Rush Rash with Chaz N Schatz

The wheel gives us an epic 17 minute prog rock masterwork by Porcupine Tree. You'll know him when you hear him... SCHATZ'S SCRATCH LIST - RUSH TRIBUTE BANDS Scratch your itch to hear RUSH music played live by going to check out any of these great RUSH Tribute Bands - these bands are keeping the community and the music alive - the most current, curated, and rockin' list of RUSH Tribute Bands in the...

The biggest week in the Rush universe in over a decade deserved something different... so we threw out the usual format and assembled an all-star panel. Chaz and Schatz are joined by our co-hostess with the mostest Jillian Maryonovich ( RushCon ) ,  Ed Toth (The Doobie Brothers) ,  Greg Russell (Mr. Peart's Friend, Drummer Natural Science , and Xcitelabs Director) , and  John P...

What did we spin? Was it something off Victor? How about My Effin Headache? Something off Burning for Buddy? Something off Anika's last solo record? Could it be Today Was Yesterday? A Triumph Tribute? Someone who got yer belly? Who knows - it's a random wheel, it's got lot's by Rushies, but this ain't Rush... SCHATZ'S SCRATCH LIST - RUSH TRIBUTE BANDS Scratch your itch to hear RUSH music played li...

Part 2 finds Chaz and Schatz back in the Haggis Shack with Moving Pictures' Steve Brown , RUSHFest Canada's Paul Beaulieu, and Funding Neuro's David Mulligan as the conversation shifts from RushFest Scotland to the upcoming RushFest Canada at Toronto's legendary El Mocambo. The gang talks about the excitement surrounding Rush's upcoming tour, the future of RushFest on both sides of the Atlantic, a...

This is it, T-minus four days and counting till the return of RUSH Live at the LA Forum!! We add Anika Niles' tracks to this wheel of "Rushie", non-Rush songs by the people of Rush. Welcome Anika - Let's Rock...or in this case, get small with some really twisty jazz. Join Chaz n Schatz and Jillian Live on YouTube/@RushCon 6:30 PST / 9:30 EST for the R U S H Tour Opening Night Fan Watch Party Live...

What happens when  Maiah Wynne from Envy of None ,  Paul Beaulieu of RUSHfest Canada , Steve Brown from Moving Pictures and RUSHfest Scotland , and  David Mulligan  from  Funding Neuro get together after the biggest RushFest Scotland yet? You get a conversation packed with music, friendship, charity, creativity, and enough Scottish whisky to make Neil raise an approving ey...

This week on Rush Rash, Chaz and Schatz welcome publisher, writer, community-builder, and lifelong Rush fan Deb Ross for a heartfelt and hilarious conversation about parenting, fandom, cultural literacy, and the power of Rush to connect generations. Deb shares the story of discovering Rush through  Hold Your Fire  in 1987, why “Marathon” and “Vital Signs” became life-guiding songs, and h...

A number as trippy as the name implies, off Envy of None's 2025 release Stygian Waves. Chaz can finally pronounce Stygian... SCHATZ'S SCRATCH LIST - RUSH TRIBUTE BANDS Scratch your itch to hear RUSH music played live by going to check out any of these great RUSH Tribute Bands - these bands are keeping the community and the music alive - the most current, curated, and rockin' list of RUSH Tribute B...

In another absolutely unnecessary but deeply essential installment of  Rush Rash , Chaz and Shatz return to the Boneless airwaves for what begins as a routine wheel spin and quickly devolves into a gloriously ramshackle prog symposium involving airport sightings, tribute band diplomacy, chorus pedals, drum violence, and the mysterious cosmic intelligence known only as…  The Wheel . Along...

This week, Chaz and Schatz crack open the cosmic portal to Cygnus X-1 and welcome none other than  John Patuto , the mastermind behind the legendary Rush fan hub   Cygnus-X1.net —a site that’s been keeping Rush fandom alive longer than most of us have kept a pair of concert tees without holes. From humble beginnings in the dial-up bulletin board days (kids, ask your parents) to running a...

This week, the Rush Rash train pulls into a very specific station:  the official 420 Council Session . And wouldn’t you know it — after spinning the wheel for what feels like decades, we’ve finally landed on  “A Passage to Bangkok”  from  2112 . Joining the council in the club car: Malcolm McKinnon  – High Times legend, strain sommelier, and walking encyclopedia of global...

Chaz N Schatz spin the title track from Geddy's 2000 solo record My Favorite Headache. SCHATZ'S SCRATCH LIST - RUSH TRIBUTE BANDS Scratch your itch to hear RUSH music played live by going to check out any of these great RUSH Tribute Bands - these bands are keeping the community and the music alive - the most current, curated, and rockin' list of RUSH Tribute Bands in the world! Yeah! ⁠⁠⁠⁠Click her...

