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I would have that it would have been preserved as well given its iconic history and symbolism. I'm not sure why it wasn't but it doesn't reflect well on its gatekeepers. Thanks for your feedback Paul. Very much appreciated.

It's a nice but not very large lake and wouldn't take long to tour via canoe.

I paid a return visit to Le Studio last summer. There was nothing left of the original place except a few vandalized memorials to their albums. It's a shame really when you think of the history that was made there. As a metal detectorist, I'm a huge fan of protecting history and this place should have, at the very least, been memorialized as a shrine to both the artist and the Studio itself which, in its day was state of the art. It's quite sad, if not maddening that no one had to good sense to recognize the historical significance of this place.

Absolutely! I revisited this site a few months back. The property is now owned by private interests and it appears to have fallen into disuse. Some of the Rush memorabilia that had been cast into the concrete steps by fans has been removed by the owners as it were constantly being vandalized or stolen. An ignominious end to a legendary and musically historical property!

That lake is named lake Perry after Andrie Perry who built the studio and ran it with his wife for many years until it went up for sale and then sat abandoned and eventually destroyed by vandals .

Thanks for sharing that fact

Richard Baxter had the original model that Andrie Perry had made for him before the actual studio was built and I had heard the same thing that they wanted to build a new one modeled after the second studio but the costs of trying to build it again in today's world would cost an enormous amount of money and I would bet that the city owns the property now after they demolished it because the roof trusses broke from the weight of the snow and who knows if Richard Baxter was able to pay any property taxes on it when he was trying to fix the place so I'm sure the city has taken the property over and will either try to sell it or it will just remain as a property not being used .

I have always thought the same thing and I'm surprised those various markers are still left there and not been vandalized like the rest of the place was

Most of it went into fixing it back up and cleaning the building and it's surroundings up .

Yes, the structure is all gone and the land is plowed over. From what I understand it was regularly vandalized and I believe part of it may have been set on fire.

​@@honeybadger3317It was burned twice and the original first studio burned down many years before this one was built .

@@peteloomis8456 Thanks for that input. Appreciate it.

Thank you Olga!

They are just so awesome! ❤❤❤

this video isn't going right now, so thanks for explaining that. i'm not happy to hear that--i would of bought the place if i could of, and Rush themselves wanted to since they were first there in 1980, but i guess the owner just wouldn't let it go. they recorded seven albums there. crap, too bad.

I am not sure of the answer to that .

half the building burnt down but not the original part ruclips.net/video/TY0Je-Xb4Gw/видео.html

Partially but the main studio and control room survived with some damage. Quite a bit of work was done to clean up and plan for restoration but the weight of the snow finally collapse the roof. You can review the efforts to save the remaining building here: ruclips.net/video/XTCdRzruhMo/видео.html

I can relate. It's difficult to see the iconic bands of your youth, that you followed and who were so influential on a generation, along with the place where they made their beautiful music come to such an ignominious end.

Yeah, very strange feeling...

it was rather inevitable le studio would go 'out of style', so-called, when the music business got exploited so much in the early 80s because there was an artistic void then, so that's why Bush gov. instilled Madonna, who we know now was one 'far relation' of them, and it was all designed to begin the nefarious Hollywood scene. employing drum machines and the latest technological games then was also what changed everything so much, which is partly why Bil Gates was used by them for. most people right now who are normal, have no idea how lucky that thigs are at least back to how they were.

Thanks for your comments. I don't claim to know anything about Rush and make that clear in my comments. I went there to metal detect because I was told about the site that day from a local. All other comments I make are based on what that local told me or what I found out after the fact.

Totally agree!

I don't think it was arson Julie but I'm not positive. I saw no indication of that when I was there. It has been repeatedly vandalized though. Thanks for your comments.

It was vandalized first then they burned down half of the studio. Richard Baxter was doing some cleanup on the place and it is a Monument to Rush who recorded 8 studio albums there. Rush fan’s know this place very well.

just noting: i'm sure it didn't help when Geddy told the Montreal audience at one point that they had recorded the tune they were playing about 60 miles up north, and i used to camp in Quebec were i saw further evidence of more people than ever living off the land now.

I agree completely. One of the emotions I felt when seeing the site for the first time and knowing very little of its history, but enough to know about its iconic status and the stars who recorded there, was sadness at the state of ruination of the place, how little of it remained, and what was left was sadly vandalized. A deteriorating treasure for sure!

@@honeybadger3317 I'm glad you made this video though, because things seem deliberately vague on all media regarding the place! Hopefully people will find you video before pumping money into a project that clearly isn't going anywhere other than token shrines to albums made at a studio that that same person bulldozed!

