Neil Peart could describe talking on a payphone and you'd swear he was an astronaut 😁

Thank God for these recordings. Our only connection left to hear Neil's voice!! ❤❤😢

Always masterfully articulate and elrgant Neil talking about one of the best progressive rock albums ever IMHO.

Neil, we will miss you all so much. I used to stay up late back in these days to listen to these interviews with him or any of the guys in Rush

Love all rush albums however grace has always been my fav! Hardcore fan for 39 yrs. R.I.P. Neil...

It's unfortunate but radio stations today don't even have these kind of interviews anymore. Rush rocks!!!!!!🤓😎😷👍🎸🎸🎛️🎛️🥁🥁🥁📡📻🎙️📻🎙️📻

it's always a pleasure to listen to the Professor talk.

Mary the burner Turner! 94.7 KMET, Los Angeles, those were good days back then!

Where in the world are these terrific interviewers like Mary Turner anymore??? I mean, she’s connecting to Neil, asking intelligent questions, listening to his answers, even pushing back a little and having a real conversation.

Neil was a literary genius. It's incredible to hear him speak with such precision and intelligence

I miss this man so much. What a beautiful person. Thanks for this.

What a great interview Neil what a great human and understanding of life and him sharing these thoughts with us. He will always be missed and remembered.

GUP : so intense and raw, it rips your heart out every time!!

Just the way Neil talks he was absolutely the most talented musician ever, his hand was on near every Rush song in there catalog...

RIP Neil..... You are missed....

Loved this interview; Neil Peart and certainly Mary Turner.

So great to hear this interview again after more than 35 years when I got lucky having a blank cassette at hand to record this on my boom box. What still resonates with me is how Neil is in this interview: relaxed, eloquent, confident and authentic. Not one "you know" or "like" in his answers. As a teenager, his approach in interviews, his work ethic, humility and introspection shaped me at my core. I wanted to be like him - not as a musician - but as a person. He and his "work buddies" were a refreshing second set of blue prints to build my identity (1st set my parents) to make me who I am now: hungry and curious about the world without taking myself seriously but taking what I do seriously. Thank you for posting this.

I heard this way back then and it was outstanding.

😷The first tour I saw from them-Oct 26, 1984 Saturday night in Biloxi Mississippi🤘🖖✌️🥁🎸🎤🎹

Growing up in the eighties in the "American Sector" of Germany, I recorded that interview one night on "AFN-FM", the American Forces Network Radio, broadcasted from a nearby US military base. This interview has gotten into my DNA since. It was the first time I ever heard of T.S. Eliot and John DosPassos and was probably one of the reasons I later went on to study English literature. The cassette tape recording has long since vanished god knows where to and I am very grateful to you, Manuel, that you reloaded it here. Thank you!

I just thought of something in examining the Professor’s last name: the first that caught my eye 👁 was ART- artist, artistic expression in both music and lyrical content. Second: PE as in physical education as in the Stamina it takes to play drums and in particular at a EXCEEDINGLY HIGH LEVEL!!! So we can deduce through his last name that we have an ARTIST in every sense of the word and Physical Education in terms of stamina and physicality to play at level that boggles the mind and soothes the Heart! Rest In Peace Professor there will never be another like you! Sincerely, Gary

RUSH is THE PERFECT EXAMPLE of the fluidity of MASTERING TIME SIGNATURES! I play drums and there are a few things that you need to know about Neil Peart’s ( pronounced PEER-T) character: First he writes the lyrics so he knows in advance what TYPE of song it’s meant to be ie ballad, driver, etc. Second he COMPOSES on the drums… like a carpenter who looks at a set of blueprints before building the object. Neil lays out a SKETCH in his mind of the VOICES of the drumset and builds the song from there. He is also a great LISTENER knowing when NOT to step over Geddy’s singing or Alex’s solos! Finally, he had perfect timing and fluidity of time changes. He said himself that it’s not about COUNTING the time signatures as much as fluid motion to change the tempo without counting: in other words it should FLOW! He hates repeating the same drum patterns in the same song meaning if he plays a fill one way the first time around he will play it differently the second time around. IE. Rolls down the toms the first time around and triplets or quads (all four limbs) the second time around. In short there will NEVER be another like him on planet earth 🌍 🌏 🌎! REST IN PEACE PROFESSOR! With heart felt admiration and sincerity! Gary

fantastic interview.

