HalfwayToGone

I’m glad he is planning more of these little mini-jaunts. I wonder if he’ll do a Manhattan event. Ridgewood was fine, but I’m sure there are a ton of New York fans who couldn’t get out to Jersey or Philly. I’d even get another pair of books for gifts to the two people I know would actually be into reading all of it.

Hilarious as always, that guy....

For geddy’s book? We already knew that was coming

When they were newer, a lot more of them flew around on ebay than now. It came out years ago, remember. Same with every signed edition of neil’s books—tons of them on ebay at first. Now only a few are left, 3 years after the last book came out.

For the tour yes, but for the run at Radio City Music Hall when they debuted those two songs, no.

Scalpers definitely got some of these—they were all over ebay even before people actually received them. Some of those guys are selling stuff at inflated prices while it’s still available at the band’s website for the normal price. Defies logic, but I guess they manage to sucker an occasional person. At this point they are scarce and expensive on ebay, but no one is paying..

Front row at a Rush show was a bucket list item I got to cross off toward the latter days of CA tour in Hershey, PA. But I saw the GUP show at MSG and later in the tour in NJ. I was also at the opening show at the Radio City run they did, when they debuted Red Sector A and one other song off GUP, probably Distant Early Warning. First floor seats ever. Ran up front and watched in the aisle for a short bit during those to see better—Neil had no rotating riser yet, so he was just playing facing away from the audience on the simmons kit he was using back then. I had also just recently discovered the devil’s weed at the time, making the hour drive home seem like several hours. Fun. Times.

I’m sure someone on ebay or amazon has them for less than the $99 price the band’s (really Livenation/Musictoday) website charges. EDIT—nope, this thing is scarce outside of musictoday. I didn’t see any anywhere, except 2 ebay listings for signed editions at way too high prices.

Most likely. I was just using them as a reference. They were probably originally intended for friends of the band and vip types. I’d reckon the first 10-20 of those went to the foos, the I love you men and jack black, the string section from CA perhaps, the band, the author/artist, etc.

They’re into a third printing already? They must not be very huge print runs then. But I guess a gigantic book like that for bass/Rush nerds, you don’t expect to sell like a Harry Potter book. As I’ve said since it came out, yes it’s a pretty swanky book with a bit of a relief on the cover and it’s huge, not to mention enjoyable to look through and read—literally a ton of book for your money.

You said it came from Chicago right? Maybe it was this guy..... https://youtu.be/fnZcl6pn5bU

Enjoy! If you’re any kind of gear nerd at all, you’ll be more than entertained...your family will be annoyed that you won’t put it down. Over 400 pages, and some really interesting bits from the interviews too, like Geddy getting his balls busted for getting a bass bought for him by his mom that he then worked in her shop to pay her back for. Very Monty Python moment there...”when I was a lad we lived in a hole in the road, and every morning we’d wake up 5 hours before we went to bed, and had to lick the road clean with our tongues! And we were grateful!” I think it’s Bill Wyman who gives him a hard time or another British guy who grew up poorer than dirt and had to practically make his own bass from an old shoelace and some already chewed gum. I’m paraphrasing of course, but you get the gist.

Isn’t their Rush coloring book coming out (again) this month too? I think they may have added a couple of pages this edition, but I may be wrong.

I’m sure you could always ask him if he’ll write an extra little few words in there. He may say, no and/or be annoyed if you ask for a lot of writing, but a couple of words he might indulge, you never know. He was really sweet when I went. I got a photo of my son getting his book signed, not myself—no posed shots, only candid shots from the line were allowed.

Again—the money part is mostly to buy the book, which retails for around $75-$80. Yeah you can find it for closer to $55 on amazon probably, but that is a discounted price. And it’s a ton of book. Worth the price IMO signed or not, but throwing in zero to $20 extra to get an autograph and a second to say thanks is not spending a ton of money, and waiting is what it is. I had no trouble finding ways to entertain myself on line by actually meeting and chatting with other fans. Plus if you’re smart, you get there as late as you can get away with, so the line is short by the time you get there and you’re waiting only a few minutes instead of a few hours. Counter-intuitive play, but it works—everyone is caught up in being as far up in line as possible, waiting hours before the event even starts. Be late, when the line is cooking along already and half the people already are heading home.

People are way focused on the 15 seconds of hello and thanks, but they forget about the 60 pound coffee table book you also get for the bulk of that “ticket” price. Thing is huge. And Detroit is added to the original dates as of yesterday somewhere in the middle.

Yeah, I swear that it was $85.00 for signings earlier in the summer! I guess 12 bucks is 12 bucks . . . That’s right—retail book price plus sales tax.

That says 9th annual, so they’ve been at it for at least 9 years already. Giants Stadium ‘91? I saw the Dead 3 or 4 times when Jerry Garcia was alive, all between 1983-85. That was more than enough for me, but then again I wasn’t on acid at any of those shows. Maybe if I was tripping, a monkey banging a pair of marching band cymbals for 3 hours would be mind-blowing too.

Tons of bands pay homage to their heroes in this exact way. It’s no big deal.

Yeah it’s easy to get confused when you know there’s no plans and just a book tour and the random pop-in on another band’s gig. I’m just intrigued that someone went to the trouble to isolate that specific set of strings from RRHOF performance and keep them aside from the umpteen million other sets of dead strings he must have gone through over the decades. But it was a pretty damn special occasion, so I guess not so weird really.

You forgot he sat in with Les Claypool and Sean Lennon a month or two ago. That was the last one I heard about.

That’s the usual retail price. I already got one off ebay for a little more with free shipping, but I’m realizing they will probably be all over the place once more arrive from china or wherever they manufacture these.

Yeah, about $25 on hot topic and out of stock. On ebay they are flipping for double, which is still better than $100 and upwards for the canadian convention version.

I hope they raise a ton of money—one of a kind set of jewelry I’m sure

I’m still distracted by that very clean and shiny (what looks to be a) ‘57 Les Paul Custom art and historic reissue. It’s uh veruh nice-uh!