ClaudeJ1 Posted January 11, 2020 Posted January 11, 2020 Great talent, gone too soon. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/neil-peart-obit-1.5422806?fbclid=IwAR2I3tB5fK_-gIEnX3Mj9NcLC308TxGr9W0WzwRW_NrEiXL-Xd_ZFQ0S4kk 2 Quote
Full Range Posted January 11, 2020 Posted January 11, 2020 My friend of 45 years is a drummer and the best man at my wedding He liked Neal Peart for his drumming abilities A gifted drummer and a Prog genre pioneer after the English bands started it all Long live Prog 1 Quote
RadBlue Posted January 11, 2020 Posted January 11, 2020 A true master of his art, he will be missed. Quote
RRR Posted January 11, 2020 Posted January 11, 2020 Dad took me to the moving pictures tour in 1981 as i was only 12 at the time, i remember how impressed he was about 3 guys putting out that much sound. Sad to see him go. Quote
glens Posted January 11, 2020 Posted January 11, 2020 I saw them a couple times, I think the last was on the 2112 tour. They kind of lost me musically not too long after that. I still consider the drum solo on "All The World's a Stage" live album to be the best recorded/released live solo ever, if even only by a little bit. He most certainly had skills and a great Muse. Quote
Max2 Posted January 11, 2020 Posted January 11, 2020 He was a master of counting and bringing perfection to all of his work. He would be the first to add that he didn't get a solo right or was off here and there with specific track performance, noting that he could only nail some of his work 70% of the time. Not only that, he was behind damn near all the lyrics on all the albums. One thing I never knew about him was his height at 6'4" Very sad indeed. Their multi channel offerings are great and really emphasize Niels work. Now if I could just afford Hemispheres on bluray Quote
MechEngVic Posted January 12, 2020 Posted January 12, 2020 One of my first musical heroes is gone. May you roll the bones up in the sky. You moved us, you moved us. 1 Quote
Toz Posted January 12, 2020 Posted January 12, 2020 And he was into BMW GS motorcycles. He even attended most or all of one of his tours by motorcycle, not all that long ago, 2006 maybe. Quote
SonicBionic Posted February 15, 2020 Posted February 15, 2020 Ugh....I just saw this....I do't know how I didn't know this tragic loss until I saw this thread......well, that bums me out on a saturday:( 1 Quote
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