I'm not trying to be a jerk, but are you sure that this was from 1976? He played the cowbell part for "The Trees" and that wasn't released until 1978. Or, maybe we were hearing a snapshot of the future and what was to come? :) In all, I loved this audio. People don't realize that this was one of the more innovative drum solos of that time. Neil Peart and Phil Colllins of the British band Brand X were really creating new sounds for progressive rock and with Phil, Fusion. Thanks for the upload!!!
I wore out several 8 tracks of 2112 in 1977-1978---saw them live in 1980---been hooked ever since!!!! Love the drum solo and had a ring side seat for it !! Thanks for the post!
@DRUMACHINE69 My mind is not for rent, to any God or government.How did you know that I was whitey?Neil is a wise man and a superb drummer.Just found that Casio statement funny and so would Neil.
@bozolazic I've said this in the past. I will no longer tolerate ASSHOLES ! I will leave their comments with my response for a while, so other people can read their RETARDED comments and my response to them. Then I will DELETE them when I am ready.
I didn't know if you were white or not, that's a term we use to respond to Idiots.
Now to step into a time machine & go back to June 15, 1976 @ Massey Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where this was recorded for the live album All the World's A Stage!
dude this is the best solo ever i just seen him in concert in April and he completely changed it it still has the same beat but its better and totally different!!!!
It is truly amazing to me that someone could have such a miserable boring life that they would whine that an audio only track was posted on youtube lol you should just uninstall!!
@ProdigalChild1 Thanx for you support. You should have seen at the beginning when it was first posted. All kinds of Neil Peart haters, or complainers. I put this for people who never heard this old Solo to enjoy. Not to be attacked.
@939Socket Thanks for butting in on a discussion, and randomly commanding people to shut up. Your mother must love you.
Oh, and by the way: do something useful with your life before criticizing others. You don't upload shit, but still you verbally abuse other YT users who try to contribute to online society. Fucking pathetic.
If you'd actually read what I typed, you'd have seen why Last fm was relevant. I admitted to DRUMACHINE69 he was right, which is still none of your business. Now fuck off.
@XxSharkBatexX - The point is, Youtube isn't only for video's. Many people upload Audio only. I posted this for people who like Neil Peart. There is no video for this particular drum solo. If you are not happy, then go somewhere else !!!!!!!
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@DRUMACHINE69 Actually, YT is for videos. If you want to broadcast audio, you can go to Last fm or a similar site. The fact that many people upload audio with an image is not a valid argument. There are thousands of crimes committed every day, which doesn't mean I can break the law, too.
Your other argument is more valid; if there is indeed only an audio track, then this video is less useless than I thought.
Lastly, please go easy on the '!'s... If this was real life, I would be deaf now...
@XxSharkBatexX I have no tolerance for people who aren't happy with either this upload, or Neil Peart's ability to play drums. This is my post, and I will not tolerate anything negative about this upload. Anyone who try's to defy me in this matter, will just have their comment deleted. It's as simple as that. My post, my rules. I put this here for other Neil Peart fans to enjoy, because lots people have never heard this Solo.
it's a great solo when you're a stoned teenager. In hindsight, it's rather mediocre...Don't get me wrong, I saw RUSH on The Farewell To Kings, Hemispheres, Moving Pictures, and Permanent Waves tours and I used to love their stuff.
What people don't know is, during this preference, Neil Pert actually sprouted 2 extra sets of arm's our of his torso, each set longer then the one previous. His cranium then split at the top and allowed for a superior brain to swell thus giving him optimal control over his six dis-proportioned arm's.... he proceeded to play the drum solo and bedazzle the crowd. Burton Cumming's even had an orgasm during the performance as he watched in the audience.
Nice find man. Havent heard this in a long time! Brings back many memories when I was a kid and trying to figure all of Neil's stuff out! Thanks again
If youve listened to Peart over the years you can still hear some remnants of this solo,yet at the same time they have evolved over the years. I give Neil credit for not remaining stagnant and in the comfort zone. He seems to strive to improve and build upon things and no two solos are ever exactly alike. I'll never forget hearing him for the first time and being absolutely blown away wondering "who the fuck is this guy,he's great"!!!
Amazing at that young of an age and career, he lived up to a nickname like "The Professor!" It's cool to hear how some of his early ideas became staples of his later solos.
WOW!! I haven't heard this since 1980 when I had my fixed up 64 Chevy pickup with an 8 TRACK!!! I LOVED his drum solo on thier 1st live project. Neil is most definetly the PROFESSOR!!! Thanks for posting this.
How does this solo compare to O'Basteria on Rush and Rio, I might ask? Well, Im glad you asked me. imo, this solo is just as good in its own way, even though Rush in rio solo is technically more challenging.
