Neil Peart way out of his element

[Flint]

This is what happens when you put a great drummer in front of a band playing completely out their element. Peart is great, but he doesn't have the native big-bang sensibilities needed to really pull off playing with the Buddy Rich orchestra. And I am not dissing him, very few can pull off being great rock/prog drummers and kill it with big band - I think Steve Smith (famous from Journey) and Omar Hakim are about the only two who really do it well.

Neil's solo is good, but it could be right from a Rush concert.

 

[Haywood]

The Burnin' for Buddy tribute discs are great. I have both of them.

 

[Randy]

Not sure what you saw that I didn't, and I of course am not a drummer but it seems like he did ok to me.

The tom to cowbell bit (has kind of an island sound to it I think ) is one of Neil's signature pieces.

Oh, and Steve Smith is a beast. I remember seeing the video for Separate Ways and he did the one handed roll between two toms and when I was at school talking to my buddies about it they all said it couldn't be true. After they saw it all the drummer dudes were on the Steve Smith bandwagon.

 

[Flint]

Peart was lame on the big band stuff, he didn't "setup" any of the big "punches" at all, and tended to be struggling to even remember the "punches" at all.

 

[Randy]

Well, theres the difference between a trained drummer and me. LOL

 

[mcad64]

He's no Ginger Baker...haha!! But then, according to Ginger..nobody is!!

 

[Yesfan70]

I love Peart but he kinda loses me on that. Flint, I'd add Max Weinberg to that short list. I think he's another that could do it well. MW7 album I have is pretty good.

 

[Flint]

I agree, Max was a great swing jazz drummer to start with and did exactly what was needed for Springsteen.