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Canadian drummer (1952–2020)

Neil Peart OC
Peart performing in 2008
Background information
Birth name	Neil Ellwood Peart
Also known as	The Professor, Bubba, Pratt
Born	(1952-09-12)September 12, 1952 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Died	January 7, 2020(2020-01-07) (aged 67) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Genres	Progressive stone hard rock jazz swing heavy metal
Occupation(s)	Musician lyricist songwriter author
Instruments	Drums percussion
Years active	1968–2020[1]
Labels	Atlantic Mercury Anthem
Associated acts	Rush Buddy Rich Big Ring Vertical Horizon[2]
Website	neilpeart.net Signature

Musical artist

Neil Ellwood Peart OC (; September 12, 1952 – Jan 7, 2020) was a Canadian musician, songwriter, and author, all-time known as the drummer and principal lyricist of the rock band Rush. Peart earned numerous awards for his musical performances, including an induction into the Modern Drummer Readers Poll Hall of Fame in 1983, making him the youngest person ever so honoured.^[three] Known to fans past the nickname 'The Professor',^[4] his drumming was renowned for its technical proficiency and his live performances for their exacting nature and stamina.

Peart was born in Hamilton, Ontario,^[5] and grew up in Port Dalhousie (now part of St. Catharines). During adolescence, he floated between regional bands in pursuit of a career as a total-time drummer. After a discouraging stint in England, Peart returned home to concentrate on music where he joined Rush, a Toronto band, in mid-1974, half-dozen years afterward its germination. Together they released nineteen studio albums, with ten exceeding a one thousand thousand copies sold in the United States. Billboard ranks the band 3rd for the "most consecutive gold or platinum albums by a rock band".^[A]

Early on in his career, Peart's performance way was deeply rooted in hard rock. He drew most of his inspiration from drummers such every bit Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, and John Bonham, players who were at the forefront of the British hard stone scene.^{[7] [eight]} As time passed, he began to emulate jazz and big band musicians Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. In 1994, Peart became a friend and student of jazz instructor Freddie Gruber.^{[9] [10]} It was during this time that Peart revamped his playing style by incorporating jazz and swing components.^{[8] [eleven]}

In addition to serving as Blitz's primary lyricist, Peart published several memoirs well-nigh his travels. His lyrics for Rush addressed universal themes and diverse subjects including science fiction, fantasy, and philosophy, every bit well equally secular, humanitarian, and libertarian themes. Peart wrote a total of 7 nonfiction books focused on his travels and personal stories. He besides coauthored with Kevin J. Anderson three steampunk fantasy novels based on Rush's last anthology, Clockwork Angels. The ii also wrote a dark fantasy novella, Drumbeats, inspired by Peart's travels in Africa.

On December vii, 2015, Peart announced his retirement from touring in an interview with Drumhead Magazine.^{[12] [13]} In January 2018, bandmate Alex Lifeson confirmed that Rush had disbanded also due to Peart's health issues.^{[14] [15]} During his last years Peart lived in Santa Monica, California, with his wife, Carrie Nuttall, and daughter. After a three and a half year illness,^[16] Peart died of glioblastoma on January 7, 2020, at age 67.^[17]

Biography [edit]

Early childhood [edit]

Peart was born on September 12, 1952, to Glen and Betty Peart and lived his early years on his family's farm in Hagersville, Ontario,^[xviii] on the outskirts of Hamilton. The first child of four,^[xix] his brother Danny and sisters Judy and Nancy were born later on the family moved to St. Catharines when Peart was two years old. At this time his male parent became parts manager for Dalziel Equipment, an International Harvester agricultural machinery dealer. In 1956 the family moved to the Port Dalhousie surface area of the town. Peart attended Gracefield School and later Lakeport Secondary School, and described his childhood equally happy; he stated he experienced a warm family life. By early on adolescence he became interested in music and acquired a transistor radio, which he would utilise to tune into popular music stations dissemination from Toronto, Hamilton, Welland, and Buffalo.^[18]

His start exposure to musical training came in the form of piano lessons, which he subsequently said in his instructional video A Work in Progress did non have much affect on him.^[10] He had a penchant for drumming on diverse objects around the house with a pair of chopsticks, so for his thirteenth birthday his parents bought him a pair of drum sticks, a do drum, and some lessons, with the promise that if he stuck with it for a year they would purchase him a kit.^[18]