Would be cool to see him in his early years, but this is still great. Funny that he adds the John Bonhamish distortion at the end. This is from 1976 and this is now about 34 years old. Wow, am I getting old or what.
This solo has alot more energy than any of his subsequent solos. I think its due to lo-fi sound: Overdriven levels + sub-par recording quality = a more riveting and live- sounding performance.
Audio is the only thing available. I would have the vid if one was out. :) NP was the one that inspired me to drum back in the 80's. Good to hear this...it has been a long time.
Neil joined the band right before they played the first gig in at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh right after they signed with Mercury (after self publishing on Moon records 3500 copies), which was in 1974.
Rush is a Canadian rock band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. The band and its membership went through a number of re-configurations between 1968 and 1974, achieving their current form when Peart replaced original drummer John Rutsey in July 1974, two weeks before the group's first U.S. tour.
Rush is a Canadian rock band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. The band and its membership went through a number of re-configurations between 1968 and 1974, achieving their current form when Peart replaced original drummer John Rutsey in July 1974, two weeks before the group's first U.S. tour
ok ok ok ok. wow your only the 100th person to have a cow bout this.
um yup, NP joined the band in nineteen hundred and seventy fuking four. Now read my opinion on this solo. it kicks ass. especially consdierin he played it in 1976!
this isn't premier and the cymbals aren't pasite either. The set is a slingerland and the cymbals are zildjian. And up until the last recent tours Neil still used the snare from this set he called "old Faithfull."
Hey Monnett where is that new drum set? What kind is it? Did you finally pick a pair of sticks yet? What kind of car are you buying? Why does your brother hate Pro Mark and why does he think MP is better?
I've said this in the past. I will no longer tolerate ASSHOLES ! I will leave their comments with my response for a while, so other people can read their RETARDED comments and my response to them. Then I will DELETE them when I am ready.
Bro I have been a Peart fan since 80...trust me...of the 600 bootlegs I have and as a drummer since 82...he was using a flanger in his solos back then...he even used it in the late 83, 84, 85, 86 solos before the kit would turn. It's all good...sometimes he applied them to his snare...others to gong bass...other times to his concert toms.
There is flanger or chorus on his kit.Listen to the cymbals & tom decay.The pitch moves.Neil can't control the decay.And he can't change the kick beater position ,either.This is the classic gated reverb & flanger sound.Who cares ? Neil is great & so is this solo.The effects just add another dimension to his solo.Thanks for posting this,it's awesome !! Put a mic on your kit & drive it hard into a flanger.You'll hear the same effect.The 'swishy' sounding cymbal is a dead give away.
I personally like the one from YYZ(All The World's A Stage),but the flange sound goes back to John Bonham and his Moby Dick solo.Neil Peart can play them all,including Buddy Rich style solos....but who's counting LOL.
It's interesting that they were sharing bills with KISS back then, but while KISS' early years are quite well documented, Rush's early years unfortunately are not.
Even Gene Simmons, who can't speak well of anybody, talks great stuff about them in his autobiography; jokes between both bands are hilarious!
hes certainly one of the best things to happen to drums, has inspired many 1000s to play and also spotlights the drum kit as a melodic instrument, there are not too many that do it so well.. well bozzio is one.
Thanx for posting this solo from All The World's a Stage. Neil is a super talent. I like a lot of the drummers that folks are commenting on but when did drumming become a sport of winners & losers? Is it like a basketball game of stats? Isn't it music/musicians that we seek on these posts and not sports/athletes? Get over who you think is better & enjoy the drumming or just move on. This post is about Neil, if you wanna hear/see your favorite drummer go to their posts and enjoy.
I would say that Bonham, Moon, and Peart were pretty comparable in the 70's but I preferred Neil Peart. Add 30 years on Peart's resume and the point of who's the best is irrelevant. Neil Peart is the master, by far the best drummer that ever lived. People who don't think so just don't like his style, that's all.
"Best" is non existent in the context of artistic achievement. For instance: Weckl is lightyears ahead of Peart in the technique department. That is a solid fact regarding direct specific attributes, not a childish "Weckl is better" regurgitation.
Yes I agree that Weckl is a better technical drummer, but "light years ahead" is way to much of an exaggeration. The funny thing is no one really knows just how good or what Neil can do. Only his solo's really show it, and he composes them to sound good, not really do his best or show off. In the genre he plays in he has to play within a song. In conclusion no one really knows how good he is because he doesn't get the chance to show it alot.
yea true ... but i think that jojo mayer is best that weckl tecnicaly... idk there are so many good drummers... steve gadd for exemple... i think that he knows every rudiment lol he is huge...
