Rush signs with Roadrunner Records!

Rush has satisfied the contract agreement with Atlantic Records 1991-2011 and has just signed with Roadrunner Records.  There will be a Time Machine Tour release coming very soon off that tour (loved it at Red Rocks btw).  This is significant because Moving Pictures was played in its entirety, so a complete LIVE version of Moving Pictures will be available non-bootleg, though, of course, I already have all of these songs live from various tours.

On a different note, I have acquired more Invader pickups for my guitars, though I could probably install them myself, I'll scope the horizon for master lutiers to perform the soldering.  I also have acquired a neck-adapter for my Steinberger Spirit such that I can escape the double-ball string setup to use normal strings for my Steinberger.  There's only 2 companies that still make double-ball strings, La Bella and Steinberger (which was bought-out by Gibson a few years back, which resulted in a price-hike).  Anyone who's used La Bella or Gibson strings know how they suck.  It'll be nice to be able to use Dean Markley Blue Steels on it.  With 2 Seymour Duncan pickups it should be a formidable guitar!

This leaves me with an additional Invader humbucker, which is going into my home-made strat-clone.  Should be done by Christmas.

Unholy alliance

Exxon made a deal with Rosneft (America's and Russia's #1 oil companies) to drill in the Russian region of the arctic with one platform.  Putin (who really is a nobody but actually is a Russian mob-boss.  Sort of like if Al Capone was alive today running a puppet-president's doings).  Obviously, if either Don King or Putin is involved, I don't like it.

Deal is that Exxon builds the platform and does all the work and Rosneft gets 66% of the spoils, plus gets stock options with Exxon's southern drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.  Sounds like crap to me.  Obama high-five'd it. 

Does anybody else see a problem with this?  Think it out.

Run to You is up.

http://youtu.be/2vEUbv-1xiA?hd=1