His parents bought him a drum kit for his fourteenth altogether and he began taking lessons from Don George at the Peninsula Conservatory of Music.^[18] His phase debut took identify that year at the schoolhouse'south Christmas pageant in St. Johns Anglican Church building Hall in Port Dalhousie. His next appearance was at Lakeport High School with his outset group, The Eternal Triangle. This performance contained an original number titled "LSD Forever". At this show he performed his first solo.^[18]

Peart got a job in Lakeside Park, in Port Dalhousie on the shores of Lake Ontario, which later inspired a song of the same name on the Rush anthology Caress of Steel.^[20] He worked on the Bubble Game and Ball Toss, but his tendency to accept it easy when business organization was slack resulted in his termination. By his tardily teens, Peart had played in local bands such as Mumblin' Sumpthin', and the Majority. These bands practiced in basement recreation rooms and garages and played church building halls, high schools, and skating rinks in towns across Southern Ontario such as Mitchell, Seaforth, and Elmira. They also played in the Northern Ontario city of Timmins. Tuesday nights were filled with jam sessions at the Niagara Theatre Centre.^[18]

Early on career [edit]

At eighteen years old later on struggling to reach success as a drummer in Canada, Peart travelled to London, England, hoping to further his career as a professional musician.^[ix] Despite playing in several bands and picking up occasional session work, he was forced to back up himself past selling jewelry at a shop called The Great Frog on Carnaby Street.^{[21] [22]}

While in London, he came beyond the writings of novelist and Objectivist Ayn Rand. Rand's writings became a significant early philosophical influence on Peart, every bit he found many of her writings on individualism and Objectivism inspiring. References to Rand'south philosophy tin can be found in his early lyrics, virtually notably "Anthem" from 1975'southward Fly by Night and "2112" from 1976's 2112.^[23]

Afterward 18 months Peart became disillusioned past his lack of progress in the music concern; he placed his aspiration of condign a professional musician on hold and returned to Canada.^[9] Upon returning to St. Catharines, he worked for his male parent selling tractor parts at Dalziel Equipment.^[24]

Joining Rush [edit]

After returning to Canada, Peart was recruited to play drums for a St. Catharines band known as J R Alluvion, who played on the Southern Ontario bar excursion.^[9] Shortly after, a mutual associate convinced Peart to audience for the Toronto-based ring Rush, which needed a replacement for its original drummer John Rutsey. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson oversaw the audition. His future bandmates describe his arrival that day as somewhat humorous, as he arrived in shorts, driving a dilapidated old Ford Pinto with his drums stored in trashcans. Peart felt the entire audition was a consummate disaster.^[nine] While Lee and Peart hit it off on a personal level (both sharing similar tastes in books and music), Lifeson had a less favourable impression of Peart.^[nine]

Afterward some give-and-take between Lee and Lifeson, Peart officially joined the band on July 29, 1974, two weeks before the group's first US tour.^[25] Peart procured a silver Slingerland kit which he played at his get-go gig with the band, opening for Uriah Heep and Manfred Isle of man'due south Earth Band in front of over eleven,000 people at the Civic Loonshit in Pittsburgh on August 14, 1974.^[26]

Peart soon settled into his new position, also becoming the band'due south master lyricist. Earlier joining Rush he had written a few songs, but, with the other members largely uninterested in writing lyrics, Peart's previously underutilized writing became as noticed as his musicianship.^[27] The band was working hard to establish themselves every bit a recording act, and Peart, along with the balance of the band, began to undertake extensive touring.

His offset recording with the band, 1975's Fly by Night, was adequately successful, winning the Juno Accolade for most promising new human action,^[28] just the follow-upward, Caress of Steel, for which the band had high hopes, was greeted with hostility by both fans and critics.^[29] In response to this negative reception, most of which was aimed at the B-side-spanning ballsy "The Fountain of Lamneth", Peart responded by penning "2112" on their next album of the aforementioned name in 1976. The album, despite record visitor indifference, became their breakthrough and gained a following in the United States.^[30] The supporting tour culminated in a 3-night stand at Massey Hall in Toronto, a venue Peart had dreamed of playing in his days on the Southern Ontario bar excursion and where he was introduced equally "The Professor on the drum kit" by Lee.^[31]