They're all amazing! Lifeson doesn't get the credit he most obviosly deserves. 32 through that little downtown area sucks at 3:30 on. Going Anderson to Westfield. Sup
Hey. Can't we just get along. The caption above used to read
" Best Solo of all time " I meant for Neil, I didn't mean best solo ever produced ! If you don't like Neil Peart that's fine. You don't need to come here and bash him. I put up this solo for other Neil Peart fans to enjoy.
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his drum solo is just filled with double bass fills and the double bass drum is jst going the whole time! = SHYT!! shit cymbals goin n everythin! come on...get into real drummers not piles of shit like him!
This is the solo that started it all. Never before had the drums been the focus of such musical structure in which the listener was carried through the piece as if listening to a well written song.
Neil is one of the very few drummers to be adored by hords of drummers AND non-drummers alike.
"It's like listening to a song, just with one instrument", one of them told me.
It's hard to beat a well-thought-out and exicuted statement - whether musical or literary.
if u ever listen to keith moon, his drumming follows the song and if taken apart, it is a song in its own. But same with all parts of the who,... take away any part, and its a completely different piece holding itself together, but so well constructed that when put back together again, it is one massive piece of complex genius
I'd venture to say that is (and should be) the case with and well-thought-out instrumental part. My comments, however, were focused on the solos that Neil presents to us. Moon and Bonham certainly inspired but, while their solos are to be followed, Neil's solos carry one through them standing on a foundation of musical continuity, well rehearsed exicution and instrumental 'chops' that neither Moon nor Bonham had on their best day. But,.....they're fun to listen to, anyway!
i dont think so. Fine, here it is from another angle. Mitch Mitchell. Watch him play; with his inventive style of jazz/rock fusion.
and I think that you sound like an idiot. I mean, here I am posting an arguementative thought... and all you do is say that I'm an idiot without justifying how that is so.
I love Neil's solos, but he did not invent this format. Well before Neil there were extended drum solos that had musical structure. Check out Joe Morello, Max Roach, Ginger Baker, Louie Bellson, Papa Jo Jones, and others. Neil would be the first to point this out, if asked.
That chocolate analogy leaves too much open to personal opinion. For instance, my OPINION is that white chocolate tastes great too, while it is FACT that Neil Peart kicks Joey Jordinson's ass.
This was great in 76, Travis Barker could do this in his sleep. hold on to your memories. have nice day.
BigL513 3 weeks ago
@BigL513 how can you sleep at night knowing you put travis barkers name on here, he is not worthy of having his name on here
ty2569 2 weeks ago
This sucks no video???
rocksterrich 1 month ago
Right on! I've heard this before- When I was There!!!! Such an awesome concert- I'll never forget! Thanks for the "tune"
MrEric80701 1 month ago
I can hear the pixels...
jamirosmajicrocks 1 month ago
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but are you sure that this was from 1976? He played the cowbell part for "The Trees" and that wasn't released until 1978. Or, maybe we were hearing a snapshot of the future and what was to come? :) In all, I loved this audio. People don't realize that this was one of the more innovative drum solos of that time. Neil Peart and Phil Colllins of the British band Brand X were really creating new sounds for progressive rock and with Phil, Fusion. Thanks for the upload!!!
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This was the very 1st Neil Peart solo i ever heard and its STILL my favorite solo of all time.
I still have the double live album :)
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80s90ssports 1 month ago
I wore out several 8 tracks of 2112 in 1977-1978---saw them live in 1980---been hooked ever since!!!! Love the drum solo and had a ring side seat for it !! Thanks for the post!
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I like rush.But,That was a pretty shitty drum solo from Peart.
671kmn 2 months ago
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671kmn 2 months ago
Neil sure loved those double-bass triplets back in the day.
natedoggrevolution 3 months ago
My Casio drum machine is better.
bozolazic 3 months ago
@bozolazic Good for you CRACKER HEAD
DRUMACHINE69 3 months ago
@DRUMACHINE69 My mind is not for rent, to any God or government.How did you know that I was whitey?Neil is a wise man and a superb drummer.Just found that Casio statement funny and so would Neil.
“Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
bozolazic 3 months ago
@bozolazic I've said this in the past. I will no longer tolerate ASSHOLES ! I will leave their comments with my response for a while, so other people can read their RETARDED comments and my response to them. Then I will DELETE them when I am ready.
I didn't know if you were white or not, that's a term we use to respond to Idiots.
I only allow Positive feedback.
DRUMACHINE69 3 months ago
@DRUMACHINE69 So your not in favor of freedom of speech.Neil would laugh and move on.So censor my comment and move on.Godspeed.
bozolazic 3 months ago
@bozolazic That's one hell of a Casio drum machine you have then.
firstmusic00 3 months ago
@firstmusic00 It's of the future.It can combine Neil, Buddy Rich and Dave Weckl and others together as one.I received it from Micheal J. Fox.;)
bozolazic 3 months ago
Actually, I think that's where this is from haha. A rare album I guess. It's their first live album I think.
