HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: GEN2010@Husky1.StMarys.Ca (ROSS BILLARD)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Sound check...;-)
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:17:02 GMT
Organization: St. Mary's University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.12.SMU

In <1992Apr15.174243.12837@wam.umd.edu> warrior@next03pg2.wam.umd.edu writes:

> > So, just how many people out there have played air drums to Tom Sawyer??
> > 
> > Dan
> A better song to air drum to is "Where's my thing" from RTB

Or how about the 'Rythym Method'?

     Ross Billard
Saint Marys University
 Halifax, Nova Scotia
       Canada
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: ras@controls.hccd.harris.com (Russell Soule)
Subject: Re: New rumor
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:27:25 GMT
Organization: Rush fan

In article <1992Apr15.180429.7780@eng.ufl.edu>, joev@crow.grad.ee.ufl.edu (Joseph Versagg) writes:
|> 	First,I just wanted to say that this is a great idea for a newsgroup. I have found that Rush has the most intelligent and devoted following in rock music. Until a few years ago, it was a rare occassion to run into a Rush fan (maybe it's a rule; the farth|> er south of Canada, the smaller the fan base).
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I beg to differ. Central Florida has quite a healthy base of Rush fans. Rush
is one of the few groups that had packed the Orlando O-rena this past year,
while tours like Yes' Union tour left it horribly half empty. In fact, one
of the local radio rock stations has started a rock Super Bowl that takes
place during the NFL playoffs, pairing off groups such as Rush, Zeppelin, Floyd,
the Doors, Yes, etc. each week until Super Bowl Sunday, when the field has
been whittled down to two. The play a six-pack of the two bands best songs, three
by each group and have about a half-hour to an hour's worth of call in voting.
Then they say who moves on and who lost. Last year, Rush stomped on bands like
ZZ Top and Bad Company in the early rounds by votes like 86% to 14%, and went
on to creme the Doors by about the same margin. This year, they only made it to
the final four, to be beaten out by Pink Floyd or someone like that.

Face it. Rush is so awesome, there are fans all over the place. People around here
have been known to travel to their HollyWood (FL), Pensacola, Orlando, and St.
Petersburg shows when they make their Florida concert swing. And some have even
made the trip to Atlanta, Savanah, and Mobile. But there are probably fans like
that everywhere too!

|> 
|> C'Ya
|> Joe
|> 	--Graduate school; it's not just a job, it's an indenture--

Russ
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: warrior@next03pg2.wam.umd.edu (Gary Carter Inc.)
Subject: RUSH RULES!
Reply-To: warrior@wam.umd.edu
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:13:09 GMT

The day has come.  After seeing newsgroups for Metallica and Enya, there  
is now a real newsgroup, that is worth the time of day!!!!!!!!!
"Why are we here?   Because we're here!"
Rock on.....
From: jwl3885@summa.tamu.edu (THIS SPACE FOR RENT)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Sound check...;-)
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:29:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr15.004242@hobbes.prime.com>, danw@hobbes.prime.com (Dan Westerberg) writes...
>So, just how many people out there have played air drums to Tom Sawyer??

I think the question should be "who has NOT"

Cheers,
John
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Wednesday, 15 Apr 1992 20:56:15 CDT
From: John D. Talbot, Maverick Philosopher <U28802@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Peart's name
Distribution: usa

Neil also stated the pronounciation himself when he appeared on ROCKLINE
last December. Twas a great show, as the Rockline callers that just wait in the
wings with moronic questions had the good sense to stay away. I'm still trying
to figger out why Gedd and Alex still get stupid questions tho... :p
Anywho, Neil sed it himself, and yes, it does rhyme with "beer'.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
               /_\                               |John D. Talbot
             /_(0)_\                The          |u28802@uicvm.uic.edu
           /_I__I__I_\           *DISCOUNT*      |gis10r1@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
     ILLUMINATI INTERNATIONAL    Conspiracy      |-----------------------
        /_I__I__I__I__I_\          People!       |"I am not a Marxist!"
      /_I__I__I__I__I__I__\                      |-Karl Marx, on his
    /__I__I__I__I__I__I__I__\                    | deathbed; 1883
-A wholly-owned subsidiary of Trilateral Commission Inc. 1311 Anno Lucia-
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: jwl3885@zeus.tamu.edu (THIS SPACE FOR RENT)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Well its about time!
Date: 15 Apr 92 13:56:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: zeus.15APR199208561292
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


Well all right!  Finally!!!  I'v seen lots of different groups, but finally my
favorite group!  

