Geddy's book is really well written and edited. An outstanding read even if you're not really a Rush fan. It's a great chronicle of a super interesting and intelligent man.

This is my essay to people who may not know RUSH or who Neil was professionally and his contributions to the art of drumming and lyrical writing! Enjoy! RUSH is THE PERFECT EXAMPLE of the fluidity of MASTERING TIME SIGNATURES! I play drums and there are a few things that you need to know about Neil Peart’s ( pronounced PEER-T) character: First he writes the lyrics so he knows in advance what TYPE of song it’s meant to be ie ballad, driver, etc. Second he COMPOSES on the drums… like a carpenter who looks at a set of blueprints before building the object. Neil lays out a SKETCH in his mind of the VOICES of the drumset and builds the song from there. He is also a great LISTENER knowing when NOT to step over Geddy’s singing or Alex’s solos! Finally, he had perfect timing and fluidity of time changes. He said himself that it’s not about COUNTING the time signatures as much as fluid motion to change the tempo without counting: in other words it should FLOW! He hates repeating the same drum patterns in the same song meaning if he plays a fill one way the first time around he will play it differently the second time around. IE. Rolls down the toms the first time around and triplets or quads (all four limbs) the second time around. In short there will NEVER be another like him on planet earth 🌍 🌏 🌎! REST IN PEACE PROFESSOR! With heart felt admiration and sincerity! Gary

Great interview! Very insightful... It's nice to hear from Rock Star I've admired and seen for decades. Thanks Geddy, for sharing some personal thoughts 35:05 about your life. I'm anxious, to read your book. Any chance, I can get it autographed? ❤️🤞🙏 Sorry for the loss of your friend and band mate Neil. He was incredible. GOD BLESS 🙏 george 😎🤿🦈🦑🇺🇸 TEXAS

From a Gary to Geddy your one of the most talented musician of all time! No one touches your talent on bass, keyboards, and singing! You are the definition of Unique and RUSH is not RUSH without your playing and vocals! To quote the movie: I LOVE YOU MAN! Alex and Neil as well!!

Sounds like U2 with Where the Streets have no name…where producer Brian Eno was going to erase it and took an assistant of his to physically tackle him to prevent that from happening!! Can’t imagine RUSH without Tom Sawyer!!

Chicken Soup For The Outsiders' Soul!

Poor guy having to trawl over these well-worn stories ad infinitum with every new chirpy young interviewer. I guess this unending spotlight on Ged & Alex EIGHT YEARS after their band ended just shows the incredible amount of interest there still is out there.

Geddy Lee - Bass guitars, Oberheim polyphonic; OB-X; Mini-Moog; and Taurus pedal Synthesizers, vocals Alex Lifeson - Six and twelve string electric and acoustic guitars, Taurus Pedals Neil Peart - Drum kit, timbales, gong bass drums, orchestra bells, glockenspiel, wind chimes, bell tree, tubular bells, crotales, cowbells, plywood, tympani, and Gong!

Geddy’s mom is arguably the first use of photoshop with Geddy’s bahr mitsvah photo

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I'm through Chapter 8. It was interesting to hear more about why John Rutsey left. In Beyond the Lighted Stage, they say John was basically kicked out because of health reasons, but in Geddy's book he said it was really John's decision because of musical differences.