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In Reply to: "Snakes & Arrows" posted by Todd Krieger on February 23, 2007 at 22:54:49:
Better get your tix early,could be final tour.Neil is tired of the road.
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"could be final tour.Neil is tired of the road"Say it ain't so..... Although from Neil's perspective, who can blame him??
If that's the case, why not just do smaller, more-intimate tours?
I hope it's nothing more than rumor.
People claim that Moon, Bonham, Palmer, Bruford, Copeland, and even Carey were better drummers. I watch and listen to all the footage, and I just don't see it. There will never be another Neil Peart. (The only drummer that I thought came close was Toto's Jeff Porcaro.)
If it is true, the only way Rush can maintain that sound is if they hired *two* drummers....
Unless he catches his second wind I imagine this is it for Neils world tours. At the conclusion of his book "Roadshow" he firmly states he is "ambivalent about putting himself through yet another massive world tour".Hopefully scaled back touring will appeal to him. This tour will be the 14th for me and I imagine I will continue following them wherever they decide to grace us with a show. It will just become more expensive.As far as equally skilled drummers(there is no equal); I consider Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater a close second.
> > People claim that Moon, Bonham, Palmer, Bruford, Copeland, and even Carey were better drummers. I watch and listen to all the footage, and I just don't see it. There will never be another Neil Peart. (The only drummer that I thought came close was Toto's Jeff Porcaro.) < <Porcaro was a terrific drummer indeed, one of the best timekeeprs to ever hold a stick. I would have to rate Carl Palmer as the best of the lot mentioned above, though. He was a goddamn *machine* when I saw him back in the early 70s - the guy has some *serious* chops. This is NOT to take away from Peart, but I thought Palmer was just about the best I'd ever seen. Until recently.
> > If it is true, the only way Rush can maintain that sound is if they hired *two* drummers.... < <
Or, they could try to lure Rodney Holmes into the band. If you want to see the greatest drumming talent today, you have got to see Mr. Holmes in action. He moves so fast that at times it looks like he has 8 arms. Check him out.
But, beyond all this, I'd have to say that the "funnest" drummer I ever saw was Corky Laing of Mountain and West, Bruce, & Laing. Corky had this schtick (stick?) where he would bounce the sticks off the drumheads and (way) into the audience. And he could do this repeatedly, bam, bam, bam! Each time reaching back and snatching a new stick out of his stash. It was true theater, he turned a rock concert into a rock SHOW!
"Or, they could try to lure Rodney Holmes into the band. If you want to see the greatest drumming talent today, you have got to see Mr. Holmes in action. He moves so fast that at times it looks like he has 8 arms. Check him out."I just checked him out on YouTube. (Link.) You nailed this one.
I think what separates those who are special is this sense of "unpredictability".... It's like when your brain finally gets what the drummer is doing, he's already doing something else.... The other thing is when I start to hear deviant timings, where it seems like he lost where the beat was, and then magically, out of nowhere, everything comes together.
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