It was more surreal than this picture of Geddy Lee standing in front of a picture of Geddy Lee (right). It was all kind of surreal, being back home (I drove past my old house) eating an all the way dog at the Goffle Grill (which was terrible–how did I like them? Or did they just get worse?) and driving down Main Street in Ridgewood where I used to hang out. So that was rather hard to do.Īll that was left was to go to my car and go to IKEA and then go home. I tried to get a few more pictures, but I had two of these heavy books and they had to be left open so the ink would dry. But what was there to do but to leave the store. So he signed my book and I was pretty pumped. I have to assume he was very nice to her. She would look over and start sobbing more. And she was sniffling for the entire time we were on line. As soon as we got downstairs and she was within 100 feet of Geddy she started sobbing. But how about this woman with the Fly By Night album owl on the back of her jacket? I didn’t get a close look, but it looks to be pretty amazing.Īnd then there was the woman a few people in front of me with the Geddy tattoo on her calf. And I had patches of them on my jackets as a kid. I knew people had seen them in concert a lot more than I had–for a band I loved, I didn’t see them live much. But as you get older I thought fandom tended to wane. I bought every album and even found their last few to be some of their best music. My musical tastes changed a bit over the years, but I never stopped listening to them. Rush was my unquestioned favorite band from pretty much 1982-1992. I definitely felt a bit of a lower-case r rush after thanking him.īut it was also a little…I guess humbling is not quite the word… just interesting, I guess seeing how many Rush fans there are, and those who are clearly more devoted than I am. It was very cool being in his presence even if I don’t feel like I can say I actually met him. I guess that’s what being star-struck (and under pressure from 800 people behind you) is like. Why I didn’t ask him a question of say something I don’t know. I’m sure he said thanks for coming or something. He signed the book for my and for my sister-in-law. We were told no pictures while he was signing our books, but hell, I was this close, how could I not snap this one (left)? We went downstairs, walked in the Disneyland-like line, taking pictures all the while (it amuses me how few of these pictures look any different–it’s not like he was posing and doing crazy things, he was just signing 1,000 books.Īnd then it was my turn. I imagined all the things I could say to him–thing I’m sure that every other fan has said to him a million times. We were all abuzz by then, even if it still took 45 minutes for us to get inside. When he parked the car behind the store, we all got the briefly glimpse of him. Geddy was still in NYC when we got online, and they gave us occasional updates as he was driven here. So I wound up, completely underdressed, standing in the cold for an hour an a half (I thought there were only 100 tickets sold, but there were actually 1000). I got to the store later than I meant to and they told me the line was already forming. I had it planned that I would get to the bookstore fairly early (the signing was at 5), get my wristband, go to the IKEA that’s near by and then come back and wait on line. So I took the day off and drove up to Ridgewood. I couldn’t imagine how else that would happen. Then my sister-in-law, a huge Rush fan herself, said, I should go just for her and I got to thinking that it would be pretty cool to sort of meet Geddy Lee. But I knew I’d have to take a day off of work and, really, was it that big of a deal? And one of them would be at Bookends bookstore in Ridgewood, NJ, just ten minutes from where I grew up (but an hour away from where I live now), I jokingly said that my teenaged self would have been there in a heartbeat. not to get it for me for Christmas.Īnd then Geddy announced he would be doing book signings. I thought it might be fun to look through, but I even told S. And, no matter how cool it was, I definitely didn’t need the $900 Ultra Limited Edition. But I didn’t really need a 7 pound coffee table book of bass guitars. When I heard that Geddy Lee would be publishing the Big Beautiful Book of Bass, I thought it was kind of neat.
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