gaijin97

"He doesn't have to do that, but why doesn't he ever do interviews or anything PR for the band...." In some ways, I think Neil does more PR for the band than the other guys...he regularly posts to his blog...he's revealed some of his innermost feelings about other people, his work, the music (and thus himself) in his books. He just chooses to do it in a different way than most people...but that's also how he plays drums, composes lyrics and, most likely, lives his life. Not better, or worse...just different.

IMO...great lyrics in music always leave room for many interpretations. From what I have read so far, Neil's latest will do likewise....

I used to put that side of CoS on and fall asleep to it...then I would wake up hoping for overcast days. ;-)

QUOTE (Wandering Hermit @ May 15 2006, 03:04 PM) QUOTE (telegraphcreeklocal @ May 15 2006, 12:12 PM) QUOTE (SalmonRushGuy @ May 15 2006, 12:29 AM) I love all of Test for Echo. Neil's "Work In Progress" DVD which features Neil discussing his drum parts on the entire album (including "Dog Years") make it a little more special to me. Exactly, man. A Work In Progress shows what Peart was working on for a year and a half, to see and hear the drum parts by it self should enlighten anyone how great Test For Echo is. When Peart starts up he is the best rock drummer in the whole world. Does he hit harder than anyone? Hell yes. I'm not a drummer and I never saw that DVD, so maybe I am a complete idiot on the subject, but the drumming on TFE is, to me, totally unremarkable, by NEP standards. As opposed to, say, MP, Signals, GUP and PoW, which all amaze me in terms of the drumming every time I listen to them. What am I missing? Seriously, name a drumming high point of T4E, which song, where in the song, and I will try to listen again with fresh ears. I would say that one remarkable aspect of the drumming on TFE is that NP recorded it with a fundamentally different style than what he had used for the prior 20+ years (re: the Freddy Gruber influence). While it may not be so noticeable to me as a listener, as a drummer I think it's pretty impressive.