Geddy Lee Tells His Family's Holocaust Story (Full Interview) [15:50 minutes]

Really interesting. Thanks for posting it. I’ve been a big Rush fan for as long as I’ve been aware of them.

21 posted on 02/08/2019 2:11:12 PM PST by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)

Thanks!

Yes - saw this the other night. My daughter (two Rush concerts with me) is going to visit Poland this spring and visit Auschwitz. I emailed her this video. She already has the song Red Sector A and knows some of the story behind it.

Amazing details though from this interview (Left, right, left, right...)

Interesting that Geddy views the Holocaust as evidence that there is no God, while his mother and other survivors that actually went through the horror still have a strong faith. So many of his/their songs show a spiritual side as in the search for truth, answers to eternal mysteries, etc. I hope he/they find it some day.

Below is the song “Grace to Grace” from Geddy’s solo album. I did NOT know this was also about the Holocaust. Tragedy is universal in many respects, as the song can fit one’s own circumstances. However, it has much more meaning knowing the source of the lyrics.

“..gods in the heavens can't seem to get it right..”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R66l7iv-3TY

22 posted on 02/08/2019 2:49:55 PM PST by 21twelve (!)

To: RedStateRocker; All

Real name “Gary Lee Weinrub”.

He always joked that his grandmother, with her heavy Yiddish accent, would pronounce his first-two names "Geddy" ... that's how his nic came about

BTW, Neil Peart also went thru his own personal crisis-of-faith, when his daughter was killed in a vehicle crash a few years back ... wanted to give up drumming, but his girlfriend encouraged him to get back into it, if only for the therapeutic value ... think about that when you see him perform now

23 posted on 02/08/2019 4:12:10 PM PST by canuck_conservative

Thank you so much for sharing this!

24 posted on 02/08/2019 4:51:55 PM PST by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things!)

25 posted on 02/08/2019 5:02:51 PM PST by beaversmom (Trump is a bionic, 1-man band. Time for all Repubs to jump on his band-wagon & circle the wagons.)

26 posted on 02/08/2019 5:03:32 PM PST by beaversmom (Trump is a bionic, 1-man band. Time for all Repubs to jump on his band-wagon & circle the wagons.)

As with Schoenberg. He decided that the acts of the Third Reich meant that beauty was itself obscene.

He embarked upon making music alien to human nature, thus causing normals to look to the past masters.

27 posted on 02/08/2019 5:35:00 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)

To: canuck_conservative

Peart’s daughter killed in the crash and his wife died of cancer less than a year later.

28 posted on 02/08/2019 6:39:23 PM PST by 21twelve (!)

To: canuck_conservative

Required viewing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk8hbSxY0sE

On Netflix.

29 posted on 02/08/2019 7:08:10 PM PST by RedStateRocker

To: canuck_conservative

30 posted on 02/09/2019 4:56:08 AM PST by stockpirate (TYRANNY IS THY NAME REBELLION IS OUR ANSWER. HANG THEM ALL!)

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