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Neil Peart
Life and career
Early Life
Peart was born on the farm of his family in Hagerstown Ville, on the outskirts of Hamilton. The first child of four, his brother Danny and sisters Judy and Nancy were born after the family moved to St. Catharines when Peart was two. At this time his father became parts manager for Dalziel Equipment a farm equipment dealer. In 1956 the family moved to the Port Dalhousie area of the city. Peart attended Grace Field School, and describes his childhood as happy and says he experienced a warm family life. In early adolescence he became interested in music and acquired a transistor radio that he would use to tune into pop music stations in Toronto, Hamilton and Welland, Ontario and Buffalo, USA.
His first exposure to musical training came in the form of piano lessons, which he later said in his instructional video, a work in progress not much influence on him. He had a penchant for drumming on various objects around the house with a pair of chopsticks, so for his 13th birthday, his parents bought him a pair drumsticks, a practice pad and some lessons, with the promise that if he sets out for one year, she would buy him a kit.
His parents bought him a drum kit for his 14th birthday and he began taking lessons from Don George at the Peninsula Conservatory of Music. His debut took place in that year the school Christmas pageant in St. Johns Anglican Church Hall in Port Dalhousie. His next appearance was at Lakeport High School with his first group, the Eternal Triangle. This show contains a number of original titled "LSD Forever". On this show he performed his first solo.
Peart got a job in Lakeside Park, a fairground on the shores of Lake Ontario, which later inspired a song of the same name on the Rush album Caress of Steel. He worked on the Bubble Game and Ball Toss, but his tendency to take it easy when business was slack resulted in his dismissal. By his late teens, Peart had played in local bands Thin as Mumblin Sump, the majority, and JR Flood. These bands practiced in the basement recreation rooms and garages and church halls, high schools and played roller rinks in towns across southern Ontario, such as Mitchell, Seaforth, and Elmira. She also starred in the northern Ontario city of Timmins. Tuesday night was filled with jam sessions on the Niagara Theatre Centre.
Career before Accession Rush
At eighteen, after struggling to achieve success as a drummer in Canada, Peart traveled to London hoping to further his career as a professional musician further. Despite playing in several bands and picking up occasional session work, he was forced to support themselves by selling trinkets to tourists in a souvenir shop called The Great Frog on Carnaby Street.
While in London he came to the writings of author and objectivist Ayn Rand. Rand's writings have a significant impact on the philosophical Peart because he felt many of her treatises to individualism and Objectivism inspiring. References to Rand's philosophy can be found in his lyrics, especially "Anthem" from 1975's Fly By Night and "2112" from 1976 is 2112.
After eighteen months of blind musical performances, and disillusioned by his lack of progress in the music business, Peart placed aspiration to a professional musician on hold and returned to Canada. After returning to St. Catharines, he worked for his father selling tractor parts at Dalziel Equipment.
Join Rush
Upon his return to Canada, Peart was recruited to drums for the band St. Catharines Hush, who played the games on the Southern Ontario bar circuit. Shortly after, a mutual acquaintance convinced Peart to audition for the Toronto-based band Rush, which is a replacement for The original drummer John Rutsey needed. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson oversaw the audition. His future band members describe his arrival that day as somewhat humorous, as he arrived in shorts, driving a battered old car with his drums stored in bins. Peart felt the entire audition was a complete disaster. While Lee and Bert clicked on a personal level (Both share the same taste in books and music), Lifeson had a less favorable impression of Peart. After some discussion, convinced that Lee Lifeson Peart maniacal British style of drumming, reminiscent of The Who's Keith Moon, was what the band needed.
Peart officially joined the band on July 29, 1974, two weeks before the first group of American tour. Peart purchased a silver Slingerland kit that he played in his first gig with the band, opening for Uriah Heep and Manfred Mann in front of more than 11,000 people at the Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 14, 1974.
Early career with Rush
Peart quickly settled into his new position, also becoming the primary lyricist band. Before he at Rush, he had written some songs, but with the other members mostly uninterested in writing lyrics, Peart's writing was so underused previously noticed as his musicality. The band was still finding his feet as a recording act, and Peart, along with the rest of the band, now had to learn to live from a suitcase.
