Greatest Rock Drummer dead!!

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  1. Horn87

    Horn87 1,000+ Posts

  2. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist of Rush, has passed of brain cancer at the age of 67. Rush is one of my favorite bands, and Peart was one of the best drummers of all time. RIP.
     
  3. Dionysus

    Dionysus Idoit Admin

    Truly one of the all time greats
     
  4. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    One of the best drummers and one of the best lyricists.
     
  5. AC

    AC 2,500+ Posts

    He’s why I played drums growing up. Wish my wife would let me buy another set of drums! RIP Mr. Peart.
    There will never be another drummer like Neal Peart.
     
  6. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

    This one hits home. Four years to the day after the passing of David Bowie and three months after the passing of Ginger Baker, Neil Peart of the rock band RUSH has also left us.

    Rolling Stone magazine put it simply:

    "Neil Peart... set a new standard for rock virtuosity..."

    And then this quote from Yahoo News:

    "Peart went on to become arguably as legendary as his idols Bonham and Moon, due to his epic concert drum solos, odd time signatures, massive modified drum kits, incorporation of unorthodox instruments (orchestra bells, tubular bells, wind chimes, crotales, timbales, timpani, gong, temple blocks, bell trees, triangles, melodic cowbells), and "butt-end out" technique (reversing stick orientation for heavier impact)."

    I saw RUSH three times between 1977 and 1980. All three concerts were in San Antonio (heavy metal capital of the world) and two were in the old Muncipal Auditorium which later burned down. They were opened by UFO one year and Leslie West the other. In 1980 they had no opening act. When you play 2112, Xanadu, Hemispheres, La Villa Strangiato etc. in their entirety you don't need an opening act.

    The first song I ever heard by RUSH was 2112. They opened the 1977 show with it. It slowly drew me in and then I realized this stuff was for real. I had heard some snippets of their music (Working Man with their original drummer) but now they were in the class of YES who I held in very high regard back then.

    And YES... NEIL attracted my attention right away. What can be said that has not already been said? He was elite. He was incredibly technical at the speed of light. Later I learned that he wrote all those lyrics. Just an amazing human being. Absolutely driven and determined to reach the core of his being and capabilities without compromise.

    By his own admission, he was stand-offish to his fans. He didn't understand idol worship. He appreciated their connection to the music but he was a human being who was unable to process stardom. It wasn't what he was about.

    This hurts. This is my life now moving on. He was part of it in the middle stages just like The Beatles were in my youth. Music and the players are our friends. We learn more from them than any other teacher because we see the excellence, commitment, the fearlessness and their raw, bare boned, unconstrained thoughts. I'm better for Neil Peart being in my life.

    Much better.

    I think this song right here ought to answer all your questions:




     
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  7. LousianaHorn

    LousianaHorn Kabong

    well he was right up there on my drummers Mt Rushmore..........Pert, Bonham, Moon and Appice...RIP Neil.
     

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