https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2008-06-20/638843/

Roll the Bones

By Darcie Stevens, June 20, 2008, 2:43pm, Earache!

According to the always-informative celebrity news at IMDB.com, Rush, Shakira, the Village People, and the Miracles have finally made it to the big time. Who needs the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when, for a paltry $25,000, one can be forever embedded into the Hollywood Walk of Fame? That's right, kids: Joining Brooks & Dunn, Ricky Martin, the Doors, Leann Rimes, and of course, your Marilyn Monroes and Gene Kellys of the last 50 years, as well as 2,000 of their closest millionaires, is America's favorite Canadian prog-rock band.

Not that Rush doesn't deserve it, but doesn't this just seem absolutely ridiculous? And who knew that once nominated for the illustrious sidewalk, a (figurative) star had to shell out so much dough for "security" and maintenance of the (real) star? Does the Walk of Fame hold any kind of acclaim for anyone anymore? Okay. Enough with the rhetoricals.

Joining the aforementioned recording stars are Cameron Diaz, Robert Downey Jr., Hugh Jackman, Sir Ben Kingsley, William H. Macy, Tim Burton, and – get this – John Stamos, aka Uncle Jesse, and Tinkerbell, the animated flying fairy. There are too many jokes to go off on there, so I'll leave it to your own imagination.

Oh, Geddy. How does it feel to be walked on? For more on Rush in Austin, see Death Valley Nights' "Natural Science" blog.