His first recording with the band, 1975 Fly by Night, was fairly successful, winning the Juno Award for most promising new act, but the follow-up, Caress of Steel, which the band had high expectations, was greeted with hostility by both fans and critics. In response to this negative reception, most of which focused on the B-side voltage epic "The Fountain of Lamneth "said Peart Medal by" 2112 "on their next album with the same name in 1976. The album, despite record company indifference, became their breakthrough and had a following in the United States. The supporting tour culminated in a three night stand at Massey Hall in Toronto, a location Peart had dreamed of playing in his days at the Southern Ontario bar circuit, where he was introduced as "The Professor on the drum kit from Lee.
Peart returned to England for Rush's Nordic Tour and the band stayed in the United Kingdom to the next album, 1977's A Farewell to Kings in Rockfield Studios in Wales. They returned to Rockfield to record the follow-up, Hemispheres, in 1978, they wrote entirely in the studio. The inclusion of five studio albums in four years, with as many as 300 performances a year, convinced the band to another Then take approach. Peart has described his time in the band at this point as "a dark tunnel."
From this point, Peart's career was near only by Rush:
For more details on this topic, see Rush (band).
Reinventing Play Style
In 1992, Peart was invited by Buddy Rich's daughter, Cathy Rich, play at the Buddy Rich Memorial Scholarship concert in New York City. Although initially intimidated by the request, Peart accepted the offer and performed for the first time The Buddy Rich Big Band. Feeling that his performance left much to be desired, Peart decided to produce two and Buddy Rich tribute album title to play Burning for Buddy: a tribute to the music of Buddy Rich in 1994 and 1997 in order to regain his aplomb.
Peart said on his website that "And yet … yet I have a nagging feeling I had when playing in that style, I was just imitating, not really feeling well. If the old Duke Ellington standard goes, 'It do not mean a thing if it ain got that swing, and I I think I did. "
In early 2007, Bert and Cathy Rich again began discussing another Buddy tribute concert. In response, Peart decided to again to improve his swing style with formal drum lessons, this time under the tutelage of another disciple of Freddie Gruber, Peter Erskine, himself an instructor of drummer Steve Gadd. On October 18 2008, Peart conducted again at the Buddy Rich Memorial Concert at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York.
Family Tragedy & further
Shortly after the peak of Rush's Test for Echo Tour July 4, 1997, Peart's first daughter and then-only child, 19-year-old Selena Taylor, was slain in a car accident on Highway 401 near the town of Brighton, Ontario on August 10. His common law wife of 22 years, Jacqueline Taylor, succumbed to cancer just 10 months later on June 20, 1998. Peart, however, claims that her death was caused by a "broken heart" and called it "a slow suicide by apathy. They just do not care."
In his book Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road, Peart writes how he told his bandmates at Selena's funeral, "consider me retired." Peart took a hiatus to mourn and reflect, at that time he traveled throughout North America on his BMW engine, 88.000 km (55,000 miles). After his journey ended, Peart decided to return to the band. Peart wrote Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road as a chronicle of his geographical and emotional journey.
While Peart was visiting a long time Rush photographer Andrew MacNaughtan in Los Angeles, MacNaughtan Peart introduced his future wife, photographer Carrie Nuttall. They married on September 9, 2000. In early 2001, Peart announced to his bandmates that he was ready to return to recording and performing. The product the return of the band in 2002 album Vapor Trails. At the beginning of the subsequent tour in support of the album, it was decided among the band members that Peart would not participate in the daily grind of press interviews and "Meet and Greet" sessions upon their arrival in a new city that typically a touring band schedule to monopolize. While Peart has always shied away from these types of in-person encounters, it was decided that having to needlessly expose him to an endless stream of questions about the tragic events his life was quite unnecessary.
Since the release of Vapor Trails and reuniting with his fellow band members, Bert returned to work as a full time musician. Rush has since released a cover EP, Feedback in June 2004 and their 18th studio album Snakes & Arrows in May 2007, which were supported by three additional tours in 2004, 2007 and 2008.
In the June 2009 edition of Peart's News, Weather and Sports entitled "Under the Marine Layer", he announced that he and Nuttall were expecting their first child. first Peart and Nuttall child, Olivia Louise Peart was born on August 12, 2009.
Musicality
Style and influences
Peart (right, behind Geddy Lee) performing with Rush.
Peart is consistently ranked as one of the greatest rock drummers by fans, fellow musicians, and magazines. His influences are eclectic, ranging from John Bonham, Michael Giles, Phil Collins, Steve Gadd, and Keith Moon, fusion and jazz drummers Billy Cobham, Buddy Rich, Bill Bruford and Gene Krupa. The Who was the first group that inspired him to write songs and play the drums. Peart is distinguished for playing "butt-end out, reverse stick orientation for greater impact and increased capacity Rimshot. "When I started out, "Peart said later," when I broke the tips off my sticks I could not afford to buy new ones, so I would just turn them over and use the other end. I'm used to it, and continue to use the heavy end of lighter sticks – it gives me a solid impact, but with less 'dead weight' to sling around.
