In an interview with The Metal Voice, former The Runaways singer, Cherie Currie, recalled a moment from 1977 when Rush tried to sabotage their show.
During the interview, Currie shared the following:
“Rush, they sabotaged our set and I noticed and we’re at Kobo Hall. It’s a big venue and I saw them, they were throwing pieces of paper, just like standard 8 by 10 paper onto the stage, whipping it like you would a pizza, right? I was in 6-in platform booths and I had to jump off of Sandy’s drum riser and I hit one of those pieces of paper and I slid across that stage. […]
“There was an orchestra pit with all the photographers and I’ll never forget seeing them reach up with fear that I was going to go over and somehow some way I caught myself right at the last minute and did one of those to one of the photographers.
”I came so close that I could have been paralyzed. I mean I’m not overstating. I would have been very much injured had I gone off that stage. So that’s why Joan and I, in particular, don’t care much for them because they weren’t protecting us, they were sabotaging us that night.”
