Neal Peart retires from music
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Prog News, Press Releases
Forum Description: Submit press releases, news , new releases, prog music news and other interesting things happening in the world of progressive music (featured in home and artist page)
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=105118
Printed Date: January 15 2025 at 03:02
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Neal Peart retires from music
Posted By: someone_else
Subject: Neal Peart retires from music
Date Posted: December 07 2015 at 13:42
|
One of the best drummers announces retirement. Read the article https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/rush_drummer_neil_peart_i_am_retiring_from_music.html" rel="nofollow - here . ------------- 
|
Replies:
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: December 07 2015 at 13:46
*The best drummer announces retirement.   I regret not going to see them this year. ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: December 07 2015 at 13:50
|
At least it doesn't come as a surprise. They had been pointing towards this day for a while. Best of luck in his retirement. ------------- 
|
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 07 2015 at 15:07
|
Can't say I'm surprised. But good to see it official I suppose. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: December 07 2015 at 16:16
Sad to hear he's retiring but thanks Neil for being such an inspirational player for the last 40 years. 
|
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: December 07 2015 at 17:21
|
The headline for this story on Fark is "Neil Peart goes Galt". ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: December 07 2015 at 20:57
| So, does this mean that Rush is retiring too? They only mention Neil Peart, but I would think the band wouldn't go on if any of them is not available. |
Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: December 07 2015 at 23:48
|
Sad, but not too surprising. I wonder if Rush will continue without him, but either way I'm thankful for him and the rest of the band for bringing some of my favorite albums!
|
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 08 2015 at 00:19
|
He deserves it. The question is will he miss it and someday return? Mr. Peart, though a strictly by-the-numbers player who replicated his drumlines verbatim in concert, was an enormous presence for those who were coming of age in the late 70s/early 80s, particularly rock musicians. Even non-musicians understood his thrilling contributions, and many a pimply-faced drummer swooned over his chops and technical prowess. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 08 2015 at 08:04
|
Shame, but we knew it was coming. He has more than earned his retirement, although I suspect Rush may pop up now and then for a festival or something. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: December 08 2015 at 08:17
|
Would it be musical heresy to say that - as a musician - I thought he was.... a good technician but lacked that spark of greatness ??? Would other non musicians rally around to defend his ability when they didn't know a flam from a paradiddle ? (He did some excellent flams, by the way.) Should I just not mention it ? At any rate, a good drummer and I wish him a happy retirement. ------------- |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: December 08 2015 at 08:34
I can see where you're coming from, I think someone hit on this earlier when he said Peart tended to replicate his studio drums parts in concert. Sometimes I wish he'd change things around a bit. Still a great drummer though. |
Davesax1965 wrote:Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: December 08 2015 at 09:05
| Thanks Neil for you have inspired many.... |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: December 08 2015 at 11:13
|
If this is true, since the band have not released anything official, it will be a sad day in rock music for sure. Although I expect a more detailed answer/reply in the future, I mean it seems he is only making a comment about what his daughter has maybe said in class at school. Retire from touring I can see...retire from making music with Rush, we will see. But man there is more than enough music in their catalog to keep their flame burning for eons. -------------   
|
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: December 08 2015 at 11:45
Now that Phil Collins is un-retiring from music maybe some new combination can be created?    ------------- 
|
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: December 08 2015 at 12:01
|
He's only retiring from touring. Geddy just mentioned that it was taken semi out of context. Seems like they still may do another album or albums and he may still perform one-off shows with them.
------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: December 08 2015 at 12:02
|
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/rushs-geddy-lee-says-neil-peart-hasnt-retired/" rel="nofollow - http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/rushs-geddy-lee-says-neil-peart-hasnt-retired/
We'll see. If this is the end of Rush I'm fine with it. Clockwork Angels was their best album since the early 80s. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
|
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: December 08 2015 at 14:52
|
Well like I said, nothing has come from the band as a formal statement.....I think they are the only ones I will listen to. Not people/reporters who do not work for the band, but merely are trying to sell magazines and gossip. -------------
|
Posted By: davemuttillo
Date Posted: December 09 2015 at 01:55
|
According to Geddy Lee this is false. More misinformation from press people desperate for a story. http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/rushs-geddy-lee-says-neil-peart-hasnt-retired/ |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 09 2015 at 16:23
and let's not forget and give full credit for perhaps Peart's greatest lasting contribution ... helping establish one of the great tennants of prog rock. Not great drumming... Carl Palmer years before smokes this guy.. but something just as important. the perfect example of a prog lyricist who should have NEVER put pen to paper.... pure sh*tty prog lyrics. Embarrassingly bad.  One of the things all know prog for! and thank God for him.. I'll be playing an enjoying the Necromancer as long as I am around and kicking. I love my D&D prog.. so should you all... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: December 10 2015 at 03:49
Lol ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: December 10 2015 at 04:15
|
I have never seen Rush live. ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 11 2015 at 00:41
|
And the eternal question: How does he pronounce his last name? Word was when I was a kid that, although for some reason we all said "Pert", it was actually pronounced "Peert". But phonetically it could also be "Part" or "Pairt". ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: zumacraig
Date Posted: December 11 2015 at 10:33
In that quote Neil doesn't say anything different than what's he's been saying for years. There's been no official statement. I can see them doing some small tours or residencies and definitely a few new albums (that will be compressed to death). If they do play live, they really need to address Lee's vocals for his comfort and the fans. IMHO, of course.  ------------- Stardust we are. -Roine Stolt |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: December 11 2015 at 11:03
I believe it is pronounced "Peert." I saw him perform on Letterman many eons ago and that's the pronunciation Letterman used. Wikipedia confirms this: /pɪərt/. Before this, I had pronounced it "Pert." ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: December 11 2015 at 11:07
|
Oh God, no, it's got like the Moog forum. ;-) ------------- |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 11 2015 at 11:31
|
^ It's definitely "Moge" -- I know one of his relatives. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 12 2015 at 02:28
|
deleted -------------  
|
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 12 2015 at 02:28
|
"it`s written in the stars that this was why Mike Portnoy quoted Dream Theater so he can take up the mantel as Rush's new drummers" -------------
|
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: December 12 2015 at 03:50
this is exactly why Friede and I don't like Neil Peart. his drumming lacks spontaneity, the surprise element. his drumming does not swing -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: December 12 2015 at 09:25
Agree 100%--especially the swing part but was afraid to say it---try to avoid incoming attacks lol. I like Rush don't love them---lot's of prog bands a lot more interesting to me---but I thought his retiring was a classy thing to do while still on top---unlike one of my fav bands who seem to want to go on no matter how pitiful it all seems.
