Neil Peart has posted a news update on his site. For those of you who have read his articles, you’ll know that this is just a snippet:
As I have been writing to my friends over the past few weeks, “Sorry I haven’t been writing—I’ve been too busy writing.”
The first big job I had to do was the essay I always write to accompany the release of a new Rush album. It might seem fairly easy to put together a few pages about a piece of work like that, but I find it to be the hardest kind of writing—except for lyrics, it occurs to me now. For similar reasons, too, because I’m trying to use the fewest words possible to convey the greatest amount of information. Lyrics are the most difficult, yet have the fewest words—maybe two hundred—and the next hardest are short prose pieces, a couple thousand words or so, because they carry a heavy load.
Neil covers the writing process for the essay, some insight into his MySpace “presence”, his love of touring (heh) and some new drums that will appear on the upcoming tour. It’s just a guess, but it sounds to me like they will be red with black hardware.
Excellent stuff. It’s a shame that things are gearing up and that it may be a while before we get another update.
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