Grace Under Pressure…Under a Microscope. This week, Chaz and Schatz throw the format out the window like a busted cassette deck and go full album-mode on Grace Under Pressure —but not just any version. Oh no. We’re diving headfirst into the  2026 Super Deluxe Edition  featuring the long-awaited  Terry Brown mix …and folks, things get spicy. Schatz rolls in looking like he lost a fig...

Chaz N Schatz spin - surprise! - another track by Envy Of None - a groovy number called Under The Sea. SCHATZ'S SCRATCH LIST - RUSH TRIBUTE BANDS Scratch your itch to hear RUSH music played live by going to check out any of these great RUSH Tribute Bands - these bands are keeping the community and the music alive - the most current, curated, and rockin' list of RUSH Tribute Bands in the world! Yea...

This week on  Rush Rash , Chaz and Schatz welcome Jillian Maryonovich of RushCon back into the co-host chair—fresh off a surreal, boots-on-the-ground experience at the JUNOS where Rush did the unthinkable: they got back on stage as Rush with some Noobs. Jillian walks us through the emotional rollercoaster: From spotting the gear… To locking eyes with fellow Rush-shirt-wearing lifers...

We get a track off 2025's Stygyn Waves by Envy of None. That voice... SCHATZ'S SCRATCH LIST - RUSH TRIBUTE BANDS Scratch your itch to hear RUSH music played live by going to check out any of these great RUSH Tribute Bands - these bands are keeping the community and the music alive - the most current, curated, and rockin' list of RUSH Tribute Bands in the world! Yeah! ⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here:  ⁠ Schatz...

This week on  Rush Rash , Chaz and Schatz celebrate 50 years of  2112  with a very special guest—YouTube sensation and all-around Rush whisperer  Mike Massé —who drops in (freshly fumigated from the Haggis Shack) to talk about his gorgeous new cover of  “Tears.” The guys dig into Mike’s creative process, from Mellotron patch-hunting to channeling Geddy’s  extra-vibrat...

The trailer park invades the wheel as we spin Who's Got Yer Belly by Bubbles And The Shitrockers featuring Alex Lifeson...IYKYK SCHATZ'S SCRATCH LIST - RUSH TRIBUTE BANDS Scratch your itch to hear RUSH music played live by going to check out any of these great RUSH Tribute Bands - these bands are keeping the community and the music alive - the most current, curated, and rockin' list of RUSH Tribut...

Watch the Junos Live at the CBC. Follow Paul's stage-side iPhone updates on Facebook! Follow Jillian and her live from the floor updates with RushCon on Facebook ! This week on  Rush Rash , things get delightfully chaotic as Chaz and Schatz pull off an impromptu hotline call with Rush insider Paul—caught somewhere between Oakville and rock history itself. What starts as a “hey, let’s try this...

Strap in, plug in, and scratch that eternal itch—because this week on  Rush Rash , Chaz and Schatz welcome a certified rock brainiac into the Haggis Shack: music journalist and author Daniel Bukszpan . And folks…this guy didn’t just fall down the Rush rabbit hole—he built a library down there. We dive headfirst into his new book Rush & 2112: 50 Years, the 50-year legacy of ...

On this week’s episode of  Rush Rash , Chaz and Shatz are joined once again by CMPU and Boneless Podcasting Network stalwart  Corey Morissette , a man who now hosts approximately seventeen podcasts, three mixtape shows, and possibly a municipal council meeting somewhere in Manitoba. Between discussions of Canadian winters, radio overkill, and the ever-expanding  Corey Morissette Pod...

You'll swear we were picking up right where we left off, but the itches are harder to reach...even a bit funkier! SCHATZ'S SCRATCH LIST - RUSH TRIBUTE BANDS Scratch your itch to hear RUSH music played live by going to check out any of these great RUSH Tribute Bands - these bands are keeping the community and the music alive - the most current, curated, and rockin' list of RUSH Tribute Bands in the...

Chaz and Schatz burst back through the podcast portal scratching like two men who just sat on a cactus made entirely of Rush vinyl. What starts as a quick catch-up turns into a full-blown Rush news avalanche: rehearsal rumors, Annika taking the drum throne, and the surprise addition of keyboard wizard Lorne Gold. Along the way, the boys debate tribute bands and discover that Alex will soon be tend...

Oh man,, is this one a doozy...we listen to Al's contribution to the Terry Brown produced Herin, on the track Second Ending. Then on to number two...wait for the solo. SCHATZ'S SCRATCH LIST - RUSH TRIBUTE BANDS Scratch your itch to hear RUSH music played live by going to check out any of these great RUSH Tribute Bands - these bands are keeping the community and the music alive - the most current,...

On this week’s gloriously over-caffeinated episode of  Rush Rash , Chaz and Shatz throw open the castle gates and welcome back the noble troubadours of prog pageantry —  A Farewell to Kings (AF2K)   — for a discussion that is equal parts rock summit, gear symposium, and mildly controlled chaos. Adam and Johnny arrive armed with tales of theaters conquered, albums performed in their...