MMCXII Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Don't take the thread title too seriously, it's just a funny little video of Neil.. About :31 lol http://youtube.com/watch?v=GEvDlJW0p9A 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edm2112 Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Someone at the New Orleans show had a large cutout of one of Alex's many ridiculous faces...I immediately thought someone needs to do that with that face Neil made...priceless. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Rutsey owns Peart from this moment! <<< John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Geddy is struggling like a dying man doing that vocal. Nice bass though! :smoke: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountFloyd84 Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Haha, that's awesome! Neil's face before the smile reads like, 'I could do this in my sleep!' :laughing guy: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del_Duio Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Like I said before in one of the periscope threads: Geddy: "We're gonna' play something off our debut album now!"*Neil puts away a stick.. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMCXII Posted May 28, 2015 Author Share Posted May 28, 2015 Like I said before in one of the periscope threads: Geddy: "We're gonna' play something off our debut album now!"*Neil puts away a stick.. HAHAHA!! I can picture it lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jp_page_too Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 I thought a lot about this on my way home from work yesterday. I know you said to not take it to serious and I'm not. I realize the point of the the thread was humor. But, John was very young when he made the first Rush album. He played like he was young. If he had kept at it he would have improved a lot. He was certainly not a virtuoso in 1974, but he was pretty darn good. I mean listen to the first album. His playing on Working Man and Finding My Way still stand up today. Here Again is played at a tempo that many drummers struggle with. It's hard to play a slow tempo, yet John pulled it off well. Neil is Neil. Amazing player and probably one of the top drummers in any musical genre today. Very few drummers today can play what Neil does. He deserves the accolades for what he does. But Neil has flaws just like John did. For my money sometimes Neil overplays a song. As they say... less is more. It's easy to be too busy when you have Neil's amazing ability. I think he has fallen into that trap at times. If there is one complaint I have about the most recent Rush albums is Neil is too busy on the drums. The songs, for me, need more room to breathe. While John could never have played much of the stuff that Neil did with Rush I think Neil has just as difficult a time forcing himself to play as sparsely as John did. Different styles, both great. So in the end, the point of this thread is off base, I think Neil has respect for what John played. Q: What do you a musician that can't keep time? A: A guitar player! I resemble that... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbine Freight Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Rutsey owns Peart from this moment! <<< John And how! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Like I said before in one of the periscope threads: Geddy: "We're gonna' play something off our debut album now!"*Neil puts away a stick..http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/KublaKhan/40oz_laugh_in_tub.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaminbenb Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 I thought a lot about this on my way home from work yesterday. I know you said to not take it to serious and I'm not. I realize the point of the the thread was humor. But, John was very young when he made the first Rush album. He played like he was young. If he had kept at it he would have improved a lot. He was certainly not a virtuoso in 1974, but he was pretty darn good. I mean listen to the first album. His playing on Working Man and Finding My Way still stand up today. Here Again is played at a tempo that many drummers struggle with. It's hard to play a slow tempo, yet John pulled it off well. Neil is Neil. Amazing player and probably one of the top drummers in any musical genre today. Very few drummers today can play what Neil does. He deserves the accolades for what he does. But Neil has flaws just like John did. For my money sometimes Neil overplays a song. As they say... less is more. It's easy to be too busy when you have Neil's amazing ability. I think he has fallen into that trap at times. If there is one complaint I have about the most recent Rush albums is Neil is too busy on the drums. The songs, for me, need more room to breathe. While John could never have played much of the stuff that Neil did with Rush I think Neil has just as difficult a time forcing himself to play as sparsely as John did. Different styles, both great. So in the end, the point of this thread is off base, I think Neil has respect for what John played. Q: What do you a musician that can't keep time? A: A guitar player! I resemble that... If you really dig into Neil's playing early on, it had problems...he overplayed a LOT live..and if you really dig into some of the bootlegs that exist, you can find fault at times.... Rutsey played what he needed on the first album..Neil picked up where he left off, and did some embellishments to his stuff, then started taking it to a different level. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddy Lee Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 #derpface :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weakly Criminal Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Neil overplayed early on, and later and freaking forever. He just got much better at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedRush Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 I assume that Alex is making his funny faces and trying to make Neil laugh, as he often does. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill1971 Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Yeah I agree about Alex making funny faces I don't think it's Neil ' s style to make fun of another drummer, much less one that was friends with Geddy and Alex AND one that passed away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78jazz Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Bill and Jamin nail it. I agree that Neil did tend to overplay some of that debut album stuff earlier on (I think the ATWAS version of What You're Doing has this happening). I'd be surprised if Neil didn't think John Rutsey was a good drummer for that material. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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