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A review by alliedbiscuit
My Effin' Life by Geddy Lee
4.0
Rush is the first band I loved. I air-drummed to 2112 on vinyl so many times that I damn near wore it out. My first big arena show was seeing their Vapour Trails comeback tour in 2002 with my dad—a hugely formative experience. “Red Barchetta” gets me misty eyed and feeling like a kid again. So, all that to say that I’m primed to love this. My musical tastes have diverted down many paths in my 34 years, but Geddy, Alex, and Neil are like old friends; I don’t visit them as often as I used to, but they’ll always have a place in my heart.
What makes this memoir great is that Geddy gets all the angles. Not only telling a story about Rush, but his culture, the horrors his family endured in the Holocaust, Canadian identity, and the creative life. He also has a keen sense of self awareness about his band’s successes and failures, and even their perceived (and eventually embraced) image as hopelessly uncool prog dorks. He clearly went deep to write this, and it’s hard to walk away from it not feeling respect and compassion towards the guy.
Audiobook is the way to go on this one. The man telling his own story is where it’s at.
What makes this memoir great is that Geddy gets all the angles. Not only telling a story about Rush, but his culture, the horrors his family endured in the Holocaust, Canadian identity, and the creative life. He also has a keen sense of self awareness about his band’s successes and failures, and even their perceived (and eventually embraced) image as hopelessly uncool prog dorks. He clearly went deep to write this, and it’s hard to walk away from it not feeling respect and compassion towards the guy.
Audiobook is the way to go on this one. The man telling his own story is where it’s at.