Your Survival Guy was driving to an appointment Tuesday morning when one of my West Coast clients called my cell.
“Hey, did you get the RUSH 50 box set?” he asked.
“No, I haven’t,” I said.
“I just got mine,” he said, “and it’s really well done,” explaining how he opted for the CD version. “It was only $75, and I figured it was worth it.”
Later, when I checked out Rush’s website, I realized the vinyl and CD versions were sold out, then typed my way to Amazon.com to find a secondary seller asking $99. I bit the bullet, figuring that’s the price I pay for being asleep at the wheel.
I unwrapped it yesterday, and it’s so well done, as you can see in the video below.
Listening to cuts brought me back in time, a gift music gives to us all: It’s the closest thing we have to a time travel machine. And you don’t even have to leave your seat.
Your Survival Guy remembers it like it was yesterday, sitting on my bedroom floor listening to Moving Pictures, holding the album cover, and just concentrating on the music. Hearing Neil Peart’s sixteenth notes on the hi hat on “Tom Sawyer.”
You could look at the artwork and read the liner notes, and didn’t need to Google a video. It was better in your head.
Instantly, you could hear the big sound by just three guys from Canada: Peart, bassist Geddy Lee, and guitarist Alex Lifeson. What would it be like to hear them live? For me, the answer to that would come many years later.
In reading Geddy Lee’s book My Effin’ Life, I remember him telling how Rush would open for Kiss but how Rush didn’t partake in the circus. When my neighbor Chip, who was much older than me went to a Kiss concert, I couldn’t believe my ears. As Jimmy Buffett writes in his song “Manana,” “Don’t try to describe a Kiss concert if you’ve never seen it.”
Isn’t that how life works? When you’re working, you’re working. And it’s a wonder we all got out alive. But when you retire, it’s once again a big world out there, and sometimes it’s comforting to find your inner Tom Sawyer and go back to when you were young.
Action Line: Life is supposed to be fun. Find your inner Tom Sawyer and start playing. I want to hear about your retirement life. Email me at ejsmith@yoursurvivalguy.com. And click here to subscribe to my free monthly Survive & Thrive letter.
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