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Neil Peart Interview

Thu, Nov 17, 2005@9:03AM | comments removed/disabled

[Neil Peart Speaks About New Rush Release]

Neil Peart discusses his early days with Rush and the band's upcoming DVD, R30 Live in Frankfurt, with chartattack.com:

Looking back at all the archived material made Peart reflective of his early days with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. "What that old footage does is make us laugh, really, at how we looked back then, and smile with a certain fond appreciation for our youthful earnestness and energy. We had a lot to learn, but we were learning it." Peart joined Rush in August 1974, when he says the band were entering "Fairy Tale Land. The band had just signed a U.S. record deal, and it included an advance to buy all new equipment. I'll never forget how exciting it was to walk into a music store in downtown Toronto and buy our dream gear."

Though Rush have played more than 5,000 concerts since the Trudeau administration, Peart still vividly remembers the first one.

"Two weeks after I joined, we played our first show together in Pittsburgh, in front of about 11,000 people, then continued around the U.S. - opening for bigger bands, playing club dates on our own and even appearing on a few television shows. Eventually that first tour took us all around the United States and Canada, and that was pretty exciting, too. Those were heady times, no question, and we were certainly fully engaged in the moment. It's safe to say we weren't thinking too much about the future."

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