Cheers,
John
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: hurst@wallowa.engin.umich.edu (Walter Allen Hurst)
Subject: concerts
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 00:24:47 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: hurst@wallowa.engin.umich.edu


I'll have to agree and say that it`s about fucking time this group got started.  I've been keeping up with the Metallica newsgroup, wondering why the hell there wasn't a Rush one.  Let's start things out with some concert info.  I'd really appreciate some news on present or planned concerts Rush is doing around Michigan.  I'm willing to drive a few days to see them, so I suppose that includes a pretty big area.  Anyone know of any?  Thanks...

    Now there is no more oak oppresion,
    for they have passed a noble law.
    And the trees are all kept equal,
    with hachet, axe, and saw!
From: dfay@isis.cs.du.edu (David Fay)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: GREAT newsgroup!!!!!
Date: 15 Apr 92 06:07:44 GMT
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.



Finally the newsgroup that needed to be made!
I see that I am the first poster... cool!
Now, on to the message...

I learned just today that Rush is coming to SLC, Utah with Mr. Big.
They will be here May 29, but no one seems to know when tickets will 
go on sale, or where they will play.  Anyone with this info, please e-mail 
me at the address below.  Maybe we can get an awesome Rush party going the 
weekend before. 

(Elations on being the first poster, ramblings, etc.   fades off...)

          David Fay
          (dpfay@cadehp0.eng.utah.edu)
                      "Life is a diamond we turn into dust"
                                            -- Niel Peart
                                               Roll the Bones: Neurotica
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: jrichard@cs.ulowell.edu (John (MacGyver) Richardson)
Subject: Re: The FAQL from the Rush Fans Digest
Originator: jrichard@bigmax.ulowell.edu
Keywords: 
	I heard that Neil Peart has a PhD in <field of study>.  Is this true?
Reply-To: jrichard@cs.ulowell.edu
Organization: Univ. of Lowell CS Dept.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 14:50:18 GMT


	   In _Visions_, Neil is quoted (on page 65) as saying that he is
	   a high school dropout.  I don't see how he would have had time to
	   go to school and get a degree, what with being in Rush and all.


I remember reading that at least Geddy and Alex were working on some sort
of music degree.   We don't want everyone to think that Rush is a dropout
band! :)

John (MacGyver) Richardson |"sun dogs fire on the horizon        \ \   \
jrichard@cs.ulowell.edu    | meteor rain stars across the night   * *   \   /\
jrichard@duck.ulowell.edu  | ...the spark still flies                /\  * /  \
                           | reflected in another pair of eyes." /\ /  \/\/
                                                           ------  \   / /
From: goodlett@ee.tamu.edu (Michael Goodlett)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: The Canadian Power Trio
Date: 16 Apr 92 00:02:49 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University

In article <1992Apr15.085541.22332@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> ddavis@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Donald Davis) writes:
>
>	1.) Anybody ever read the redoubtable Ayn Rand, Neil's inspiration
>for 2112?  I read and loved "Anthem", but I found "The Fountainhead" and
>"Atlas Shrugged" to be tiresome, almost pedantic works...


Well, it's been some time since I read "Anthem".  I found
the first few chapters the hardest until I got used
to it.  A very interesting concept.  The reading made the
album that much more enjoyable.

Mike
-goodlett@ee.tamu.edu

8mm drives should dance for a living.
From: saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu (Brian E. Saunders)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Listening to Rush while driving
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:40:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Apr16.104022.19623
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison
Originator: saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu

In article <1992Apr16.125404.22968@walter.bellcore.com> kevink@fugitive.soac.bellcore.com (Kevin Klinge) writes:
>In article <1992Apr15.213836.950@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu (Brian E. Saunders) writes:
>|> In the fall of 1988, I was driving from Aiken, SC to Angola, IN.  It was
>|> about a 14.5 hour drive, 13 of which was sitting in the car.  At that time,
>|> Rush had 12 studio albums out, and 2 live albums (A Show of Hands was in
>|> the works then).  I had all the CD's on cassette tape and listened to every
>|> one of them on the way home.  Pretty cool, huh?
>
>Hey Brian,
>
>Did you play them all in order, or did you "mix them up"?
>I had a similar situation back in 1990 driving from Clemson, SC to Ann 
>Arbor, MI coming back from spring break (ONLY a 12 hour drive) and in 
>those times, I usually find myself mixing up the selections.  And I 
>usually start a marathon Rush set by playing AFTK.  I don't know why, 
>but I just do... 