Peart returned to England for Blitz'southward Northern European Bout and the ring stayed in the Great britain to record the next album, 1977'due south A Farewell to Kings, in Rockfield Studios in Wales. They returned to Rockfield to record the follow-upwards, Hemispheres, in 1978, which they wrote entirely in the studio. The recording of five studio albums in 4 years, coupled with as many as 300 gigs a year, convinced the band to take a unlike approach thereafter. Peart has described his time in the band up to this point every bit "a dark tunnel".^[32]

Playing way reinvention [edit]

In 1991, Peart was invited by Buddy Rich'south daughter, Cathy Rich, to play at the Buddy Rich Memorial Scholarship Concert in New York City.^[33] Peart accustomed and performed for the offset time with the Buddy Rich Big Band. Peart remarked that he had little time to rehearse, and noted that he was embarrassed to find the band played a different arrangement of the song than the one he had learned.^[34] Feeling that his performance left much to exist desired, Peart produced and played on ii Buddy Rich tribute albums titled Burning for Buddy: A Tribute to the Music of Buddy Rich in 1994 and 1997 in order to regain his aplomb.

While producing the offset Buddy Rich tribute album, Peart was struck past the tremendous improvement in ex-Journey drummer Steve Smith's playing, and asked him his "secret". Smith responded he had been studying with drum teacher Freddie Gruber.^[35]

In early on 2007, Peart and Cathy Rich discussed another Buddy tribute concert. At the recommendation of bassist Jeff Berlin, Peart once over again augmented his swing style with formal drum lessons, this time under the tutelage of some other pupil of Freddie Gruber, Peter Erskine, himself an instructor of Steve Smith.^[34] On Oct xviii, 2008, Peart one time again performed at the Buddy Rich Memorial Concert at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.^[36] The concert has since been released on DVD.

Family deaths and recovery [edit]

On August 10, 1997, presently after Rush's Examination for Echo Tour, Peart's daughter (and then, his simply child) Selena Taylor, xix, was killed in a single-machine crash on Highway 401 almost the town of Brighton, Ontario. His wife of 23 years, Jacqueline Taylor, subsequently died of cancer on June xx, 1998. Peart attributed her death to the upshot of a "broken heart" and chosen it "a slow suicide by apathy. She just didn't care."^[37]

In his book Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road, Peart wrote that he told his bandmates at Selena's funeral, "consider me retired".^[37] Peart took a long breather to mourn and reflect, and travelled extensively throughout Due north and Primal America on his motorcycle, covering 88,000 km (55,000 mi). After his journey, Peart returned to the band. Peart wrote the book as a chronicle of his geographical and emotional journey.

Peart was introduced to photographer Carrie Nuttall in Los Angeles by longtime Rush lensman Andrew MacNaughtan. They married on September nine, 2000. In early 2001, Peart announced to his bandmates that he was set up to return to recording and performing. The product of the band's return was the 2002 anthology Vapor Trails. At the offset of the ensuing bout in support of the album, the ring members decided that Peart would not take part in the daily grind of press interviews and "run across and greet" sessions upon their arrival in a new metropolis that typically monopolize a touring band'due south daily schedule. Peart always shied away from these types of in-person encounters, and it was decided that exposing him to a lengthy stream of questions nearly the tragic events of his life was not necessary.^{[38] [39] [40]}

After the release of Vapor Trails and his reunion with bandmates, Peart returned to piece of work as a full-time musician. In the June 2009 edition of Peart's website's News, Conditions, and Sports, titled "Under the Marine Layer", he appear that he and Nuttall were expecting their first child.^[41] Olivia Louise Peart was born later on that yr.^[42]

In the mid-2010s, Peart acquired U.South. citizenship.^[43]

Retirement from touring [edit]

Peart described himself equally a "retired drummer" in an interview in Dec 2015:

Lately Olivia has been introducing me to new friends at school as 'My dad—He's a retired drummer.' Truthful to say—funny to hear. And it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to ... take yourself out of the game. I would rather prepare it aside than face up the predicament described in our song "Losing It" ...^[12]

However, Geddy Lee clarified his bandmate was quoted out of context, and suggested Peart was simply taking a intermission, "explaining his reasons for not wanting to tour, with the cost that it'south taking on his body."^[xiii]

Peart had been suffering from chronic tendinitis and shoulder problems.^[44] In January 2018, Alex Lifeson confirmed that Rush is "basically washed".^[15] Peart remained friends with his former bandmates.^[45]

Death [edit]

