10-13-2021, 05:09 AM
I don't know how many people reading this thread know, but the Limelight performance and the motorcycle formation chokes up and/or brings tears to the eyes of Rush fans.
It's in honor of the creative genius behind Rush, drummer Neil Peart. In the late 1990s he lost his wife and daughter to a car crash. To cope with the twin tragedies he stopped playing music and went on a motorcycle ride by himself around North America that resulted in a book called Ghost Rider. The motorcycle formation during the Limelight section connects the dots between a song about being uncomfortable with attention brought on by being a popular entertainer, with the fact Peart went on the motorcycle to seek solitude to heal himself. Pretty powerful for the OSU band to include that reference on the field.
There are only two people who have died whom I didn't know personally that made me cry when I learned of their death because they had such a great impact on my life. The first was Bill Walsh. The second was Neil Peart. Hard to imagine there being anyone else. The fact Peart died of Glioblastoma brain cancer - that also killed a good friend of mine a year earlier - is a cruel irony given what a brilliant mind he had.
There are other bands I like a lot. There are other super talented musicians. However, I don't know if there can ever be a more musically talented trio of smart, humble, likable people, who make better music, with more chemistry and thoughtful words to their songs. I would many times break out laughing at the absurdity of how three guys could create the amazing sound I was hearing at Rush shows.
I've watched the Rush doc Beyond the Lighted Stage probably a dozen times now and never tire of it. Every time it puts a smile on my face and it always will.
It's in honor of the creative genius behind Rush, drummer Neil Peart. In the late 1990s he lost his wife and daughter to a car crash. To cope with the twin tragedies he stopped playing music and went on a motorcycle ride by himself around North America that resulted in a book called Ghost Rider. The motorcycle formation during the Limelight section connects the dots between a song about being uncomfortable with attention brought on by being a popular entertainer, with the fact Peart went on the motorcycle to seek solitude to heal himself. Pretty powerful for the OSU band to include that reference on the field.
There are only two people who have died whom I didn't know personally that made me cry when I learned of their death because they had such a great impact on my life. The first was Bill Walsh. The second was Neil Peart. Hard to imagine there being anyone else. The fact Peart died of Glioblastoma brain cancer - that also killed a good friend of mine a year earlier - is a cruel irony given what a brilliant mind he had.
There are other bands I like a lot. There are other super talented musicians. However, I don't know if there can ever be a more musically talented trio of smart, humble, likable people, who make better music, with more chemistry and thoughtful words to their songs. I would many times break out laughing at the absurdity of how three guys could create the amazing sound I was hearing at Rush shows.
I've watched the Rush doc Beyond the Lighted Stage probably a dozen times now and never tire of it. Every time it puts a smile on my face and it always will.