Peart had long thought matched grip, but he decided to change the traditional style as part of its reinvention in the mid-1990s under the tutelage of jazz coach Freddie Gruber. Shortly after recording his first instructional DVD is a work in progress, Peart went back to mainly through words, although he did not return to traditional when playing songs from Test for Echo and during times when he feels traditional grip is more suitable as the rudimentary snare drum part of his drum solo. He discusses details of these switches in the DVD Anatomy of a drum solo.
Equipment
Neil Peart drum kit and 360 degrees
With Rush Peart has played Slingerland, Tama, Ludwig, and Drum Workshop drums, in that order.
Historically he has played Zildjian A Series cymbals together with Wuhan china cymbals. In the early 2000s, abandoned Peart Zildjian and Wuhan and started using only the Paragon, a line created for him by Sabian. In concert, Peart uses an extensive 360-degree drum kit, with a great acoustic set front and electronic drums at the rear.
Neil Peart began Simmons electronic drums that start with 1984 Grace Under Pressure
During the late 1970s, augmented Peart his acoustic setup with various percussion instruments, orchestral bells, tubular bells, wind chimes, crotales, timbales, timpani, gong, temple blocks, bell tree, triangle, and melodic cowbells. Since the mid-1980s, Peart has replaced some of these pieces with MIDI trigger pads. This was done to trigger sounds sampled from various pieces of acoustic percussion that would otherwise consume far too much drama. Some purely electronic non-instrumental sounds are also used. A classical path is used MIDI Malletkat Express, which is a two-octave MIDI electronic device that looks a xylophone or piano. The Malletkat Express is composed of rubber pads for the "keys" so that each stick can be used. Beginning with 1984's Grace Under Pressure, he used Simmons electronic drums with Akai digital samplers. Peart has performed several songs in the first made using the electronic part of his drum kit. (Eg "Red Sector A", "Closer to the heart" on a Show of Hands (video) and "Mystic Rhythms 'On R30.) Peart Drum Solos also include sections mainly performed on the electronic part of his set.
Shortly after making the choice to electronic to include drums and triggers, Peart added what has become another trademark of his performance: his rotating drum riser. During live Rush shows, the automated rotating riser allows Peart dynamically swap the prominent parts of the kit ("front", traditional kit, and "back" electronic kit). A staple of Peart live drum solos, the performance in rotation and swap the front and back kits as part of the solo itself. This special effect, the concomitant of a symbolic transition styles within the drum solo and offers a visual treat for the audience.
In the early 2000s, Peart began taking full advantage of advances in electronic drum technology, which primarily Roland V-Drums and continuation the use of samplers with its existing set of acoustic percussion. Peart's digitally sampled library of both traditional and exotic sounds has grown over the years with his music.
In April 2006, Neil took delivery of its third set of DW also configured to allow the R30 to be in a Tobacco Sunburst finish on curly maple exterior layer, with chrome hardware. He refers to this set as the "West Coast kit" as he used to in Los Angeles. Besides its use in recent recordings with Vertical Horizon, he played during the preparation of parts for the latest Rush album, Snakes & Arrows. It features a custom 23 "bass drum, all sizes the same remain as the R30 kit.
On March 20, 2007 Peart Drum Workshop has shown that a new set of red-painted DW maple shells made with black and gold hardware, "Snakes & Arrows "logos for Neil to play on the Snakes & Arrows Tour.
Solos
Peart is often regarded as one of the best trades of the in-concert drum solo. He is known for extensive, intricate drum solos in odd time signatures, complex arrangements (sometimes total separation between the upper and lower limb patterns: For example, an ostinato called "The Waltz"), and exotic percussion instruments. These solos are listed on any live album by the band. On the early live albums (The whole world is a Stage & Exit … Stage Left), the drum solo was included as part of a song. On all subsequent live albums, the drum solo was recorded on a separate track. His latest instructional DVD, Anatomy of a Drum Solo, is a thorough investigation into how he constructs a solo. He uses his solo from 2004 R30 30th anniversary tour as the basis for research, along with other lectures and demonstrations on how to construct a drum solo musical instead of indulgent.
