Charlotte7598 Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnRogers Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Nah, I'm pretty much over it. Don't get me wrong, still sucks but I don't feel anything anymore. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte7598 Posted December 20, 2021 Author Share Posted December 20, 2021 Yeah that's pretty much how I am about it now too. Nah, I'm pretty much over it. Don't get me wrong, still sucks but I don't feel anything anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chemistry1973 Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Still sorta hurts for me. Kinda feel like Covid has put things in a suspended state. Was hoping we’d have a tribute performance or something to properly honor the man. I’m also very surprised that NP didn’t directly comment on his condition - no writings or dispatches of any kind. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte7598 Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 I'm with chem. Covid has kinda suspended reality for me. I mean there are things that happened in the couple of years leading up to the pandemic that I can barely place on a timeline outside of "pre-Covid." I'm not sure I registered how long it had been since Neil passed until EVH passed away... and heck that was over a year ago now too! A proper tribute concert would've been grand, but I have a funny feeling Neil might have liked it better this way, the world just moving on without him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 I'll take an occasional pause, give the occasional "sigh" and then get back to what I was doing. I do the same when I think about Carl Sagan and a few other people who have greatly inspired me. :) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78jazz Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 I’m also very surprised that NP didn’t directly comment on his condition - no writings or dispatches of any kind. I think if I were a known musician as he was, I would have handled it the way he did. I have quite a bit of respect for his friends sitting on it until after he was gone. It is truly a great thing to know that people out there will do that for you if asked. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fridge Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 (edited) I'll take an occasional pause, give the occasional "sigh" and then get back to what I was doing. I do the same when I think about Carl Sagan and a few other people who have greatly inspired me. :) This Edited December 21, 2021 by Fridge 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driventotheedge Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 There's a guy that has a "RIP Neil Peart" and the years he lived in what must be permanent white stuff (considering how much it rains here) on his rear window that I see around town. (I'll try to get a picture one of these days). It always tends to re-hit me if you will when I see his car. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrinx Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 I have a few items signed by Neil in my basement and a little of his gear in my office, so I think about him often, but like it was mentioned above it is more of a sigh now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte7598 Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 Super jealous you have signed items, that's awesome! I have a few items signed by Neil in my basement and a little of his gear in my office, so I think about him often, but like it was mentioned above it is more of a sigh now. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurabw Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 it still makes me sad. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chemistry1973 Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 I’m also very surprised that NP didn’t directly comment on his condition - no writings or dispatches of any kind. I think if I were a known musician as he was, I would have handled it the way he did. I have quite a bit of respect for his friends sitting on it until after he was gone. It is truly a great thing to know that people out there will do that for you if asked. But he was also a writer and someone who explored the idea of death many times. This guy wrote Time Stand Still and the Garden. His perspective would be an important one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78jazz Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 His perspective would be an important one. Sure, but the desire to share it has to exist. I doubt it did. I can see where the hesitancy to share that comes from. I would not share that either. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pound of Obscure Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 My lifelong drumming hero. Now one of too many reminders that life is fleeting. As more people and things from my youth leave us or end, thoughts of my own mortality, I find, are more common. We are the next old people. How did that happen? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 We are the next old people. How did that happen? Aren't you beginning to feel time gaining on you? It's like a predator. It's stalking you. Oh, you can try and outrun it with doctors, medicines, new technologies, but in the end, time is going to hunt you down and make the kill. -- Tolian Soran (Star Trek: Generations) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte7598 Posted December 22, 2021 Author Share Posted December 22, 2021 I think about it a lot. I'm very young so I didn't have the opportunities that older people on here had to see Rush many times, or even meet them in some of your lucky cases. I still think about the passage of time though and how Neil's death impacted me. My lifelong drumming hero. Now one of too many reminders that life is fleeting. As more people and things from my youth leave us or end, thoughts of my own mortality, I find, are more common. We are the next old people. How did that happen? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte7598 Posted December 22, 2021 Author Share Posted December 22, 2021 I think about it a lot. I'm very young so I didn't have the opportunities that older people on here had to see Rush many times, or even meet them in some of your lucky cases. I still think about the passage of time though and how Neil's death impacted me. My lifelong drumming hero. Now one of too many reminders that life is fleeting. As more people and things from my youth leave us or end, thoughts of my own mortality, I find, are more common. We are the next old people. How did that happen? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YYZ Working Man Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 at least he didn't experience the mask.. GOAT.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHHEAD666 Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 Neil is my lifelong drumming mentor too. Well since 1980 when I was 12. Life goes on, but I will always have a bit of sadness in my heart, my mind, and my soul from his premature passing. Yet happiness remains knowing I can play his drum parts to the immense intense Rush Catalog! GOAT FOREVER GreatestOf All Time FreewillObviouslyRemainsEternalVeryEverlastingRUSH 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyta Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 I think about it a lot. I'm very young so I didn't have the opportunities that older people on here had to see Rush many times, or even meet them in some of your lucky cases. I still think about the passage of time though and how Neil's death impacted me. My lifelong drumming hero. Now one of too many reminders that life is fleeting. As more people and things from my youth leave us or end, thoughts of my own mortality, I find, are more common. We are the next old people. How did that happen? Neil's passing is the second death of a music icon that I loved in my life. I still remember how much I grieved when John Lennon was murdered, it was like part of my childhood died. I became a Rush fan late in their career so I don't have as many experiences as some here do. Yet I was able to see them in concert 3 times and I never did see the Beatles :(I think I have processed Neil's passing but then there are times when I am listening to a song or watching a YT video and it gets me that he is gone...it still can make me cry. It just seems surreal that it has been almost 2 years. Crazy times we are living in have been like a time warp. Curious that Neil left us right before the world turned upside down. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefox4000 Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 with my father getting very sick and dying i have not thought f it at all. with all these musicians dying it's sad yes. but i don't know any of them beyond i like their music. so the deaths heal quicker. not too sound cold but yea. Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytserush Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 I'll take an occasional pause, give the occasional "sigh" and then get back to what I was doing. I do the same when I think about Carl Sagan and a few other people who have greatly inspired me. :) That's where I am with this. But I'm somewhere between regular and occasional. Keith Emerson still affects me and I was thinking about Stuart Adamson the other day. That was 20 years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytserush Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 I’m also very surprised that NP didn’t directly comment on his condition - no writings or dispatches of any kind. I think if I were a known musician as he was, I would have handled it the way he did. I have quite a bit of respect for his friends sitting on it until after he was gone. It is truly a great thing to know that people out there will do that for you if asked. But he was also a writer and someone who explored the idea of death many times. This guy wrote Time Stand Still and the Garden. His perspective would be an important one. It's possible he did and it hasn't been released yet or won't ever be. Ultimately his family would abide by his wishes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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