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Topic: Neil Peart Posted: December 22 2010 at 13:51
Hey guys if u didnt know it by now im a HUGE Rush fan and my fav member is Neil and i want ur honest opinion on his drumming skills and his lyrics. Thanks for the comments
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Posted: December 22 2010 at 14:04
He is excellent, both as a lyricist and a drummer.
He has also brought to life a project involving rock and jazz drummers for 2 Buddy Rich tributes on the Altlantic label, both very good tributes to the great late Buddy Rich.
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Posted: December 22 2010 at 14:40
Always appreciated his drumming, especially after seeing Rush live on several different tours over the years. Definitely an excellent drummer. Not my favorite lyricist, but he does write some interesting stuff.
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Posted: December 23 2010 at 02:13
He's alright. Solo wise impressive for sure, but other than that I don't hear much that impresses me.
Don't really focus on lyrics, so I'm not qualified to answer. The Trees makes me laugh everytime though.
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Posted: December 23 2010 at 02:20
Rush77 wrote:
Hey guys if u didnt know it by now im a HUGE Rush fan and my fav member is Neil and i want ur honest opinion on his drumming skills and his lyrics. Thanks for the comments
He is " Top Dog", musically and lyrically, not to mention a great author
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Posted: December 23 2010 at 08:07
He's a great drummer, but he's quite mechanical though. What most people don't like about Neil is the lack of fluidity in his playing, unlike jazz drummers.
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Posted: December 23 2010 at 23:20
Starhammer wrote:
He's a great drummer, but he's quite mechanical though. What most people don't like about Neil is the lack of fluidity in his playing, unlike jazz drummers.
He's the man!.......I don't get the mechanical arguement or the part where he is not fluid....His drumming is seemless, that's pretty fluid to me.
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Posted: December 24 2010 at 01:36
Catcher10 wrote:
Starhammer wrote:
He's a great drummer, but he's quite mechanical though. What most people don't like about Neil is the lack of fluidity in his playing, unlike jazz drummers.
He's the man!.......I don't get the mechanical arguement or the part where he is not fluid....His drumming is seemless, that's pretty fluid to me.
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Posted: December 24 2010 at 03:50
One of my top favourite drummers of all time if not THE top one. I absolutely love his playing.
And yet I also think that when you see him playing his body language is too tight, his body does not flow as smoothly as it should, something that happens with Carl Palmer too.
Neil himself reckons this and that's why he went on to take lessons from Freddie Gruber, but it was too late in his career and although some say that his playing got smoother after that, I hardly noticed any change.
But that's ok, if this is his style and he can play so amazingly in this way, let him be so !
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Posted: December 24 2010 at 07:35
richardh wrote:
Catcher10 wrote:
Starhammer wrote:
He's a great drummer, but he's quite mechanical though. What most people don't like about Neil is the lack of fluidity in his playing, unlike jazz drummers.
He's the man!.......I don't get the mechanical arguement or the part where he is not fluid....His drumming is seemless, that's pretty fluid to me.
Indeed and also Rush are not a jazz band
I know, but you'd expect some fluid drumming from a man who says he's a jazz fan since his childhood and had lessons from one of the top jazz drumming instructors.
And the mechanical drumming appears when he plays his songs live, exactly like the studio recordings. Of course Rush changes the song's arrangements every now and then, but he leaves no room for improv. Makes me wonder if it's really worth for me to spend money on seeing them live.
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Rush77 wrote:
, musically and lyrically, not to mention a great author
