Neil Peart
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Neil Peart was the drummer of the US-Canadian rock band Rush.
Bio[edit | edit source]
Initially signed up for piano lessons, Neil voiced his actual musical aspiration by using a pair of drumsticks to drum on various household objects until his frustrated parents gifted him an actual drum set. Following a fruitless attempt to kickstart his career in London, he moved back to Canada to run with a band called Hush (no, really) until a mutual friend informed him another band called Rush needed a drummer.
He and Rush went on to develop a healthy work relationship, and they spent some forty years trying to figure out which goddamn genre they actually wanted to play in. Peart himself is often considered one of the greatest drummers in history; pursuing his craft with such stoic routine that the rest of the band would put random objects on the stage just to get an actual reaction out of him. This worked once.
Aside from work on the drums (and various other instruments handled via percussive maintenance), Peart also was a gifted writer. He donned much of the band's lyrics, and also released a travel memoir based on the lengthy bike tour from Canada to Belize he took after losing both his daughter and his wife in 1997. Sadly, Neil himself passed from glioblastoma on January 7th, 2020.
In 8chanmania[edit | edit source]
Peart (along with the equally dead Keith Flint and Elvis Presley) served as the backup band/cheerleader squad for Buddy Holly during the post-mortem 8chanmania LXXXI. He hoped Buddy would win the tournament so their shared legacy would always be remembered, but though Buddy was defeated by Scatman John, the latter readily pointed out people were not going to forget either of them anytime soon.
