribune executives refused to allow Rush to show-case the news paper's Major Factual Error when Truman actually won the U.S. presidency in the 1940s.

"Permanent Waves" was a parade of guitars, synthesizers vocals, percussion and experiments...all has been worth it, is it good? We hope you agree," Neil Peart said.  
                                                                       Izzy Schurr, aka, Mark Schurr