CREEM was a magazine with a sense of humor. They would print quotes from Keith Moon like: "My advice to beginners wanting to get into drums is to play the guitar." They ran a famous picture of Jimmy Page gesturing with the flat of his hand upraised to Robert Plant aboard their jet with the caption: "And the ones that got off the space ship were this tall." Bozzio took umbrage at something one of CREEM's interviewers said and they ripped Missing Persons to shreds. But nothing like the umbrage a certain drummer named Peart took when CREEM ran an article about a fake hedonistic rock star named Geddy Lee Roth.
Maybe he'd been imbibing too much Watney's Red Barrel aboard the Thailand Express but Neil went off, very unlike his well established serious humble wise MD persona.
The Geddy Lee Roth thing was utterly mindless highschoolkidshit, but as funny as Hunter S. Thompson (RIP) on a good day. So next time CREEM wants to stick a microphone in Geddy's face for an interview, he won't talk. Neil began to bristle and boiled over with: "Geddy's mad about the article, it was vicious. We're musicians, not comedians." The interview carried on heatedly with Neil calling McCartney a musical prostitute, bashing another big touring act (AC/DC if memory serves) and, concerning the Stones, he quipped: "You can't really call them good musicians, can you?" CREEM asked him if he was talking about the same band that recorded Honky Tonk Women, Satisfaction, Miss You and various other number one hit singles that Rush never had. Which didn't make Peart happy.
Personally I agree(d) with every word he said, but CREEM had another go at Neil the very next issue where they printed all of his negative comments AGAIN in a sidecar in bold type.
A magazine will always have the last word. [img]graemlins/shhh.gif[/img]
