Music Hey folks, just a little studio channel update. It's Kevin again coming here from my own home studio in my basement. I wanted to answer a lot of the messages that have come into the inbox over the last three or four weeks. Everyone got quite excited when they noticed that Neil Pierre had posted in his blog that he had returned to the studio for a video shoot that he was participating in. I just wanted to let you know I was aware of that actually well in advance of him even writing his blog. I was actually surprised stunned to actually see the blog in the end because there was some things going on behind the scenes that are unique to actually this channel which I want to let you in on now. I think you'll find this quite interesting. This channel actually did some good in a way and contributed to this event happening because of the fact that this channel, the studio channel itself and the first episode of the documentary got noticed and it got noticed by Banger Films. Banger Films reached out to me Rachel was her name. She sent a private message on YouTube to me which I found and she was basically reaching out to find out how does she get access to the building. How can Banger Films go inside the building? Who do you talk to? How did we do it? She basically wanted me to assist and see if we could get Neil there. She was right up front about the purposes of what they were trying to accomplish. I was quite happy to oblige and give her whatever information I could. I had to dig back through my old notes from a couple years ago and get out old phone numbers and so on. I gave her everything I could. We went back and forth. We talked on the phone for quite a bit. There was some pitfalls and some dead ends. A lot of the numbers had gone dead or went to other people that had nothing to do with the original people. I spoke to two to three years ago. We did have a successful hit and long story short. Rachel was able to get in contact with someone who could let her into the building with keys and bring a film crew and so on to the property and actually do it fully sanctioned by the owners of the property. That was all great and the last I heard from Rachel was that she was successful and that was wonderful news. In my head I was thinking, Neil's going to the studio and Banger Films is going to take him there for whatever they're doing. I didn't get that part. That part was basically pretty generalized. I was basically told it was something to do with a Banger Films project that they were doing for VH1 Television and it had to do with a series that they were producing. I think the tentative name was rock icons, not Rush icons. Rock icons and that was all I knew at that time. So Neil's blog popped up and those who actually follow Neil's blog or see his links come up either in their Facebook or in social media. If you have those pages liked or favorite or whatnot, I think almost every Rush fan in the world ended up discovering Neil's blog entry for that trip to More and Heights Quebec and all his writing surrounding the back history and his feelings of it and all that sort of thing which was awesome to see. Just seeing the picture of him outside the building with his two-seater coupe was an amazing picture and I'm assuming someone at Banger took that photo for him. There's other photos of course put in with the writing showing him being interviewed and on camera both outside and inside the building. But I just wanted to deliver everyone know that we accomplished something here at the Le Studio Channel and actually helped bring that to fruition for Banger Films and just that tiny little way. And I'm pleased that something could come of this and we did attract some attention. So just letting you have this update to let you know I was well aware of it before it happened and I was a small seed in the inception of getting Neil to the Le Studio as it stands today. So that was a great little thing to see happen and I was excited to see all the pictures and see it come. Now I just want to wait and see what they did with that footage and where they're going to go with it. So we'll all have to wait and see. But when you think about our 40 and the concept of the band is 40 years, are you the kind of guy that spends much time reflecting on that part of your life? Only in a cheerful way lately like proud to have done all that you know the Franks not to think I did all that. And I was just visiting the ruins of Le Studio in Quebec where we recorded from 79 so much of our most important work in the 80s. As permanent ways moving pictures signals grace under pressure a pretty important body of work for us all done there and now it lays in ruins. And I did a little tour around it recently but I just felt lucky and grateful to have had all that. Yeah and the one side is sad that it's gone and it's especially sad to me that no rock band will ever enjoy that retreat. Right what it meant artistically and personally together to work in the studio all day and then go play volleyball at night you know under the lights. Those kind of experiences were so formative artistically and as a collaborative unit. So that part was sad but on the other hand when I look back now I'm most proud of most recent work and clockwork angels to me is a lovely plateau to be on right now. And snakes narrows before I like and pretty much in decreasing favor as it should be. Right because I really do think that we got better and I got better and naturally I like our more recent work better. Now one last thing before I let you go people are probably wondering where in the heck are episodes two and three and whatever is coming. I want to let you know that all of the principal footage has been shot me hosting standing in front of the camera all of the material to build the actual episodes from with me hosting is already complete and in the can. It's a matter of now editing editing editing it's going to be all put together and the next episodes are going to be assembled. Here we're coming at least in Canada we're coming into sort of the fall in the cold of the winter approaching and it's when I'm going to hunker down I stopped doing a lot of outdoorsy stuff more inside more here in this room and more in my new little video editing suite and putting that stuff together. So I will do so probably by Christmas you'll see episode two and then probably not too long after that two or three months before the winter breaks and we're heading into spring. Episode three will be done completing the series both are laid out like I say already so I know what's going to be in them it's just a matter of getting them all together so you guys can finally see them. So that's it that's the update Neil Pyrrt made it to the studio and it was a nice glimpse to see one of the actual rush members there on holy soil. That's it this is Kevin signing off the studio channel here from my own little studio here in my basement. Cheers. you