No, I was feeling somewhat anal retentive that day, so I played them in
order, except that I played the live albums after all the studio albums.
-- 

Brian E. Saunders			saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu
From: capri@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (71062000)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Sound check...;-)
Date: 15 Apr 92 08:28:17 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing


Screw air drums.  I drive a bus on campus; one time I had a whole load
stompin' to Workin' Man at one in the morning.  Thank God for the radio...

Jeffro

ps.  I wrecked my first car to "Spirit of Radio", the live version.  dig.
From: greg@perry.berkeley.edu (Greg Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Rush at Shoreline
Date: 17 Apr 1992 20:40:00 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: brkseis19.berkeley.edu
Summary: WHAT SHOW AT SHORELINE?!?!?!?!
Keywords: Rush Shoreline concert


Does anyone know if there are any tickets available to the
Shoreline show?  Or am I just a poor fool Rushhead who will
have to be satisfied with the three dates I've already seen
this tour?  ;->

And for those who suggested this newsgroup, THANK YOU!!!
Finally, a music group with its head screwed on right!    

Greg Anderson, rushhead and (currently wounded) skating seismologist
greg@perry.berkeley.edu

Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stuart M Castergine)
Subject: Re: OK
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 03:44:17 GMT

In article <74300@netnews.upenn.edu> ott@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (DOOZER) writes:
>
>	BTW, does anyone know of any other groups whose lyrics are as deep as
>Neil's?
>

There are a few, but my top two are still Neil and Kate Bush -- her
lyrics are very different from Neil's, but very good. Not for talking
about here, tho. Check out rec.music.gaffa.

Neil's lyrics were a big part of what attracted me to Rush. I was a
devoted fan in high school and college but have fallen away. I am
considering getting back, though.

I own every Rush album from RUSH to p/g and at least one bootleg.

I haven't bought a Rush album since p/g -- I didn't really like p/g
very much, to be quite honest. It sounded to me like he was trying to
be too consciously poetic and abandoning the fluid story-telling style
he often used.

How many albums has Rush made since p/g and what do people think of them?


-- 
scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu -- Stuart M. Castergine

Wake the Witch!
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: sjohnson@faulen.asd.sgi.com (Scott Johnson)
Subject: Re: Rush - "Through Time"
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 17:50:42 GMT

In <17APR199211224552@zeus.tamu.edu> srf6200@zeus.tamu.edu writes:

>Rush - "Through Time" (live album?)

>Does anyone know if this album is available in the US in record stores or 
>possibly mail order?  And if so, is it on CD?  I saw it once about eight 
>years ago in Phoenix, AZ on LP, but never picked it up.  Thanks for the 
>info.

>Steve Fennell
>srf6200@zeus.tamu.edu

it is definitely available on LP.  at least it was at one time.  i've got
it here in front of me, but i picked it up years ago.

sj
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: joev@crow.grad.ee.ufl.edu (Joseph Versagg)
Subject: New rumor
Organization: UF EE Department
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 18:04:29 GMT

	First,I just wanted to say that this is a great idea for a newsgroup. I have found that Rush has the most intelligent and devoted following in rock music. Until a few years ago, it was a rare occassion to run into a Rush fan (maybe it's a rule; the farther south of Canada, the smaller the fan base).
	At any rate, there was a rumor I heard a few months ago that, get this, Neil Peart has muscular dystrophy, which is spelling the end of his - and Rush's - career. I know that this takes the proverbial cake, but for the three days it took for me to disprove it, there was genuine concern.

C'Ya
Joe
	--Graduate school; it's not just a job, it's an indenture--
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: kevink@fugitive.soac.bellcore.com (Kevin Klinge)
Subject: Re: Listening to Rush while driving
Organization: Bell Communications Research
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 12:54:04 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.213836.950@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu (Brian E. Saunders) writes:
|> In the fall of 1988, I was driving from Aiken, SC to Angola, IN.  It was
|> about a 14.5 hour drive, 13 of which was sitting in the car.  At that time,
|> Rush had 12 studio albums out, and 2 live albums (A Show of Hands was in
|> the works then).  I had all the CD's on cassette tape and listened to every
|> one of them on the way home.  Pretty cool, huh?

