As I think about Neil Peart, I can without a doubt check each of these criteria. Like so many of us, Neil Peart was an inspiration to me—both personally and as a percussionist. It would seem he was pretty average at first, as are those among us in beginning our musical development. He studied piano as a child and got into drumming as a teenager. A souvenir like that is a powerfully impressionistic piece of history. That was the important lesson I learned—I preferred to be more compositional and organized.
Just as your playing should be a reflection of your nature, so mine is. I still understand what I saw and heard in those days, and why I so love his approach to playing the drums. The more technique, understanding, and experience I gather, it allows me to better express what I find exciting in drumming, and what I think works well musically and dynamically. Many years later, when I was already heavily into jazz, I realized how much storytelling Neil had in his playing and how much it had made an impression on me without me even understanding the depth of it at the time.
Impact can be defined as the effect or influence of one person, thing, or action, on another, and there is no question that Peart made an impact on the world by sharing his experience through his writing, his contributions through his band, including his lyrical, compositional, and drumming skills, and also sharing his fortitude to both explore and improve himself.
He was restless and curious in ways that inspired a legion of devoted fans. Consider his example in regularly changing not just the design of his drum set but also his willingness to routinely change alliances with different companies and brands of drums and cymbals over the years including Slingerland, Tama, Ludwig, Drum Workshop, Zildjian, and Sabian—never for the prestige of endorsements but rather to satisfy his ever-changing tastes and needs.
The industry moved to keep up with him and the challenge was healthy for the business as a whole. As one of our newest inductees into the PAS Hall of Fame, it is also worth noting that in Neil Peart was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame and was, then age 33, the youngest drummer to receive that honor.
The band worked hard and steadily throughout their career, recording and touring almost constantly. They were always a hot ticket. During that time Neil became a family man and also developed a passion for motorcycle riding and classic car collecting. He first picked up drumming at the age of Eighteen months later he returned home to join his father selling tractor parts. Peart played in local bands before landing with an up and coming Toronto band called Rush.
In the U. Home Music Obituaries. Jan 10, pm PT. By Jeff Cornell , Jem Aswad. More From Our Brands. Their last studio album, Clockwork Angels, was released in ; Rush celebrated their 40th anniversary with the R40 Live Tour three years later. However, his unique playing style had created health problems, and in Peart stated that the band would no longer tour due to his tendonitis. It later emerged that he had also received his cancer diagnosis around this time.
Peart is survived by Carrie, their daughter, Olivia, his parents, and his siblings, Judy, Nancy and Danny. Neil Peart, drummer and writer, born 12 September ; died 7 January Neil Peart obituary. Peart joined Rush in , and their lineup remained the same until their retirement 41 years later. During that time, they sold 25 million albums in the U. These include 's "Moving Pictures," which sold 4 million copies; 's "," which sold 3 million copies; and the compilation "Chronicles," which sold 2 million copies.
The group also has 11 other platinum albums to its credit, as well as 10 gold albums. The band built its devoted following through relentless touring and was a consistently popular live attraction.
That year, the group was ranked at number 12 in Pollstar's list of Top 20 Global Concert Tours of
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