Peart died from glioblastoma, an aggressive form of encephalon cancer, on January 7, 2020, in Santa Monica, California.^[46] He had been diagnosed three and a one-half years earlier, and the disease was a closely guarded hole-and-corner in Peart'southward inner circumvolve until his death. His family unit made the announcement on January 10.^[46]

From the official Rush website:

Information technology is with cleaved hearts and the deepest sadness that we must share the terrible news that on Tuesday our friend, soul brother and ring mate of over 45 years, Neil, has lost his incredibly brave iii and a half year battle with brain cancer (Glioblastoma). We ask that friends, fans and media akin understandably respect the family unit'south need for privacy and peace at this extremely painful and hard time. Those wishing to express their condolences can cull a cancer research group or clemency of their option and brand a donation in Neil's name.^[47]

Peart's decease was widely lamented by fans and fellow musicians alike, who considered it a substantial loss for popular music.^{[48] [49]}

Neil's father, Glen, too died of cancer on June 12, 2021.^[l]

Musicianship [edit]

Mode and influences [edit]

Peart'south drumming skill and technique are well-regarded by fans, fellow musicians, and music journalists.^{[51] [52]} His influences were eclectic, ranging from Pete Thomas, John Bonham, Michael Giles, Ginger Bakery, Phil Collins, Chris Sharrock, Steve Gadd, Stewart Copeland,^[53] Michael Shrieve^{[54] [55]} and Keith Moon, to fusion and jazz drummers Billy Cobham, Buddy Rich, Bill Bruford and Cistron Krupa.^{[56] [viii] [57]} The Who was the first group that inspired him to write songs and play the drums.^[58]

Peart had long played matched grip simply shifted to traditional every bit part of his fashion reinvention in the mid-1990s under the tutelage of jazz jitney Freddie Gruber.^[9] He played traditional grip throughout his first instructional DVD A Work in Progress and on Rush'due south Test for Echo studio album. Peart went back to using primarily matched, though he continued to switch to traditional at times when playing songs from Examination for Echo and during moments when traditional grip felt more appropriate, such as during the rudimental snare drum department of his drum solo. He discussed the details of these switches in the DVD Anatomy of a Drum Solo.^[8]

Variety wrote: "Widely considered 1 of the most innovative drummers in stone history, Peart was famous for his state-of-the-art pulsate kits—more than than forty different drums were not out of the norm—precise playing style and on stage showmanship."^[59]

USA Today 's writers compared him favorably with other peak-shelf rock drummers. He was "considered one of the best rock drummers of all time, alongside John Bonham of Led Zeppelin; Ringo Starr of The Beatles; Keith Moon of The Who; Ginger Baker of Cream and Stewart Copeland of The Police."^[sixty] Being "known for his technical proficiency", the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame inducted him in 1983.^[61]

Music critic Amanda Petrusich in The New Yorker wrote: "Watching Peart play the drums gave the impression that he might possess several phantom limbs. The sound was merciless."^[6]

Equipment [edit]

Neil Peart and his 360-caste drum kit

With Blitz, Peart played Slingerland, Tama, Ludwig, and Drum Workshop drums, in that gild.^[62] Fly Past Night and Caress of Steel were recorded with a 5×14 Rogers Dynasonic; chrome over contumely with 10 lugs. From 2112 to Counterparts, he used a 5 1/ii × 14 inch Slingerland "Creative person" snare model (3-ply shell with 8 lugs).^[63] For the recording of Presto, he used a Ludwig and Solid Percussion piccolo snare drum.

Peart played Zildjian A-series cymbals and Wuhan china cymbals until the early 2000s, when he switched to Paragon, a line created for him by Sabian.^{[62] [64]} In concert starting in 1984 on the Grace Under Force per unit area Tour, Peart used an elaborate 360-caste drum kit that would rotate equally he played dissimilar sections of the kit.^[65]

During the late 1970s, Peart augmented his acoustic setup with diverse percussion instruments, including orchestra bells, tubular bells, current of air chimes, crotales, timbales, timpani, gong, temple blocks, bong tree, triangle, and melodic cowbells.^[62] From the mid-1980s, Peart replaced several of these pieces with MIDI trigger pads. This was washed in order to trigger sounds sampled from various pieces of acoustic percussion that would otherwise eat far besides much stage area. Some purely electronic non-instrumental sounds were too used. One classic MIDI pad used is the Malletkat Express, which is a 2-octave electronic MIDI device that resembles a xylophone or piano. The Malletkat Limited is composed of rubber pads for the "keys" so that any stick can exist used. Commencement with 1984's Grace Under Pressure, he used Simmons electronic drums in conjunction with Akai digital samplers.^[62] Peart performed several songs primarily using the electronic portion of his drum kit. (e.m. "Red Sector A", "Closer to the Eye" on A Evidence of Easily and "Mystic Rhythms" on R30.)