Hey Brian,

Did you play them all in order, or did you "mix them up"?
I had a similar situation back in 1990 driving from Clemson, SC to Ann 
Arbor, MI coming back from spring break (ONLY a 12 hour drive) and in 
those times, I usually find myself mixing up the selections.  And I 
usually start a marathon Rush set by playing AFTK.  I don't know why, 
but I just do... 

-- 

Kevin H. Klinge	                  "better the pride that resides...
Bell Communications Research       in the citizens of the world"
kevink@soac.bellcore.com
From: elee@descartes.waterloo.edu (Salty Freckles)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: RUSHin through Baltimore tunnel
Date: 15 Apr 92 18:57:31 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo

In article <1992Apr15.130534.29662@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> schieb@isis.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brian D. Schieber) writes:
>A real wild ride is setting up the cassette for your favorite RUSH
>tune to start just as you enter the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel (any
>self-respecting tunnel will suffice), open the windows, the sun roof (if you
>have one :) ), doors (optional) and let is blast off the walls as you
>attempt to maintain the speed limit (good luck!). 

An appropriate tune would be Red Barchetta...

>  Brian D. Schieber            NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center 
>  schieb@shark.gsfc.nasa.gov   Laboratory for Hydrospheric      
>  DECnet: urchin::schieb       Processes                       

Gene Lee
elee@descartes.waterloo.edu
From: saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu (Brian E. Saunders)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Listening to Rush while driving
Date: 16 Apr 92 02:38:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Apr15.213836.950
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison
Originator: saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu

In the fall of 1988, I was driving from Aiken, SC to Angola, IN.  It was
about a 14.5 hour drive, 13 of which was sitting in the car.  At that time,
Rush had 12 studio albums out, and 2 live albums (A Show of Hands was in
the works then).  I had all the CD's on cassette tape and listened to every
one of them on the way home.  Pretty cool, huh?
-- 

Brian E. Saunders			saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu
From: srf6200@zeus.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Rush - "Through Time"
Date: 17 Apr 92 16:22:00 GMT

Rush - "Through Time" (live album?)

Does anyone know if this album is available in the US in record stores or 
possibly mail order?  And if so, is it on CD?  I saw it once about eight 
years ago in Phoenix, AZ on LP, but never picked it up.  Thanks for the 
info.

Steve Fennell
srf6200@zeus.tamu.edu
From: jahnke@biosci.arizona.edu (Jerome Jahnke)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: The Canadian Power Trio
Date: 16 Apr 92 23:07:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: organpip.1992Apr16.230715.5393
Organization: Biology Learning Center

In article <1992Apr15.085541.22332@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, ddavis@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Donald Davis) writes:
> 
> 	1.) Anybody ever read the redoubtable Ayn Rand, Neil's inspiration
> for 2112?  I read and loved "Anthem", but I found "The Fountainhead" and
> "Atlas Shrugged" to be tiresome, almost pedantic works...
>

I don't know, I do enjoy Atlas Shrugged (although I keep skipping John
Galt's Radio speech). I was reading Ayn Rand before I was listening to 
Rush, my mother has been a BIG fan of hers, and I being a precocious child
raised by her I read everything I could get my hands on. So in the very early
70's she was reading Rand, and so was I (it took me quite a few years to 
decide what I really liked, but my mom was eclectic, so I got a broad area
to choose from). Anyway, I loved Anthem, and We the People (I think that
was the name), Atlas Shrugged left me cold, and I watched Fountainhead instead
of reading it. I also read some of her non-fiction, which really turns me off
but then I am a liberal democrat.
Organization: Youngstown State University
Date: Wednesday, 15 Apr 1992 14:40:28 EDT
From: <SC687405@ysub.ysu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Sound check...;-)

yes many many times.  In fact I play air drums to every song and in up
sweaty as hell


long live RUSH
From: bell@pokie.enet.dec.com (Mike J. Bell)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Why air drum?
Date: 16 Apr 92 04:50:20 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Get a kit, spend a few thousand bucks, c'mon!

I am a Rush fanatic.  They became my favorite band in 1988 (I was a Junior),
over then favorite Chicago (strange switch, huh!).