Lyrics
Peart is also the main lyricist for Rush. Literature has always influenced his writings, and as such he has spent on a wide range of subjects. In his early days with Rush, much of his lyrical output was influenced by fantasy, science fiction, mythology and philosophy. Would be almost as many real world or deal with personal issues, like life on the road and parts of his adolescence.
The number "2112" focuses on the struggle of an individual against the collectivist forces of a totalitarian state. This breakthrough release was the band, but also brought unexpected criticism, mainly because of the credit crisis of inspiration Peart gave to Ayn Rand in the liner notes. "There was a significant opposition, particularly from the English press, this is the late seventies, when collectivism was still in style, especially among journalists, "said Bert." They were our 'Junior fascists and called 'Hitler lovers. "It was a total shock to me."
Tired of accusations of fascism or ideological allegiance to the Rand philosophy of Objectivism, Peart has tried to listeners of his eclecticism and independence in interviews to remember. He did not try to argue in defense of Rand's views: "First, the extent of my influence from the writings of Ayn Rand should not be overestimated. I am no disciple."
The 1980 album Permanent Waves saw Peart cease to use fantasy literature or ancient mythology in his writing. 1981's Moving Pictures showed that Peart was still interested in heroic, mythological figures, but would now place them firmly in a modern, reality-based context. The song "Limelight" from the same album is an autobiographical account of Peart concerns could his own popularity and the pressure of fame. Permanent Waves further, most of Peart's lyrics began around social, emotional and humanitarian issues run, usually from an objective stance and using the use of metaphors and symbolic representation.
1984's Grace Under Pressure as strings discouraged subjects as the Holocaust ("Red Sector A ") and the death of close friends (" Afterimage "). Beginning with 1987's Hold Your Fire and 1989's Presto, Roll the Bones 1991, and 1993's counterparts, Peart would continue to explore diverse lyrical motifs, even addressing the subject of love and relationships ("Open Secrets", "Ghost of a Chance ',' Speed of Love, "" Cold Fire "), a subject that he deliberately avoided in the past because of what he perceived as an inherent trite cliche. However, from 2002 Vapor Trails was heavily devoted to talking about personal matters Peart's, together with other humanitarian issues, such as 9 / 11 terrorist attacks ("Peaceable Kingdom). The band's most recent album Snakes & Arrows is mainly involved with and vociferously Peart's views on faith and religion.
Advice from Peart's lyrics have always been divided. While fans have hailed them as thoughtful and intelligent, some critics called them over-wrought and bombastic. For example, In 2007, he was voted # 2 on Blender magazine's list of worst lyricists in rock. "
Political opinions
Peart has never publicly identified with one political party or organization in Canada or the United States. However, political and philosophical beliefs are often analyzed through his work with Rush and through other sources. Peart is often regarded as an Objectivist and an admirer of Ayn Rand. Most of it is based on his work with Rush in the 1970s, especially the song "Anthem" and the 2112 album, the latter specifically attributed to "the genius of Ayn Rand. "However, in a 1994 interview, while the argument of the" individual is paramount in the field of justice and freedom, "Peart specifically distanced himself from a strict line Objectivist, whereby it" no disciple. "
While Peart has sometimes regarded as a "conservative" and "Republican" rock star, he, in 2005, described himself as a "left libertarian," and is often cited as a libertarian celebrity. He speaks also of Fox News Channel is biased towards conservatives and British refutes allegations that he and Rush have a "right" rock band in his book Roadshow: Landscape with Drums: A Concert Tour by Motorcycle. In 2008, Peart describes himself as a "quasi-libertarian" and stated that motorcycle helmet laws, which are often opposed by libertarians, "not a problem at all for me."
Books
Peart is the author of four nonfiction books, the latest in September 2006. His growth as an author predates the published work of several years (not including his work as the primary lyricist Rush), through personal sent letters and short travel to a small circle of friends and family. Peart's first book, entitled The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa, was written in 1996 about one month long bicycle tour through Cameroon in November 1988. The book describes Peart's travels through towns and villages with four fellow riders. The original had a limited circulation, but after the critical and commercial success of Peart's second book, Masked Rider was reissued and remains in print as of 2006.
After losing his wife and only [on time] daughter, Peart wrote Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road. Peart and the rest of the band were always able to have a private life away from all his public image in Rush. However, Ghost Rider is a first-person story of Bert on the road, a BMW R1100GS motorcycle in an attempt to put his life back together as he embarked on an extensive tour North America.