TheeKingOsiris 4 months ago
Is solo is very similar to All The Word's A Stage. Love hearing the old stuff.
TheeKingOsiris 4 months ago
I want a phaser on my kit during my solos, too! Not enough phaser use these days...
drulius 5 months ago
My goodness..........its like he's not even human...........
RUSH=best band in the world
NEIL PEART=best drummer in the world
i just saw a vid of a kid ripping off neil's der trommler and that kid won third place in britains got talent because he claimed it was his solo
stevedrummer711 5 months ago
Neil Peart: The most awesomest drummer in the last 5000 years.
dwilmer7 6 months ago
Too fucking awesome!
natedoggrevolution 6 months ago
Now to step into a time machine & go back to June 15, 1976 @ Massey Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where this was recorded for the live album All the World's A Stage!
gestet 7 months ago
dude this is the best solo ever i just seen him in concert in April and he completely changed it it still has the same beat but its better and totally different!!!!
TheAssmunch666 7 months ago
even back then he was a professor :D
91Tribual 8 months ago
bonham would do this standin on his head with one stick and 'one' bass drum..
rubberneckk 8 months ago
@rubberneckk what kind of gas do you sniff?
TaraBitch 6 months ago
It is truly amazing to me that someone could have such a miserable boring life that they would whine that an audio only track was posted on youtube lol you should just uninstall!!
ProdigalChild1 9 months ago
@ProdigalChild1 Thanx for you support. You should have seen at the beginning when it was first posted. All kinds of Neil Peart haters, or complainers. I put this for people who never heard this old Solo to enjoy. Not to be attacked.
DRUMACHINE69 9 months ago 4
@DRUMACHINE69 ya dude...great solo btw...Peart is da man!
ProdigalChild1 9 months ago
@939Socket Thanks for butting in on a discussion, and randomly commanding people to shut up. Your mother must love you.
Oh, and by the way: do something useful with your life before criticizing others. You don't upload shit, but still you verbally abuse other YT users who try to contribute to online society. Fucking pathetic.
If you'd actually read what I typed, you'd have seen why Last fm was relevant. I admitted to DRUMACHINE69 he was right, which is still none of your business. Now fuck off.
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DRUMACHINE69 9 months ago
What's the point of uploading a video with only audio, and no video?
XxSharkBatexX 9 months ago
@XxSharkBatexX - The point is, Youtube isn't only for video's. Many people upload Audio only. I posted this for people who like Neil Peart. There is no video for this particular drum solo. If you are not happy, then go somewhere else !!!!!!!
DRUMACHINE69 9 months ago 8
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@DRUMACHINE69 Actually, YT is for videos. If you want to broadcast audio, you can go to Last fm or a similar site. The fact that many people upload audio with an image is not a valid argument. There are thousands of crimes committed every day, which doesn't mean I can break the law, too.
Your other argument is more valid; if there is indeed only an audio track, then this video is less useless than I thought.
Lastly, please go easy on the '!'s... If this was real life, I would be deaf now...
XxSharkBatexX 9 months ago
@XxSharkBatexX I have no tolerance for people who aren't happy with either this upload, or Neil Peart's ability to play drums. This is my post, and I will not tolerate anything negative about this upload. Anyone who try's to defy me in this matter, will just have their comment deleted. It's as simple as that. My post, my rules. I put this here for other Neil Peart fans to enjoy, because lots people have never heard this Solo.
DRUMACHINE69 9 months ago 8
@XxSharkBatexX lol did you seriously just compare an audio only upload to committing a crime. A talented Troll you are but now kindly fuck off
pinkfloydrule27 8 months ago 3
@XxSharkBatexX its a video of a stioll image dumbass.
damnyancey 9 months ago
@XxSharkBatexX So people like you have something to bitch about. Whats the point of bitching about somebody posting an audio on you tube?
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bobs718 11 months ago
this is from all the worlds a stage. one of the first albums i bought with birthday money lol thanks for posting it. drumachine.
camelcash99 11 months ago
They must be at Disneyland, because Mickey Mouse introduced him. Also, Neil is invisible in this one, so it must be D land special effects.
TheCactusjack1 1 year ago
This was one of his first solos live and some parts sounded like his actual solo so he is a genious since the beggining!!!
Bokee234 1 year ago
jeez, Neil's so great he just floats naked over the drum kit showing off his perfect butt and the the drums play themselves!!
MishyBlueTube 1 year ago
it's a great solo when you're a stoned teenager. In hindsight, it's rather mediocre...Don't get me wrong, I saw RUSH on The Farewell To Kings, Hemispheres, Moving Pictures, and Permanent Waves tours and I used to love their stuff.
69torus 1 year ago
@69torus USED to??
you cant outgrow their material that applies to anyone..
