Traveling Music by Neil Peart

Traveling Music by Neil Peart

Neil Peart decided to drive his BMW Z-8 automobile from L.A. to Big Bend National Park, in Southwest Texas. As he sped along between the gas-gulping SUVs and asthmatic Japanese compacts clumping in the left lane, and the roaring, straining semis in the right, he acted as his own DJ, lining up the CDs chronologically and according to his possible moods. Not only did the music I listened to accompany my journey, but it also took me on sidetrips, through memory and fractals of associations, threads reaching back through my whole life in ways I had forgotten, or had never suspected. Sifting through those decades and those memories, I realized that I wasn't interested in recounting the facts of my life in purely autobiographical terms, but rather . in trying to unweave the fabric of my life and times. As one who was never much interested in looking back, because always too busy moving forward, I found that once I opened those doors to the past, I became fascinated with the times and their effect on me. The songs and the stories I had taken for granted suddenly had a resonance that had clearly echoed down the corridors of my entire life, and I felt a thrill of recognition, and the sense of a kind of adventure. A travel story, but not so much about places, but about music and memories.

Neil Peart was the drummer and lyricist for the iconic rock band Rush, as well as the author of The Masked Rider, Traveling Music, Roadshow, Far and Away, Far and Near, Far and Wide, and, with Kevin J. Anderson, The Masked Rider, Far and Away, Far and Near, Far and Wide. Anderson, Clockwork Angels, and Clockwork Lives are all works by Anderson.

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ISBN 13	9781550226645
ISBN 10	1550226649
Title	Traveling Music
Author	Neil Peart
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	ECW Press,Canada
Year published	2004-09-28
Number of pages	380
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.