Finding My Way Need Some Love Take A Friend Here Again What You're Doing In the Mood Before And After Working Man Back in 1973, were still an old-fashioned, no-frills power trio. Having attracted zero interest from major record companies, the band’s manager Ray Danniels formed independent label Moon Records to release the album. The recording budget was small, and Rush worked the graveyard shift during the first sessions at Toronto’s Eastern Sound studio.
“This was us trying to find a sound,” said Geddy Lee of their self-titled debut. “Thinking we wanted to be a hard rock band and emulating those bands we thought were cool.” He isn’t wrong.
The sole album to feature drummer John Rutsey owed a huge debt to and other early 70s blues rockers. But has a charm and energy that they never replicated, not least on the classic , which resonated with blue-collar workers everywhere – as well as radio DJs who realised it was long enough for them to take a toilet break, turning it into an unexpected breakthrough hit. "I can hear Led Zeppelin in there, and a bit of ," said Geddy.
"I wish I could hear more than just those influences, but I can’t. John Rutsey was very much a Simon Kirke kind of drummer – just hold down the backbeat and let’s rock out. So that’s how the songs came out.
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