Peart was influenced by Stewart Copeland, The Police

[Jack Pozzi]

During the Permanent Waves sessions.

If anyone does not know that fact already, this should end any other discussion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdQ5qBFZVDY

It is a great documentary made in 2010. Rush "Beyond The Lighted Stage"

[alex]

Ok, that was kinda awesome. I'm looking at Rush in a new light now, and thanks for that. It's just that in Canada, my god, they act like Rush was almost as good as The Police. You can't guess how much I have to hear them on the radio, but live, they kinda rock. If anyone tells AZPEARTPORTNEY that, I'm soooo gone

[secretjourneyranch]

There shouldn't be any argument here at all.
Neil Peart is one of those drummers who is influenced by everything around him.
A passing bus has rhythm to him. The way a train goes by. Even the footsteps inside a parking garage.

Listen to New World Man or Chemistry....or all of the 1982 Signals LP and you will here fragments of Stewart's ideas.

The diffeence in my opinion....

Neil is perfection on a drum kit. The timing is absolutely flawless. He is a human quantizer.
Stewart is different because he wasn't afraid of trying random stuff in the middle of a show that he had never played before. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it really didn't, and Sting looked back at him pissed off through the cymbals and tried to contain him. But SC would try something else on the next tune.... That is explorative rhymatism...that is also an amazing drummer.

So who's better? The battleship or the speedboat?

[zilboy]

Also, check out the outro in The Big Money. The snare fills are pure Copeland.

Rush were also on the bill at the Pink Pop Festival, which as everyone knows was a huge early gig for The Police.

They're buddies now. They oughta' be - they're the same age. On his blog, NP refers to Stewart as "My friend Stewart Copeland". He also has high praise for Strange Things Happen.

[plutonic]

There shouldn't be any argument here at all.
Neil Peart is one of those drummers who is influenced by everything around him.
A passing bus has rhythm to him. The way a train goes by. Even the footsteps inside a parking garage.

Listen to New World Man or Chemistry....or all of the 1982 Signals LP and you will here fragments of Stewart's ideas.

The diffeence in my opinion....

Neil is perfection on a drum kit. The timing is absolutely flawless. He is a human quantizer.
Stewart is different because he wasn't afraid of trying random stuff in the middle of a show that he had never played before. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it really didn't, and Sting looked back at him pissed off through the cymbals and tried to contain him. But SC would try something else on the next tune.... That is explorative rhymatism...that is also an amazing drummer.

So who's better? The battleship or the speedboat?

VEry nicely put. No surprise, though: I don't equate quantization with perfection.

[sockii]

There shouldn't be any argument here at all.
Neil Peart is one of those drummers who is influenced by everything around him.
A passing bus has rhythm to him. The way a train goes by. Even the footsteps inside a parking garage.

Listen to New World Man or Chemistry....or all of the 1982 Signals LP and you will here fragments of Stewart's ideas.

The diffeence in my opinion....

Neil is perfection on a drum kit. The timing is absolutely flawless. He is a human quantizer.
Stewart is different because he wasn't afraid of trying random stuff in the middle of a show that he had never played before. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it really didn't, and Sting looked back at him pissed off through the cymbals and tried to contain him. But SC would try something else on the next tune.... That is explorative rhymatism...that is also an amazing drummer.

So who's better? The battleship or the speedboat?

VEry nicely put. No surprise, though: I don't equate quantization with perfection.

Amen. I love that early-mid 80s Rush stuff, but even when I was first listening to it (hello, "New World Man" for serious) there was no denying the Copeland/Police vibe going on there. That's why I friggin' started listening to Rush in the first place!

[zilboy]

Too bad Some of Stewart's amazing swing feel didn't rub off on Neil