Presently afterward making the choice to include electronic drums and triggers, Peart added what became another trademark of his kit: a rotating drum riser.^[62] During alive Rush shows, the riser allowed Peart to swap the prominent portions of the kit (traditional acoustic in front end, electronic in back). A staple of Peart's alive drum solos was the in-performance rotation-and-swap of the forepart and back kits every bit function of the solo, a special effect that provided a symbolic transition of drum styles inside the solo.^[66]

Neil Peart began incorporating electronic drums with 1984's Grace Under Pressure

In the early 2000s, Peart began taking full reward of the advances in electronic drum technology, primarily incorporating Roland 5-Drums and continued apply of samplers with his existing set of acoustic percussion. His digitally sampled library of both traditional and exotic sounds expanded over the years with his music.^[67]

In April 2006, Peart took delivery of his third DW set, configured similarly to the R30 set, in a Tobacco Sunburst finish over curly maple outside ply, with chrome hardware. He referred to this prepare, which he used primarily in Los Angeles, every bit the "West Coast kit". As well using it on recordings with Vertical Horizon, he played it while composing parts for Blitz'due south album Snakes & Arrows. Information technology featured a custom 23-inch bass drum; all other sizes remained the aforementioned as the R30 kit.^[68]

On March xx, 2007, Peart revealed that Drum Workshop prepared a new gear up of carmine-painted DW maple shells with blackness hardware and gold "Snakes & Arrows" logos for him to play on the Snakes & Arrows Tour.^[69]

Peart also designed his ain signature serial drumstick with Pro-Marking, the Promark PW747W, Neil Peart Signature drumsticks, made of Japanese white oak.^[70]

During the 2010–11 Time Motorcar Tour Peart used a new DW kit which was outfitted with copper-plated hardware and time motorcar designs to match the tour'south steampunk themes. Matching Paragon cymbals with clock imagery were besides used.^[67]

Solos [edit]

Peart was noted for his distinctive in-concert drum solos,^[71] characterized by exotic percussion instruments^[72] and long, intricate passages in odd time signatures.^{[52] [73] [74]} His complex arrangements sometimes effect in complete separation of upper- and lower-limb patterns; an ostinato dubbed "The Waltz" is a typical example.^[75] His solos were featured on every live album released by the band. On the early live albums (All the World's a Stage and Leave... Stage Left), the pulsate solo was included as role of a vocal. On all subsequent alive albums through Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland, the drum solo has been included as a separate track. The Clockwork Angels Tour album includes 3 curt solos instead of a unmarried long 1: two interludes played during other songs and ane standalone. Similarly, the R40 Alive album includes ii short solos performed equally interludes.

A studio recording of Peart's solo "Pieces of Eight" was released equally a flexi disc sectional in the May 1987 result of Modern Drummer mag.^[74] Peart's instructional DVD Anatomy of a Drum Solo (2005) is an in-depth examination of how he constructs a solo that is musical rather than indulgent, using his solo from the 2004 R30 30th anniversary tour as an example.^[8]

Lyricism [edit]

Peart was the chief lyricist for Blitz. Literature heavily influenced his writings.^[76] In his early days with Rush, much of his lyrical output was influenced by fantasy, science fiction, mythology, and philosophy.^[77]

The 1980 album Permanent Waves saw Peart stop to use fantasy and mythological themes. 1981'due south Moving Pictures showed that Peart was nevertheless interested in heroic, mythological figures, but now placed firmly in a modern, realistic context. The vocal "Limelight" from the same album is an autobiographical account of Peart's reservations regarding his ain popularity and the pressures associated with fame. From Permanent Waves onward, about of Peart's lyrics revolved around social, emotional, and humanitarian issues, usually from an objective standpoint and employing the utilise of metaphors and symbolic representation.^[77]