Not bubblegum pop these guys are great!
cpinto72 1 year ago 4
@69torus Still sounds great to me and I'm a sober 42 year old. ;)
funkster007 1 year ago
What people don't know is, during this preference, Neil Pert actually sprouted 2 extra sets of arm's our of his torso, each set longer then the one previous. His cranium then split at the top and allowed for a superior brain to swell thus giving him optimal control over his six dis-proportioned arm's.... he proceeded to play the drum solo and bedazzle the crowd. Burton Cumming's even had an orgasm during the performance as he watched in the audience.
Teebag420 1 year ago 2
"the professor on the drumkit!"
91Tribual 1 year ago
Nice find man. Havent heard this in a long time! Brings back many memories when I was a kid and trying to figure all of Neil's stuff out! Thanks again
btsdrummer1 1 year ago
I do not like rush at all...
but this man is one badass motherfucker even in his mid 50's he's still better than all the newer people
goddamn
3CHEESE07 1 year ago
@3CHEESE07 thats a shame dude... but props for recognizing neil
gumbalooza 1 year ago
If youve listened to Peart over the years you can still hear some remnants of this solo,yet at the same time they have evolved over the years. I give Neil credit for not remaining stagnant and in the comfort zone. He seems to strive to improve and build upon things and no two solos are ever exactly alike. I'll never forget hearing him for the first time and being absolutely blown away wondering "who the fuck is this guy,he's great"!!!
specwar64 1 year ago
I don't believe their is video of this particular performance.
muttville1 1 year ago
Amazing at that young of an age and career, he lived up to a nickname like "The Professor!" It's cool to hear how some of his early ideas became staples of his later solos.
SenecaHighlander 1 year ago
WOW!! I haven't heard this since 1980 when I had my fixed up 64 Chevy pickup with an 8 TRACK!!! I LOVED his drum solo on thier 1st live project. Neil is most definetly the PROFESSOR!!! Thanks for posting this.
sizzlehalt 1 year ago
THIS IS THE SOLO THAT STARTED ME DRUMMING, 35 YEARS ON AND I LOVE RUSH MORE THAN EVER.
PARADIGM.
RUSSIANAUNTY 1 year ago
Great solo... there's always so much to learn from Peart.
utahdrumtech 1 year ago
i saw neil on the farewell to kings tour with ufo ...god this was an awesome solo
spermdog18 1 year ago
@spermdog18 was it the same solo as this one (the 2112 solo)?
dwilmer7 1 year ago
How does this solo compare to O'Basteria on Rush and Rio, I might ask? Well, Im glad you asked me. imo, this solo is just as good in its own way, even though Rush in rio solo is technically more challenging.
dwilmer7 1 year ago
Would be cool to see him in his early years, but this is still great. Funny that he adds the John Bonhamish distortion at the end. This is from 1976 and this is now about 34 years old. Wow, am I getting old or what.
pbonney 1 year ago
A pristine recording works against rock/metal, imho
dwilmer7 1 year ago
This solo has alot more energy than any of his subsequent solos. I think its due to lo-fi sound: Overdriven levels + sub-par recording quality = a more riveting and live- sounding performance.
dwilmer7 1 year ago
Audio is the only thing available. I would have the vid if one was out. :) NP was the one that inspired me to drum back in the 80's. Good to hear this...it has been a long time.
jabjam07 1 year ago
anybody have video of this?
MrLeedom 1 year ago
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How could neil peart be playing in 1976 when rush didnt even start until the 80s??? this is some 70's prog rock.
dwilmer7 1 year ago
Neil joined the band right before they played the first gig in at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh right after they signed with Mercury (after self publishing on Moon records 3500 copies), which was in 1974.
ACELLOFAWARENESS 1 year ago
Rush is a Canadian rock band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. The band and its membership went through a number of re-configurations between 1968 and 1974, achieving their current form when Peart replaced original drummer John Rutsey in July 1974, two weeks before the group's first U.S. tour.
DRUMACHINE69 1 year ago 13
neil peart was born in hagersville, grew up in port dalhousie (st.catharines, ontario)
ih8japscraps 1 year ago
@DRUMACHINE69 Whatever happened to giving John Rutzey credit? First drummer for Rush, died in 2008.
philconey11 11 months ago
@philconey11 - Although he was the first drummer, this post is not about RUSH, it's about Neil Peart, and one of his first amazing drum solo's.
DRUMACHINE69 11 months ago
Do some research before you post. Rush's 1st album came out in '74.
bacculus 1 year ago
ok yup that was dumb. I have rhapsidy to go subscrition and ive beeb listening to all their 70's stuff lately. rush was ALL PROG back then.
wow.
dwilmer7 1 year ago
Rush started in the early-mid seventys.
