No more Rush ?

Neil is just doing a Brian Wilson and leaving the touring band awhile, if anything.

C'mon Earthlings, it was a pretty shitty year or three for the band members' personal lives.
 
Think of how hard it is to be like the Who...your original drummer melted away basically, your bassist died in Lost Wages with coke and a hooker...your guitarist had some really bad repressed childhood experiences that took 20+ years to resolve and turn into a form that released him (TOMMY, the Broadway musical) and in the meantime he discovered he loved different musical styles and evolved into them throughout his repertoire, Roger mellowed some as old men do and Kenney Jones just grew tired of being in the Who and probably had a lot of yearning for his days in the Faces.

What would you expect?
 
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Think of how hard it is to be like the Who...your original drummer melted away basically, your bassist died in Lost Wages with coke and a hooker...your guitarist had some really bad repressed childhood experiences that took 20+ years to resolve and turn into a form that released him (TOMMY, the Broadway musical) and in the meantime he discovered he loved different musical styles and evolved into them throughout his repertoire, Roger mellowed some as old men do and Kenney Jones just grew tired of being in the Who and probably had a lot of yearning for his days in the Faces.

What would you expect?
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The Who kept coming back like a bad rash.
Rush needs to preserve their legacy ...
 
I read one of Neil Pert's books a couple of years ago, "Far & Near" and it was not what I was expecting - it was much better. I thought he may just be putting pen to paper because he's Neil Pert and he can and could afford someone to help him out. But while reading it, I realized there was a lot of himself in there and although Rush was a factor, it was far from the crux of the matter. I gained a lot of respect for how he lives life and his values. It does not surprise me at all that of the three, he may not wish to be "In the Limelight" any more and move on to things or music styles that are more meaningful to him.
 
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Too bad John Rutsey died, he was the original drummer anyway. I like Neil Peart but I think Rush went too far a field with their music in the 80s. I liked them best up to 2112, after that, I lost a lot of interest
 
Northwinds said:
Too bad John Rutsey died, he was the original drummer anyway. I like Neil Peart but I think Rush went too far a field with their music in the 80s. I liked them best up to 2112, after that, I lost a lot of interest
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Rutsey was a rock & roll drummer.
Peart is an artist, a poet and a composer who just happened to be a precision percussionist.

I feel ya on the 80's thing though, the synths did go a little overboard.
 
In that book I mentioned, Neil Pert described an instance when studying with a drummer he much admired. This was well into Rush's career so Neil was in his prime. He told this drummer mentor "compared to you, I'm a butcher. But I'm a good butcher".
 
I just watched the first set of the Rush R40 blu-ray. Peart appeared to be out of breath after the first song or two, but he recovered. His drumming style is definitely a work out. On a side note, Geddy's voice in this concert was the worst I've ever heard it. Am a huge Rush fan, hate to see them hang it up.
 
BMWR75 said:
I just watched the first set of the Rush R40 blu-ray. Peart appeared to be out of breath after the first song or two, but he recovered. His drumming style is definitely a work out. On a side note, Geddy's voice in this concert was the worst I've ever heard it. Am a huge Rush fan, hate to see them hang it up.
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Same here.

And Geddy hasn't been hitting it live for over 10 years. 'Rio' wasn't bad but you could see the decline.
 
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62vauxhall said:
In that book I mentioned, Neil Pert described an instance when studying with a drummer he much admired. This was well into Rush's career so Neil was in his prime. He told this drummer mentor "compared to you, I'm a butcher. But I'm a good butcher".
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Who was that drummer please?
 
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