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The drum solo on “YYZ”, as well as the whole of the song’s drum track, seems effortless on Peart’s part. But if you task even the best drummers with taking on this song, many of them struggle.

“YYZ” clocks in at around 4 minutes 25 seconds of steady rhythm, with two live versions including a Neil Peart drum solo. Its title is an ode to the Toronto Pearson International Airport ...

Neil would do a full hour of unrelenting drumming before he went on stage to play for another three, including a drum solo that actually dragged people in from the bar, not propelled them towards it.

2. “Tom Sawyer” (Rush) Neil Peart’s drum intro in “Tom Sawyer” is relatively tame in comparison to songs like “Hot for Teacher” but, it is nonetheless memorable.

Geddy Lee has released two demos from his 2000 solo album My Favorite Headache, including one written about late Rush bandmate Neil Peart ’s family tragedy. “Gone” was a response to the car ...

Geddy Lee Used to Do Cocaine During Neil Peart's Drum Solos: "Coke Was Everywhere" "It was mostly towards the end of the night when you felt like you had earned a bit of a reward, so you'd get high" ...

“Like, during the drum solo, you do a line. I really didn’t do any coke before a gig because I could feel it in my throat, and that was hard on my voice.

Lee’s brief cocaine period (circa late Seventies/early Eighties) was the only time substances ever crept into Rush’s performances. “In the cocaine years, coke was everywhere,” Lee says. “Like, during ...

“Like, during the drum solo, you do a line. I really didn’t do any coke before a gig because I could feel it in my throat, and that was hard on my voice.

2. Neil Peart – “The Rhythm Method” (1989) Neil Peart, the legendary drummer of the rock band Rush, was an icon whose influence on drumming is substantial.

Peart’s kit was apparently fitted with Roland VH-13-MG V-Drum Hi-Hats, an electronic hi-hat described as having “the natural swinging motion of an authentic hi-hat cymbal.” ...