'He was a rock star but he had no pretensions. He was like your next door neighbor, but just happened to be the drummer for Rush.'
"There were constant comparisons,"-- and confusion. "I had people call me Neil ," Moore recalls. "They'd call Mike Geddy . In some cases people didn't know either band but were like, 'Oh, this three-piece hard rock sort of group from Toronto, you must be Rush.' It was quite humorous at times. Sometimes we would just play along with it.
I chatted with him when he was at Metalworks various times. Like I said, he was such a quiet guy, but he was also very conversational. We could talk about drums or we could talk about almost anything. Neil was quite intellectual, and that's the way he was when you conversed with him.
When we were touring we would cross paths with Rush all the time. We worked for the same promoters. We played the same buildings; we'd be playing some place in America, St. Louis or Cincinnati or wherever, and they'd be coming in a month or were there a month ago. The bands that were out at the time, like Ted Nugent and Blue Oyster Cult and Kiss and Journey and so on, you'd get a certain camaraderie with all those guys. But Rush was different because they were from our home town.
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