Rush Retirement Rumors: Your Thoughts.

Modrigue wrote: However, the initial question was: "What are your thoughts on Rush possibly calling it a day?" Personally, I don't have any definitive opinion. I would like to see them live, and Clockwork Angels has its moments.

^^ I don't think anyone has said they are not 'progressive' (have they?) Prog rock, like the snobbery that characterises many of its followers, is a spectrum, with It Bites at one end and a top hatted octupus playing the f***ing spoons on an ironing board at the other. Rush sit somewhere to the right of the centre point along that spectrum.

Genre classifications are equal points fickle and pointless, but classifying Rush as prog would depend on one's definition of prog (obviously). Certainly, no one would put them among the symphonic, keyboard driven groups like Genesis or Yes or the eclectic, experimental, jazzy groups like Gentle Giant or King Crimson, but as far as being placed on Progarchives overall, they certainly have a place somewhere in the heavy rock/metal categories. Personally, I tend to use a pretty strict definition of prog that would probably exclude Rush, but that has nothing to do with quality. Van Der Graaf Generator is my favorite group and I don't consider them to be prog either.