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"There is something I'd like to address actually. And that's this Tribute album thing. Ah, it's come to my attention that there's all these weird comments floating around. I'd just like to clarify something to our fans. I think our view of this whole thing has been portrayed as totally distorted. When we were asked ...well, when we were told, basically, that there was a tribute album being done, this was only brought up to us one time and one time only when they were making this album. We were asked what our feelings were about it and there's really not much you can say when someone decides to do a tribute album. That's nice if it's a sincere tribute. That's very nice. But we were then told that the record label that was releasing this tribute was kind of in the business of doing tribute albums. Then we had concerns that this wasn't really going to be a tribute but rather an exploitation of our fans. That was our concern. There was never any question of the musicians involved. We didn't really know who was involved. For some reason, that concern over our fans exploitation has been blown way out of proportion. Even to the fact that there was some quote from our office that was totally erroneous about tribute albums. It was basically out of control. So I'd just like to clarify that to our fans because I know there's a lot of weird opinions floating around about what our attitude on this thing was. Our attitude was very low key. We never had any intention of trying to stop this record. We never had any intentions of suing anybody. Those things were all attributable to either overzealous representatives of our band or overzealous gossip. You know what I mean? I just wanted to clarfiy that. It's come up in a lot of interviews.....I wanted to deal with that because from what I've read, it makes us sound totally unappreciative for the musicians that have been involved in this record. And we are not unappreciative of them in any way. It's not about their involvement. It's not about the producers of this record. It was strictly a concern that this was a record company that was looking out to make a few bucks off the loyalty of our fans..."Geddy from an interview with the fanzine: A Show Of Fans, Fall 1996
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