Back in my high school days — the early 1990s — young musicians who were picking up instruments and forming their first bands fell into one of two categories: Rush Lovers and Rush Haters. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the former, and like so many drummers who picked up sticks between the mid-’70s and mid-’90s, I spent countless hours in the basement learning the drum parts to Rush‘s many prog rock classics. While my tastes have changed since then, it was with that journalistic bias that I drove up to Baltimore last Friday to check in with bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart as they played the 1st Mariner Arena in the band’s only area appearance on the second leg of its Time Machine Tour.