BEYOND THE LIGHTED STAGE

In the early eighties I listened to Rush for the first time with a song called "The Spirit of the Radio", and I didn`t like it very much. It was until 1983 when a friend lent me their two official live albums which were available at that time ("All the World is a Stage" and "Exit...Stage Left") that I particularly really appreciated Neil Peart`s drums playing as I was learning to play the drums then. That friend also lent me other albums from the band which at that time I liked, and I also bought thier "Signals" album that year, an album which I still like but I don`tplay it very much these days. By the time of the release of their "Power Windows" album I really lost interest in the band and I only watched their videos on TV without being interested to buy their albums. Anyway, I still consider that this band is a very good band, even if I don`t agree with the thematic of some of their lyrics. So, I recently watched to this documentary to learn more from the history of this band. It is a good documentary for a long history that this band has (more than 40 years of playing as a band with few conflicts; I think that it is really amazing for bands like this to do that). I think that this band is now far from my musical tastes, but it is good anyway. The documentary has some very good interviews, and shows that Neil Peart has been a very important member in that band, not only writing the lyrics but also writing the concepts for some albums (which, as I mentioned before, sometimes I don`t like them very much). He is maybe one of the best drummers in Rock music. He has survived some really hard times in his life (which are mentioned in this documentary) with the solidarity of Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, and it is very good that the band is still working after all these many years. Well. It is a good documentary, which is similar to other documentaries that other bands have produced. So, I consider this documentary more dedicated to the long time fans of the band.