Rush & Foo Fighters, 2013

In 2013, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame welcomed RUSH into their pantheon of rock immortals. 2014 Inductee Dave Grohl & Taylor Hawkins of 2021 Nominees Foo Fighters had the honor of inducting the trio. They highlight the superior musicianship, prolific output, and all-around “Working Man” philosophy that made RUSH one of the most successful prog bands of all time.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
M Welcome to Induction Vault, a production of I Heart
Radio and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is about
to begin. It's time to take your seats in. Learned

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musicians across the globe prevailed when the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame welcomed Rush into the pantheon of rock immortals. Fittingly,
renowned drummers Dave Role and Taylor Hawkins of Food Fighters
inducted the trio. As Neil Peart was nothing short of
godlike in the drumming fam Roland Hawkins highlight the superior musicianship,

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prolific output, and all around working man philosophy that made
Rush one of the most successful prog bands of all time.
That mary attitude made them weary of industry accolades throughout
the career. But when they received rock's highest honor, here
began his acceptance speech quote, We've been saying for a
long time years that this wasn't a big deal. It

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turns out kind of Hello, everybody, my name is Dave Brawl,
I'll Taylor Hawkins, and we are here tonight to induct

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Rush into the Rock and Roll Hall of faen rock
and roll has forever been ensconced in mystery. Robert Johnson
selling his soul to the devil that early morning that

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Satan knocked upon his door, the death of Paul McCarty
me in nineteen sixty six, and the conspiracy to replace
him with an exact lookalike Elvis sightings, Jim Morrison sightings,
Axel Rose sightings. But there's one mystery that surely eclipses

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them all. When the fuck did Rush become cool? It
was seventy six when my cool older stoner cousin gave
me my first copy of Upon first inspection, I was

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fascinated by the track listing. The entire side one of
the album was a seven part suite with Roman numerals
and names like the Temples of syrinx H and the
Oracle the Dream. This was far from my Kiss Records,

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with such great works of literature like Love Good and
Ladies Room. No, this was something else. This was Heavy Ship.
And then I saw what is perhaps the most infamous
band photo of all time. Three grown men, arms crossed,

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standing proudly in white satin kimonos and skin tight pants.
How skin tights? You ask? So skin tight that you
can still find the one, the only guitar god Alex
Lifeson on camel Toe dot Org. But what was inside

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is why we are here today. Getty Lee's ripping bass
is incredible, unmistakable voice, Alex Lifeson's soulful, imaginative, melodic, chaotic
guitar solos, and of course, fucking Neil Parhat God. Come on,

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this guy spawned a generation of air drummers for decades
to come with this composition, craft and technique. His drumming
was songwriting. It was just as musical, just as melodic
as any other instrument in the band, bringing the drums
where they fucking should be, to the forefront of every song.

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But here's the thing about Neil Purp. Not only was
he the most fucking ripping drummer in the world, he
wrote the fucking lyrics. Who let the fucking drummer write
the lyrics? Rush did Baby makes no sense? Playing upwards

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of two and fifty shows a year from day one,
the band built its following the right way, no hype,
no bullshit. They did it from the ground up without
any help from the mainstream press. Rush fly by Night,

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Caressive Steel one twelve, but farewell the cakes, hemispheres, bourbonent waves,
movie picture signals, grace, under pressure, power windows, hold your fire, presso,
roll the bounds, counterparts, tessper echo, vapor trails, feedback, sakes, scenarrows, clockwork,
a angels. Five years, over forty million records, thousands of

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shows selling how to Read Us all over the world.
Their influence is undeniable, and they're devoted fan base only
rivaled by the grateful Dead. Look at you people right there,
all of you right there. And their legacy is that

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of a band that stayed true to themselves, no matter
how uncool they may have seemed to anyone. I think
it's safe to say that Rush are indeed a band
that has balls. Alex showed us that, and they've always

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been cool. So consider this mystery soul. It is our
honor to finally induct Rush into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame. After the breath, here the acceptance speeches

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of Getty Lee, Alex Lison from Neil Pierre on the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction bolt. We've been

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saying for a long time years that this wasn't a
big deal. It turns out it kind of is. Our
sincere haartfelt thanks to David Taylor for doing us the
great honor of indicting us. Yeah, there's is truly the
praise of the praiseworthy. Maybe one day we will be

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indicting them. I've always liked to quote from Bob Dylan,
the highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else
can you do for anyone but inspire them? Is gratifying
to think of us having inspired these youngsters to pick
up a pair of drumsticks, a guitar, a rhyming dictionary
and torment their parents as we tormented ours. All the

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previous inductees into this pantheon of rock are like a
constellation of stars in the night sky. Among them, we
are one tiny point of light shaped like a maple leaf.
Yea around each star squirrels a galaxy, in our case,

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a galaxy of families, the families that raised us, elevated us,
and now the families that ground us, those who remain
and those who are gone. Then there is the family
of people around us who take care of business day
after day, do deal after deal, dime after dime, like
our manager throughout all of this, Ray Daniels. Then there

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is the family of people who truly put on the show.
For it is fitting that we received this honor as
a working band in the middle of a tour in
our thirty ninth year. We should always stay thirty nine.
I speak of the road crews, the technicians, the engineers
and co producers are friends and family and these guys.

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Thank you guys so much. I have to say this
is a little overwhelm ming for a nice Jewish boy
from Toronto. I've been really fortunate in my life to
be able to spend my time doing something that I
truly love to do, and to do it with two
really terrific partners. That makes it all the sweeter. And

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so I'd like to thank Lurks I'm pratt over here,
not only for the privilege of making music together with them,
but for the great pleasure of their mostly hilarious company
for the past four decades. And on behalf of my
two partners, I have to thank the most passionate, most dedicated,

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incredible fan base around the globe. That's you, guys, for
not only supporting and encouraging our musical progress over the years,
but for the insistence of their voices, which has most

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for joining us on this week's episode of Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame Induction Vault. For more on your
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producers are Noel Brown, Shelby Morrison, and Esa Gurkey. Supervising

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producer is Taylor Shakin. Research and archival assistants from Isabelle
Keeper and Shannon Herb. Thanks again for joining us on
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