Count Floyd Weapon To Promote Rush Album

RPM Weekly, February 19, 1983, transcribed by Eric Hansen

Toronto: Anthem has released a 12-inch radio-only, specially-edited version of The Weapon, a track from Rush's latest album Signals.

With the music by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, and the lyrics from Neil Peart, this special version of the track carries an introduction by Count Floyd who appears courtesy of RCA and SCTV.

"For the past four months Rush has used a video of Count Floyd live onstage to introduce The Weapon," said Anthem Managing Director Tom Berry. "Needless to say it goes down exceptionally well live and I decided to try it on record."

Berry noted that the song has been edited from over six minutes to 4:18 with the Count handling the introduction. The song is described as "strong musically and important lyrically."

It's not known yet whether Anthem will be releasing the disc to the general public at retail. The track Digital Man appears on Side 2 of the disc, which was produced by Rush and Terry Brown.