NP rules!

I just finished watching this video, for the umpteen hundredth time, and there is no doubt...Neil Peart is the greatest percussionist ever. I grew up in the days when it was a known fact...Buddy Rich was the King of Drums. I always loved it when he would come on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Or those rare occasions when "The Midnight Special" or "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" would play a clip of him ripping those drums! I loved Buddy Rich as a kid!

But no matter what the "purist" jazz people, or the 90's Headbangers, or even the Kieth Moon or John Bonham fans will say, Neil Peart is the greatest ever. Hands down. He can tear apart his "Rush drumkit", the one with 50 some-odd pieces...it's actually two very large kits put together, an acoustic kit and an electronic kit. Or, just give him a basic 7 to 10 piece kit and he'll rule on that as well! Ok, he's not the greatest jazz drummer, or the greatest "heavy metal" drummer (if you choose to call that drumming). But nobody has ever been so good at so many different styles of drumming. How he can construct a 5 minute drum solo, and incorporate so many styles...everything from jazz drumming to rock drumming, and even African drumming, it's amazing. I've seen him in concert at least 20 times, and every time his solo comes around I still can't believe what I'm seeing! He makes it look so easy...he's so smooth. I hate to use the word effortless because I know he puts great effort into his work. But I could only wish to be able to do what I do as well as he does what he does, and make it seem so effortless, so smooth! I might be as famous as him, I guess.

Just had to say. Over 30 yrs ago his bandmate, Geddy Lee, started calling him "the professor on the drumkit". It was fitting back then. Now, he's so much better! So what would that make him now? The god of drumming? Works for me!