NintendoSwii 1 year ago
I believe they actually started in the late 60's....
CSXer 1 year ago
@CSXer Right but Rush isnt Rush without Neil
NintendoSwii 1 year ago
@NintendoSwii nah not true, rutsey was great too.
PeeceSells 1 year ago
Rush is a Canadian rock band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. The band and its membership went through a number of re-configurations between 1968 and 1974, achieving their current form when Peart replaced original drummer John Rutsey in July 1974, two weeks before the group's first U.S. tour
DRUMACHINE69 1 year ago 7
it's ackshally 1973.
muddack 1 year ago
rush was formed in the late 60s, peart joined in 74 after their original drummer left the band due to medical problems. get your facts straight!
rOcKsTaRhAwTii 1 year ago
ok ok ok ok. wow your only the 100th person to have a cow bout this.
um yup, NP joined the band in nineteen hundred and seventy fuking four. Now read my opinion on this solo. it kicks ass. especially consdierin he played it in 1976!
dwilmer7 1 year ago
@dwilmer7 I was in HS in the 70s and this was my favorite album at the time, make no mistake RUSH has been around since the late 60s.
babybluesnowden 1 year ago
@dwilmer7 WHAT!! Then who did i see at Massey Hall for the A.T.W.A.S. show.
STRATCAT101 1 year ago
@dwilmer7 um. Rushs first album was released in early 70s bro, i wanna say '74 but not 100% sure
PeeceSells 1 year ago
i honestly think he is overated big time
winterkilldrummer23 1 year ago
He did use Ludwig for a time. I believe it was on the Hold Your Fire and Roll the Bones albums.
imbzq 2 years ago
Yes he did, as well as on Presto. They were Ludwig Super-Classics.
morsecode2112 2 years ago 2
Neil Peart RULES.........check out mike pritchett drum solo you tube
mikepritchett100 2 years ago
Neil was so cool back then....And still is......
bcwdrums 2 years ago
The old school Peart really inspired me.
JoeJacari 2 years ago 2
There are so many drummers and so many styles that No one is the best ever. BUT. Neil peart has got to be the best rock drummer ever
StaticSpiralsStl 2 years ago
Those are all Slingerland Drums with Zildjian cymbals...shortly after that ...moved to Tama, then DW
pctech69 2 years ago 2
and ludwig
bachyutt 2 years ago
wait a sec...i could swear he was on ludwig during the mid-late 80s. and evans heads. am i wrong?
UklaTheMokk 2 years ago
nah dont think he ever used ludwig
conkareno 2 years ago
I remember back in the late eighties - early nineties he played Ludwig's for a few years.
x2bnex2me 2 years ago
this isn't premier and the cymbals aren't pasite either. The set is a slingerland and the cymbals are zildjian. And up until the last recent tours Neil still used the snare from this set he called "old Faithfull."
Kaledrums 2 years ago
The set is premier, cymbals paiste.
TheMONNETT 2 years ago
i cant tell he used to play tama now dw but this is way back and paiste r u sure i couldnt picture him with piastes
drum4life25 2 years ago
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TheMONNETT 2 years ago
A 1989 ford green taurus.
TheMONNETT 2 years ago
The car is just a used piece of junk. I hate fords but the particular lot i visited is just a few steps up from a junk lot.
TheMONNETT 2 years ago
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TheMONNETT 2 years ago
Hey Monnett where is that new drum set? What kind is it? Did you finally pick a pair of sticks yet? What kind of car are you buying? Why does your brother hate Pro Mark and why does he think MP is better?
rrdrums110 2 years ago
People, just shut up and enjoy the great drumming!
TheMONNETT 2 years ago 10
My god your right! Neil is too much of a great drummer for arguments! Now sit back and be awed by the professor!
EMBOBZ2112 2 years ago 2
I've said this in the past. I will no longer tolerate ASSHOLES ! I will leave their comments with my response for a while, so other people can read their RETARDED comments and my response to them. Then I will DELETE them when I am ready.
DRUMACHINE69 2 years ago 4
@DRUMACHINE69 so many people with idiotic comments. so few bullets, so little time.
jr55ful 1 year ago
This is not a video! Picture w/sound. No Action!!?BOO
kbj42016 2 years ago 2
LESS FILLING? OR TASTES GREAT?
