Q: How is the tour preparation -- physical and mental -- different now from, say, 30 years ago?
A: This is the longest rehearsal period we've had. We set aside seven weeks, and I started rehearsing a week before that. I know Neil started a month before rehearsals, Geddy a week out. Then we started getting a lot more serious about going to the gym with a workout program about a month before we started, ramping it up a little bit toward the end. I guess it's probably two or three months of preparation total.
Back then, it was more like ... maybe 15 minutes? (Laughs) It was a whole different thing then. We didn't have the complexity we have now in terms of staging. In the early days, certainly, we were playing a couple hundred shows a year. I don't even recall rehearsing. We sort of made a set list and went out and played it.
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