Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing RoadWithin a ten-month period, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense of personal devastation that led him on a 55,000-mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back again. Peart chronicles his personal odyssey and includes stories of reuniting with friends and family, grieving, and reminiscing. He recorded with dazzling artistry the enormous range of his travel adventures, from the mountains to the seas, from the deserts to the Arctic ice, and the memorable people who contributed to his healing. Ghost Rider is a brilliantly written and ultimately triumphant narrative memoir from a gifted writer and the drummer and lyricist of the legendary rock band Rush. |
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... playing so long together , Geddy and Alex and I never played a truly bad show , at least that anyone else would know about , but we had our own inner scale to judge by , and that judge could be stern . My playing felt clumsy and sloppy ...
... played everywhere : a live band in the bar , a “ CD jukebox " in the open - air bar at the stern , and even when I wandered up by the bridge , I heard music playing from there . In the restaurant they were playing a Madonna anthology ...
... playing , a larger " theme " was appearing — I was " telling my story . ” Not in musical or lyrical terms , but just thinking while I played a certain passage , " this is that part . " I once defined the basic nature of art as " the ...