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Roadshow: Landscape With Drums: A Concert Tour by Motorcycle
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By Neil Peart
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Publisher:
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Rounder Books
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Edition:
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First Edition
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Published:
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December 31, 1969 |
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Paperback
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Pages:
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400
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Neil Peart is an internationally acclaimed, bestselling, and award-nominated author, and for more than thirty years has been the legendary drummer and lyricist for the band Rush. For decades, Neil prepared and waited to write a book about the biggest journey of all in his restless existence, his ultimate travelogue - a concert tour. Finally, the right time and the right tour: Rush's 30th anniversary trek ? 9 countries, 57 shows, and 500,000 fans.
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Thoroughly enjoyed it, August 31, 2010
By Matthew Hickerson (Northport, NY)
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Peart's book (and books for that matter) are obviously likely to appeal to Rush fans. My guess is that one should at least be a soft-core Rush fan to truly appreciate Peart and the book.
I would describe myself as a Rush fan -- certainly not hard-core, but I have seen them live a few times, have many of the albums (I even had eight-tracks back in the day) and regard ""Moving Pictures"" as one of my favorite albums.
So with that background, I bought the book on dentalBookshop after seeing them live recently. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. For a drummer -- and Peart notes how drummers are typically perceived as intellectually challenged -- Peart is a brilliant lyricist and an excellent writer. Let's face it: this guy is seriously talented.
While his bandmates travel via private jet and stay at four-star hotels, on this tour Peart and a buddy set out to travel via motorcycle between gigs. So the book is partly a travel log, partly a journal and partly about Rush's 30th anniversary tour. We learn what it's like to log serious miles on a BMW 1200 and in doing some see parts of the world (mainly the US in this book, but some of Europe as well) that others miss.
I thoroughly enjoyed it and just bought another of his books. But again, I think you have to be a Rush fan to appreciate it. I, for one, loved the references to some of the lyrics that he wrote (""a fawn-eyed girl with sun-browned legs"" is a girl he had a crush on when he was 14) but these gems will be lost on the casual reader.
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