Pound of Obscure

Her kick work seems a bit busier than Neil's, which I like in this case. Here's Peart's track, isolated. http://youtu.be/S-BEhgwVOvY Incredible. Nobody should smile playing Tom Sawyer. Neil always made it look harder.

My favorite on the album which is saying a lot with La Villa sitting there.

Nice one.

Modern Drummer next month will be tribute to Neil addition.

Who?

Its off air as of this am. :(

Really amazing seeing him play in that environment and hearing the drums like that. Got a bit of that from the front row once but the magnitude and force of how he plays still gets lost a bit with all the music and sound. The power he plays with is stunning. I kind of knew that from dissecting every note of every album and 17 concerts and everything else, but displayed like that really is, I don't know. Looking for an elusive word. Looking at his fairly skinny arms, I don't care how much is technique, he shouldn't be able to hit that hard with that kind of speed. I've played for 40 years, I know a few things. Neil was just a freak of nature.

Its not?

Looks like my XM Select package gets 717. Does SiriusXM know when a radio is playing a specific station, like real time listener ratings? I assume they do, and assumed that was the reason they extended the tribute channel (twice) and decided to create a dedicated channel. I discovered there is a Tragically Hip channel so now I don't feel so special... Goodbye 90’s on Nine preset button, hello 717. Isn't 717 only an online station?

717? They have that many channels?

I think I've worked all the way back to denial again. This just can't be real.

I clicked to sign but nothing happened?

MD has announced on their site that there will be a Neil tribute edition.

Agreed, and a positive is to donate to cancer research. I couldn't afford much but felt better for doing it in Neil's memory. Unfortunately, after spending thousands of hours researching cancer and communicating with leading cancer researchers around the world (including currently), I came to the conclusion that there's plenty of funding for cancer research, and the problem is that the money is often not well spent in terms making a real difference in preventing or treating cancer. If donating to cancer research, my suggestion would be to be very selective in making those donations. Money is rarely the rate limiting step in research. No amount of money makes a researcher smarter.

That song ROCKS. Never understood its status among others like Tia Shan.

Over 2,000 people have signed. Have you? Yep

That's a good one.

So this has 30 minutes left and I know there will be nothing in it I haven't heard a million and 8 times. Still can't turn it off.

The David Fricke guy doing the 2 hour special right now says Purt. And he claims to have known Neil. And he is also playing Led Zep and Summertime Blues.

This one for sure.

Yep, listened all yesterday in the car. Tia Shan, seriously. Talk about a deep track. Oddly, all day, I never heard a song past Presto. There is a 2 hour special on that station at 7 eastern today.

They guy taught me to play drums. Gave me so much and I never met him. Three strangers, so much a part of my life. Its very odd really, but very real. Hard to know for me how much this is effecting me. I recently lost my mom unexpectedly and my emotions are still pretty raw. But this loss feels very personal. Another cloudy day.

Another cloudy day. :(

Damn man, me too.

Holy Crap. Devastated. How did they keep that quiet?