It's utter dross - literally the only impressive thing is the costumes - they are works of art and I hope all the people who do that bit are being hastily recruited for better things
Lovely playing. I can't even imagine trying that! I have had a noodle on the 5 stringer version of that at PMT - it's lovely and woody, the fret lines are sort of faint brown - a help for the intonally-awkward like me.
They did it fairly regularly - taking time to catch up. Often Neil was away doing Neil stuff though so most times it would be Alex and Geddy in a Toronto restaurant sometimes weekly just catching up, and never dismissive of people who asked nicely for a selfie or autograph.
Bump - not anything I'm after but I'd like to commend your thoroughly informative and detailed post: I am a noob with filters and eq but even I followed this!