Popular Post Honky Cat Posted January 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2020 RIP.. https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/rush-drummer-neil-peart-dead-at-67-1.4762345 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ralph. Posted January 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2020 GOAT 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewbieCanuckFan Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Damn......RIP arguably one of the best rock music drummers and a real intellect. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 One of the best for sure. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Mac Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 RIP - Right time to call it a career to spend more time with family and friends. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JM_ Posted January 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2020 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toni Zamboni Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 damn...that's a big loss for sure. RIP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falcon45ca Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 This hurts, a lot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Noooooooo...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cromeslab Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 A Canadian music legend. RIP Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurn Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 As I said in the Canadian music thread, my buddy will be crushed. Saw these guys a couple years back. Perhaps the best drummer ever. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NewbieCanuckFan Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Just want to add to my previous comment that I didn't give him enough credit to his talent by merely referring to him as a "rock drummer". He was adept at all kinds of music. He tried his hand at drumming to Jazz and I think did a pretty respectable job. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 (edited) Well that just ruined my day/week/month. RIP Mr. Peart. Thanks for all the great tunes and thoughtful lyrics. If you get a chance read his book "Ghost Rider". It's a good read. Goes through how he dealt with the death of his daughter and then immediately his wife getting cancer and passing away shortly after. Essentially quitting Rush for years and riding his motorcycle all over North America. Edited January 10, 2020 by nuckin_futz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 (edited) Neil Peart, Rush Drummer Who Set a New Standard for Rock Virtuosity, Dead at 67 Hall of Fame drummer succumbs to brain cancer Neil Peart, the Hall of Fame drummer for Rush, has died at age 67 of brain cancer. Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist for Rush, died Tuesday, January 7th, in Santa Monica, California at age 67. The cause was brain cancer, which he had been quietly battling for three years, according to Elliot Mintz, a spokesperson for the Peart family. A representative for the band confirmed the news to Rolling Stone. Peart was widely considered one of rock’s greatest drummers, with a flamboyant yet utterly precise style that paid homage to his hero, The Who’s Keith Moon, while going well beyond that example. He joined singer-bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson in Rush in 1974, and his virtuosic playing and literate, wildly imaginative lyrics – which drew on Ayn Rand and science fiction, among other influences – helped make the trio one of the key bands of the classic-rock era. His drum fills on songs like “Tom Sawyer” were pop hooks in their own right, each one an unforgettable mini-composition. A rigorous autodidact and a gifted writer, Peart was also the author of numerous books. Peart never stopped believing in the possibilities of rock (“a gift beyond price,” he called it in Rush’s 1980 track “The Spirit of Radio”) and despising what he saw as over-commercialization of the music industry. “It’s about being your own hero,” he told Rolling Stone in 2015. “I set out to never betray the values that 16-year-old had, to never sell out, to never bow to the man. A compromise is what I can never accept.” “Neil is the most air-drummed-to drummer of all time,” former Police drummer Stewart Copeland said in 2015. “Neil pushes that band, which has a lot of musicality, a lot of ideas crammed into every eight bars — but he keeps the throb, which is the important thing. And he can do that while doing all kinds of cool $&!#.” Rush finished their final tour in 2015; Peart was done with the road and eager to spend more time with his wife, Carrie Nuttal, and daughter Olivia. On August 10th, 1997, Peart’s 19-year-old daughter, Selena, died in a single-car accident on the long drive to her university in Toronto. Just five months later, Selena’s mother – Peart’s common-law wife of 23 years, Jackie — was diagnosed with terminal cancer, quickly succumbing. Peart told his bandmates to consider him retired, and he embarked on a solitary motorcycle trip across the United States. He remarried in 2000, and found his way back to Rush by 2001. Peart grew up in Port Dalhousie, a middle-class suburb 70 miles from Toronto. As a teen, he permed his hair, took to wearing a cape and purple boots on the city bus, and scrawled “God is dead” on his bedroom wall. At one point, he got in trouble for pounding out beats on his desk during class. His teacher’s idea of punishment was to insist that he bang on his desk nonstop for an hour’s worth of detention, time he happily spent re-creating Keith Moon’s parts from Tommy. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-peart-rush-obituary-936221/ Edited January 10, 2020 by nuckin_futz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Warhippy Posted January 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2020 (edited) Neil Peart for the $5 bill! If it isn't him or Gord Downie I suggest we march on Ottawa and fix it Edited January 10, 2020 by Warhippy 2 1 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillipBlunt Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 &^@#! Rest in peace, Neil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJSkingz Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 So sad. RIP My co-worker told me about this an hour ago. Sad start to 2020 musically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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