Rush Rash with Chaz N Schatz

Chaz 'n Schatz get another full blown Case 2112 with the founder and editor of RushIsABand.com , Ed Stenger! Our intrepid hosts get the inside scoop on Ed's past and passion for Rush and the Rush Community - his first encounter with the music, his experience launching RushIsABand.com , and his incredible journey with others that cover and are close with the band - from the early aughts cov...

This is the land of digression…welcome to a first for the Deep Dive Podcast Network…a crossing of the streams, a golden mash-up, unlike anything you’ve ever heard as we port Greg “Wolfie” Wolfe from the Regarding Roger Podcast into the clinic for the full treatment, and two podcasts become one! It’s a bowlful of laughs as we blend formats and ketchup with our brother in prog-casting, Heinz 57 Styl...

RED ALERT! RED ALERT! We process our first genuine Case 2-1-1-2, with Jim “The Friendly Face” Brunke - Steam Punk, Rush Rat, and co-founder of Overtime Angels and the famed Rush Camps! Jim’s Rush journey is quite unlike any other. Having seen the band over 100 times up through R40, Jim’s a passionate guy with a big heart for helping people get a leg up. His philanthropic efforts aside, he’s been u...

The "lost episode" returns - Chaz N Schatz spin an epic track off A Farewell To Kings - Cygnus X-1 Book 1 The Voyage. They were so freaked out, they needed to go spend a few minutes hyper-ventilating in the Containment Unit - they came out smelling of haggis and weed!  A full-on for this epic Rush track has the guys blah-blah-blah'ing you into coma-tastic brain-damage...this is just...

The Drummers of December continues with this, our third drummer of the month, as Chaz N Schatz are joined by Luke "Madman" Manno of Northern Colorado's own Steel Revenge - Your Goodtimes 80's Party Band! Hot damn and fuck yes, it's 80's all night long as Chaz calls his Schatz-Shot and we spin Manhattan Project off 1985's Power Windows and wax nostalgic on all things 8...

It's a helluva week at RushRash HQ, with one of the worst cases we've ever taken in - Ffej Herb, drummer of the legendary Solar Federation . Not only is he and his band known to be note-for-note recreationists, but fuck if we don't spin one of the only tunes in the entire catalog wit no effin drums! No shit - we spin the Toilkin inspired Rivendell off Fly By Night and just proceed to s...

Holy effin shitebraide is this an EPIC episode for someone of such wee case of the Rush Rash!! But for what he lacks in rash he makes up for in slabberdash, it's the one and only Kevin "Thief of Joy" Brown . Rock and effin Roll Content Creator extraordinaire, he's the creator and or cohost of his own fiefdom in the Deep Dive Podcast Network - The Tom Petty Project , Seaside Pod R...

It's a regular Schatz-Show this week as Chaz takes a back seat to Schatz and his bandmates from Second Contact - vocalist Janine "The Owl" Schwarz and guitarist and synth-master Doctor Matt Halper! A story as endearing as Rush's itself, three friends who've been playing music together for over 40 years! SC40 - it's a thing!! Three crazy kids from Jersey who found their lo...

Chaz N Schatz end up tripping over their amps and drumsticks with guest phenom, Freddy Mercury Award Winner and Yamaha and PRS endorsed Recording Artist Leoni Jane Kennedy , whose in-fact got the Rush Rash case we weren't prepared to handle - so severe, Steve Brown of Tena Men's Rushfest Scotland caught a new variant from her! Her Rush Rash stretches back deep in her creative genesis, and...

Chaz N Schatz find themselves with another severe case of Rush Rash - this one seemingly as bad if not worse than anything we've seen so far. Drummer and Singer Matt Grou of Quebec's New World Men ! The Containment Unit might have still been a little on the rank side after Steve Brown from Moving Pictures UK's last treatment, but Matt put up with the Vegi-Haggis and Poopourri afterglow...

Chaz N Schatz find themselves in the presence of the master of the CMPU (Corey Morrissette Podcast Universe) himself, Mr. Corey Morrissette on this Mean Street episode of Rush Rash!! Corey is host of 30 or 40 podcasts on the Deep Dive Podcast Network , and he's a card-carrying Canadian. That said - he's not your typical Canuck, especially when it comes to Rush. He breaks the mold yet again...

Chaz N Schatz walk into a hairy shite-show of a ruckus and call an all-hands-on deck EmergeAFeknC on this panicked and crazy episode of Rush Rash!! In a case of the absolute worst Rush Rash we've documented to date - Rush fan since he was a wee-laddie of the highlands, our special guest this week is none other than Steve Brown of Moving Pictures Scotland , RushFest Scotland , Tena Men's Am...

Chaz N Schatz get a show to themselves after a string of incredible guests - and as a breather before all the great guests to come. We clean house on the Twitter (X) action, of which there was plenty! And we share more news about upcoming guests and shows than ever in our history. Beds are full up in the clinic, and we're spreading the contagion daily!! We start with a review of dispatches fro...

Chaz N Schatz genuflect and give a heartfelt "We're Not Worthy!!" to Billy Alexander & Tim Starace from YYNOT . We were so thrilled to have YYNOT join us that we dumped name checking (beyond the usual suspect What No Way Guy ) in favor of chatting up the band and going deep with YYNOT and Rush music analysis and organized chaos. We got the scoop on the 2024 Bubba Bash , Billy&#39...

Bop! Bozadee, bozadee, bop, zitty bop! Chaz N Schatz welcome Scott "Mini-festo" Monroe of And The Podcast Will Rock fame, to share his wit, wisdom and a healthy appreciation for Van Halen and National Taco Day...and Rush! Scott's got his own history with the band that he shares before getting into one of the most tender tracks ever recorded - Tears - off of Rush's 1976 epic and i...

Lest we shatter the illusion of integrity, we did not take a "re-spin" or "free-spin", we let the bones roll and thus we get to listen to The Spirit Of Radio here within the first five shows! A cunning stunt if there ever was one, maybe we're amazed and just can't stand it, but we let it be and go our own way analyzing one of the greatest tracks in Rush's catalog, a...

Chaz N Schatz pop cheap Dominican light beer with Pete Guido, Chaz's brother of another mother, all around Rush-nut and drummer of Long Island's own hard rock rumor "Mr. Snips". He's got quite the itch, and we get to scratching - till it bleeds!! Pete's had a long journey with the band as a musician and fan, and has a gritty history as a cop on the mean streets of New Yor...

What? No way...Chaz N Schatz spin two in a row from Fly By Night - with the iconic album's title track in the camera eye this week. Our co-hosts articulate the RushRash Scale for determining just how much a fan they and their guests are, from Dry Skin to Full-body Dermatitis, with stages of discomfort in-between - all in need of being scratched on RushRash! The boys get taken to task in Feedba...

Join Chaz N Schatz as they welcome their first "do it live!" guest - boneless chicken wing aficionado, bassist, entrepreneur and co-host of the RegardingLulu (Twitter/X @RegardingLulu) and RegardingRoger (Twitter/X @RegardingRoger) podcasts, Greg "Wolfie" Wolfe! We take a spin of the wheel and score our first ever Mulligan! All Schatz breaks loose with our special guest as Chaz...

Hello world! It's the pilot episode of Rush Rash with Chaz N Schatz - a weekly listen through the entire 167 song catalog of Rush's studio tracks, one cut at a time. Your cohosts - Chaz Charles & Alan "Schatz" Schatzberg - two guys who love Rush and play music - will spin-the-wheel, or "Roll The Bones" with the Rush Rash Wheel - 167 Tracks - shuffled and randomized...