1984'due south Grace Under Force per unit area strung together such despondent topics as the Holocaust ("Scarlet Sector A") and the expiry of close friends ("Afterimage").^[78] Starting with 1987's Agree Your Fire and including 1989's Presto, 1991's Whorl the Bones, and 1993's Counterparts, Peart continued to explore diverse lyrical motifs, even addressing the topic of love and relationships^[79] ("Open Secrets", "Ghost of a Hazard", "Speed of Love", "Cold Burn", "Alien Shore"), a subject area which he purposefully avoided in the past, out of fright of using clichés.^[80] 2002's Vapor Trails was heavily devoted to Peart's personal issues, along with other humanitarian topics such every bit the 9/11 terrorist attacks ("Peaceable Kingdom"). The album Snakes & Arrows dealt primarily and vociferously with Peart's opinions regarding organized religion and religion.^[81]

The vocal "2112" focuses on the struggle of an individual confronting the collectivist forces of a totalitarian land. This became the band's breakthrough release, but besides brought unexpected criticism, mainly because of the credit of inspiration Peart gave to Ayn Rand in the liner notes. "In that location was a remarkable backlash, specially from the English press, this being the belatedly seventies, when collectivism was still in way, specially amid journalists", Peart said. "They were calling us 'Junior fascists' and 'Hitler lovers'. It was a full stupor to me".^[82]

Regarding his seeming ideological fealty to Rand'south philosophy of Objectivism, Peart said, "For a start, the extent of my influence past the writings of Ayn Rand should not be overstated. I am no one'due south disciple."^[83] The lyrics of "Faithless" exhibit a life stance which has been closely identified with secular humanism. Peart explicitly discussed his religious views in The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa, in which he wrote: "I'm a linear thinking agnostic, only not an atheist, folks."^[84]

In 2007, Peart was ranked No. ii (subsequently Sting) on the now defunct mag Blender's list of "worst lyricists in stone".^[85] In contrast, Allmusic called him "one of rock'southward almost accomplished lyricists".^[86]

Political views [edit]

For nigh of his career, Peart had never publicly identified with whatsoever political party or organization in Canada or the United states of america. Notwithstanding, his political and philosophical views have frequently been analyzed through his work with Blitz and through other sources. In October 1993, shortly before that year'south Canadian federal election, Peart appeared with then-Liberal Party leader Jean Chrétien in an interview circulate in Canada on MuchMusic, but stated in that interview that he was an undecided voter.^[87]

Peart has often been categorized every bit an Objectivist and an admirer of Ayn Rand. This is largely based on his work with Rush in the 1970s, peculiarly the song "Anthem" and the anthology 2112; the latter specifically credited Rand'southward piece of work.^[88] However, in his 1994 Blitz Backstage Club Newsletter, while contending the "individual is paramount in matters of justice and liberty," Peart specifically distanced himself from a strictly Objectivist line.^[89] In a June 2012 Rolling Stone interview, when asked if Rand's words all the same speak to him, Peart replied, "Oh, no. That was forty years ago. But it was important to me at the fourth dimension in a transition of finding myself and having faith that what I believed was worthwhile."^[90]

Although Peart was sometimes assumed to exist a "Bourgeois" or "Republican" rock star,^[91] he criticized the US Republican Party by stating that the philosophy of the party is "absolutely opposed to Christ'south teachings."^[92] In 2005, he described himself as a "left-leaning libertarian",^[93] and is oftentimes cited as a libertarian glory.^{[94] [95]}

In a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone, Peart stated that he saw the United states of america Democratic Party as the bottom evil: "For a person of my sensibility, you're but left with the Democratic political party."^[53]

Peart was a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism and worked with them on a radio public service proclamation.^[96]

Bibliography [edit]

Nonfiction [edit]

Peart authored seven non-fiction books, the latest released in September 2016.

Peart's outset book, titled The Masked Rider: Cycling in Due west Africa,^[84] was written in 1996 near a month-long bicycling tour through Republic of cameroon in November 1988. The book details Peart'south travels through towns and villages with four boyfriend riders. The original had a express impress run, but later the disquisitional and commercial success of Peart'due south second book, Masked Rider was re-issued by ECW Press and remains in print.^{[97] [98]}

After losing his wife and (at the fourth dimension) only girl, Peart embarked on a lengthy motorcycle road trip spanning North America. His experiences were penned in Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Route.^[37] Peart and the residue of the band were always able to go along his private life at a distance from his public image in Rush. However, Ghost Rider is a outset-person narrative of Peart on the route on a BMW R1100GS motorbike, in an effort to put his life dorsum together as he embarked on an extensive journey.^[99]

Years later, afterward his wedlock to Nuttall, Peart took some other road trip, this time by car. In his third book, Traveling Music: Playing Back the Soundtrack to My Life and Times,^[100] he reflects on his life, his career, his family, and music. Every bit with his previous two books, it is a first-person narrative.

Three decades after Peart joined Rush, the band institute itself on its 30th anniversary bout. Released in September 2006, Roadshow: Mural with Drums – A Concert Tour by Motorcycle details the tour both from behind Neil's drum kit and on his BMW R1150GS and R1200GS motorcycles.^[101]

Peart'southward next book, Far and Abroad: A Prize Every Time, was published by ECW Press in May 2011.^[102] This book, which he worked on for ii years, is formed effectually his traveling in North and South America. It tells how he establish in a Brazilian boondocks a unique combination of Due west African and Brazilian music.^[103] In 2014, a follow-up book, Far and Near: On Days like These, was published by ECW. Information technology covers travels in N America and Europe.^[104] Another volume, Far and Wide: Bring That Horizon to Me!, was published in 2016 and is based on his travels between stops on the R40 Live Tour of 2015.

Nonfiction works include:

• The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa (1996, Pottersfield Press, ISBN 1895900026)
• Ghost Passenger: Travels on the Healing Road (2002, ECW Press, ISBN 1550225464)
• Traveling Music: Playing Dorsum the Soundtrack to My Life and Times (2004, ECW Printing, ISBN 1550226649)
• Roadshow: Landscape with Drums – A Concert Tour by Motorcycle (2006, Rounder Books, ISBN 1579401422)
• Far and Abroad: A Prize Every Time (2011, ECW Press, ISBN 978-1770410589)
• Far and Near: On Days like These (2014, ECW Press, ISBN 978-1770412576)
• Far and Wide: Bring That Horizon to Me! (2016, ECW Press, ISBN 978-1770413481)

Fiction [edit]

Peart worked with scientific discipline fiction author Kevin J. Anderson to develop a novelization of Blitz's 2012 album Clockwork Angels; the book was published by ECW Press and debuted at #xviii on the New York Times hardcover fiction all-time seller.^{[105] [106]} The two collaborated again on a loose sequel, Clockwork Lives, published in 2015, which won the 2016 Colorado Volume Award in the science fiction category.^[107] Snippets of the band's lyrics can exist found throughout both stories.^{[108] [109]} Graphic novels of the first two Clockwork were created in 2015 and 2019, respectively. During the years before his death, Peart worked with Anderson on Clockwork Destiny, which will be published in April 2022 through ECW Press.

Fiction works include:

• "Drumbeats" with Kevin J. Anderson, brusque story published in Stupor Stone Ii edited by Jeff Gelb (1994, Pocket Books, ISBN 0-671-87088-ii).
  • Drumbeats (2020, WordFire Printing, ISBN 978-1680571295, illustrated and expanded edition)
• Clockwork series:
  • Clockwork Angels, written by Kevin J. Anderson, based on the story and lyrics past Neil Peart (2012, ECW Printing, ISBN 978-one-77041-121-0)
    • Clockwork Angels – The Graphic Novel, written by Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart, artwork by Nick Robles (2015, Nail! Studios, ISBN 978-1608863686)
  • Clockwork Lives with Kevin J. Anderson (2015, ECW Printing, ISBN 978-1-77090-810-9)
    • Clockwork Lives – The Graphic Novel with Kevin J. Anderson (2019, Insight Editions, ISBN 978-1-68383-377-2)
  • Clockwork Destiny with Kevin J. Anderson (2022, ECW Press, ISBN 978-i-77041-651-two))

Side projects [edit]

• Jeff Berlin's 1985 album Champion, played drums on two songs, the championship track "Champion", and "Marabi".
• Vertical Horizon'southward 2009 album Burning the Days – drums on 3 songs including "Save Me from Myself", "Welcome to the Bottom", and "Even Now", and co-wrote "Even Now" with Matt Scannell
• Vertical Horizon's 2013 album Echoes from the Underground – drums on 2 songs including "Instamatic"^[110] and "Southward for the Winter"
• Burning for Buddy: A Tribute to the Music of Buddy Rich ASIN B001208NUQ
• Called-for for Buddy: A Tribute to the Music of Buddy Rich, Vol. ii ASIN B000002JD4

