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Originally Posted by musicman691

I have the dvd for Beyond The Lighted Stage - good stuff. Bought it after I saw it on TV.

Quite familiar with what's going on with The Professor's trials - massive shoulder problems. Considering how his kit is set up and how hard he hits this isn't surprising. I have one of his instructional dvd's where it shows him putting the kick pedal beater through the batter head and the camera pans up to his face and he just smiles.

Alex and Geddy are real nice guys that like to meet the public and not just with meet & greets at concerts. Neil doesn't do that for personal reasons a lot of which happened after he lost his wife and one daughter fairly close together. It's interesting that when they're finally done for the night after the last encore Neil runs off stage like at a track meet. And that's what made it all the more poignant at the last concert they gave that he actually came out from behind the kit and did the bow to the audience with Alex & Geddy. There was talk of Taylor Hawkins taking over Neil's place in Rush - he's a good drummer but nowheres in the class of Mr. Peart.

Read a story the other day where Neil said his daughter introduces her dad as a retired drummer and he agreed that that's him.

Hey Jack:

(Still off topic), but I ordered a couple of Rush DVD's from Netflix. One is called Rush R30, which is a concert recorded in Frankfurt, Germany as part of their 30th anniversary tour, and it is pretty good. The other one is Rush in Rio, which I haven't watched yet. Since you are a Rush fan, perhaps you are already aware of these 2 DVDs.