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I glanced at this topic, thank you Blueschica! But, but... I don't want too many spoiler alerts. For once, and probably the first time, I am not ordering something fresh off the press. It really adds up and I have ordered a tonne of Rush stuff hot off the presses in the last few years. So I thought I would wait a bit for a price drop, but even typing this I feel like an ugly wart on the backside of a lonely frog in a wilderness swamp. Everything has been so positive from what I am reading, from different directions, I really want both the book and audio book. I love the tactile holding and seeing the photos but I also do a lot of road trips. I could listen to Geddy talk for hours - and I will! This weekend I will poke around and make my orders

I would have, too. But then the final, of the final, of the last of all that business would feel more special than so many songs played over the decades? It's' the "Zen" thing, the Garden being symbolic and it really was the the end? These guys always surprise me. Absolutely wonderful in many ways.

Thank you Jag2112, for this! I love when forum folk post new stuff I just don't regularly come across, very nice. Is it just me or one the photos at the bottom of the article "Lee and Neil Peart - Nancy took this..." is actually Geddy and Alex?

Thank you, Lurkst for this link. I don't follow podcasts and I am generally not tuned in to musician interviews so I would otherwise never have known about this. When you have listened to main stream interviews and read articles and books and such about the band members over the years, hearing from his brother just feels kind of warm and fuzzy? Cozy?. It adds some context to what you think you knew and just the most simple of questions and hearing the answers is so great to hear. Well worth the listen, anybody seeing this topic. Not depressing, nothing to shy away from, but a wonderful celebration of Neil. And so cool that three years after he passed away there is not silence or "enough already, leave me alone" but more sincere sharing of stories with family and the fantastic life he lived. (Thank you Family!) Great interview

A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson. I watched the movie a few years ago and a friend is planning on doing most of the Appalachian Trail next year so I was inspired to read the book. The author includes a lot of local history along the route.

Ahhhhhhhh! Sweet. What a treasure. My copy is very old and tattered. I was completely taken when I was being read to, of a boy who asked adults if his drawing scared them, but they thought it was a hat when it was actually an elephant inside a snake! (Not exactly, it's been a while but something like that). As I got older I could read it for myself and contemplate more of the details and have done so many times. It seems presented as a children's book but it most certainly is a very mature story with so many philosophical considerations. Thanks for presenting it here, it's been a while and I will have to read it again soon

More details, please?! I am not in any in-the-know loops regarding the band, when was the interview and where might we find it? Thanks!

Thank you condemned2bfree for posting this. Its great to hear about so much activity continuing in his honour - and others, the charities and foundations. Three and half years later and the momentum is very, very strong! His sister is clearly as humble and actively involved in "goodness" as Neil was. Amazing. I would probably would never have seen this if you hadn't posted the link.

Or, How cool that the marching band chose these tracks from decades earlier and brought them to life in a different way? I thought it was great. And honestly, I find it bit giggly watching all the white shoes march around in unison, what a lot of work. So nice to see after all these years!

I would be careful about ordering it on Amazon, from what I see looking around at various websites it is officially being released on November 14. I didn't try to order the audio or other format, but these days anything is for sale. You might be "pre-ordering" without realising it? Personally, I will be buying the hardcover. Most of my Neil books are hard cover. I read my Kindle regularly, but some books I want to actually hold and use my cheater glasses

pjbear05 - wow, that is quite a journey. Dark?! But I can relate to reading something and wanting so much, much more of it. Incidentally, there was a movie and a long running theatre play called Come From Away about planes diverted to Gander, Newfoundland and how even two decades later, many of those same people are still getting together to remember that horrific event. Thousands of passengers from different flights descended on this little town and for days, the cooking, accommodations, generally anything needed to help strangers stranded in a foreign place is still being shared to this day. And another anniversary approaches. Hold requests on books, 22 years later. Amazing, truly.

And a nice birthday topic becomes a rating of guitarists. Thank you laughedatbytime for starting it! Oh well, Happy Birthday Mister Alex if you are still watching this tailspin of forum opinions. " We are only human...it's not ours to understand"...

If I may add to this, the books were written as a trilogy - Anthem: In the 70s, Limelight: In the 80s and Driven: In the 90s And 'In The End". I came across the three of them together in a bookstore and bought and read all three. They are more than just a history of notes and band info-summary sort of books. The pages are almost all interviews and researched details along the way. I was pleasantly surprised along all three books that pretty much every page is an account of the years and albums and what it took to keep going, not just fluff and filler re-hashed material. I think they are great books to include in a collection of the band's history.

