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Jan 7, 2023 · Learn about the different drum sets Neil Peart used on Rush's albums and tours, from his first red sparkle Stewarts to his last Drum Workshop Custom kits. See photos, details and sources of each kit and its history.
Mar 24, 2018 · Here you'll find all the drum kits Neil has played throughout his career. Where possible, I've included tour book introductions and other comments by Neil about the drum kit. Learn more about the drummers who influenced Neil Peart. Click on the left or right image to go to that drum kit's page.
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Historically speaking, Rush’s drummer and lyricist is arguably the single best combination of rudimentary precision, mathematical meters, and Keith Moon’s ferocious bombast. Don’t confuse him with lighter-handed progressive peers: The man is rocker at heart. Take it from someone who has watched him rehearse — to paraphrase Keith Olbermann: He hits ...
For his 13th birthday, St. Catharines—native Neil Peart didn’t get a drum set. No, no. “I got a pair of sticks, a practice pad, and lessons,” he remembers, adding that his parents told him, “’Once you show that you’re going to stick with it for a year, then we’ll get drums.’ Fair enough. I’d do the same thing.” Of course, the lad voraciously ate up...
Better known as Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, the two jammed with young Peart and offered him the drum throne — Rush’s self-titled debut album had been nabbed by Mercury, and an American tour was beckoning. Armed with a record-label advance, the excited drummer headed to a Toronto music store. It was there he bought his first touring kit, chrome-fini...
As the ’70s rolled on, the band took lengthier trips into the multi-instrumental arena, which were captured on 1976’s 2112, A Farewell To Kings, and Hemispheres. It was around this period that Peart started incorporating an array of percussion instruments (temple blocks, tubular bells, brass timbales, wind chimes, bell tree, triangles, and glockens...
What is considered by many to be Rush’s true breakthrough period came in the early ’80s withPermanent Waves and Moving Pictures. It was here that we saw his preferred drum brand change from Slingerland to Tama (Superstars, done to the same previous specs, and “Vibrafibed”), though Peart remained a staunch Zildjian cymbal man. “I recall that Slinger...
An even more dramatic shift occurred for 1983’s Grace Under Pressure. Most of the percussion was retired in favor of an electronic drum set that included four red Simmons pads using a Simmons SDS-Vdrum module for sound generation, a Simmons Clap Trap, Shark trigger pedals, an 18″ x 14″ Tama bass drum, a 14″ x 5.5″ Slingerland snare, and a host of Z...
The tour to support 1987’s Hold Your Firesaw another changing of the guard, kit wise. Sparing no expense, Peart lined up several different drum sets side by side and test-drove them all. Eventually he chose a Ludwig Super Classic set finished in an opalescent white, with some sparkles “and just a little pink mixed in.” The company made some concert...
Peart stayed with Ludwig for Roll The Bones(1991), with a new kit that featured a blue stain finish. Logistically, there were a few left turns: the two 24″ kick drums turned into one 22″ x 16″ with a double pedal, and the 18″ floor tom was moved to the left side of the setup, which effectively made the 15″ tom the right floor tom. “In the ceaseless...
This technical evolution caused an equipment evolution as well. To accommodate for all of the “adjustments,” drum sizes reported in at 8″ x 7″, 10″ x 7″, 12″ x 8″, and 13″ x 9″ for the toms, 15″ x 12″, 16″ x 16″, and 15″ x 13″ (on left) for floor toms, and an 18″ x 16″ floor tom suspended over and behind the 16″ x 16″. Peart stresses, “It took more...
Learn about the history and evolution of Neil Peart's drums and cymbals, from his first set of Slingerlands to his current setup of DW drums and Zildjian cymbals. Discover how he developed his style and sound with different drum kits and how he uses them for live and studio performances.
Jan 10, 2020 · Originally published on Nov. 13, 2014. "Set up any old thing," says Rush drummer Neil Peart when asked about the significance of his famously grandiose drum set, which, although he's lost...
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Throughout his career, Peart has endorsed up to four drum companies including Drum Workshop, Tama, Ludwig and Slingerland. Drums. Peart was known for using large drum kits for his creative and technical work as well as his masterful and lengthy drum solos.
Feb 27, 2020 · Drum Workshop Collectors Series in Steampunk finish: 23-inch bass drum (VLX shell series); 8-inch, 10-inch, 12-inch and 13-inch rack toms (X-shell series); 15-inch (x2), 16 and 18-inch floor toms (VLT shell series); 14x6½-inch VLT series snare; 13-inch X-shell series piccolo snare. Neil’s long-time drum tech Lorne Wheaton gives us the lowdown:
