# RIP Neil Peart **URL:** \ **Category:** Music\ **Created:** [January 10, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776 "2020-01-10T22:10:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brumtech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/brumtech/32/27935_2.png) [@brumtech](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/brumtech)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/1 "2020-01-10T22:10:39Z")
> **[Neil Peart, Rush Drummer Who Set a New Standard for Rock Virtuosity, Dead at 67](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-peart-rush-obituary-936221/)** > > Hall of Fame drummer and lyricist succumbs to brain cancer ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/2 "2020-01-10T22:13:06Z")
This is getting to be a bummer. But goes with the Territory, I guess.đŸ€˜đŸ» ---
**Author:** ![stonefree1911](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/stonefree1911/32/92419_2.png) [@stonefree1911](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/stonefree1911)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/3 "2020-01-10T22:13:25Z")
Man this really hits home. Fantastic drummer and lyricist. I’ve listened to so much Rush over the years I don’t even know where to start. Very sad. ---
**Author:** ![umiami91](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/umiami91/32/160007_2.png) [@umiami91](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/umiami91)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/4 "2020-01-10T22:21:11Z")
Oh, sh\*t. Dammmmmmmmmit. ---
**Author:** ![brett66](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/brett66/32/92201_2.png) [@brett66](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/brett66)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/5 "2020-01-10T23:03:45Z")
Very sad. I wonder if this was part of the reason, beyond the physical wear on his body, to close out Rush? Moving Pictures was the album that I used to learn the best bias adjustments for all the different premium cassette tape media types available in ~1983. I can’t say how many times I dropped the needle on that album. Saw them play 4 or 5 times through the years as well. ---
**Author:** ![Elk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/elk/32/1240_2.png) [@Elk](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Elk)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/6 "2020-01-10T23:05:43Z")
Unfortunately, yes. Pop has its classical music and its original practitioners are becoming superannuated. ---
**Author:** ![amgradmd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@amgradmd](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/amgradmd)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/7 "2020-01-10T23:06:26Z")
This is truly awful news. What a fantastic talent he was as a drummer (best rock drummer ever?), lyricist, and author. We have lost one of the greats way too soon. ---
**Author:** ![watchdog507](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/watchdog507/32/7301_2.png) [@watchdog507](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/watchdog507)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/8 "2020-01-10T23:24:54Z")
I knew the guys in the late 60’s and early 70’s we’re similarly aged and Neil wasn’t the original drummer. A fellow named John was but he got bumped because of drugs and friction. We played Frisbee in an area called Yorkville in central Toronto. It was where the musicians and hippies hung out. They were talented from the start and succeeded. ---
**Author:** ![efete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@efete](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/efete)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/9 "2020-01-10T23:48:58Z")
![Roll the Bones](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/psaudio/original/3X/2/7/27d23e7303180d026130645cafe15402a304484e.jpeg) Felt this was in order. Thanks for everything you genius. ---
**Author:** ![kcleveland123](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/kcleveland123/32/45645_2.png) [@kcleveland123](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/kcleveland123)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 12:08am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/10 "2020-01-11T00:08:30Z")
Fu$& I hope this doesn’t get edited. Magnificent drummer and fellow adventure motorcyclist. Not fair that he endured so much pain losing his wife and daughter within the past few years. DAMN! ---
**Author:** ![scotte1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/scotte1/32/147_2.png) [@scotte1](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/scotte1)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/11 "2020-01-11T00:35:33Z")
Nice article about Neil Peart here: [National Review - “Remembering 
Rock’s Greatest Drummer
”](https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/remembering-rush-drummer-neil-peart-rocks-greatest-drummer-and-randian/) ---
**Author:** ![brumtech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/brumtech/32/27935_2.png) [@brumtech](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/brumtech)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/12 "2020-01-12T18:13:43Z")
Another nice article about The Professor. > **[How Neil Peart's Perfectionism Set Him Free](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/neil-peart-rush-drumming-tribute-936430/)** > > The late drummer idolized Sixties wildmen like Keith Moon. But his path to the drumming pantheon came through obsessive order ---
**Author:** ![joma0711](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/joma0711/32/277666_2.png) [@joma0711](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/joma0711)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/13 "2020-01-12T19:04:39Z")
That’s a nice read thanks for posting:) ---
**Author:** ![brumtech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/brumtech/32/27935_2.png) [@brumtech](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/brumtech)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/14 "2020-01-12T20:37:00Z")
Yet another good one. Remembering Neil Peart, A Monster Drummer With A Poet’s Heart - [https://www.npr.org/2020/01/11/795555335/remembering-neil-peart-a-monster-drummer-with-a-poets-heart](https://www.npr.org/2020/01/11/795555335/remembering-neil-peart-a-monster-drummer-with-a-poets-heart) ---
**Author:** ![bootzilla](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/bootzilla/32/1598_2.png) [@bootzilla](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/bootzilla)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/15 "2020-01-13T02:50:54Z")
**POLL: Was Neil Peart the best rock drummer?** _Poll ([view on site](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/15))_ ---
**Author:** ![RonP](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/ronp/32/213555_2.png) [@RonP](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/RonP)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/16 "2020-01-13T14:57:56Z")
He was the opposite of Ginger Baker. He too, was a brilliant musician, but he was an intellectual and it was fun to listen to him speak. And his books are good reads. Again, nothing like the typical rocker book about being a drug addled imbecile. ---
**Author:** ![chrisj1948](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/chrisj1948/32/15436_2.png) [@chrisj1948](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/chrisj1948)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/17 "2020-01-13T16:20:49Z")
Option 3 might lead to yet another obituary 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kylemillsap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kylemillsap](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/kylemillsap)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/18 "2020-01-13T17:11:21Z")
I love Rush, but, best drummer? Really? He had an incredible case, and great style, for sure. ---
**Author:** ![stonefree1911](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/stonefree1911/32/92419_2.png) [@stonefree1911](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/stonefree1911)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/19 "2020-01-13T17:22:13Z")
A lot of the “best drummer” polls you see (Rolling Stone, etc) usually place Bonham at #1 and either Baker or Peart at #2
but does it matter? They were all great drummers. ---
**Author:** ![umiami91](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/umiami91/32/160007_2.png) [@umiami91](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/umiami91)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776/20 "2020-01-13T18:13:34Z")
Phil Collins -caveat - IN HIS PRIME - is surely in the mix. Listening to what he could do during the “Selling England by the Pound” “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” period is epic. He didn’t keep his chops up like the rest (he fell in love with drum machines) but AT HIS BEST, he was among the very best. [Next page](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/rip-neil-peart/14776.md?page=2)