8:15 Neil talks about not listening to old music. I've heard him say similar things in other interviews. It's an attitude that's completely foreign and alien to me. I can't imagine not going back to some of the old stuff. Don't get me wrong, I love discovering new music but I also love revisiting the "old friends" in my music collection.

It's interesting to hear Mary Turner mention that Rush has been together for more than a decade.

He was such a special Pearson!!

I see on the thumbnail that Geddy is sporting his "dead raccoon on the head" look. His words, not mine.

Always recreated the rush formula every release which was to feel like you were actually getting a rush listening to their music. Because you were!!!! I am a fan obviously but there was never a more appropriate and fitting name for a band in rock history.

Interesting to hear Neil mention playing 3 days at Radio CIty Music Hall and introducing p/g songs. I was there one of those nights seeing Rush for the first of many times. Definitely the best venue to see a concert - in an actual concert hall. I still remember Geddy singing "One likes to believe in the freedom of baseball". Thanks for the great memories.

Man when this album came out, I thought it was gonna be their last. I was only 15 or so, but I was already a die hard Rush fan. Die hard. Big time. I would get high with friends and just stare at Hugh Symes awesome album art and listen to songs like The Necromancer and CygnusXI with the headphones... Listen to Geddy and Neil match up their riffs and fills on Hemispheres and Permanent Waves... Signals was a little different, but it still had that warmth of Moving Pictures, but Grace Under Pressure seemed like a last call to me. I was excited about it before it's release but I was expecting something completely different. Especially from Alex. You gotta think about bands like Iron Maiden and what was going on in the world of guitar. I knew Alex could jam like nobody else, so I knew he would put all these pretty glam boys in their place. And then I ran out and got the album. Later I understood just how awesome Alex was on this album. But at the time, I started putting things together. No more Terry Brown, no more By-Tor, no more Hemisphere style bass licks. And it was pretty much unheard of for a band to last for ten years. So I just knew they were done. I KNEW IT! Thank the god of sweet sweet music I was wrong. And the funny thing is... I still refer to this album as "New Rush" and this was, what... 35 years ago? Holy crap. Who would have thought that I latched on to a band that would stay together this long. But then again, I was a Kiss fan just as I was getting into Rush, Metallica was starting to bud shortly thereafter, and Slayer came flying around the corner and punched me right in the friggen throat. It's now safe to say that I know how to pick a band that'll be around for a while. Too bad they're all heading towards the sunset.

🤯awesome!!! Thank you

Most Excellent!

I want more !!!

One area that I don't share with the Professor is that I do listen to music beyond the year mark. Hell, Rush, from the early days on, is what I listen to most when I drive to and from work. I listen to other music of course, but not as much as I listen to Rush. RIP Neil.

Please post another radio interview of Rush, PLEASE!

R.I.P. Neil and 3 weeks ago Mary. She was with Tom Donahue's KSAN in San Francisco, he basically developed the deeper album cuts format. Then down to Los Angeles and KMET. One of the earlier female DJs who would go on to interview many stars- perhaps none more interesting than Neil.

I remember hearing this back in 1985 and thinking, "How can this woman not know how to pronounce his last name?!" 😁

I listen to music that I feel is good, just happens most of it was created long ago

One area of this interview is very revealing - it had to do with the idea that music has a shelf-life. Neil indicated the relatively short shelf life he perceived with the conception and validity of the music. His answer was very telling.

Yeah this interview and those albums lasted longer than a year

I am interested in surprise to see that this is listed as an interview from 1984. The first time I heard it it was broadcast on the radio I guess roughly 10 years later around 1991 or 92 and I was under the assumption that that was your current interview. I guess what I originally heard broadcast on the radio was actually close to 10 years old. But I was pretty sure it was mentioned specifically during the roll the bones tour in the early 90s.

good

RIP Professor

RIP

wow! She got his last name right!!!

I didnt care much after Moving pictures They are truly gods though right threw to the end

I just learned that Mary Turner died last week.

Funny how she talks surface about Grace, and Neil goes way deep

She says it's an hour long. Where's the rest of it?

Geddy said it was the hardest album they ever made....Grace under pressure

One of their best works due to Alex sacrificing his expression so geddy can look cool with one hand on the fake instrument and the other on the bass. Thanks big Al.

Kissed n even typos

8 or 9 dollars :)

“Who is Grace in Grace Under Pressure” 😂😂😂😂!?!??!? Does she not know common phrases????

nerd

RIP