Rush-ing into Songwriters Hall

[TZ]

Rush drummer Neil Peart is also the Toronto veteran prog-rock band’s resident wordsmith.

So it should come as no surprise that Peart will write and deliver the acceptance speech as he, bassist-vocalist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson are inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame at a gala ceremony Sunday night at the Toronto Centre For The Arts.

“Public speaking isn’t easy for me and I know all the evening the blood will be roaring louder in my ears,” Peart, 57, said down the line from his adopted home of Santa Monica, Calif., recently.

“But it’s a challenge and I love those kind of things. Even performing live, after all these years, is an intensely tense (experience) all day long and leading up to showtime and then just before it, again the blood rushing in your ears, and heart pounding, and everything feels tingly and kind of unwell. But it’s a challenge as well to go up there and play well under those circumstances.”

http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/music/2010/03/26/13369756.html
And here's the best part for all you haters, especially:
"Rush drummer Neil Peart says the group’s Canadian Songwriting Hall of Fame induction Sunday night in Toronto comes as he is in the midst of writing lyrics for the next Rush studio album."
Which I hope means a tour to follow..:woohoo:

[LynneSin]

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Damnit!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Well, he already has a prison in Northern Ontario named after him.

So that's not that big of a surprise if you ask me.

[jobycom]

3. Wow.

His press releases are as painful as his songs. He has no ear for language or music, does he?

[TZ]

4. Why do you hate Canada?

:P