Wandering The Face of the Earth

[edhunter]

My wife has been on an extended paid break from work so she decided to clean out her walk-in closet, which is where I had kept my copies of Wandering the Face of the Earth  and Geddy’s Big Beautiful Book of Bass. I came home from work and they are now displayed as coffee table books. I was flipping through the first one again after a couple years and just happened to notice that in a LOT of the footnotes for press clippings up through a certain period,  they used interviews from Bill Banasiewicz (the B-Man who wrote the horrible Visions biography.) I just found that surprising as I had known that they had a major falling out with the guy, and knowing Geddy‘s ability to hold a grudge,, I didn’t think they would want to do anything to give him the idea he was back in the fold. Interesting to read little facts about shows that I was actually at, like how unhappy they were with the sound during the initial Power Windows  tour shows, are that Alex broke a ton of strings on that tour. I saw them in Hartford and Springfield that tour. Alex broke a string during New World Man. Years later, I found the bootleg for that show and listened for the gap where just bass and drums. Springfield was a general admission arena and as we got there, there was a line of thousands of people around the arena and down the block. As we pulled around to the front, the doors opened and my friend and I jumped out of our folks’ car and ran past about 8000 people and got awesome seats right down low on the side. Poor Marillion deserved a better reception than they got. I have that boot as well. 
 

It still utterly blows my mind as a kid from Uncasville, Connecticut, that Rush has now played there several times,  and will again in October. Before the casino, Uncasville was the kind of town that you only went to if you lived or worked there. There’s absolutely nothing there that isn’t available in some better form in one of the surrounding towns.  The actual grounds of the casino itself used to be the location of a nuclear supply company for naval warships. If you’ve ever seen Rush at Mohegan Sun and came away feeling like you were glowing, it wasn’t because of the band. 😂

Edited January 10 by edhunter

[ytserush]

I would guess they really didn't review that very closely.  The B-Man did show up for an WMMR interview with Geddy in 2000 for his solo album and he was "recognized." It doesn't appear that restraining order was lodged against him, but his insider/friendship card appears to have been revoked.

 

I was kind of surprised by seeing his name there too when I first read the book.