So, everybody knows that I'm a big Rush fan. Unironically, transparently a Rush fan, as anybody has noticed perhaps. So, I'm gonna tell you, how I became a Rush fan and how this band is slowly disappointing me.
Back when I was a kid, I liked the band called "Budgie". Budgie was insanely popular in Poland, the radio called "Trójka", which means "3", intensely promoted this band, and henceforth Budgie perfomed in Poland so many times. It was as well rumoured that Burke Shelley had Polish relatives (according to Wiesław Weiss, it's apparently true). Their last performance had to happen in 2010, yet it turned out, Burke Shelley was unable to, because he had developed aortic aneurysm, which ultimately led to his death in 2022.
I started then looking for a replacement band to console myself in this extremely hard situation. And seemingly I found one - the Canadian progressive rock band called "Rush". As I listened to "Working Man" and "Tom Sawyer" back in 2011, I was deeply amazed. I first knew about Rush back in 2009, but I thought the singer sounds too much like Cher. But that was apparently Geddy Lee and his aged voice. That was possible contributor to their retirement. Yet, I always wondered one little thing:
WHY DIDN'T THEY PLAY IN POLAND?!
As I hung out with Rush fans from Poland, they all in real life, cried to me that "GEDDY LEE HATES POLAND", those little buzzwords I could meet with, when I attended any progressive rock events in Poland, organized by e.g. Piotr Kosiński and the other former Trójka radio DJs. I thought of them as dirty rumours that had no place in reality, the "he said, she said" type. I was vehemently angry with those people, who kept spreading lies like this, yet I anxiously looked for any ample evidence for those egregious statements made by a few men who interacted with me, regarding all my favorite bands. This particular event that traumatized me, happened in 2018, when I saw YES-ARW live in Warsaw. Yes, that band with Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman. The guy named Wojtek told me this exact thing that "GEDDY LEE HATES POLAND". He sorta looked like that YouTube channel guy named "coverkillernation" and he was unfortunately very memorable with those remarks.
But I was meeting with those notions in 2013, when I attended the Internet meetings on the Polish Rush forum (non-existent now), called "hemispheres.pl" and "forum.hemispheres.pl", somewhere on Wayback Machine it's available. And everybody was crying there about "NEIL PEART HATING POLAND, JUST LIKE GEDDY LEE, ACC. TO RUMOURS", because he wrote that unfortunate essay called "Shunpikers in the Shadowlands", where he apparently defamed Poland and my reaction was that I was really emotionally exhausted by this, yet I continued not to believe any rumours, as I read somewhere in his book that he felt compassion towards the Poles, because of Communist times Poland faced. So I conveniently ignored that.
Later, when there were COVID lockdowns and I was extremely bored, I found so many bizarre conspiracy theories about Neil Peart being... a "child abductor", made by Mark Zahn (Liberator on Google groups) and "MK Ultra aficionado" by Solaris Blueraven. Well, that was extremely scary you folks must consider, as everything people suspected about Adam Britton or Jeffrey Epstein, turned out to be true. And as for that accusation made by Solaris Blueraven, no matter how false it is, let's face it, AI is taking over the world and taking away jobs from us people. Neil Peart also seemed to write all the transhumanist lyrics that weren't to many people obvious. There is a website called "egodeath" though, that stated that Neil Peart was just writing about his experiences with LSD. But ultimately, Neil Peart wasn't convicted (well, mind you I distrust most men, so my mindset is "I gotta wait for more evidence", but yet, I'm not gonna lynch him, anyways - besides he passed away, alas). Apparently these things contributed to Neil Peart's schizophrenic paranoia about his own fans, who showed him a lot of affection. That alone gave me creeps, because normally rock musicians never acted like that in front of fans.
And then, I craved talking with Geddy Lee, and as I wrote in my earlier blog post, I sort of met the bizarre accout on Facebook and Google mail that... WAS ABLE TO LOG INTO GEDDYIMAGES IG ACCOUNT OF GEDDY LEE. Bizarre, I'm gonna wait for more outcomes of this but e.g. Meg Symsyk blocked me for no reason, after I told this account "no 200$ from me", Howard Ungerleider did the same thing as well. So I think this account might've been real, Geddy Lee might have tried bribing his fans (like he admitted on My Effin' Life to bribe from his female starstruck fan cocaine).
I still can't believe that it's his real account, might have been a Nigerian hacker, but frankly, before releasing "My Effin' Life", that account (probably might be Geddy after all) told me, how much he resents Poland for the fact that his parents were victimized by some Poles. And henceforth I believe it's an evidence that Geddy Lee indeed used that account. He also... used my catchphrase "I'm a subhuman", most probably in his TV Show called "Are bass players human?". Bizarre, but probably true.
So, here is the story of my bizarre interaction with that account:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOepdhNJYAo
And many more on my @olganesterowicz YouTube account.
Later, My Effin' Life book came in in November 2023... and EVERY SINGLE RUMOUR ABOUT GEDDY LEE HATING POLAND... turned out to be true... despite the page of 426 from the book "Wandering the Face of the Earth", initially promising the Poles that Rush would play in Poland.
And my reaction was to be angry at Geddy Lee. How could he label all Poles as "Nazis"? It's reverse, most Poles were victims, even if unwilling Nazi accomplices. This stigmatization by Geddy Lee, contributed to my low self-esteem and depression. Don't tell me that Poles were Nazis, as many Germans keep lying about Poles that "Poles murdered Germans in Danzig massacres" and many more, Geddy Lee! You are being just a jerk. I will change my mind about you, when you start being nicer to Polish fans, who dedicated their entire lives to buying your records and going to the concerts in Poland's hated Germany, for example. I wasn't one who was willing to go to Germany to see Rush live. It takes away my dignity, after what Germans did to the Poles.
To conclude, I find it hard to listen to Rush, nowadays, but can you change my mind?
I hope so.
NOTE: If you believe I'm falsely accusing Geddy Lee, let me know, preferably Rush's crew.
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