Interesting video editing but the sound is fantastic. I don't think it's only because I am using new headphones, but it really sounds very clean, live (of course - but very full and balanced) and particularly the voice is some of the best of old recording I have heard. Thanks TheGhostRider for sharing this.

By chance, any discussions regarding the releasing of live material or the ownership(s) of Rush content?

Thank you grep for reviving this piece (these pieces!) of history. I had no idea there were even other forums for the guys. Why wouldn't there be? But I just never looked. Why, for a band I listened to all my life, did I just simply not look around for more stuff about them? It was all about reading liner notes and the (very) odd article. This feels similar to seeing RUSH Backstage Club Newsletters as an order on the Backstage website and buying it instantly. Thank you very much!

I was looking at the Caress Of Steel tour book and all the photos (6?) of Geddy are without glasses. So try back around 1975 and there should be lots of younger Geddy eyes without glasses, if you want to go back that far?

Losing It On headphones, R40 Tour.

Anything yet to report?

This is not a cat lover tuxedo topic, terribly sorry. You must make your own cat post!

Had one dog or another all of my life except for a few years in Uni. Then had two cockapoos (brothers) for almost 16 years and for the last three years, no pooch to jump and greet me every single time I come home. Those little buggers above are super cute - in all the scrunched up faces and curly hair! What made you post about them? The mottled colours? Because the litter is so big? Or, as often is the case, am I missing it? After the (before) last bugger passed on, we waited a few months and decided to "just look" at an ad about cockapoo pups. Drove out to the country to a farm and watched and played with the last two runts of a litter of 8 playing on a jungle gym with a couple of cats and some horses standing around. Clearly they were the last two of the litter that nobody wanted - one was too spaniel, the other too poodle - they looked nothing alike. Over an hour went by and we hardly noticed. The owner eventually asked if we had decided which one we wanted. We were like, what? Separate them? Ah, no. We borrowed two car carriers and at seven weeks old we took both of them home and spent almost 16 years together. Maybe again some day? Love pics of puppies, thanks treeduck!

Thank you Jag2112 - it's good for more folks to get a sense of the release! Of interest, to me, I got my delivery today and a couple of things stood out: The four 7 inch vinyls each have 2 songs. So, 8 songs, like Signals has 8 songs. But New World Man is covered twice and Vital Signs and Red Barchetta (both live versions) are from Moving Pictures! So with Signals being an 8 song album, 3 songs were left out - The Analog Kid, Chemistry and Losing It. Why? Besides the lack of a live tour track, another missed opportunity was the inclusion of the actual Signals Tour Book. I bought that as a stand alone some time ago, but why would it not be part of the 40th release? Will have to check if previous anniversary packs included the tour books. And I personally love the new artwork. The package was clear that new artwork would be included, so buyer beware I guess, but a more sci-fi like theme seems very cool to me. But often with the dalmatian watching, a kind of approving presence? Folks do know there are at least two Hugh Syme album art books with lots of different interpretations and archive art. The guy made a lot of album art and it's nice to be able to have them. Signals adds another bunch of artwork, a nice bonus. But overall, an excellent anniversary pack. It is amazing, to me, to think that as a kid I never even considered the possibility of seeing it released with cool goodies and artwork forty years later.

Nice to see a re-visit of song lyrics, for the sake of the words and phrases chosen, the whole backstory of Neil putting together ideas and Geddy choosing/feeling parts of them - and then back to writing again. Happened so many times! And having read somewhere how Neil would have a whole shelf of scrap books of ideas with sticky notes and literary references, sometimes waiting for permission to use published writing or other times just something noted on the side of the road during a trip. And I think Geddy's voice is brilliant. Interesting to hear Closer To The Heart not being one of a fan's favourites but for me it is always in the upper group of loved songs. Pretty powerful tune, I think.

A Rush album goes up to a group of fans and asks: Is there life after forty?

Earlier today (I don't follow baseball), my wife was watching the Jays and said "Hey, there's Geddy at the game!" She does watch baseball, often. Hearing such a thing, I went to the living room TV and there he was. Pencil in hand He was trying to pull his cap down as much as possible, while still being able to track scores and player stats - nothing gets by that lover of baseball I watched for a bit and seeing him there, honestly, it's like Rush is a wonderful force that keeps on giving. I love them! There may be a future for Rush where they are not always going to be musicians, per say, but rather Alex and Geddy will be more present in popular narratives?