Neil Peart, RIP
- One minute read - 119 wordsOnce, on Facebook I wrote:
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The fact that on any given day for most situations I can quote 3 lines -whole song Rush lyrics for most situations is a compliment to the WRITER Neil Peart (RIP).
Fame: “Each another’s audience outside the gilded page.”
Tech support: “he bows his head and prays to the mother of all machines”
Media consolidation: “the words of the profits were written on the studio walls”
On top of that he was one of the best drummers ever.
He was cogent in Quebec separatism, globalization, racism; he could riff on totalitarianism and immature models of history, he could feel others fears and pain and put it across insane time and key signatures. Last of the gentleman polymath musicians.