“I’ve been working on this book for just over two years now, and it’s been great fun — it’s been passion project for me. And it’s been very good for my head. And, in a way, it was really a good break from everything that was going down with RUSH and from the end of that [last] tour, and it threw me into another obsession, which was educational, in terms of learning about my instrument, but also in terms of learning about making a book and what’s involved. So I enjoyed that. Now I will start thinking about what I’m gonna do next and I’ll start playing all those beauties” — referring to his bass guitars — “that are staring at me when I go into my studio.”
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