RIAA Platinum Album award for Rush album Roll The Bones. Released on Aug. 23, 1991, the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA on Aug. 31, 2001 for one million copies sold.* This is likely a data error on the RIAA website, since it is ten years after the album's release and this award, which was owned by the album's mastering engineer, was made before 1998.
Rush's fourteenth album featured "Dreamline", which topped the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. Also, "Where's My Thing? (Part IV, "Gangster of Boats" Trilogy)" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The album hit #3 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart, while topping out at #10 in the UK, and #11 in Canada, and charting in numerous other countries. Remember Rush's Neil Peart (1952-2020) with this hard to find RIAA award.
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Item Highlights:
- RIAA Platinum Album award
- In VG to Excellent condition
- Award from 1997
- Presented to mastering engineer
- All original including backing paper
- Known as a RIAA "R hologram" award, which were produced from 1990-97
- Award measures approx. 13" x 17"
- Great collectors item for any Rush fan
- FREE insured shipping to continental U.S.
- International shipping available
Detailed Item Description: This is a RIAA Platinum Album award that would have been manufactured around 1997, making it approx. 28 years old. It is presented to well-known mastering engineer Bob Ludwig, who mastered this project along with those from many other artists from AC/DC to Def Leppard and Dire Straits to Toto, the Grateful Dead to the Rolling Stones and many others.
The award is in VG to Excellent condition with only very minor mars on the frame. It has its' original Ill Eagle Enterprises manufacturer sticker.
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*RIAA sales data source: RIAA.com