Neil will be missed. I was actually at work when I got a text that said he had passed.

Uncle Jesse and the Rippers ... RIP Uncle Jesse

What an asshole-ish attitude you have toward Neil's death! Clearly, you're not a real fan or you wouldn't say such a thing.😋

Yes, so true. RIP Professor, my drum guide in all of my learning over so many years of playing the drums. Gosh how you influenced all of my drumming whether I knew it or not...

Oh he's not Resting in Peace. He's a bloody drummer. "THE" Bloody Drummer!No he's shaking the heavens with the thunder of his drums, and showing everyone in heaven: "John Bonham who?" lol!

Wasn't that the band with Billy Sheehan on bass?

Great story 😁

@@chris_bern no taLAs, the band with billy sheehan , was a contempory band from buffalo ny, which, which strangely is a 90 minute drive to toronto because you have to drive around lake ontario, but are only 50 miles away as the crowflys so what ends up happening is those two citys in different country's watch each others TV stations and listen to each others radio stations, so theirs a weird sense of community between them

Thank you kindly for sharing that. Stay well.

Awesome story!

Roast My Rig lol,I’m like wtf is he talking about,gods knows what he regards as complicated.

lol, I thought the same thing!

Ha ha ha ! I agree with you.

HTF DUZ U USE DIS STUFF

😅😅🖒

intense

Not every “Rock Superstar” is {so} honest and humble. RUSH have shown us how to be BRILLIANT as well as MEEK...what a combo....and they did it for 4+ decades. (....”and the meek shall inherit the earth”...) Thank you Neil for everything you gave, always at 💯%. Alex and Geddy: wishing you will find peace and strength with your brother’s passing.

Play a Rush song just starting out on guitar. I've been playing for 21 years and still can't play a Rush song properly. Then again, I'm not playing a ton of covers.

@@billyrouse4813 I started on guitar developing my own style, then ran across Michael Hedges in the mid-90's. I was going to meet him then got tragic news that he died in a car accident. His style influenced my music greatly, and I was able to play many of his songs exactly as he had played them. That's not easy to do. Same as Neal Peart, I played drums from age 13 and because of my brother who learned Neal's drumming from age 10... I became seriously interested in learning how to play drums to Rush. I was very good at it, but my brother sounded exactly like Neal.

Alex actually is so good that his rhythm is like an extended solo.. quite unique

Alex is an extremely proficient guitarist, yet he's humble as Jesus Christ himself.

Alex is the complete package!

I agree. Neil, however, was a Californian.

BoogyWoogyCreep - No. Not true. He moved to California sometime within the past 15 years or so, but he's just as Canadian as the other two.

​@@BoogyWoogyCreepHe was from St Catherines . Canada

No, but I couldn't imagine what rock would be without them.

I'm quite sure that's why Rush never self-destructed. Unlike so many other bands, they realize that they're living the dream and just have fun.

And yet he has a massively complicated setup

the best rule in life. take the work seriously. don't take yourself seriously. far too few people understand this

my favorite guitarist of all time. I was born in '62. if you could play Rush you could play anything.

Super underrated too.... in my opinion

...his work..his imagination and general creative spirit literally poops on the fleet of whom many consider as guitar hero's...he's of the era that digested the best and actually DID something with it..It's obviously hard to see past the kaleidoscope of Rush songs and their power...but when it all shakes out individually this guy's second to none...like Miles, FZ and Jimi..same with Geddy...there all just as nutso..and as creatively brilliant..as Neil...

@@leannel6495 No one except Alex could have been in a band with Geddy & Neil and made it work like that. I've always thought that what Primus was missing was an Alex on guitar. Les is amazing, the drummer is also really good, but that guitar player simply isn't the equal of the other two. What makes Alex "the most underrated guitarist in Rock' is that he IS the equal of Geddy & Neil, but very few people ever realize it.

Geddy Lee has always said; Alex is genuinely one of the funniest people you would ever meet in your life. Would love to meet Alex one day and Geddy. Tell them personally, how much their music has meant to us. Deepest condolences to them both. RIP Neil.

BigCat9966 I have know understanding of any guitar equipment, yet I want it all because Lerxst uses it.

Hemivision555 i would have to agree. Plus they are very humble people.

Wow, what a gift to have! Lucky person!

The Police and Cream weren't too shabby. Neither were The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

@@OMGWTFLOLSMH Those are all great bands and we can argue about who's best but Rush is undeniably renowned as being "the musician's musicians". I have friends who play music and don't care for the style of Rush but still listen to them for inspiration. Simply put, they're a rarity.

they stopped being a power trio in the 80s

Deuce//Solo saw them front row that tour in Corpus Christi. I think 2 days before Houston show.

@@tyronejefforeillyramirez7961 My first concert... in Phoenix, March 4, 1980 with .38 Special opening. Saw them on the Moving Pictures tour in Phoenix in 1981. I was 13 and 14 respectively. Great memories.

@@scottdunn2178 cool!!! yeah my first was 1979 Hemispheres. April Wine opening. the 1st of 39 total Rush concerts. Last one Pepsi Center Denver July 2015.

@@tyronejefforeillyramirez7961 Saw Ozzy with Randy Rhoads a couple of months after Moving Pictures, in June '81. Motorhead opened.

@@scottdunn2178 Same here on February 1982, 2 weeks before Randy died.

I saw that too--I think they definitely wanted to get that one into the shot!

Yes indeed he is a rare cat

jeremy cardenas I was about to comment on that lol

I was wondering why he stamped his foot and security thru me out

Well said👍🇨🇦

He's spoken out of both sides of his mouth on that subject. Big Al actually loves the 1982-1988 synth era, but it was hard for him as a guitarist because synths occupy the same frequency as electric guitars. I think Alex did an awesome job of accompanying the synths on "Grace Under Pressure", my favorite Rush record. By the time of "Hold Your Fire," however, I think he was ready to go back to being a 3 piece hard rock group, which was more in tune with the times anyway. One of the biggest myths that gets spread about Rush is that the 1982-1988 era was a artistic and commercial failure. Nonsense. Those albums sold more copies than any of the 70's albums besides "2112," and Geddy Lee feels "Power Windows" is the greatest Rush album ever (see the book Contents Under Pressure). Neil feels that PW and HYF are two of Rush's best albums as well. They sold out 17,000 venues every night during that period as well.

@@MattSmith-iq1ld sold out 17'000 venues every night?!?

Definitely seems like a nice and proper dude. And yeah, great guitarist!