Traveling Music by Neil Peart - ISBN: 9781550226645
Hardcover
The music of Frank Sinatra, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, and many other artists provides the score to the reflections of a musician on the road in this memoir of Neil Peart‘s travels from Los Angeles to Big Bend National Park. The emotional associations and stories behind each album Peart plays guide h…

Traveling Music

The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

  • Hardcover

    380 pages

  • Release Date

    3 August 2004

Summary

Neil Peart decided to drive his BMW Z-8 automobile from L.A. to Big Bend National Park, in Southwest Texas. As he sped along “between the gas-gulping SUVs and asthmatic Japanese compacts clumping in the left lane, and the roaring, straining semis in the right,” he acted as his own DJ, lining up the CDs chronologically and according to his possible moods.

“Not only did the music I listened to accompany my journey, but it also took me on sidetrips, through memory and fractals of assoc…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781550226645
ISBN-10:1550226649
Author:Neil Peart
Publisher:ECW Press,Canada
Imprint:ECW Press,Canada
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:380
Release Date:3 August 2004
Weight:754g
Dimensions:235mm x 160mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Peart’s writing is lyrical and his tale poignant, fully capturing an extraordinary journey, both as a travel adventure and as memoir.”

“Peart’s writing is lyrical and his tale poignant, fully capturing an extraordinary journey, both as a travel adventure and as memoir.” –“Library Journal” on “Ghost Rider”

About The Author

Neil Peart

Neil Peart was the drummer and lyricist of the legendary rock band Rush and the author of The Masked Rider, Ghost Rider, Roadshow, Far and Away, Far and Near, Far and Wide, and, with Kevin J. Anderson, Clockwork Angels and Clockwork Lives.

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