… slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice, and fear walk hand in hand.” --Neil Peart
Rush performs their 1980 album Moving Pictures in its entirety on their 2010 Time Machine Tour.
That is: Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, Limelight, The Camera Eye, Witch Hunt, and Vital Signs.
I saw them last night, in Dallas (had to fight State Fair traffic to get there). They were hitting on all (three) cylinders:
Neil was flawless, of course. Some highlights of his multi-part solo were a very ethereal, polyrhythmic electronic section followed by a tribute to the big band drumming of his heroes Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa (Neil studied jazz/swing under Freddie Gruber).
Lifeson’s guitar work was spot-on. His solos were dramatic and compelling; there was an "edge" to his delivery, despite decades of playing this material. Alex was seen delivering vocal support on every song, rounding out the incredible "atmosphere" produced by a mere three players.
Geddy’s voice was in fine form--he hit the high vocal parts of Freewill (each of us, a cell of awareness, imperfect and incomplete…) confidently and with conviction. His multi-tasking between bass, vocals, and keyboards continues to astonish.
The lyrics quote in the thread title are from With Hunt, part of Neil Peart’s
Fear Series.
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Originally Posted by Neil Peart
The idea for the trilogy was suggested by an older man telling that he didn't think life was ruled by love, or reason, or money, or the pursuit of happiness -- but by fear. This smart-but cynical guy's position was that most people's actions are motivated by fear of being hungry, fear of being hurt, fear of being alone, fear of being robbed, etc., and that people don't make choices based on hope that something good will happen, but in fear that something bad will happen.
I reacted to this the way all of us tend to react to generalities: "Well, I'm not like that!" But then I started thinking about it more, watching the way people around me behaved, and I soon realised that there was something to this viewpoint, So I sketched out the three "theaters of fear," as I saw them: how fear works inside us ("The Enemy Within"), how fear is used against us ("The Weapon"), and how fear feeds the mob mentality ("Witch Hunt").
As it happened, the last theme was easiest to deal with, so it was written first, and consequently appeared first on record, and the other two followed in reverse order for the same reason.
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Neil Peart, the philosopher-lyricist and one of the most revered rock drummers of all time, is seen below with his Time Machine setup: