Rush drummer publishes new book

Rush drummer Neil Peart is back this week with a new book titled Roadshow : Landscape With Drums: A Concert Tour By Motorcycle. It's a chronicle of his time on the band's 30th anniversary tour across North America in 2004, when he rode his motorcycle between gigs, instead of getting on the tour bus with singer-bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson.

Peart told us that traveling the country on his bike and interacting with people off the beaten path has affected his work as an author and as the main lyricist for Rush: "I'm writing through watching, you know, farm workers working in the fields, and watching people working in gas stations and in, in small-town restaurants, and all that. And those people become part of the world, and part of the human nature that I'm writing about. And I think that has to help, and definitely does help into giving me a much more real perspective on life as it is lived, you know, on an everyday basis for more people."

Roadshow is Peart's fourth book, following 2002's Ghost Rider: Travels On The Healing Road, and two from 2004 -- Traveling Music: The Soundtrack To My Life, and The Masked Rider: Cycling In West Africa.

Rush has been working on a new studio album that should be out next year.
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