But while the crowd loved it, bandmates Lee and Neil Peart were less pleased. Lee tells Rolling Stone: "He didn't tell us he was doing that � in fact, I know he had a whole other speech planned. Neil and I thought he had lost his marbles when he was talking.

"You can see the look on our faces behind him, going, 'What the f**k is he doing?' And of course, we couldn't see him act it all out � we just kept hearing 'blah blah blah.'