MrSecondshift 2 years ago
BOTH!!!!!! haha
JacobStupify3 2 years ago
Years ago they used to call this effect vibra fibing the kit
oak3drum 2 years ago
THIS KIT is up on e-bay right now!!
muttville1 2 years ago
Bro I have been a Peart fan since 80...trust me...of the 600 bootlegs I have and as a drummer since 82...he was using a flanger in his solos back then...he even used it in the late 83, 84, 85, 86 solos before the kit would turn. It's all good...sometimes he applied them to his snare...others to gong bass...other times to his concert toms.
vaportrails44 2 years ago
It was more of a phaser sound such as the one heard on Kashmir by John Bonham they just add the phase sound to the mix
scarfacedan09 2 years ago
There is flanger or chorus on his kit.Listen to the cymbals & tom decay.The pitch moves.Neil can't control the decay.And he can't change the kick beater position ,either.This is the classic gated reverb & flanger sound.Who cares ? Neil is great & so is this solo.The effects just add another dimension to his solo.Thanks for posting this,it's awesome !! Put a mic on your kit & drive it hard into a flanger.You'll hear the same effect.The 'swishy' sounding cymbal is a dead give away.
OrbVroomer 2 years ago
the man, the legend ...the professor.
bitchum 2 years ago 2
The effect you are refering to does not give the echo or chorus effect evident in the peformance.Sorry mate.
mik1641 2 years ago
This is really cool. It's sweet to see the roots of his future solos.
Yrgul66 2 years ago
more cowbell
drfunk444 2 years ago
wahhhh. you are a little jealous bitch.
dbytor 2 years ago
this is one of his first times doing the cowbell thing right?
PinoyBoy800 2 years ago
i lie the solo from a show of hands much better.....whats with the flanger on the drums?
spatchycat 2 years ago
I personally like the one from YYZ(All The World's A Stage),but the flange sound goes back to John Bonham and his Moby Dick solo.Neil Peart can play them all,including Buddy Rich style solos....but who's counting LOL.
mik1641 2 years ago
My mistake.The solo I was refering to was from the Exit Stage Left album.
mik1641 2 years ago
It's interesting that they were sharing bills with KISS back then, but while KISS' early years are quite well documented, Rush's early years unfortunately are not.
Even Gene Simmons, who can't speak well of anybody, talks great stuff about them in his autobiography; jokes between both bands are hilarious!
mjulio71 2 years ago
Which of Gene's books?
hopper1 2 years ago
really? i didn't notice. *he says sorry i just have audio* in the information.
bandgeekdrummer13 2 years ago 6
i love rush the best rock band ever to walk on this earth and the same goes for neil
conkareno 2 years ago 3
i compare neil peart to buddy rich there are so good...
gonzalezbrandon1881 2 years ago 2
Classic. He clearly follows the Buddy Rich style of following almost everything with the never stopping bass drum.
Drumspiracy 2 years ago
This is still my Fav. drum solo from peart. these drums have punch, where his new ones seem to have a tinny sound
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Andytheminstrel 2 years ago
Great!! Is that steve perry of journey introducing neil!! It sounds just like him.
TheRockAndJohnCena 2 years ago
No. That's Geddy Lee. His voice has just changed over the years.
DRUMACHINE69 2 years ago
peart amd liefson...dont get any bettter
mhark67 2 years ago
hes certainly one of the best things to happen to drums, has inspired many 1000s to play and also spotlights the drum kit as a melodic instrument, there are not too many that do it so well.. well bozzio is one.
rebeat2u 2 years ago
jesus man... same elements in his drum solo on this very day... he's been loyal to his good ideas =)
viliauvinen19 2 years ago
the series at 1.50 is awesome... it's like he is discovering YYZ years b4 they made it. hoopaloop is the new beer pong.. check it. peace all.
humbledrumah 2 years ago
true that! i was actually disappointed when he didnt use the classic cowbell part on his last solo. still fricking great though/. love him to death!!
mrskeithmoon 2 years ago
Neil is the godfather of progrock drumming, I learned so much from him !!! Thanks for posting this solo, I really love Neil and the 70's !
Sabianfan 2 years ago
Thanx for posting this solo from All The World's a Stage. Neil is a super talent. I like a lot of the drummers that folks are commenting on but when did drumming become a sport of winners & losers? Is it like a basketball game of stats? Isn't it music/musicians that we seek on these posts and not sports/athletes? Get over who you think is better & enjoy the drumming or just move on. This post is about Neil, if you wanna hear/see your favorite drummer go to their posts and enjoy.
oak3drum 2 years ago 3
I would say that Bonham, Moon, and Peart were pretty comparable in the 70's but I preferred Neil Peart. Add 30 years on Peart's resume and the point of who's the best is irrelevant. Neil Peart is the master, by far the best drummer that ever lived. People who don't think so just don't like his style, that's all.
craigaaaw 3 years ago
"Best" is non existent in the context of artistic achievement. For instance: Weckl is lightyears ahead of Peart in the technique department. That is a solid fact regarding direct specific attributes, not a childish "Weckl is better" regurgitation.
