Neil Peart -- The Latest News

The results for the Modern Drummer 2015 Readers Poll are in, and Neil Peart took the top spot for Recorded Performance (Video) category:

1. Neil Peart, Clockwork Angels Tour (Rush)
2. Mike Mangini: Live at Luna Park (Dream Theater)
3. Simon Phillips: Live in Poland: 35th Anniversary Tour (Toto)
4. Zakir Hussain with Steve Smith, Eric Harland and Giovanni Hidalgo, The SFJazz Sessions (Zakir Hussain)
5. Brann Dailor, Live at Brixton (Mastodon)

For those who are counting, Neil has now won Best Recorded Performance 15 times! Here's the full list:

1981: Moving Pictures
1982: Exit... Stage Left
1983: Signals
1985: Grace Under Pressure
1986: Power Windows
1988: Hold Your Fire
1989: A Show of Hands
1990: Presto
1992: Roll The Bones
1993: Counterparts
1997: Test for Echo
1999: Different Stages
2005: R30
2007: Snakes & Arrows
2015: Clockwork Angels Tour (Video)

In recent years, Peart has won additional awards, including:

• Modern Drummer Reader's Poll 2014: #1 Educational Book - Taking Center Stage by Joe Bergamini and Neil Peart

• Modern Drummer Reader's Poll 2013: MVP, Best Prog Drummer

• Modern Drummer Reader's Poll 2012: Best Prog Drummer

• Modern Drummer Reader's Poll 2012: Best Educational Video - Taking Center Stage

Congratulations to all the winners!

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The Modern Drummer Reader's Poll results are included in the July 2013 issue, and Neil Peart has won both MVP and Prog categories.

Here are the results:

MVP:

1. Neil Peart
2. Travis Barker
3. Gavin Harrison
4. Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

Prog:

1. Neil Peart
2. Gavin Harrison
3. Mike Mangini
4. Todd Sucherman

Here's some info from the article:

This is Peart's first win in the relatively new MVP category; past winners were Max Weinberg in 2010, Mike Portnoy in 2011, and Mike Mangini in 2012. It's also Neil's third year in a row taking top honors in the Prog category.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Thanks to Rushisband.com for the head's up!

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Neil Peart has won two Modern Drummer 2012 Reader's Poll Awards for:

• Best Prog Drummer
• Best Educational DVD - Taking Center Stage

The full results are available in the July 2012 Modern Drummer, available on newsstands now.

Congrats to Neil and all the other winners!

Thanks to Rushisaband for the head's up!

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Modern Drummer has posted more of their interview with Neil Peart online. Here's the intro:

In Modern Drummer's December 2011 cover story, out now, Rush's Neil Peart discusses a particularly productive period in his and the band's long career. Peart's new DVD, Taking Center Stage: A Lifetime of Live Performance, has recently been released, hot on the heels of the eighty-one-show 2010-11 Time Machine tour, which the video documents in lush detail from Neil's perspective at the throne. A particularly noteworthy aspect of Rush's latest worldwide trek is that all three band members--Peart, bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee, and guitarist Alex Lifeson--made a conscious decision to improvise more on stage, which, as Neil says in MD, will almost certainly trickle down to the studio tracking of the upcoming Clockwork Angels album.

Neil Peart: Taking Center Stage

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Neil will be featured in the MD December 2011 issue.

MD December 2011 Information

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I've added a new section to my website about Neil Peart's Modern Drummer Ask a Pro columns.

Go to the Ask a Pro section of my site to see these columns.

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Even though it's not official yet, I've confirmed from bigdrumthump.com and Alfred.com that Neil Peart has won two 2008 Modern Drummer Reader's Poll awards. It appears bigdrumthump got this from Sonor.com, who has since taken down their posting.

The full results will appear in Modern Drummer's July 2008 issue, which hits newstands on May 30. Congrats, Neil, and all the other drummers!

The 2008 awards include:

ROCK DRUMMER
1. NEIL PEART
2. Chad Smith
3. Stewart Copeland
4. Alex Van Halen
5. Jason Bonham

RECORDED PERFORMANCE
1. NEIL PEART (Rush): Snakes & Arrows
2. Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree): Fear Of A Blank Planet
3. Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater): Systematic Chaos
4. Jack DeJohnette (Michael Brecker): Pilgrimage
5. Roy Haynes: A Life In Times

He also came in fifth in the Progressive Rock category:

PROG
1. GAVIN HARRISON
2. Virgil Donati
3. Mike Portnoy
4. Danny Carey
5. Neil Peart

For those who are counting, this gives Neil 14 awards in the "Best Recorded Performance" category and 8 awards in the "Best Rock Drummer" category. As most of us have seen, Neil doesn't take these awards for granted (read the October 2006 letter from Neil on this page).

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