The usual answer is “a drummer” but that doesn’t work today.
I was at the library the other day with my daugther. She needed to pick out a biography for a school project, and as she was thumbing through the biography section she came across this book titled “Ghost Rider” and said it looked great. Thirteen years old, and yet so wise.
The book is written by the Rush drummer Neil Peart, and it’s a memoir of his motorcycle travels after the death of his daughter, and then his wife just months later.
Mercifully, he tells the death story in the first few pages… and the rest of the story is a travelogue mixed with his observations and meditations. For anyone who has gone through a “Dark Night of the Soul” as Thomas Moore describes times like this, the book is a revelation. It provides yet another opportunity to connect with the great questions about life, in a very deep and meaningful way.
I would think this book would not be that interesting to a Rush fan, because it contains very little information about the band (at least so far). But for me, this book is something I am having trouble putting down. I guess I’m going to have to see what Rush has done since… see if/how this has affected Neil’s lyrics (he is the lyricist for the band).