vaporarrow 2 years ago
good point. well put. thank you -
drulius 2 years ago
Yes I agree that Weckl is a better technical drummer, but "light years ahead" is way to much of an exaggeration. The funny thing is no one really knows just how good or what Neil can do. Only his solo's really show it, and he composes them to sound good, not really do his best or show off. In the genre he plays in he has to play within a song. In conclusion no one really knows how good he is because he doesn't get the chance to show it alot.
paulatreides123 2 years ago
yea true ... but i think that jojo mayer is best that weckl tecnicaly... idk there are so many good drummers... steve gadd for exemple... i think that he knows every rudiment lol he is huge...
druggged 2 years ago
he is amazing....i saw rush 2 times in concert..noblesville,in.
ostracismo12 3 years ago
seriously? Me too! BUT, more like 16 times...
gotbass33727 2 years ago
They're all amazing! Lifeson doesn't get the credit he most obviosly deserves. 32 through that little downtown area sucks at 3:30 on. Going Anderson to Westfield. Sup
hork55 2 years ago
i've always liked the part starting around 1.12
only now i found out he plays it so much smoother nowadays.
He has obviously grown over the years.
And that's an understatement.
I prefer the live in Rio solo.
Rock on!
harrybrandy 3 years ago
Hey. Can't we just get along. The caption above used to read
" Best Solo of all time " I meant for Neil, I didn't mean best solo ever produced ! If you don't like Neil Peart that's fine. You don't need to come here and bash him. I put up this solo for other Neil Peart fans to enjoy.
DRUMACHINE69 3 years ago
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Joey Jordison is 1000x better + Joey hold more records and will beat ANY drummer in a battle
2ndIDInfantry 3 years ago
Joey is a pile of shit, just like everyone in that band.
EquinoxComa 3 years ago 5
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his drum solo is just filled with double bass fills and the double bass drum is jst going the whole time! = SHYT!! shit cymbals goin n everythin! come on...get into real drummers not piles of shit like him!
davidbrodlie 3 years ago
wow you must be deaf then, cause i hear a lot more than double bass, and cymbals.
bandgeekdrummer13 3 years ago
amen to that
Hamgammy 3 years ago
you must be 16 or younger...
drulius 2 years ago
This is the solo that started it all. Never before had the drums been the focus of such musical structure in which the listener was carried through the piece as if listening to a well written song.
Neil is one of the very few drummers to be adored by hords of drummers AND non-drummers alike.
"It's like listening to a song, just with one instrument", one of them told me.
It's hard to beat a well-thought-out and exicuted statement - whether musical or literary.
bodgaard 3 years ago
keith moon came before... and so did bonham
if u ever listen to keith moon, his drumming follows the song and if taken apart, it is a song in its own. But same with all parts of the who,... take away any part, and its a completely different piece holding itself together, but so well constructed that when put back together again, it is one massive piece of complex genius
slotwinski1414 3 years ago
I'd venture to say that is (and should be) the case with and well-thought-out instrumental part. My comments, however, were focused on the solos that Neil presents to us. Moon and Bonham certainly inspired but, while their solos are to be followed, Neil's solos carry one through them standing on a foundation of musical continuity, well rehearsed exicution and instrumental 'chops' that neither Moon nor Bonham had on their best day. But,.....they're fun to listen to, anyway!
bodgaard 3 years ago 2
now that is the most respectable reply ive ever heard on youtube.
slotwinski1414 3 years ago
nice try but u sound like an idiot
Hamgammy 3 years ago
i dont think so. Fine, here it is from another angle. Mitch Mitchell. Watch him play; with his inventive style of jazz/rock fusion.
and I think that you sound like an idiot. I mean, here I am posting an arguementative thought... and all you do is say that I'm an idiot without justifying how that is so.
slotwinski1414 3 years ago
u still sound like an idiot
Hamgammy 3 years ago
I love Neil's solos, but he did not invent this format. Well before Neil there were extended drum solos that had musical structure. Check out Joe Morello, Max Roach, Ginger Baker, Louie Bellson, Papa Jo Jones, and others. Neil would be the first to point this out, if asked.
drulius 2 years ago
Its not like anyone is saying Neil Peart invented the non sucky drum solo. He is just good at not sucking.
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DrumChannelOfficial 3 years ago
I love Neil, Him and Danny Carey are my favorite Prog-rock drummers.
g613044 3 years ago
yeah dude i have some of danneys sticks and theyre HUGE man!
holaguacamole1 2 years ago
or 4 pounds of make up lol
Turcs96 3 years ago
That chocolate analogy leaves too much open to personal opinion. For instance, my OPINION is that white chocolate tastes great too, while it is FACT that Neil Peart kicks Joey Jordinson's ass.
Noozooroo 3 years ago 2
I prefer the solo on "Exit Stage Left", its a bit cleaner and the audio is better.
Cash2112 3 years ago 2
thats because they went back in the studio and touched it up a bit
LastRowKid 3 years ago