The best of Neil Peart

I appreciate the sentiment of it, and of course Rush is one of my all-time favorite bands, but let's be real - if you want to hear the best of Neil Peart you can simply pick one of their albums at random (except the first one of course) and let it rip. ;) The guy brought the goods every single time on every single song.
 
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BUt -- its fun seeing the interviews and the semi candid stuff with him and Geddy....and that other guy
 
I beg to differ with what Neil said about Moving Pictures was when Rush became Rush. He underestimated how incredible and how much of a hook they had on their young fans as far back as Fly By Night, Caress of Steel and A Farewell to Kings

I cannot even fathom how incredible these guys were and how it was like Leonardo DaVinci, and all the masters of the art world got assembled in the notes and arrangements of Rush for me as a 14+ year old once I got exposed to my first album purchase of 2112.
From there the Archives 3 pack, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures after they came out.

One of Neil's other hard masterpieces to play.

 
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chilipeppermaniac said:
I beg to differ with what Neil said about Moving Pictures was when Rush became Rush.
He underestimated how incredible and how much of a hook they had on their young fans as far back as Fly By Night, Caress of Steel and A Farewell to Kings.
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Every original 70's Rush fan I've know/met has stated (without any prompting from myself) that they disliked their subsequent album releases after "Moving Pictures".
 
I won't say I disliked their subsequent albums. Some I loved, some I liked parts of and not as much some others but man those guys kept putting out killer albums and touring like when Neil rejoined after his tragic losses.
 
Full disclosure I'm not 70s Rush fan I'm a born in the 70s Rush fan. I graduated HS in the mid 90s and my first memory of 'new' rush on rock radio was dreamline. I knew of Tom Sawyer, and Working Man and a legendary album called Moving Pictures but I didn't dive head first into Rush until the mid 90s.

That quote from Neil came from Rush Beyond a Lighted Stage and I believe the context was that Moving Pictures was a culmination of everything they'd learned and they'd been working towards as a band and individual musicians finally coming together on that record. I don't believe it was a commentary concerning their fanbase or the influence they had on aspiring musicians.

If there was ever a era of Rush where you could say they had a finally achieved a particular 'sound' where you could instantly identify Rush, I think it was the era of Hemispheres through Moving Pictures. That said I love a ton of post Moving Pictures Rush. I put Vapor Trails up there as one of their top albums. It is too bad the production was so botched and brick-walled on the original release, but thankfully that was corrected with the remix/remaster.
 
PAFhumbucker said:
That quote from Neil came from Rush Beyond a Lighted Stage and I believe the context was that Moving Pictures was a culmination of everything they'd learned and they'd been working towards as a band and individual musicians finally coming together on that record. I don't believe it was a commentary concerning their fanbase or the influence they had on aspiring musicians.
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I agree PAF. AND if I were to take anything someone else says, ( especially the source, Neil) and to use how they explain something, as gospel according to "Chilipepper" etc would be foolish. I think my point about fan base in reply to Neil's Moving Pictures comment, was merely my reaction that if I heard Neil basically say this just after MP album and before all other future ones, I would sort of be looking at a snapshot in time up to that point there in 1981 ish after they finished Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures to say, " Wow, Neil is feeling like RUSH summited their level of talent and quality of work at that point." Essentially like Neil saying he felt they had made good stuff beforehand, but was feeling like MP was the shiz, their YEAH when we NAILED IT, YEAH Buddy, RUSH has arrived type thing" My thought basically was like that old expression of not being able to see what you really look like. Others see you better than you see yourself because you are your own worst critic.

I see YOUR perspective on exposure to RUSH being a certain number of years AFTER mine. Many here already know I was first exposed around 1979 when older middle school friends went to a concert, I went to a record store sometime shortly after that and decided to give them a try. Just by pure luck, I chose the 2112 album as my first. AND to add perspective, I bought the Archives set of their first 3 albums next, followed by Perm Waves and Moving Pictures and gfot to see concerts for those two tours. Enjoyed Farewell To Kings and Hemispheres from times with friends who had copies, and as all this was happening, I was getting exposed to Van Halen 1,2, Double Live Gonzo, Stones, Petty, Alice Cooper, Zep, Stones. BOC, and so many more.

As a kid with a modest income home, low funds self, and aspirations of college in my future, I could only wish for enough cash to buy All the albums from my favorite bands above. Owning 6 of Rush's first 8 albums was a pretty good testament to their pull on myself as a fan.
I am pretty sure no other band in my collection represented like they did, except for The WHO. I might have only bought 3 or 4 of their albums though. Some wealthy people might not understand this, but if I owned 25-30 Vinyl albums in my years from age 12 to 25, that sort of sums it up.

Having said all this, I reiterate, I liked albums that came after Moving Pictures and liked a number of them despite not buying them. Signals, Power Windows, Presto, Roll The Bones etc, I just have never had a plethora of extra cash to afford much of the luxuries of life, music and gear included. I guess this is why I really loved and appreciated all Rush put out, all I was able to own to listen to, and all I looked forward to hearing when they made new stuff.

Like I said, Thank you Neil Peart.
 
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As Gball knows, RUSH is in my DNA. my blood stream, the air I breathe. This song in particular is the sound I hear whenever my mind says RUSH.

Alex's note at 3:05 is THE NOTE My brain signals my ears to, any time I want to get my CRACK like fix of RUSH. MY Nexus. my Pinnacle of all things RUSH.

Followed only by this one less popular opinion. Rush was still and always will be RUSH not because of Neil, BUT because of the greatest guitar player and bass player ever. Alex and Geddy.
For me RUSH's first album was NOT a Zep knock off, it was PURE RUSH, PURE in the vein shot of the raw juice. that istomped on would become the fine wine that became true Vintage RUSH with Neil OR Rutsey.


AND as a RUSH head, today I am hearing this version for the first time. It is just like that initial dropping of the needle onto 2112 was.

HOLY Momma Mia Ged's Awesome old Shrieky voice and ALEX plodding away on that rhythm until it gets to 5:35+ and then at 8:06+ which are the freaking most emotive lead parts ever. Man who says you have to rip up and down the fretboard at warp speed to be a guitar GOD?

 
I feel ya chili. Rush is in my blood too. They are THE band and they have been for me since I was in my late teens. I haven't been a fan as long as you or others and I wish I could jump in a time machine and see them back in the 70s.

Hell. I'd settle for jumping back a decade and seeing them on the Time Machine Tour again. I was so happy to finally see them get some mainstream recognition in the last decade.

It was a strange shift around 2010 when a buddy and I went to see them at Bristow and we noted there was solid amount of hot girls walking into the venue. :) Hot girls! AT A RUSH SHOW!
 
PAFhumbucker said:
I feel ya chili. Rush is in my blood too. They are THE band and they have been for me since I was in my late teens. I haven't been a fan as long as you or others and I wish I could jump in a time machine and see them back in the 70s.

Hell. I'd settle for jumping back a decade and seeing them on the Time Machine Tour again. I was so happy to finally see them get some mainstream recognition in the last decade.

It was a strange shift around 2010 when a buddy and I went to see them at Bristow and we noted there was solid amount of hot girls walking into the venue. :) Hot girls! AT A RUSH SHOW!
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I was probably at Bristow then too. Although I hate the venue, The sound SUCKS there. I only hear muffled sound, no definition of notes, sticking etc.
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