|
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: December 12 2015 at 22:17
| I haven't really compared the drumming between studio and live songs from them, but just by what I compare by memory, I usually like the live versions better, and perhaps the drumming is too similar between both versions, but still it sounds more... alive on the live renditions, enough to make me apreciate him more live than on studio. |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: December 14 2015 at 07:19
|
He's very fast, very accurate, creative in use of equipment, but more a technician than a drummer. Don't get me wrong, I do rate him - but he's just one of a number of drummers which include Joe Morello, Ginger Baker, Carl Palmer, Corky Laing etc etc, most of which I've been lucky enough to see live. Jazz drummers tend to do it for me, to be honest. I don't believe in lists or comparatives. I play lots of instruments including very basic percussion stuff (mainly Arabic influenced) - what normally happens is that Magazine X or Website Y say "Well, this person is the best guitarist/drummer/nose flute player in the world" - this is invariably picked up by other, say, non nose flute players.... "Wow, Albert Snoadley is the best nose flute player ever"...... it's not a competition, there's no such thing as "best drummer / guitarist / sackbut player". He's a good drummer. There's some things he does which I like, some which I don't. There are other drummers available. Your experience may vary. ------------- |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: December 14 2015 at 13:15
He can't do that! They still haven't visited Poland yet!  ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 14 2015 at 16:16
|
^hard to imagine there is a country, much less in Europe, that Rush hasn't played Granted they are no Iron Maiden (who is) but that is a band that did get around if you know what I mean. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 14 2015 at 22:52
|
^ Hardest working band in rock for about ten years - ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: December 15 2015 at 21:10
| 10 years? Wouldn't it rather be about 40 years? |
Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: December 25 2015 at 20:33
Phil Collins as the drummer of Rush ? he could do it but I would pity Alex and Geddy if he did.  The obvious Guy to replace Peart is Mike Portnoy somebody who has been greatly influenced by Rush for many Decades. I don't care what Portnoy is doing now it cant be as important as Rush ...Make it so  I`m a huge Rush fan I really am but this news isnt a shock to me I sort of feel like we have been slave driving Peart and making him do it for us since the mid 90's, its as if hes not getting much out of it anymore and that's self evident in the lyrics since the mid 90's the inspiration just isn't there ...well not for me anyway.  I`ll sign off on "Counterparts" that's the last CD that I felt the synergy of Rush and truly what Rush represents after that it wasnt enough to win me over though it did win plenty of younger fans , so more younger fans but worse music .. hardly a win. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: December 25 2015 at 22:22
| I somehow don't see Rush continuing with the same name if any of the 3 isn't in. They have been together for so long that it just wouldn't be the same. But if someone were to take Peart's place, I guess indeed Portnoy would be the man. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: December 26 2015 at 13:11
|
Blasphemy!! Portnoy in Rush.....NEVER! Geddy has said several times in interview that without these 3 guys there is no Rush. People can do strange things and change minds but Portnoy can be such a dick and douche he does not fit the Rush profile. I love Portnoy drumming and think he can create and has, great music.... -------------
|
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: December 26 2015 at 23:17
| So, I agree with you that without Peart there should not, and very likely will not, be any Rush. But in case they would choose to go on with someone else, or if Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson would go on with a new band (I would expect with the idea of continuing the Rush tradition), who do you think would be a good new drummer? Perhaps if they were to continue with another name, they coul even experiment with some other musicians as well... |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: December 27 2015 at 00:10
|
Tough one...If under a different name then maybe Portnoy could sit in....I would also like to think Gavin Harrison as I think he has better rhythm than Portnoy and can play more intricate songs. His fills are pretty good and his demeanor fits with Geddy and Alex. Gavin has that jazz playing ability too, for some reason I think that is a huge plus. -------------
|
Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: December 27 2015 at 18:58
|
How about Mark Zondor (fates warning) then he is much more down to earth Just seems like a really nice guy and he has incredible skills and could do the job well. that's my second pick. But guys we are getting ahead of ourselves Peart hasn't made his exit official as of yet but if he does it doesn't have to be the end it could be the start of something new. I have plenty of faith in Geddy and Alex to continue on regardless |
Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: December 30 2015 at 16:00
| kick ass behind the kit and songs like temples of syrinx demand it .. I`ll still with Portnoy or Zondor. |
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: December 30 2015 at 17:27
Ringo!  ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |