There's a new doc out call Beyond the Lighted Stage, I believe. Don't know if you know of it but it starts right from the beginning and then talks alot about Neil and his motorcycle trek all over hells high acre and then his road back. Pretty tough losing your wife and daughter at separate times.
I buy all of their DVD's, and waited with baited breath for "Beyond The Lighted Stage" to come out ever since reading about it showing at the Tribeca Film Festival. I now have it in my collection, and have watched it about 6 times. And will watch it again, and again, and again. Any time I need inspiration to not quit playing my bass, or to keep painting, or just keep going when day-to-day medical things wear me down.
My wife always rolls her eyes when I wax rhapsodic on the virtues of Rush's music.
But she's heard me play their music on my bass for the last 12 years, so she knows it goes a lot deeper than just "I like some of their music". I picked up the bass guitar in 1982 because of "All The World's A Stage", and have kept up on all of their music ever since.
I like almost every song they've put out, and can play all but maybe 6 songs all the way through, note for note.
YYZ, La Villa Strangiato are two notables that I'm still working on after all these years.
The others I have a little problem with are Cygnus X-1, Cygnus X-1 Book II, Time And Motion, and the hardest parts of a couple of other songs. But those songs are just hard to play because of the timing and for the need for absolute precision to make it sound right.
The others are pretty straight forward, other than Geddy is also doing keyboards, footpedals and singing while playing his bass during many of the songs.
