We were feeling very optimistic.”Īfter concluding the 20-minute suite that kicks off the album, they charged into the title track to 1975’s Fly By Night, an album released 45 years ago this week. “But you could tell there was a buzz amongst fans when we played it. “It wasn’t getting much airplay, obviously,” Lee said of 2112.
Before that, sales had been low, and Mercury Records had considered dropping them. They performed the entire first side of their new prog-rock masterpiece, 2112, an album that essentially saved their careers.
On December 10th of that year, the band played at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey - a venue that hosted many of rock’s biggest names: Fleetwood Mac, the Grateful Dead, Linda Ronstadt, Lou Reed, and others. At one point, I remember someone counted that we did 17 one-nighters in a row, 17 different cities.” We did back-to-back-to-back-to-back shows. “We were doing over 200 shows a year, probably in excess of that,” bassist-singer Geddy Lee told Rolling Stone of the era. Two years prior, the Canadian band had replaced their first drummer, John Rutsey, with Neil Peart, and they were hitting their stride as a touring band.
In 1976, Rush practically lived on the road.
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