Peart had a brief cameo in the 2007 film Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Flick Film for Theaters, in which samples of his drumming were played.^[111]

Peart as well had a cursory cameo in the 2008 film Adventures of Ability and in the DVD extra does a drum-off contest.^{[ citation needed ]}

Peart appeared in concert with Rush in the 2009 film I Honey Y'all, Man, every bit well equally a Funny or Die web short in which the film'southward principal characters sneak into the band'due south dressing room.^[112]

DVDs [edit]

Apart from Blitz's video releases as a band, Peart has released the following DVDs (the first originally in VHS tape format) as an individual:

• A Work in Progress ^[10]
• Beefcake of a Drum Solo, Hudson Music, distributed by Hal Leonard (2005), ISBN 1-4234-0700-8^[eight]
• The Making of Burning for Buddy (A Tribute to the Music of Buddy Rich), ASIN 0739045059
• Taking Center Phase: A Lifetime of Alive Performance, distributed by Hudson Music (2011), ISBN 978-1-4584-1174-7
• Fire on Ice: The Making of the Hockey Theme, distributed by Drum Channel (2011), ASIN B00481YQPW

Awards and honours [edit]

Peart received the following awards in the Modern Drummer mag reader'due south poll:^{[28] [113]}

• Hall of Fame: 1983
• All-time 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 Effectually: 1986
• 1986 Honor Curl: 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 Beefcake of a Drum Solo
• Best Drum Recording of the 1980s, 2007, for "YYZ" from Exit... Stage Left
• Best Recorded Functioning:
  • 1980: Permanent Waves
  • 1981: Moving Pictures
  • 1982: Exit... Stage Left
  • 1983: Signals
  • 1985: Grace Under Pressure
  • 1986: Power Windows
  • 1988: Agree Your Fire
  • 1989: A Show of Easily
  • 1990: Presto
  • 1992: Roll the Bones
  • 1993: Counterparts
  • 1997: Test for Echo
  • 1999: Different Stages
  • 2002: Vapor Trails
  • 2004: R30
  • 2007: Snakes & Arrows
  • 2011: Time Machine
  • 2012: Clockwork Angels

Peart received the following awards from DRUM! magazine:

• 2007: Drummer of the Year, Best Progressive Rock Drummer, Best Live Performer, Best DVD (Beefcake Of A Pulsate Solo), Best Drumming Album (Snakes & Arrows)^[114]
• 2008: Drummer of the Year, Best Live Drumming Performer, All-time Progressive Rock Drummer (Runner-Up), All-time Mainstream Pop Drummer (Runner-Up)^[115]
• 2009: Drummer Of The Year, Best Progressive Rock Drummer^[116]
• 2010: Drummer of the Year, Best Alive Performer (Runner-Upwards), All-time Progressive Rock Drummer (Runner-Upward)^[117]

Other honors and awards

• Peart was fabricated an Officer of the Order of Canada on May 9, 1996, together with Lee and Lifeson. The trio was the showtime stone band to exist so honoured, as a grouping.^[118]
• Peart was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame forth with Lifeson and Lee in 2010.^[119]
• On April 18, 2013, Rush was inducted into the Rock and Whorl Hall of Fame.^[120]
• Later Peart's death, the St. Catharines city council began a process to name the pavilion in Lakeside Park subsequently Peart.^[121]

Additional reading [edit]

• Rhythm & Lite, Peart photographed past Carrie Nuttall (2004, Rounder Books, ISBN 1579400930)
• Taking Center Stage: A Lifetime of Live Functioning by Joe Bergamini (2013, Hudson Music, ISBN 978-1458494276)

See also [edit]

• Listing of notable drummers
• 21st-century travel literature

References [edit]

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Beneath The Beatles and Rolling Stones.^[6]

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Further reading [edit]

• Catterson, Brian (February 2003), "Ghost Rider--Blitz'southward Neil Peart: Rockin' and rollin' ... rollin' ... rollin' ...", Cycle Globe: 58–63
• "Club of Canada: Neil E. Peart, O.C.", Archives – Honours, Governor Full general of Canada, Apr thirty, 2009, retrieved August 12, 2014

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Snakes and Arrows tour drumkit assembly
• Neil Peart discography at Discogs
• Neil Peart at IMDb

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