Oh this is just scary. Here are a host of marginal, fringe and has-been rockers paying tribute to the most enduring -- and arguably most innovative -- rock power trio in history. Love them or hate them
Rush are iconoclasts; they have never looked to any muse other than their own. On
Subdivisions: A Tribute to Rush, executive producers Peter Morticelli and
Mike Varney have assembled vocalists
Sebastian Bach, Randy Jackson (of
Zebra)
Kip Winger,
Dave Brooks, and
Jani Lane. They, in turn, are accompanied by an assortment of players including
Vinnie Moore, Mike Magnini,
Alex Skolnick,
Jeff Stinco,
Robert Berry (who mixed the collection),
Andreas Kisser and others in what has to be the most misguided, badly played, and utterly lifeless "tribute" record to come down the pipe in a very long while. One has to wonder if
Rush Messrs.
Peart,
Lee and
Lifeson aren't embarrassed by this debacle. ~ Thom Jurek