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Given yesterday's Pink Floyd story, we might as well make this an Easter prog takeover with a quick look at how Xite Labs creative director, Greg Russell, created a virtual environment to honor ...
Tragedy has struck the Peart family again, five years after the death of famed Rush drummer Neil Peart in 2020. Neil Peart’s brother, Danny, passed away from complications of the cancer on March 13.
“When it came to the models for that cover,” says Hugh Syme, Rush’s long-standing art director and Neil Peart’s collaborative foil, “the Magritte man in bowler hat was my old friend Bobby King, also ...
Credit: Fin Costello/Redfern We were sitting in Topanga Canyon, California, Neil Peart and I, at the Inn Of The Seventh Ray, his choice. We had already moved seats once, because a nearby babbling ...
The tragic and devastating death of drummer Neil Peart in early 2020 put an end to such treasures ... Introduced by the lovely open chime of Lifeson’s trusty Gibson ES-335 and egged along by Peart’s ...
deliver jazz and prog-inflected complexity like other influences in Neil Peart and Ginger Baker, and ice-cool R&B grooves like Charlie Watts, all at the drop of a hat. This rhythmic dexterity and ...
Neil Peart’s impish grin tells you two things ... Kate Bush); part of what he taught me was with the metronome and hi-hat only, and I came out of that with such a sense of time. I can listen to two ...
“Concept albums are, of course, considered old hat these days, but I made a career out of it and ... interviewing legends of the drum kit including Ginger Baker and Neil Peart. A regular contributor ...
Four years after the death of Neil Peart, the Rush drummer’s final book is set for publication. Silver Surfers, subtitled Sports Cars of the Sixties, documents Peart’s auto obsession.
Neil Peart’s sister Nancy Peart Burkholder has opened up about the passing of the Rush drummer more than three and a half years ago. The drummer passed on January 7, 2020, after a three-year ...
There’s barely even a tom fill anywhere: it’s kick, snare and hat! The way they lock in helps explain why ... like Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr or Geddy Lee and Neil Peart or Steve Harris and Nicko ...