djb

So, I remember watching J. D. Roberts in Canada on the New Music Music show, I knew he was a music fan, but then he went corporate for CBS in the US and A.....

 

He described his time there as being duct taped....

 

and here he is on CNN loose again.... interviewing rush...

 

 

and he is a fan....here he is playing Limelight!

 

 

I recently got interested in odd time signatures, I wonder why?

 

Does anyone have list of Rush songs and the time signatures they are in? For example (I'm just making this up)

 

Freewill: 7/8, 4/4, 7/8

etc.

 

Listening to the CBC this morning and the host, Tom Allen, spoke of a scotch auction where the most expensive bottle of scotch ever sold was sold "to a private collector in southern california".

 

A bottle of Macallan distilled in the 1920s and bottled in the 1970s.

 

It went for a pretty penny too....

 

Did NP treat himself?

 

 

what are those blackish restored slingerland drums with the starman on them?

the Tamas were restored. see it in all their glory here...

 

http://broonsbane.tripod.com/rushneil.htm

 

 

http://broonsbane.tripod.com/closfo2.gif

 

 

dunno, looks like a rail mount on the left hand side BD tom. It looks legit to me, but the MD articles and letter would seal the deal...

 

 

I dunno, I have studied this image and it looks legit...

 

full size image here:

 

http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/wallpaper/AWScov.jpg

 

 

http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/wallpaper/AWScov.jpg

The photocopy of the letter from NP would be good to see. Can you scan and post as well as the supporting MD contest and articles?

Looks legit to me. Although the bass heads have probaly been replaced and a while back with non-originals.

 

Slingerland kit, right sizes and colours and era. See here:

 

http://andrewolson.com/Neil_Peart/neil_images/1975kit.JPG

 

 

Ok all you afficianados out there...how about the provenance on these babies?

 

From my drummer's perspective, they look legit. at least ear-correct.

 

To main drag the OP - any documents to support the claim these are original?

 

I would think maybe NP would even want these himself. I would love to have one of my old kits back. Then again, he sold the red weapon kit....

good ones on here!

 

I like the Jedi, Jesus and Double Necks one especially!

 

why is Neil's bike mic'd?

 

hilarious!

 

I wonder what all those pictures are on the wall to the right of the staircase.

 

also I see some guitars flanking the fireplace!

I read it a few months ago. I didn't find it too depressing, more like, relieving that I made it through my teens and twenties. I would reccomend it for sure. Also an interesting glimpse into life in the 60s.