In case you were wondering about those things:

[Dr. Strange]

Is there any connection between "Where's My Thing" and "Leave That Thing Alone?"

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson discussed this during the Counterparts world premiere:

GL: Only that the fact that they both have "things" in the title.
AL: Yeah, and they're on our records.
GL: The "things" are different things.
AL: It's not the same thing.
GL: It's not the same thing. Really, you have to say, "It's just not the same thing."
AL: No, no... it's just a... thing.
GL: It's a different thing.
AL: A totally different thing
GL: Yeah.

http://nimitz.net/rush/faq3ans.html#141

I'm glad that's settled.

[TZ]

1. Is it just me or does that sound like

something straight out of "This is Spinal Tap...."?
I think I know why now you are such a Rush fan.......
Its a fine line between stupid and clever.:D

[Dr. Strange]

4. That's exactly what I thought when I read it!

I could almost see diBergi there nodding...

[CreekDog]

2. Pardon? I wasn't paying attention.

:evilgrin:

[TZ]

5. well of course you weren't paying attention

You are still trying to figure out if temeah is a man or a woman....:P
PS--I'm gonna getcha for the tofurkey comment....:evilgrin:

[madinmaryland]

3. I thought I told you village idiots to get over that rush thingie!!

:hide:

[quip]

6. A question about Rush music:

What is the percentage of instrumentals to lyrical songs in Rush's body of work?

[madinmaryland]

7. It's basically two chords, followed by hours of gibberish!!

:rofl:

[quip]

8. Their music is actually quite sophisticated

Geddy Lee's finger work on http://youtube.com/watch?v=f2b1D5w82yU">this song is unfreakingbelievable! :wow:

[madinmaryland]

9. You think I would actually click on a youtube link?

Besides, I have the volume turned off on my pc.

[quip]

10. Nice post, Pinocchio

I'm not buying it! :rofl:

[Dr. Strange]

11. Over the whole course of their career...

it's maybe 5%. But the last five or six albums have always had an instrumental on them, with the most recent having two instrumentals (or three if you count "Hope").

[quip]

12. Okay, that makes sense. I'm not really familiar with most of their work, and it seemed that

a lot of their stuff being linked to here was instrumental, leading me to think that they might have been primarily an instrumental band.

[trof]

13. What is this thing called? Love?

:rofl:

[Dr. Strange]

14. What is love?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE61Bz7IHKg