Rush drummer Neil Peart wrote at the "News Weather And Sports" section of his website, neilpeart.net, that the Canadian trio will be getting together this month in Los Angeles to discuss their future. Peart wrote, "In this autumn of 2009, the three of us are poised on another kind of 'reinvention' . . . Of course, these are parlous times in the music business, so our time-honored pattern of touring, recording, and touring is no longer the obvious way to do things. The music world -- or at least the business of it -- is very different now, even since 2006, when we began work on (2007 album) Snakes & Arrows. The importance of 'the album' is not what it was, and there is currently a reversion to a musical climate rather like the 1950s, when only 'the song' matters."

Peart adds, "The three of us haven't even discussed what we might discuss, so to speak -- so our ideas and shared enthusiasm for the entity of Rush will be fresh, spontaneous, and quite likely exciting."

The drummer says that in lieu of a full album funded by a record label, the band could "write and record just a few songs, and release them some way. Or there were a couple of film-and-music projects we had discussed in the past. In any case, there are enough possibilities for future collaboration, and I am curious to see what we'll come up with."

Snakes & Arrows was Rush's 18th studio album.

The band, who should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at this point, will release a new CD and DVD, both titled Working Men, on November 17th. The discs compile some of the best live performances from the band's three previous concert DVDs: Rush In Rio, R30 and Snakes & Arrows Live.