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Another Neil Peart interview

Wed, Sep 20, 2006@1:28PM | comments removed/disabled

[Neil Peart Visits The Bower Show]

Monday we got to listen to Neil Peart speak with Mark Goodman on Sirius Satellite Classic Rewind. He also recently did another interview for Sirius - this one on Maxim Radio (Sirius Channel 108) for the Bower Show. A transcript of the interview is posted at the Sirius website here. Again, no new information - he just covers all the same topics that he's covered in his other recent interviews, focusing on his new book. But there is this interesting Jack Black story:

We opened our show through the last tour with a film, it was a dream sequence, and at the end, Jerry Stiller wakes up, and says, "Whoa! Did I miss the show?" And then he calls us to the stage. We originally wanted Jack Black to do that. We called his people, and they said he wasn't available. When I met Jack he said, "I never heard about that! I would have done it, I'm at your service!" So when we played in Irvine Meadows in Southern California, he came to the show. I told him, well, we keep these dryers on stage, we have t-shirts in them, and at the end of the show, Geddy and Alex pass the shirts out to the audience. So we asked him to come out and do that, and he said, "Oh, yeah!" Well, it turned into performance art. While we're playing "2112," he somersaults onto the stage, striking rock poses in front of Geddy on stage, he climbs up on the dryer, he starts stripping, he's down to his boxers with the "plumber's crack," he immerses himself in posing, then he sommersaults off stage, and we're looking at each other going "What just happened?"

I've seen pictures from this show and I always wondered whose "plumber's crack" it was. Now I know. Funny. :) Thanks to reader Ken for the heads up.

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