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Neil Peart -
Roadshow
For thirty
years, Neil Peart had wanted to write a book about "the biggest
journey of all in my restless existence: the life of a touring
musician." Finally, the right time, and the right tour...
In the summer of 2004, after three decades, twenty gold albums,
and thousands of performances spanning four continents, the band
Rush embarked on a celebratory 30th Anniversary World Tour. The
"R30" tour traveled to nine countries, where the band performed
fifty-seven shows in front of more than half a million fans.
Uniquely, Peart chose to do his between-show traveling by
motorcycle, riding 21,000 miles of back roads and highways in
North America and Europe - from Appalachian hamlets and Western
deserts to Scottish castles and Alpine passes.
Roadshow illuminates the daunting rigors of a major
international concert tour, as well as Peart's exploration of
the scenic byways and country towns along the way. His evocative
and entertaining prose carries the reader through every
performance and every journey, sharing the bittersweet
reflections triggered by the endlessly unfolding landscape.
Observations and reflections range from the poignantly, achingly
personal to the wickedly irreverent.
Part behind-the-scenes memoir, part existential travelogue,
Roadshow winds through nineteen countries on both sides of the
Atlantic, in search of the perfect show, the perfect meal, the
perfect road, and an elusive inner satisfaction that comes only
with the recognition that the journey itself is the ultimate
destination.
The inner workings of the tour, the people Peart works with and
the people he meets, the roads and stages and ever-changing
scenery - all flow into an irresistible story.
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Neil Peart -
The Masked Rider (hardcover)
This is Neil Peart's first fantastic book!! Newly reprinted as a
hardcover with more photos and maps of Neil's journey.
Neil Peart cycles his way through West Africa and brings us
along with him, dysentary and all. The Masked Rider details his
physical and spiritual journey with photographs, journal
entries, and tales of adventure. Peart's masks are the masks
that we wear--civilization, psychology, labels,
expectations--and his book reveals how traveling in a very
foreign land allows us to peer beneath them.
From the back cover:
Cycling is a good way to travel anywhere, but especially in
Africa. You are independent and mobile, and yet travel at people
speed--fast enough to travel on to another town in the cooler
morning hours, but slow enough to meet people: the old farmer at
the roadside who raises his hand and says, 'You are welcome,'
the tireless women who offer a smile to a passing cyclist, the
children whose laughter transcends the humblest home. So begins
the text of Neil Peart's extraordinary journal...
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 Neil
Peart - Ghost Rider
In less than a
year, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and
his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated
from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without
direction.
This memoir tells of the sense of loss and directionlessness
that led him on a 55,000-mile journey by motorcycle across much
of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back again.
He had needed to get away, but had not really needed a
destination. His travel adventures chronicle his personal
odyssey and include stories of reuniting with friends and
family, grieving, thinking, and reminiscing as he rode until he
encountered the miracle that allowed him to find peace.
400 pages.
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Neil Peart -
Traveling Music (hardcover)
Described as
"The Soundtrack To My Life And Times" by Neil, this is book
number three in his series of novels.
The setting is
the road for this story, and Neil set out on a 2500 mile
round-trip journey to Texas, where he listened to traveling
music all the way, by artists ranging from Frank Sinatra to
Linkin Park, Miles Davis to Radiohead, Patsy Cline to Madonna.
As he drove and
listened, he experienced the traveling essence of music itself,
and the songs took him on voyages of memory, imagination,
emotion, sensation - and when he reached Big Bend Park on the
third day, creative inspiration: "A story could be written just
around the music I've listened to on this trip". And so he did
write a story, now here for us to enjoy.
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