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[@TheTapesArchive]

In case you missed the interview with Neil Peart from 1990. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4PJdZyYe7mfe7s

[@garrettcarroll5808]

One of the reasons I got into Rush was because of their lyrics. While everybody else in my high school was doing all kinds of crazy things, I would go home feeling alone and writing poetry. But not, like, angsty teenage bad romance poetry. Like, thoughtful stuff. And although my thoughts weren't completely worked out on my own yet, I had other lyrics and poetry to read and to interpret and understand. I'm 24 years old now, and things have definitely changed. I haven't much improved my standings in life, but I don't blame others. I know that my quiet and observational personality has definitely been the cause of that, which I don't know if it's a bad thing or not. Maybe it is, but we can only do so much to change our personality. Thanks for these interviews!

[@francorodriguez3894]

What a down to earth guy. The way he puts the ideas into words. We lost a remarkable human being. Thanks for sharing this.

[@Vigilant_Guardian]

how f n cool after all these years... I used to seek to experience Rush when i was so very young ..late at night waiting for rock-line and other radio shows but their concerts Is what built the following,---really thanks for posting,,, the ole boy Neil was always on fire wasn't he..lol..he never took anything for granted.. such a well lived life../// go Neil.. Fly by Night away from here.....

[@TheTapesArchive]

Comments like yours are why we post them.

[@Freyathrith]

This is a fantastic interview, philosophically rich and one which shows a sense of vulnerability I would not have expected from a master like Neil. What a true human being.

[@polymathg]

Not one single dull moment. Thank you for posting this!

[@TheTapesArchive]

Could not agree more!

[@TheodorusRex]

Thanks for posting... terrific. Such a genuine soul.

[@TheTapesArchive]

All good! Happy to share!

[@TimFromLA]

Thank you for the interview with Neil. I can't wait for part 3.

[@TheTapesArchive]

I think we may release on the anniversary of his death. RIP!!

[@FundamentalsUK]

Thanks, great interview with a wonderful human being. Ironic about the random car accident comment and fate in light of what happened to his daughter and then his wife with Cancer.

[@meganmelonas6488]

Thank you so much for posting this. Whenever he said anything, it was just gold.

[@TheTapesArchive]

Glad to hear you liked it.

[@meganmelonas6488]

The Tapes Archive when do you plan to release the third interview?

[@TheTapesArchive]

@@meganmelonas6488 TBH it might be awhile. We have a full season with other releases planned. But I'm hoping later this year.

[@meganmelonas6488]

The Tapes Archive A good time would be on his birthday, (9/12) I presume 😻

[@hemispheres500]

Subscribed and notification bell ticked. Thank you for releasing these. I too grew up starved of Rush information (Especially in the UK) There was interviews, as articles, in the NME , Kerrang Etc. But we saw and heard very little of interviews on shows and radio during the decades of fandom. So to have this which (In addition to the memories) Gives new insight to the songs and is a welcome invigoration of a passion and love for a band that for millions of fans (You don't get the record platinum awards year after year with a few hundred thousand) Is giving even more from a band that just keeps giving , even now, each time you revisit their work. A Big thank from this Rush Fan.

[@MrMrdlegend]

Thanks for posting!

[@ciadella1971]

Man, to hear Neil speak about somebody losing their life by a random car accident at 9:00 just freaked me out....thats how his daughter died.

[@JayBuff19]

looking forward to number 3.

[@MDUBE5999]

WHOA!! Thanx for sharing!! This is AMAZING!! I didn't know allot this. From 6:39 .. that ringing was a telephone. In which the phone is attached to the home. Couldn't take it with you like a cell phone. Good times!!

[@TheTapesArchive]

Good times indeed. Just an FYI we have 2 other interviews with Neil that are awesome too.

[@Gitareur]

Doofus and Dingus are redundant now. Thanks for these tapes. What a great loss for The World we live in.

[@Rockin_Ross]

Weren’t those the names he gave the GPS’s he and Brutus used on the motorcycles?

[@patrickbeintema9184]

8:58 him mentioning the possibility of getting into a car accident and die, man, I had to pause there and take a deep breath....

[@AlanBerry]

Sadly foreshadowing

[@davedebelis9736]

I thought the same thing.. such a great musician/ writer obviously . But was such a great man that had fought the good fight in his later years.. pains me to know end. Earthshine

[@drumsybatabamboom8022]

The car accident comment....chills.

[@MrMrdlegend]

Yeah, for sure right at the 9 minute mark

[@ciadella1971]

Yeah that freaked me out too....

[@rogertayloRRR]

Interesting words on bon jovi and george michael.. Did interview 3 come.out yet?

[@TheTapesArchive]

Hi Roger, it did. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmHYXneFrtl_jLc

[@ghendar]

A nice sequel to the previous interview but how is it that these have never been heard before? What were the circumstances behind them never being broadcast at the time? Were they transcribed for print?

[@ghendar]

@@marcallan9930 Well, thank Alan for me. Excellent decision

[@TheTapesArchive]

@@ghendar You can also watch this for a little more context kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXi2lneHbp2riLM

[@BradBarrier]

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[@grandconjunct]

" Early man trying to figure out why a dinosaur ate his wife " 10:15 ??? Peart was a great lyricist and drummer but my God he was ignorant about some subjects like religion, basic natural earth history, etc. all the dinosaurs died out 65 million years before man or any precursor of man even appeared on earth. He must have been watching Flintstones that day I guess, man and dinosaurs were not contemporaries. And as far as "early man looking up at stars and thinking they determined his life" Ironically it is the secular materialistic world view that entails that, if all that exists is deterministic matter in motion then the movement of the cosmos alone ( Not astrology but astrophysics determining inevitable brain particles on their way to inevitable movements and inevitable irresistible thoughts and irresistible world views including material brains determined to be a determinist) , the movement of cosmos determining the brains every behavior and thought, though at least Neil held to libertarian freewill (see song freewill ) inconsistently and fully contradictorily, but a non-material mind/soul would have allowed a person to rise above their deterministic brain hardwiring and freely reason to a conclusion and free behavior rather than merely reacting to an deterministic/inevitable one. But other than that , R.I.P. Neil.

[@TheTapesArchive]

Don't you think that Neil really knows that dinosaurs and humans did not exist at that time?

[@musheopeaus4125]

He was being facile . He knows they didn't exist together just as the sky doesn't exist