![]() My god, he's CRAZY here! Definitely one of the best guitarists ever if you ask me. This song is one of my favorite instrumentals ever, and you want to know who makes that possible? The supremely undervalued Alex Lifeson. Most bands can't make their instrumentals as exciting as their normal songs. ![]() Everyone is on fire here: Geddy's vocals and bass are powerful, yet restrained Alex's guitar is running wild Neil's drumming is perfect and is in harmony with whatever Alex and Geddy are doing nothing is out of place. It's one hell of a ride and an amazing closer to Permanent Waves. To further emphasize that, I think you should check out the live version at the capitol theater from 1975 on youtube. I know Rush isn't really a metal band per se, but if there's any song of theirs that screams "speeding assault," it's this one. "See them bow their heads to die as we would bow when they rode by," a line from the second verse, basically sums up this one. If there's any source where I want to learn about history from, it's Rush. Not only that, but the bass and vocals kick major ass most of all. It's funny how Rush mastered the soft/loud contrast before the Pixies and Nirvana ever did. Rush is really good at writing songs with strong individualist and/or libertarian messages. The only thing stopping me from putting this higher on the list is it's relative lack of musical complexity as compared to the higher songs on this list. Raging at unreachable glory, straining at invisible chains." Goddamn, those are some powerful lyrics. "Rebel without a conscience, martyr without a cause. In legal boundaries, of course.īeing a teenager myself, this song is one of the most relatable, most powerful songs Rush has to offer. I wish to someday go screaming through the valley with this playing. The lyrics and music are in perfect harmony with the vibe of the song. Rush really knows how to write a nostalgic song. This would be the first of many times Rush would make a long song with epic storytelling undertones, and this song is one of the best instances where that is done well. ![]() Starting the countdown at number 10:Īnd the first Rush epic was born. Throughout, Peart embellishes with snare flurries and splash cymbal accents, ending with a precise tumble through his toms.I'm sure many of these lists have been done here before, so to spice things up, I'll give a little description as to why I like each song with each listing. On the opening track of “Fly by Night” from 1975, Rush’s first album with Peart, he begins with guns blazing, tick-tacking through a 7/8 riff. busybodies like the Who’s Keith Moon and Cream’s Ginger Baker his lyrics were informed by the individual-minded writings of Ayn Rand and the fantastical worlds of J.R.R. Peart’s hectic drum style was influenced by U.K. As far as I was concerned he was hired from the minute he started playing.”Īfter Peart, then 21, joined Rush, its sound evolved from the spirited hard rock of its 1974 self-titled debut to the complex, skittering power trio that pioneered the space where heavy metal thunder meets prog-rock ostentation. “Then he sat down behind this kit and pummeled the drums - and us. “He comes in, this big goofy guy with a small drum kit, and Alex and I thought he was a hick from the country,” the Rush frontman Geddy Lee recalled in The Guardian of Peart’s tryout for the band. Rush remained a massive concert draw until its final show in 2015. As his own career progressed, Peart absorbed inspiration from new wave, jazz, bossa nova and African music, and - though an untouchable giant on the kit - still took lessons into the ’90s and ’00s from jazz musicians including Freddie Gruber and Peter Erskine. Peart never shied from flashy soloing or tom-tom blitzkriegs on his massive kit, yet he was also a master of discipline whose steady but tastefully punctuated grooves propelled “Closer to the Heart,” “Tom Sawyer” and “The Big Money” to the Billboard Hot 100.īy the 1990s, a generation of drummers influenced by Peart had turned chops and bluster into platinum success, among them Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stephen Perkins of Jane’s Addiction, Tim “Herb” Alexander of Primus and Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater. To drummers in the ’70s and ’80s, Peart was an Eddie Van Halen figure, someone whose pyrotechnic chops seemed to be the ne plus ultra. Regarded as one of the greatest rock drummers of all time, he combined virtuosic technical ability, arena-filling intensity, exacting precision and enough restraint to endure as a constant presence on FM radio. Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist for the Canadian prog-rock band Rush for more than 40 years, died on Jan.
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