​@@skyrocketautomotiveThe city bull dozed it because the roof trusses broke from all the snow they get each winter . They average 8ft of snow each winter and being it sat for years with no heat on or anyone shoveling the roofs off it collapsed and the city condemned it and deemed it unsafe . There were videos of Richard Baxter shoveling off the roofs some years back and he truly was making some progress on fixing the place back up but not enough people were helping to contribute not only working on it but not enough money was coming in to buy the needed materials to fix it and without big investors being involved it failed because of lack of funds . There is a picture of Rush in the recording side of the studio with Neals drum kit facing the windows with the lake behind it but if you look close its winter time and someone had slid the sliding door open a little to let fresh air in probably because at the time all of the band members were smokers but if you look closely at the top of that sliding door the snow is almost at the top of that door so at a minimum of 6ft high the snow was . There used to be cabins on the other side of the lake that artists and band member would stay in and they would take a row boat back across the lake to get to the studio . The guy who made this video mentions the floating dock that Neil peart had his drum kit on that someone took pictures of and those pictures were used as a promotional picture of him on that floating dock playing the drums and those were made into big banners that only the Tama drum dealers could get and had them hanging in their drum shops . These are going for big money now especially ones that are in good shape and you can find them at times on eBay for sale looking under Rush Memorabilia. Before the studio got bull dozed Richard Baxter had found what very well could have been the same floating dock and had towed it back to the studio by water and it looked like the same dock so it's either out there on the lake or someone hauled it off the lake . The song by Rush test for echo the sounds of the lapping water were recorded using a cassette tape recorder to retrieve those sounds that ultimately got recorded on the album . The lake is named lake Perry after Andrie Perry who built the first LEstudio that burned down the built the second one after . He made his money from recording and engineering music and songs for John Lennon of the Beatles some years before he was murdered . After years the studio was loosing money and they started selling stuff from it to try and keep it open but eventually it went up for sale and Andrie moved on and the studio sat for years with nobody interested in buying it for the couple million that it was going for and the price kept dropping but nobody would buy it and that's when people started breaking into it and vandalizing it. It was a state of the art recording studio that could also do video commercials and rock videos and it had its own fully stocked kitchen and a game room with a pool table and pinball machines and of course the volleyball court in the back that Rush mentioned that they after a day of recording during the warm months they would go outside and play volleyball late at night with the lights on. Andrie Perry gave Richard Baxter the rights to the studio being he knew Richard for many years so Richard could try to get it fixed up and to open it back up to not only use it as a museum but also to teach music theory and recording techniques and engineering but unfortunately when the roof collapsed that was the demise of the studio ending it's chances of ever being fixed and opened up again. If I remember correctly I think the price of the studio dropped to 350,000 years ago back before it was broke into and in really good shape yet and it's hard to imagine that someone with money didn't buy the place to turn it into their home because it was really beautiful the way it was laid out with the lake behind it .

Yes, thank you. I've never been a Rush aficionado and knew little about them before going there. My main interest in travelling to that site was to metal detect after one of the locals told me a bit about Le Studio. I've learned much about Rush and the many other stars who passed through the doors of Le Studio since then through comments such as yours and those of others who also informed me of the dock photo origins/context. While there I also the saw the dock that was used stacked up against the trees about 100 feet from the location of the photo op. Thanks for your comments. Much appreciated.

Wonderful comments Gary. I only became aware of it through word of mouth while metal detecting in the area. When I got home and researched it more I was stunned by how historical this place was and indeed it should have been preserved as a cultural and musical heritage site.

AIR Studios Monserrat is another iconic place in shambles. Hurricane Hugo did a ton of damage and it’s been basically rotting for 30+ years. Impressive list of musicians recorded there as well. Rush did just a little there and The Police and later Sting some incredible albums.

@@VG-iq8xq Thanks for sharing this info Vince.

Thanks Rick. This was a spur of the moment video. I was metal detecting nearby some 100 km away from home and decided to go there to do some metal detecting after a local suggested it. I knew nothing about the place and did not go there with the intent of making a video about Le Studio. It was only after getting home and editing the video that I learned about its history. I appreciate the comment but understand that it was not made with Le Studio in mind. If I had actually found something relevant there metal detecting that is what I would have filmed. Appreciate your comments anyway. All the best.

@@honeybadger3317 I don't understand the rude comments. You clearly explain the circumstances and freely admit your lack of familiarity with the band in the video. Thanks for recording and posting.

@@jdmensing Thanks for the feedback jdm. I've had more than one comment, some which were more attack than commentary, which I removed about how I should have learned more about RUSH "before" making the video. Everything I learned about RUSH was after the fact and used in my description under the video after having made the vid. I went to that site with the intention of metal detecting and not to make a RUSH vid but felt some might find it interesting from an historical view of the site. Perhaps I was being overly sensitive and for that I apologize.

@@honeybadger3317 sorry - I wasn't clear in my comment. The rude comments I was addressing were the ones directed AT you, not FROM you. I have not seen you be rude to anyone.

@@jdmensing Thank you. Your comments are indeed appreciated jdm.

I'm not 100% sure but I have heard rumblings about a group trying to raise funds to rebuild it.