Pratt...was a play on the various butcherings of my simple Anglo-Saxon surname, “Peert.” [It morphed] into Nels Pratt, then just Nels, which Alex and Liam usually called me, or Mr. P., as Geddy preferred.
Pratt...was a play on the various butcherings of my simple Anglo-Saxon surname, “Peert.” [It morphed] into Nels Pratt, then just Nels, which Alex and Liam usually called me, or Mr. P., as Geddy preferred.
Alex was usually “Lerxst,” which came from a long-ago, exaggerated pronunciation of his name as “Alerxt.”
Alex was usually “Lerxst,” which came from a long-ago, exaggerated pronunciation of his name as “Alerxt.”
[And] Geddy was commonly “Dirk,” which derived from an invented name for an archetypical rock bass player, or secret agent—Dirk Lee.
[And] Geddy was commonly “Dirk,” which derived from an invented name for an archetypical rock bass player, or secret agent—Dirk Lee.
Anyone know how the nickname "Lerxst" arose for Alex Lifeson?
Pratt...was a play on the various butcherings of my simple Anglo-Saxon surname, “Peert.” [It morphed] into Nels Pratt, then just Nels, which Alex and Liam usually called me, or Mr. P., as Geddy preferred.
Pratt...was a play on the various butcherings of my simple Anglo-Saxon surname, “Peert.” [It morphed] into Nels Pratt, then just Nels, which Alex and Liam usually called me, or Mr. P., as Geddy preferred.
Alex was usually “Lerxst,” which came from a long-ago, exaggerated pronunciation of his name as “Alerxt.”
Alex was usually “Lerxst,” which came from a long-ago, exaggerated pronunciation of his name as “Alerxt.”
[And] Geddy was commonly “Dirk,” which derived from an invented name for an archetypical rock bass player, or secret agent—Dirk Lee.
[And] Geddy was commonly “Dirk,” which derived from an invented name for an archetypical rock bass player, or secret agent—Dirk Lee.