“Boston’s drummer just died on stage this last week. He was 67. Heart attack.”
I didn’t know that. Damn, how terrible. Although he did go out doing his craft, but sad.
For me the first two Boston albums were in a class by themselves. I’d play them at max and it was euphoric. Still is.
And yes drummers: Neil Peart wrote about his workout routine in prep for a tour, was quite serious.
A new documentary came out last fall about Rush and it was shown at theaters nationwide for a couple days. Was great, of course.
Peart motorcycles between venues and on the last tour he rode in rain got his feet wet had massive infections on both feet but finished the tour. Someone commented he was in agony playing the second half of the tour.
All three members of Rush are consummate professionals.
Thanks for posting this thread!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpBWRJlbBCA
The above his Hitler’s rant on Rush retiring. (Great comments about “if Neil hadn’t been riding bumpity-f&*% around the country...”
With regard to new music, Alex Lifeson has helped out with some local bands and plays guitar for them on a few songs.
The website http://www.rushisaband.com/ comes out with those news items and clips of songs, etc. Some of the music is okay. But I think it is hard to make a buck in the music industry today, so the level of effort to create great music maybe isn’t there (they aren’t going to spent 3 months in a recording studio anymore); and I don’t think their are the record labels searching the country for the next great band that they can highlight - there’s no money in it.
Even Rush was saying how they didn’t make much money off of their last few albums - it was the concert tours where they profited.