Bell bottoms, babes and the Beatles reigned strong in Geddy Lee's teenage years in the 1960s. "My Effin' Life" details his marriage to Nancy, his passion for music and a blissfully bizarre rock 'n' roll lifestyle.
Imagine the steoreo spectrum as a blank canvas, absolute nothingness becomes music. Sounds fueling the imagination.
Geddy Lee is the only member of the band that never worked amidst the ticking time traps of works gilded cage. As a high school drop out, he knew exactly what he wanted to do. He and his wife Nancy have been together since they were teenagers, and her parents were not happy with their daughter dating a high school drop out pursuing a career in music.
Credit Ed jr, aka my brother for gifting me Geddy Lee's, "My Effin' Life," a fantastic Christmas gift incidentally. I've been an avid Rush fan since the Grace Under Pressure tour, read three of Neil's Peart's books and I've watched R30 a geekish amount of times.
Lee's book isn't just for Rush fans. It's laden with information, including raw details about his soul, his fascination for music and his relationship with his wife Nancy. "My Effin' Life" is a bevy of information, delving into the origins of Rush and Lee's life outside the band.
Taking acid was a right of passage for a teenager in the 1960s, Lee said. He's very candid about his prior drug use and I liked his references to LSD. Lee dubbed one of his summers as the summer of acid. This related to me on a personal level for some unbeknownst reason.
This 2023 book isn't a friouvous account of some rock star, although the book is riddled with foolish facts and trivial information. Despite that, the book contains harsh realities and compelling facts.
No spoilers from me in this review. I'll simply tinge the edges of his aspirations and accomplishments he's revealed in the book. How much did Lee's first bass cost? Trivial knowledge, I know, but if anyone says his first base didn't cost $35.0 is wrong.
Intense realities of the Holocaust were documented with extreme eloquence. Lee's mom spent much of her teenaged years not knowing if she was going to get an actual shower or be gassed to death with zyklon B gas. During her time in Holocaust hell, she did have her grandmother with her. She was my savior, she knew how to calm me and talk to me, his mom, Mary said.
Lee's parents meant in a German concentration camp during WW II, they were both Jewish, and that's how their romance began. For breakfast they got water, one piece of paper thin bread, no lunch, and for dinner they got watered downed cabbage soup, fit to serve a horse. Every second day for a month they also had to give blood. The German soldiers wondered why a lot of Jews were fainting. "My Effin' Life" contains an entire chapter on this horrid subject.
If your fascinated with music emitting dark and authoritative sounds while brandishing a melodic magnificent inspired by Paul McCarntney, My Effin' Life" is a must read.
Lee's grandmother refered to Alex Lifeson and his friends as "little Hitlers," using her native tongue.
Lee sounds like a guinea pig with an amphetamine habit...if his voice were any higher, only dogs and extraterrestrials could hear it, Dan Nooger and another writer said.
Some lucky Rush fans who wrote actual fan mail, pen to paper, then a stamped envelope, received hand written letters from Neil Peart answering their mail to him.
Rock 'n' roll's symbol of defiance involving drugs and the demands of the imagination are detailed wisely by Geddy. Lee liked what the Nazi's hated and its work out very well for him.
Read the book and find out which member of Rush said the anthem of redemption, I posses the technique of music and the spirit of voice, and the ability to play my story, he said.
"My Effin' Life" reveals all three alcohols used in the diabolical mix of Panther Piss, Alex Lifeson used to make in the infancy of Rush touring.
How do we keep or sanity, ego's and dreams intact? Geddy Lee and his two other comrades in Rush knew how to. Five stars easy for "My Effin' Life."
The basic ingredients for success is stick-to-it-ness and when you've got everything together its ticky-boo, Lee said.
