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Greatest rock drummer of all time....and an incredible lyricist too.
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I will always respect Matt Williams for having Tom Sawyer as his walk up music back in the late 90s.
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I will always respect Matt Williams for having Tom Sawyer as his walk up music back in the late 90s.
"Dustin Pedroia doesn't have the strength or bat speed to hit major-league pitching consistently, and he has no power......He probably has a future as a backup infielder if he can stop rolling over to third base and shortstop." Keith Law, 2006
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By far the best rock drummer I ever saw live. No one is even close. I just wish he had continued to make music after the deaths of his wife and daughter. I understand we all grieve differently, but music seems like it would have been a good outlet for his emotions and could have helped him through the healing process. Selfishly, I can't help but think of all the music he didn't write that we missed out on. Sad to hear of his passing, I had always held out hope for some sort of Rush reformation.
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By far the best rock drummer I ever saw live. No one is even close. I just wish he had continued to make music after the deaths of his wife and daughter. I understand we all grieve differently, but music seems like it would have been a good outlet for his emotions and could have helped him through the healing process. Selfishly, I can't help but think of all the music he didn't write that we missed out on. Sad to hear of his passing, I had always held out hope for some sort of Rush reformation.
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Missed seeing them at summerfest a couple years ago. Damn it. My sister and i would’ve had a blast.

 

Besides Keith Moon what other drummer was even on Peart’s planet?

 

I saw that show and it was awesome!

 

John Bonham says hello, but he wasn't on the technical level of Peart, no one is/was.

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FYI Rolling Stone did a top 100 drummers thing a while back and the top four was:

 

4. Peart

3. Ginger Baker

2. Moon

1. Bonham

 

Peart had a very different style than the other three, IMO. No one matched his precision. Kind of interesting that Peart definitely had a different personality than the other three on the list. Much more of an introvert which is kind of odd for a drummer.

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This one hit hard. Spent more than a couple hours over the weekend just reading heartfelt social media tributes and glowing articles from standard media outlets, and exchanging text messages with friends/family (dad) about the man, myth, legend of Neil Peart. Emotional at times.

 

While I greatly appreciated Peart's talent as a percussionist, I absolutely adored his work as a lyricist. Purely brilliant poetry -- insightful, smart, touching, thought-provoking, mature, compelling -- each line so carefully crafted. It doesn't get any better, IMO.

 

BTW- When it comes to thinking about what other rock drummers are in the ballpark of Peart, I never really think of guys like Moon or Bonham. To me, they're like including Mustang and Camaro on a list of the world's greatest performance cars. I tend to think of the more virtuoso prog rock guys that were Peart's contemporaries like Bruford, Bozzio, Palmer, even Alan White, and some of the prog metal guys that came after him like Portnoy, Jarzombek, Mangini, and Zonder.

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This one hit hard. Spent more than a couple hours over the weekend just reading heartfelt social media tributes and glowing articles from standard media outlets, and exchanging text messages with friends/family (dad) about the man, myth, legend of Neil Peart. Emotional at times.

 

While I greatly appreciated Peart's talent as a percussionist, I absolutely adored his work as a lyricist. Purely brilliant poetry -- insightful, smart, touching, thought-provoking, mature, compelling -- each line so carefully crafted. It doesn't get any better, IMO.

BTW- When it comes to thinking about what other rock drummers are in the ballpark of Peart, I never really think of guys like Moon or Bonham. To me, they're like including Mustang and Camaro on a list of the world's greatest performance cars. I tend to think of the more virtuoso prog rock guys that were Peart's contemporaries like Bruford, Bozzio, Palmer, even Alan White, and some of the prog metal guys that came after him like Portnoy, Jarzombek, Mangini, and Zonder.

 

Ditto. While others were writing songs about sex drugs and rock and roll he was writing metaphors about how inequality leads to uprising of the masses and things of similar depth.

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I didn't know his last name was pronounced Peert not Pert. Heard that on the Sound Opinions podcast the other day.
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I've been looking through my music collection and I don't know if there is any band that put out a run of 5 studio albums that tops Rush's streak from 2112 through Moving Pictures?

 

it took me a long time to appreciate their 80's stuff, being a 70's RUSH guy, but about 10 years ago, I finally "got" it!

 

imo, 2112 is their peak! I can't play that album enough...

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I've been looking through my music collection and I don't know if there is any band that put out a run of 5 studio albums that tops Rush's streak from 2112 through Moving Pictures?

 

Pink Floyds run of Meddle, DSOTM, Wish you were Here, Animals, The Wall, and The Final Cut was pretty good. I included 6 albums because I think many would feel the first or sixth album were a bit week.

 

Regardless, Rush had a great run of success, and has the main lyricist Peart was responsible for a great deal of that success.

 

I also was surprised to hear a different pronunciation of his name after all these years.

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