So I bought drums.  Thanks to Neil my playing is much more interesting, as he
keeps breaking boundaries and thought-barriers.  I try to keep up...  ;-)

So, I've got some questions (probably on the FAQ, oh well).

A) is there any good drum transcription out there (La Villa, Natural Science,
Xanadu)?

B) What did Neil use for microphones, heads and dampening for "Moving
Pictures," and what's the African-type sound in the beginning of Witch hunt made
with?  (in the cowbell riff)

C) Who is Rush's favorite group(s)?

That's all for now...
From: davida@anagram.umd.edu (David Arnold)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: concerts
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:56:27 GMT
Reply-To: davida@anagram.umd.edu (David Arnold)

In article <s5m+W#_@engin.umich.edu> hurst@wallowa.engin.umich.edu (Walter  
Allen Hurst) writes:
>info.  I'd really appreciate some news on present or planned concerts Rush
>is doing around Michigan.  I'm willing to drive a few days to see them, so I
>suppose that includes a pretty big area.  Anyone know of any?  Thanks...

This was posted to the NMS recently:

May 21 Memphis, TN, Mid-South Coliseum
May 23 Kansas City, MO Kemper Arena
May 24 Wichita, KS Kansas Coliseum
May 25 Oklahoma City, OK Myriad Arena
May 27 Denver, CO Fiddler's Green Amph.
May 29 Salt Lake CIty, UT (not sure of venue)
May 31 Mountain View, CA  Shoreline Amphitheatre

June 1 Reno, NV
June 3 Irvine Meadows, CA
June 4 Possible second night at Irvine Meadows
June 7th Phoenix  - Valley of the Sun - Desert Sky Pavillion 
June 9 Albuquerque, NM Tingley Coliseum
June 10 Lubbock, TX (not sure of venue)
June 12 Riverport Amphitheatre, St. Louis, MO 
June 13 Starwood Ampitheater Nashville, TN
June 14 Blockbuster Pavillion, Charlotte, NC
June 16 Merriweather Post Pavillion, Columbia, MD
June 19 Meadowlands Arena, E. Rutherford, NJ
June 23 Dayton, OH
June 24 Deer Creek, Noblesville, IN

This information is supplied as-is, no warranties either stated
or implied...

Yes, they have announced Merriweather Post in MD - they've never 
played there, at least not since Hemispheres tour!!

David
From: uslave@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (KJS @ucsb.mcl)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Sound check...;-)
Date: 16 Apr 92 03:49:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: mcl.uslave.703396149

In <1992Apr15.132737@IRO.UMontreal.CA> dourte@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Louis Dourte) writes:


>In article <1992Apr15.055433.14322@reed.edu>, ameiba@reed.edu (Keith Steiger) writes:
>|> In article <1992Apr15.004242@hobbes.prime.com>,
>|> 	danw@hobbes.prime.com (Dan Westerberg) writes:
>|> >So, just how many people out there have played air drums to Tom Sawyer??
>|> 
>|> I do air drum to Rush sometimes, but I find Tom Sawyer a little too slow to
>|> be truly cathartic.  I prefer Red Barchetta.  But then again, I prefer Red
>|> Barchetta most ways.  ;-)

>Tom Sawyer too slow? Then try YYZ!


Yup, me too!  I've air-drummed to all three mentioned above, plus Spirit of
Radio, Freewill, Natural Science, all of Signals, and most of Show of Hands!
Of course, I don't do that anymore, now that I can PLAY many of them on REAL
drums...:-)

just my $0.02 worth...

--
*        *      *     *     *    *   *  *  * * ** ** *** **** ****** ********* 
   KJS @ucsb.mcl (Jesse Chang)               e-mail: uslave@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu *
   "Traveling thru hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy!"    -- Han Solo * 
*         *       *      *     *    *   *  *  * ** ** *** **** ****** ********
From: blazic@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu (BLAZIC  Joseph R)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Lakeside Park (was Re: The FAQL from the Rush Fans Digest)
Date: 17 Apr 92 01:15:42 GMT
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility

In article <1992Apr16.024157.10096@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan) writes:
>
>P.S. I just happen to be a St. Catharines native, where high school math texts
>     with the Neil Peart inscription are a perennial favorite.

A perennial favourite or a collectors item?

Regards,

Joe