RIP Neil Peart

What a loss

 

RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLBLk4ibAk

 

I can't even.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWRMOJQDiLU

 

Honestly no words right now so sad to hear this.

 

So many of my heroes are gone, and way too early.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69qE6VFL5rI

 

@RearViewMirror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoTxTM6kBuU

 

ohshit......

wow......

 

Neal the Bard is dead. Rush is dead. Fuck.

 

Unbelievable drummer for sure. One of my favorites! I'm glad he was around the time Youtube was available to be able to rewatch him at his craft!

 

just in case anyone was looking....

(CNN)Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist of the progressive rock band Rush, has died, a family spokesman confirmed to CNN. He was 67.

Peart died in Santa Monica, California, on Tuesday after a battling brain cancer for several years, the spokesman, Elliot Mintz, told CNN.
He's survived by his wife Carrie and daughter, Olivia Louise.
Peart joined the Canadian band in 1974, and together Rush went on to sell millions of records and develop a massive, dedicated fan base.
They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
Despite being a world-famous drummer, Peart told Rolling Stone that he still took drum lessons as recently as 2012.
"I've been put in this position, and I certainly don't underrate that," he said. "I get to be a professional drummer ... So it's a full-time responsibility. It's a joyous one and one I'm very grateful for."

 

I know man... I just found out. That truly hurts my soul. I really don't know what to say. I knew their last tour was the last one that they were going to do. The last that I heard out of him was that he just wasn't going to be able to keep up with the intensity and precision that everyone expected in their shows and I could buy that. But it's terrible to think he was actually battling something more than aching joints. Truly the one of the best (if not THE best) drummer that has ever lived. I don't know what else to say... I grew up on their music and I'm still kind of in disbelief.

 

* and lyricist.

When I feel like everything in the world is broken, I listen to Rush to fix it and give me hope.

 

Brain Cancer...wow. I had no idea.
One of the best drummers ever, and an outstanding lyricist.

RIP

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttZIyNf6TS8

 

paying tribute now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRuj2_czzw

 

I’m just happy that I got to see them live three times. Still in disbelief at this news. Very few artists ever reach the status of heroic to me. But Rush is one of those bands.

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-peart-rush-obituary-936221/



Neil Peart, Rush Drummer Who Set a New Standard for Rock Virtuosity, Dead at 67
Hall of Fame drummer and lyricist succumbs to brain cancer


Neil Peart, the Hall of Fame drummer for Rush, has died at age 67 of brain cancer.

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Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist for Rush, died Tuesday, January 7th, in Santa Monica, California at age 67, according to Elliot Mintz, a family spokesperson. The cause was brain cancer, which he had been quietly battling for three-and-a-half years. A representative for the band confirmed the news to Rolling Stone.

Peart was 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 essential 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.

In a statement released Friday afternoon, Lee and Lifeson called Peart their “friend, soul brother and bandmate over 45 years,” and said he had been “incredibly brave” in his battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. “We ask that friends, fans, and media alike understandably respect the family’s need for privacy and peace at this extremely painful and difficult time,” Lee and Lifeson said. “Those wishing to express their condolences can choose a cancer research group or charity of their choice and make a donation in Neil Peart’s name. Rest in peace, brother.”


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 shit.”

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. Shattered, Peart told his bandmates to consider him retired, and 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.

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RIP.....FUCK CANCER !!!

 

RIP Neil....2112

 

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