Books

Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart (ECW Press, $22.95)

“Parking my motorcycle in front of a motel at the end of a long day on the road could certainly be sweet, like finally exhaling after holding my breath all day, but best of all was setting out in the morning. Whatever torments the night had brought; whatever weather the new day threw at me, […]

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Rush: Song by Song by Alex E. Body (Fonthill Media, $36.95)

“Even from their earliest days, the band developed and changed constantly, losing and gaining fans along the way – but famously retaining their integrity – always moving in the direction that they chose.”                                                                                           -Alex E. Body (from Rush: Song by Song, page 2)                If there was a research poll conducted to […]

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The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock by David Weigel (W.W. Norton & Company, $35.95)

“This is also an argument for progressive rock as a grand cultural detour that invented much of the music that’s popular now…’prog’s’ reputation has never quite recovered from a series of crises in 1977 and 1978.  Punk won over the critics, disco won over the teens, and major progressive bands deflated like punctured blimps.” -David […]

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RUSH

  Ron Roxtar for Curtains Up Rush R40 tour Geddy Lee – vocals, bass, keyboards, synthesizer Alex Liefson – guitars Neil Peart – drums. If R40 is truly the last Rush tour as stated by all members, then at least they went out as the Rush Canadians know and love and have air drummed to […]