I've always really liked Rush, but saw them live for the first time just last year on the R30 tour.

Next time they're in town, I'm going again.

Rush is Okay, but the drug use has made him fat. http://images14.fotki.com/v370/photo...0038312-vi.jpg

Is that the 'chick' lead singer that Janus can't stand?

no, he's the lead singer of BTO

Another super clip of Neil with the Buddy Rich orch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9SWkPlyegk

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Red Barchetta:

My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law
And on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside the Wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits

Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine
For fifty odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream

I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime

Wind
In my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge...

Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware

Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air car
Shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase

Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I've got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded at the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle at the fireside

Thanks Drag!

Neil--amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExFEbQuNo3E&mode=related&search=

He talks about that solo in his latest book. It was in Frankfurt and he said he was pretty sick and didn't play very well. I think he said his best one was a few nights later in Prague and a few mos. earlier in Austin, TX. He was kinda disappointed that they filmed the Frankfurt show instead of Prague. But that's just how it worked out. I thought the DVD was pretty good.

Jeez. He's tough on himself. That was pretty amazing.

Hijack here.

His last book was pretty whiny. He really just views drumming as his part-time job and a way to earn gas money for his motorcycle trips between concer cities. He never ever wants to meet a fan under any circumstances and has quite an alias life set up to avoid them - private investigator as his biking companion and security chief, bogus names on credit cards, etc. He was on a serious quest for the perfect performance and hit it around two weeks into the tour in Austin. Thereafter, he just complained about everything and wanted go home. In fact, I really think he only picked up drums again after a few yrs. off (following the deaths of his daughter and wife) because Geddy and Alex were prodding him and because he was out of money. He tells a lot about how bad his investments have been and he definitely lives a lavish lifestyle.

I have been a RUSH fan ever since I first heard them in 79.

Red Barchetta... That is motivation music.

Every time I get frustrated with my car projects, I pop that in the CD player, and next thing you know I am back at work. It was the first thing I played in my 914 after the 6 conversion. (Yes, my 914/6 is bright red). And it always picks me up.

I have their cd's playing in my garage before I even get frustrated. I usually start off with Fly By Night, then all of Hemispheres and then onto Exit Stage Left. That gets me good a pissed off by the time I have to change cd's.

My Rush lp's on vinyl

RUSH
RUSH 2112
RUSH (1)
RUSH A FAREWELL TO KINGS
RUSH ALL THE WORLDS A STAGE
RUSH CARESS OF STEEL
RUSH CLOSER TO THE HEART
RUSH EXIT STAGE LEFT
RUSH FLY BY NIGHT
RUSH HEMISPHERES
RUSH MOVING PICTURES
RUSH SPIRIT OF RADIO

I always thought Red Barchetta was about a Ferrari but according to this site - its LSD - pretty funny. Just like Lucy in the sky with diamonds??

http://www.egodeath.com/rushlyrics.htm

Red Barchetta is a futuristic story about a time when all cars are banned (the motor law) and Neil takes his uncle's old Ferrari out to "commit his weekly crime". In the Exit Stage Left video narrative, Neil says it's a metaphor for freedom and sexuality. Somewhere else he wrote that the song was inspired by short story or mag. article called "A Sunday Drive".

Yeah, I think if you listen to the lyrics for "Limelight", it really sums up Neil's view on fame. He seems to be really be a private person (at least that's what I gathered from his book "Ghost Rider"). He goes to great lengths to avoid being recognized in public. In a way, I don't blame him.

Mike

IROC, in Ghost Rider, he seems like a nice and approachable guy compared to Roadshow. If you ever come across him in a truck stop or BMW dealership, don't give any hint that you know who he is. He might be willing to talk about motorcycles or books and he might even sign an autograph if you're a drummer. Mention Rush and he'll be out the door. I've met Geddy and Alex and they are 180 deg. opposite, totally cool and outgoing with fans.

I read a story once about Van Halen leaving a show when one of their limos broke down n traffic. It was before cell phones were common and they all figured Eddie would be the most recognizeable one to get out of the car and ask some of the line of cars to borrow a phone or cb radio. So he did. Can you imagine Neil Peart being in that spot? He'd die of a heart attack.

Wow, I he must have withdrawn even more. I figured if I ever saw him in a situation like you mention, I would ask him, "Hey, aren't you Elwood?" :>)

Mike

Hah! Since you could only know that by reading Ghost Rider, he might be nice to you. I did run across him once in a parking lot. On the Roll the Bones tour, I went to see them in Cologne, Germany. Mid. afternoon, about five other fans and I were standing behind the loading area, watching the roadies load in all the stuff. There was zero security there. A few of the kids were taking photos of each other in front of the RUSH road cases. Anyway, this MB wagon pulled up right next to us and and out climbed the Professor himself and his driver. Neil is about 6'6". He's huge! His driver, whom I struck up a conversation with two weeks later in Stuttgart, is, I believe, identified in Roadshow as Peter Brockbank, one of Neil's buddies from his early days in England. Anyway, Neil was wearing a baseball hat and carrying a duffle bag. Some of the kids yelled his name and he didn't even glance at them. He had a slight smirk on his face and just kept waling straight into the Sporthalle. I was lucky enough to sneak in the empty arena and watch a little bit of the soundcheck before they tossed me. And since I was there so early and the show was gen. admission, I got front row. Haffta dig those photos up somewhere.