Who's The Greatest Drummer Of All Time?

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Kind of partial to Stanton Moore's talents myself.

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All Rush fans will already know that drummer Neil Peart is the band's primary lyricist and has produced many remarkable 'words' to accompany the music of Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. Those on the periphery may not know that Peart is also an accomplished author of books, five in total, and poster of many fascinating prose on his personal website at http://neilpeart.com/

 

 This is a heads-up for his book 'Ghost Rider', which is a really great read. Peart lost his daughter tragically some years ago and a few short months later, his wife too. He dealt with his loss by hopping aboard his BMW touring motorcycle and taking off on an epic journey, starting from his home in Quebec, down the American West and through to Mexico and eventually, some 55,000 miles later, back to Quebec.

It is a beautifully written and very moving account of a man dealing with loss and coming to terms with the prospect of a new life devoid of the two things he loved most in the world.

He talks about his relationship with the other band members and how they helped him deal with his loss and how eventually, some 5 or so years later, he returned to the studio.

 

It really is a good read and highly recommended for anyone with a love of 'the great outdoors' and a love of life and of course, motorcycles.

 

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All Rush fans will already know that drummer Neil Peart is the band's primary lyricist and has produced many remarkable 'words' to accompany the music of Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. Those on the periphery may not know that Peart is also an accomplished author of books, five in total, and poster of many fascinating prose on his personal website at http://neilpeart.com/

 

 This is a heads-up for his book 'Ghost Rider', which is a really great read. Peart lost his daughter tragically some years ago and a few short months later, his wife too. He dealt with his loss by hopping aboard his BMW touring motorcycle and taking off on an epic journey, starting from his home in Quebec, down the American West and through to Mexico and eventually, some 55,000 miles later, back to Quebec.

It is a beautifully written and very moving account of a man dealing with loss and coming to terms with the prospect of a new life devoid of the two things he loved most in the world.

He talks about his relationship with the other band members and how they helped him deal with his loss and how eventually, some 5 or so years later, he returned to the studio.

 

It really is a good read and highly recommended for anyone with a love of 'the great outdoors' and a love of life and of course, motorcycles.

 

######Book Review Over!!######

 

 

I've read it.  The circumstances behind it are tragic.  

Every parent's nightmare.  Send your daughter off out of town to her first days in college.  Say good bye.  Be careful.  Have fun, do your best.  And she never makes it to campus. 

Peart's wife took it hard.  He did everything he could to help her overcome the greif.  Closed up the family house and moved out of the country for a while.  She died of cancer nearly a year later.  Pearts swears she had just given up, that the cancer was a humane cover-up.

A short while later, he handed the keys to his home in Canada to the bands manager, hopped on his bike with no destination, and left.

Ghost Rider was the result.