Deciding to take a road trip, this time with the car, Peart reflects on his life, his career, his family and music. This is discussed in Peart's third book Traveling Music: The Soundtrack of My Life and Times. It follows Peart still carrying emotional scars, but building a new life. As with his previous two books, is a first person narrative.
Thirty years after Peart joined Rush, the band was on its 30th anniversary tour. Released in September 2006, Roadshow: Landscape with Drums, a concert tour by motorcycle tour details of both back and Neil's drum kit on his BMW R1150GS and R1200GS motorcycles.
DVDs
Apart from video releases like Rush a band, Peart has released two instructional DVDs
A work in progress. Miami, Florida: Warner Bros. Publications. 2002. ISBN 0757990290 Originally released on VHS in 1996 and re-released on DVD in 2002.
Anatomy of a drum solo Sl: Hudson Music: Distributed by Hal Leonard. 2005. ISBN 1423407008
Awards and honors
Rush portal
Peart has the following awards in the Modern Drummer Magazine Reader's poll:
Hall of Fame: 1983
* Best Rock Drummer: 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 2006, 2008
Best Multi-Percussionist *: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986
Best Percussion Instrumentalist: 1982
Most promising new drummer: 1980
Best All Around: 1986
1986 Honor Roll: Rock Drummer, Multi-Percussion
(* – As a member of the Honor Roll in these categories, he is no longer eligible for votes in the above categories).
Best Instructional Video: 2006, for Anatomy of a drum solo
Best Drum Recording of the years 1980, 2007, for "YYZ" by Exit … Stage Left
Recorded best performance:
1980: Permanent Waves
1981: Moving Pictures
1982: Exit … Stage Left
1983: Signals
1985: Grace Under Pressure
1986: Power Windows
1988: Hold Your Fire
1989: A Show of Hands
1990: Presto
1992: Roll the Bones
1993: Counterparties
1997: Test for Echo
1999: Different Stages
2002: Vapor Trails
2004: R30
2007: Snakes & Arrows
Peart has the following awards from DRUM! magazine for 2007:
Drummer of the Year
Best Progressive Rock Drummer
Best Live Performer
Best DVD (Anatomy of a Drum Solo)
Best Drumming Album (Snakes & Arrows)
Peart received the following awards from DRUM! magazine for 2008:
Drummer of the Year
Best Progressive Rock Drummer (Runner-Up)
Best Mainstream Pop Drummer (Runner-Up)
Best Live Drumming Performer
Peart received the following awards from DRUM! magazine for 2009:
Drummer of the Year
Best Progressive Rock Drummer
Together with his bandmates Lee and Lifeson, Peart was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on May 9, 1996. The trio was the first rock band to be honored as a group.
Canadian Songwriter Hall of Fame, along with band members Lee and Lifeson
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Studio albums
Rush Fly by Night Caress of Steel 2112 A Farewell to Kings Hemispheres Permanent Waves Moving Pictures Signals Grace Under Pressure Power Windows Hold Your Fire Presto Roll the Bones Counterparts Test for Echo Vapor Trails, Snakes & Arrows Feedback
Live albums
The whole world is a stage exit … Stage Left Grace Under Pressure Tour of hands Different Stages Rush in Rio R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour Snakes & Arrows Live
Live videos
Exit … Stage Left Grace Under Pressure Tour A Show of Hands Rush in Rio R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour Rush Replay X 3 Snakes & Arrows Live
Album compilations
Rush Through Time Archives Chronicles Retrospective I Retrospective II The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Gold Hits 1974-1987 Retrospective 3 Working Men
Video Compilations
Through the camera eye Chronicles
Tours
Roll the Bones Counterparts Tour Tour Tour Test for Echo Vapor Trails Tour R30: 30th Anniversary Tour Snakes & Arrows Tour
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Discography Awards History Instrumentals Victor Equipment My Favorite Headache a work in progress Anatomy of a drum solo Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road "Fear" series Cygnus X-1 duology Hugh Syme The Fifth Order of Angels
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Person Data
NAME
Peart, Neil
Alternative Names
Peart, Neil Ellwood
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Canadian drummer, lyricist, and author
DATE OF BIRTH
September 12, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
Categories: 1952 births | Canadian rock drummers | Canadian songwriters | Living people | Officers of the Order of Canada | People from Los Angeles, California | People from St. Catharines | Progressive rock musicians | Rush (band) members | Musicians from Toronto | Canadian memoirists | Canadian libertarians | Left-libertarians | Long distance driving
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