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

Lust, Love, Evil & Enslavement, "In Silver Surfer & Witchblade"

The Devils plan to thrust his universal lies and spread disease and destruction to anyone of his choosing aroused his delicious deceits. Mephisto, the lord of hell, and the harbinger of havoc sat on the hills of hell and schemed. (Mike Manczarek / Mark Schurr) 

Mephisto is coming out of his self imposed exile. The devil, like the rest of us, sometimes suffers from boredom and yearns for a sense of purpose and wants to be loved.

In the March, 1997 " Devil's Reign #1/2 Silver Surfer & The Witchblade" Marvel comic book, Mephisto is eager to defile the soul and sample the sweet nectar of Sara Pezzini, because her beauty and power would give him a lifetime of pleasure.

An eternal retirement in the 1970s seemed fantastic for Mephisto, until he became extremely bored in 1997. At the time of the devil's retirement, he thought his instilled evils upon Earth were completed; Sodom and Gomorrah, The Black Plaque, World War II, Nixon and light beer.

There is nothing Mephisto doesn't know, yet his powers are limited. To penetrate the void and possess the power to travel and spread his invidious will across the universe, he needs to restore the T'srri Warship which crashed on Earth eons ago. Mephisto cannot restore the warship, so he plots to deceive the lord of purity, the sky rider of the spaceways, the Silver Surfer to fulfill his grandest of evils.

Only the roamer of the spaceways, the Silver Surfer can restore the T'srri Warship. Mephisto, without the knowledge of the Silver Surfer, gets inside the surf mans head, and even though the Silver Surfer feels strange about returning to Earth, he does. The Silver Surfer will cause the destruction and enslavement of an entire dimension and he won't even know it Mephisto said.

Mephisto's kingdom of blasphemous terror and court of ultimate chaos has begun, and that's how part II of an eight part comic book series ends.

" Devil's Reign #1/2 Silver Surfer & The Witchblade" is a quick and easy read, complete with the poetic prowess of Marvel writer Manczarek, the splendid artistry of Kirk Van Wormer, Adam McDaniel, Norm Rapmund, Livsay, Joe Weems V and Richard Isanove.
                                                                                 Izzy Schurr, aka, Mark Schurr