Day 226- Various Questions

As I'm writing this post, I'm watching a recording of a 2002 Rush concert. I've never seen a Rush concert before, nor have I heard anything about what goes on at a Rush concert. Therefore, I have a few questions for anyone who knows the answers:

• Those things they have in their ears; are they plugs to make the noise less noisy, or are they just old-guy gizmos?
• The CGI dragon flying around on a screen behind them...?
• Why is Mr. Potato Head on top of Lerxst's amp?
• Where did the nickname Lerxst come from anyway?
• Why are there laundry machines onstage?
• Why is there an excessive amount of fire?
• How the heck does Peart play 360-degree drums?
• Why all the guitar switches?
• Why are there laundry machines onstage?
• Are Geddy's glasses to help with vision, or are they just sunglasses as part of his image?
• How does anyone do that with a bass?
• Why is Rush so underrated?
• Why does Geddy's ass look so good in jeans?
• How can they look so iconic by wearing exactly what I'm wearing right now?
• Why are there laundry machines onstage?
• How do you pronounce "Peart"?
• Why does Neil Peart look so much like Tom Hanks?
• Why can't there be any bands as lyrically creative and musically talented as Rush today?
• When is their next album coming out? (Probably the same time as me.)
• How can Geddy handle vocals, bass and keyboards, almost always doing two of those things?
• HOW?

And that concludes my brief amount of questions.

P.S. I wrote down all these questions off the top of my head while watching the first three songs of the second half of the movie "Rush In Rio".

P.P.S. These aren't rhetorical questions. If people have answers, I really want to know.