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- From: dan@rat.csc.calpoly.edu (Dan Delany)
- Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
- Subject: Re: 2112 ending... (was: RE: The Fountain O
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.034406.5525@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 03:44:06 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.175251.11925@news.duc.auburn.edu> <1993Jan21.072627.1@cc.uvcc.edu> <108018@bu.edu>
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- Wow! jaeger@buphy.bu.edu typed...
- > In article <1993Jan21.072627.1@cc.uvcc.edu> brownea@cc.uvcc.edu writes:
- > >In article <1993Jan20.175251.11925@news.duc.auburn.edu>, hammekr@eng.auburn.edu (Kenneth R. Hammett) writes:
- >
- > > Actually, (if I remember the source...) in _Visions_, it says that
- > >Peart didn't read _Anthem_ until AFTER the album was recorded, but BEFORE it
- > >was shipped.
- >
- > I think the story is that he read _Anthem_ *again* and put the credit
- > after it was recorded but before the cover was printed because he
- > realized that it was so similar to the story (which he'd already read).
-
- From the FAQ:
-
- Where did the story of _2112_ come from?
-
- "The inspiration behind it was ... It's difficult always to trace those
- lines because so many things tend to coalesce, and in fact it ended up
- being quite similar to a book called _Anthem_ by the writer Ayn Rand. But
- I didn't realize that while I was working on it, and then eventually as the
- story came together, the parallels became obvious to me and I thought, 'Oh
- gee, I don't want to be a plagiarist here.' So I did give credit to her
- writings in the liner notes." - Neil Peart, in the December 2, 1991
- "Rockline" interview
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- dan@rat.csc.calpoly.edu Dan Delany
- "Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
- -- Charlie Brown
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