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defrogFULL DISCLOSURE: I wrote this dream down a couple of years ago, but never got around to posting it. Given Neil Peart's recent passing, I thought there's no better time to share it.
I am on a motorcycle road trip with Geddy Lee of Rush. We’re riding around a hilly area, with winding roads. It’s nighttime and it’s raining pretty hard, and occasionally the roads are flooded. To cross those areas, we need to drive the motorcycle fast enough to skim the water’s surface before the cycle can sink.
Geddy is pretty far ahead of me, but we keep in contact by radio. I manage to catch up with him in the final stretch of road to our destination without him realizing it. So as he pulls into the access road he says, “I’m here, where are you?” and I pull up and say “Right beside you!”
Our destination is a large house on a hillside overlooking a bay. We head down the driveway to the back of the house, where there’s a BBQ party going on. Neil Peart is working the grill flipping hamburgers. Next to him is a table loaded with various cakes.
“Burgers and cake!” Neil declares. “Who wants some?”
“I do, I do!” says Geddy.
Later, as we sit down to eat, Neil Peart starts talking about why he does the drumstick toss trick during live shows.
“Before we got started, I used to see guys do that onstage, and I would think, ‘Oh I’ll never do that, that’s so cheesy’,” he says. “But then I found myself trying it and I found that it really keeps you focused on the count, because you know, the stick has to be back in yr hand by the time you start the beat again, so it’s a really good discipline tool.”
“But it’s also a showmanship tool, isn't it?” I ask.
“It is, but that’s just a bonus, not the purpose,” Neil says. “And I do appreciate that the fans like a little showmanship onstage, but that’s hard to do behind a drumkit, so there’s not much else I can do back there.”
“Unless you want to go the Tommy Lee route with a flying drumkit,” Geddy laughs.
Neil makes a face. “I have enough to focus on playing weird time signatures without worrying about aerodynamics.”
And then I woke up.
Ghost rider,
This is dF
I am on a motorcycle road trip with Geddy Lee of Rush. We’re riding around a hilly area, with winding roads. It’s nighttime and it’s raining pretty hard, and occasionally the roads are flooded. To cross those areas, we need to drive the motorcycle fast enough to skim the water’s surface before the cycle can sink.
Geddy is pretty far ahead of me, but we keep in contact by radio. I manage to catch up with him in the final stretch of road to our destination without him realizing it. So as he pulls into the access road he says, “I’m here, where are you?” and I pull up and say “Right beside you!”
Our destination is a large house on a hillside overlooking a bay. We head down the driveway to the back of the house, where there’s a BBQ party going on. Neil Peart is working the grill flipping hamburgers. Next to him is a table loaded with various cakes.
“Burgers and cake!” Neil declares. “Who wants some?”
“I do, I do!” says Geddy.
Later, as we sit down to eat, Neil Peart starts talking about why he does the drumstick toss trick during live shows.
“Before we got started, I used to see guys do that onstage, and I would think, ‘Oh I’ll never do that, that’s so cheesy’,” he says. “But then I found myself trying it and I found that it really keeps you focused on the count, because you know, the stick has to be back in yr hand by the time you start the beat again, so it’s a really good discipline tool.”
“But it’s also a showmanship tool, isn't it?” I ask.
“It is, but that’s just a bonus, not the purpose,” Neil says. “And I do appreciate that the fans like a little showmanship onstage, but that’s hard to do behind a drumkit, so there’s not much else I can do back there.”
“Unless you want to go the Tommy Lee route with a flying drumkit,” Geddy laughs.
Neil makes a face. “I have enough to focus on playing weird time signatures without worrying about aerodynamics.”
And then I woke up.
Ghost rider,
This is dF
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