Rush: Classic or Dud?

Just heartbreaking.

i put on "prime mover" bc i really wanted to hear my favorite rush song but i actually can't make it through i'm so devastated

the point of the journey is not to arrive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYYdQB0mkEU

Someone is going to have to break the news to the drummer in my brother's band... gently (poor old Denis).

So sad. RIP, Great One. "Moving Pictures" is seeped into my DNA.

same type of cancer as gord downie's, apparently

Holy shit. I was never a disciple, but he was an icon. You have to be to inspire multiple generations of drummers to set up giant kits and overplay in order to try and reach your heights. RIP.

same type of cancer as gord downie's, apparently

― mookieproof, Friday, January 10, 2020 2:44 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

goddammit

Neil Peart September 12, 1952 - January 7, 2020 pic.twitter.com/NivX2RhiB8

— Rush (@rushtheband) January 10, 2020

I'm so sad

"Permanent Waves" was at its peak of popularity when I first started listening to the radio and buying records, gonna give that a good loud spin this weekend

RIP

Fuuuuuck

They were such an inspiration to me, they changed how I viewed music so much. I grew up with no cable TV, I had to drive an hour to buy cassettes and Rolling Stones and even that was just Musiclan. So most of what I bought was at Wal-Mart. And metal was IT, there was no other music for a period of time, basically. And Rush somehow got a "pass" as a metal band, they would get covered in metal mags, even though they weren't really and had never been a metal band.

So those early/mid 80s records, they were so different to me, the way they were combining synths and more new wave stuff from the radio but in their own identity.

Ultimately, I think they were so empathetic of their audience that's what I remember the most.

Also, the whole story of U.S. 90s underground rock was drummers who liked Rush before they were cool and punk and kept a lot of the stuff he did in their playing.

I think he's unfairly maligned too, I think he had a good sense of groove, or what groove had to be for Rush music. They weren't overplaying because they made their own style of rock that made sense of how THEY played together. They weren't in the studio cutting a Tom Petty record.

He was so inventive, esp on the ride and hi-hat, he would always do these cool syncopations instead of just straight 8s or 16s

kind of rambling, but I don't know hard to put in all in words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jSdyDt-Ync

he also never stopped learning new things to incorporate into his technique. when he felt like he was getting too stiff, he studied with freddie gruber to get looser. i found and find him so inspiring xp

RIP to a true master

Neil Peart and Rush made such a sweet place for outsiders and misfits that was never ugly or mean. Their earnest striving for excellence on their own terms will always resonate with the best kind of idealists.
RIP Neil Peart.
Exit the the warrior, Rush forever. pic.twitter.com/tsywyvWrkz

— matt sweeney (@theheavyjamz) January 10, 2020

was going through trending on Twitter and saw back to back heartfelt tributes from Gene Simmons and Ron Sexsmith, that's a rare kind of impact

plus brian wilson and chuck d

Ah Twitter. Of course. I just saw a reply guy elsewhere say, re Peart regretting the A. Rand influence as life went on, that Peart didn't get it and "I could explain it" to him.

Of course.

I didn’t grow up loving Rush; despite the putative ‘adolescence’ of their stuff i was in my mid thirties when they suddenly became one of my, idk, top 10 favorite bands. It was actually random exposure to mid 80s Rush that flipped the switch for me, the earnest and humane quality of that era of the band. I came to love almost all their records and also to just really like them as people. I managed to see them one time (MN State Fair, time machines tour) and am so grateful I did. Read Peart’s affecting ghost rider book and during one of the worst weeks of my forties that documentary that covered their retirement was so moving to me. I am so surprised and saddened by this.

they had not announced prior to this that he had cancer, correct? I suppose this explains their decision to stop touring a few years ago.

no, no one knew....in fact it sounds like he died on the 7th and it's just coming out now, he was very private

...In Ghost Rider (which is a little shaggy but at times very powerful, losing his daughter and wife in the space of one year, my god) he talks politcs a bit, mostly just vitriol at seeing George W Bush on TV in his travels, but he was very angry at the Bush administration at that time.

he seemed like a person that tried to grow and change

It was actually random exposure to mid 80s Rush that flipped the switch for me, the earnest and humane quality of that era of the band

same!!!

One of the greatest drummers for one of the greatest bands ever.

Feel awful for his family, Alex and Geddy. Hope they’re doing ok

One of the reasons why he was the ‘air drum’ king is that his compositional skills were so good; rhythms and fills as riffs and hooks of their own. That’s a big part of his legacy.

One of the reasons why he was the ‘air drum’ king is that his compositional skills were so good; rhythms and fills as riffs and hooks of their own. That’s a big part of his legacy.

― Master of Treacle, Friday, January 10, 2020 4:36 PM (thirty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes! this is so true. like rush was proggy to me but it always felt part of the songcraft

"earnest and humane" is a good way to describe them

in what other rock bands is the drummer (arguably) the biggest name?

eagles, i guess, but henley also sang

This Heat/Charles Hayward

Lightning Bolt

don caballero, i suppose

The Carpenters

Holy shit.

I think he’s the single biggest influence for rock drummers of the last 30 years. If you talk about one person.

Rush aside, that’s a massive achievement.

Christian Vander, sort of.

xps

I had no idea he was sick. Heartbreaking, for someone I knew so little about he was in a lot of ways an idol to me in different ways at different stages of my life.

I can only imagine the tributes coming in.

He was one of those few giant-kit drummers who really did use everything. A casual fan friend of mine came with me to a show once and noticed just how orchestrated it all was. He rarely repeated his fills the same way in each song, the parts were always totally thought out and evolving and surprising from beat one.

Awful news. Didn't he lose his wife and daughter in the same year, not that long ago?

Both Rush drummers are gone now.

Man, even though I never expected to see him play live ever again, this is devastating.

Just an incredible anecdote in retrospect from Godsmack's singer some months back:

“He did a review on me and Shannon's drum battle. And it might have been the last time he went on camera, because he'd been retired. He literally is done — he shut off that part of his life now. He feels he's done everything he can do. Literally, he told Shannon that right to his face. Shannon's, like, 'Aren't you gonna play a little?' And he's, like, 'Nah, I think I'm done.' Shannon's, like, 'Yeah, but you're not even gonna have a drum set in your basement?' He goes, 'Son, I think I've done everything I can do on the drums.' "

sonned by neil peart

So sad about this, Rush were the #1 band for my troubled adolescence years. Co-sign on the heart and emotion they/he put into it. Especially in the UK they were seen by the music press as a joke, but who gets to be the gatekeepers of meaning in music? The listeners, that's who! Rush always got the last laugh on their detractors, and in the end history caught up with their legacy.

Just air-drummed to Subdivisions in tribute, and now my arms hurt. RIP Neil.

RIP, amazing drummer and seemed like a good guy.

Don't know why I picked it out of all the options, but I put on "Snakes & Arrows." It's my favorite of their later works, Neil's lyrics in particular are really strong.

Looping the rap section of Roll The Bones as I pour out my 40

I even like that stupid song.

Man, life is just so, too short.

I feel unfortunately there’s going to be a few songs that’ll be hard to listen to for a while...Time Stand Still, the Garden, Losing It...

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