Other topics include the R30 dryers, multi-show fans, intrusive fans, Neil\'s motorcycle, touring, writing lyrics and, of course, drummer jokes.

In related news: Rush have penned eight songs for their next studio album, which should be out in early 2007. neil Peart claims that his lyrics for the as-yet-untitled cd are greatly influenced by his motorcycle journeys throughout the United States, chronicled in \"Roadshow: Landscape With Drums\". The drummer says he was struck by the ubiquity of religious billboards that have sprung up on America\'s highways, which got him thinking about some weighty topics:

\"Just seeing the power of evangelical Christianity and contrasting that with the power of fundamentalist religion all over the world in its different forms had a big effect on me. \"You try to put your own way of seeing the world into some kind of congruence with other peoples, and that\'s difficult for me,\" he admits. \"I mean, I see the world in what I think to be a perfectly obvious and rational way, but when you go out into it and see the way other people think and behave, and express themselves on church signs, you realize, \'Well, I\'m not really part of this club.\'\"

Musically, the new album will continue in much the same vein as 2002\'s \"Vapor Trails,\" which returned Rush to a more guitar/bass/drums-driven sound.