Neil Peart News
by AndyO
Neil has an updated blog post called Eastern Resurrection. Lots of great stories in this one, including:
Labels: neilpeart.net, News updates, written by NEP
Drum Channel sent this out in their most recent newsletter.
You Will Not Believe This!
It is true, in the next few weeks we will tell you how to purchase the original master recordings of RUSH-2112 and how you can listen to Neil�s drum track only, the band with Neil or the band only, and record yourself on drums with Geddy and Alex. You have to be a Newsletter subscriber to get access, so tell your friends to join the DC Newsletter. More about this coming soon!
For a while, I've thought this would be a really interesting thing to have for all Rush albums. It's too bad they didn't add this to the latest release of Moving Pictures.
Thanks to Rushisaband for the head's up.
As part of the release of Neil Peart's new book, Far and Away: A Prize Every Time, Rush Backstage Club offered a signed, limited edition hardcover that sold out in one day.
I ended up buying one of these (I was 408 out of 500) and thought others might like to see what the Limited Edition (called the "Deluxe Edition" on the bookplate) looks like.
Description (from Rush Backstage Club):
This limited edition version of "Far and Away" has its own charcoal grey cloth slipcase adorned with a copper stamping of Neil's drumhead logo. Inside the book there will be a special edition bookplate that is hand-numbered and signed by Neil himself! Note that only 500 copies of the limited edition hardcover will be manufactured and this item is exclusive to the Rush Backstage Club (meaning, the only place you can get it is here!).
Cloth slipcase with NP drumhead logo and book
Bookplate with Neil Peart signature
Close up of Neil Peart signature on bookplate
Sample pages
Back cover
You can buy the regular hardcover here.
Labels: Far and Away
Show 13 of the "Time Machine 2011 Tour." This is the last stop in North America until June 8, 2011.
Next up: Europe, starting on May 4.
Photo by John Arrowsmith.
Labels: photo of the night, pictures, Time Machine tour 2011
So many great photos from the Montreal show by John Arrowsmith, I couldn't pick just one!
Labels: photo of the night, Time Machine tour 2011
Labels: interview
As I suspected, Neil is back to headphones after the DVD filming in Cleveland.
Great shot from the front of the kit:
Photo by John Arrowsmith.
Labels: photo of the night, Time Machine tour 2011
Labels: Drum Workshop, drums, videos
In this interview, Neil discusses his new book, Far and Away.
To his own drum: Rush's Neil Peart explores the world's back roads in Far and Away
In case you're wondering, there are a bunch of inaccuracies in the article (as well as a typo).
"Everything's been custom-made," he says, tracing his fingers over African drums, Indian drums, valves and electronic pads. "I was a part of the whole concept process. ... I went over 200 different samples [before] choosing these ones for my solo."
It sounds like the interviewer mixed up what Neil was saying about auditioning samples with the actual drums.
Thanks to Rushisaband for the head's up!
Labels: Far and Away, interview
Rush filmed this concert for an upcoming DVD (directed by Banger Films, producers of Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage) in the city where it all began for them.
First, here are some photos by John Arrowsmith -- one from behind Neil, and one from the back of the hall. I'd say this show was sold out.
Next, I got some great photos from Pete Roche at www.theclevelandsound.com of Neil. (Notice that Neil is wearing in-ear monitors for this performance.)
Update - 4/18 - See the rest of the photos and the review here:
RUSH live at Quicken Loans Arena 4/15/11
Finally, before the show Rush fans gathered at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to protest Rush's exclusion there. Ed at Rushisband.com shared this great photo via the Canadian Music Scene.
Labels: Banger Films, photo of the night, pictures, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Time Machine DVD, Time Machine tour 2011
Labels: audio interview
Labels: Time Machine tour 2011, videos
Great shot from the back of the concert hall:
Photo by John Arrowsmith
Labels: photo of the night, pictures, Time Machine tour 2011
Jim Ladd of KLOS interviewed Neil Peart on March 15 about the Moving Pictures reissue. Power Windows is reporting that the interview will air on Thursday, April 7, at 10:00 p.m PST.
Thanks to Power Windows for the head's up!
Labels: interview, Moving Pictures reissue
Moving Pictures Deluxe Editions IN STORES TODAY!
(2 disc CD+ Blu Ray or CD+DVD)
Reminder for US fans, BluRay exclusively at Best Buy for first 4 weeks of release!
Neil Peart's fifth book, Far and Away: A Prize Every Time, is now available on Amazon, published by ECW press.
Far and Away: A Prize Every Time
Here's some information about the book from Neil Peart's News, Weather, and Sports February, 2011, entry "Talking Drums in Death Valley":
...Another big project was filling my days--a new book. I have long wanted the stories I write for this department to be "dignified" and made permanent by appearing in print, and at last I made it happen.
Typically, it turned out to be a much bigger job than I anticipated, but--everything does, if you aim high enough. Once I had found a publisher and stipulated that the book had to be in print before the tour's continuation in late March, they gave me a list of requirements:
I needed a title and subtitle, which would help direct the design of a cover, which I would develop with Hugh Syme, as usual. I would have to write a new introduction and afterword, supervise various copy elements for the jacket and flaps, choose photographs for them, find all the text and photograph files for each of the twenty-two stories, then read over the copyedited text, the typeset text, and finally the corrected text. All in all, it was a solid two months of work, but I was delighted to see it truly coming together--a collection of stories that had been written and published independently now took on a unity, a single narrative span, that covered almost four years of my life. At first I had been daunted by having to write the "Intro" and "Outro," but they proved to be the keystones in framing the twenty-two individual stories, to make it feel like one.
Labels: books, Far and Away
I saw a few other photo galleries on Facebook from the Saturday, March 2, Rush show in Greensboro, NC:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=302270&id=610763947&l=0846360186
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=644765&id=825495611 (via Rushisband.com)
If you have any photo galleries you'd like to share, please send me mail: ac_olson@hotmail.com
Thanks to Ron and Bo for taking these photos and sharing!
Labels: pictures, Time Machine tour 2011
