First Time Reaction | Neil Peart Drum Solo LIVE Frankfurt | Reaction 

Neil was around 52 at this time. Keep in mind this was part of a 3 hour show - he was unbelievably dedicated to his craft. I miss him.

R.I.P. Neal Peart.. The professor.. the master.. the inspiration! He passed away from brain cancer January 7th, 2020.. a worldwide spiritual loss!

The Professor - The life pain and then the physical pain that man went through still brings a tear to my eye. Rest In Peace Neil Peart

He's the Greatest!!!!!!!!!

A drummer uses a metronome; a metronome uses Neil Peart.

Neil once said performing a Rush show was like running a marathon while doing advanced calculus in your head at the same time. He was truly legendary and one of a kind.

Sit down with 2112- that’s definitely life changing ❤

One of the greatest to ever pick up a pair of drumsticks. This WAS Frankfurt, Germany. Thanks for your reaction.

He had the flu when he recorded this and was somehow disappointed by this performance. he was not a simple drummer, he was a master percussionist.

I wish I could hit "Like" twice. That look of astonishment on your face about 10 minutes in is priceless.

This has been said so many times, by so many different people. Your favorite drummer's favorite drummer is Neil Peart. Rock In Peace Neil "The professor" Peart 🤘

On the black and white scenes there are two shots of Buddy Rich who was a great influence on Neal. He never ever stopped learning about his craft. The times when Rush was not touring, he would take lessons from other drummers. A true virtuoso! Miss you very much, Professor!!

He is playing the trumpets, snare, tambourine and other sounds with his feet along with electronic drum pads. Here is an article circa 1991--The Drum Master---Drumming has the power to unite people, no matter how varied their language or cultural background might be. On a recent trek through Africa, Neil Peart had a singular experience that proved just that. "I was in Gambia, walking through a small village, and I heard the sound of a drum. So of course I was curious! I looked into a compound and I could hear the drumming coming from a curtained room. I walked up to a woman doing laundry in front of the room. She could see my interest in the sound, so she waved me to go in. Inside I found a young, white missionary from a nearby Catholic school. Sitting across from him was the commanding presence of the local drum master. He was attempting to show the missionary how to play any kind of beat. The missionary was trying as hard as he could, but he wasn't having a lot of success." After a time the drum master, frustrated by the missionary's lack of ability, noticed the other man who had come into the room. The master had no idea who this person was, but he thought to himself, "Why not see if he can play?" According to Peart, what happened next was fascinating. "The drum master gestured to me to try and play a rhythm. So we began playing together, and he started smiling because he could tell I had a rhythm - maybe not his rhythm, but a rhythm of some kind. We were playing and playing, building the intensity, and little kids started coming in, laughing at the white man playing drums. Then a few women came into the room, and everybody began dancing to our beat! The master and I even started trading fours. It wasn't a spoken thing, but he could tell that I would lay out and listen to what he was doing for a certain amount of time, and then he would do the same. It was just a magical moment." When they finished, a confused and startled missionary ran up to Peart and asked, "How can you do that?" Chuckling to himself, Neil politely responded, "I'm in the business." World Inspiration Neil's love of bicycling and travel is well known - it's almost the stuff of legend. While on tour with Rush he's been known to avoid the tour bus and bike to the next town and venue. When not on the road with Rush, he has taken his bike to the four corners of the globe, including Europe, mainland China, and Africa. Upon entering Peart's Toronto home, one is immediately struck by the fact that this man has seen and experienced locales most people can't imagine. "Here's a prized possession of mine," he says proudly, showing a raw-metal sculpture standing about ten inches high and resembling a tribal version of Rodin's "The Thinker." "It's from Africa. It weighs about twenty pounds, and I had to carry it a hundred miles on my bike. but it was worth it." Neil's passion for authentic African art is obvious. Unique drums, with their rich, hand-carved elegance, are displayed in his home with reverence. Original Chinese gongs decorate a few of the walls. The decor hints at the fact that a drummer lives in the house, shouts at the fact that a word traveler resides there. Peart's love of travel is obvious, but does actually going to other parts of the world inspire him musically? "First of all, I think travel is very important for any person," he insists. "It's affected me enormously, and I'm sure it filters down to my work. Africa is not an abstraction to me anymore - neither is China. They're places I've experienced, places where I've met people, made friends - and just broadened my thinking. "I've written lyrics that were directly influenced by my travels abroad. In a drumming sense, I've had some interesting experiences in different countries, experiences that may not directly affect the way I play drums, but that certainly inspire my feelings about drumming. And I've gotten very interested in hand drumming. Lately I've been working on playing the djembe." One way Peart's wanderlust has directly affected the sound of his drums is through sampling. "One of the small drums I brought from China is an antique that's too fragile to play. So I took it and a few of the other delicate instruments that I own and sampled them - along with many of my other instruments like my temple blocks and glockenspiel. I've built up a huge library of sounds, and they've made their way onto our albums in many of the different patterns I play." A particular pattern Neil has recorded that demonstrates the value of "world inspiration" comes from Rush's last album, Roll The Bones. "On that record we had a song called 'Heresy' that had a drum pattern I heard when I was in Togo. I was laying on a rooftop one night and heard two drummers playing in the next valley, and the rhythm stuck in my head. When we started working on the song I realized that beat would complement it well."

Listen to 2112 it is life changing. I heard it 1st when I was 12ish . My mom was semi-professional musician, she played flute and piccolo in an orchestra. My mom was biggest influence of music most of my life . She played alot of Jethro Tull to Mozart in the house . We miss you Neil Pert 💔 RIP

As others have said, Neil Peart was not only a master drummer but also a master percussionist. If you’ve seen older videos of Rush you’ll have seen Neil’s drum and percussion set ups that would’ve included tubular bells, chimes, glockenspiel, wood blocks, gongs, etc. As the technology improved over the years, he was able to remove the multiple percussion instruments from the road crew transport and set up operations, and instead incorporate things like a small electronic drum set, MIDI marimba, V-pedals, etc. This enabled him and his crew to program the sounds of those many percussion instruments into the set up, without him having to constantly move around and get up to play the previously individual instruments, which in turn allowed his drum solos to increase in complexity. Thus in this particular solo, Neil is triggering the brass instrument sounds for the jazz/big band parts, and the “gong” sound is coming from him hitting a programmed key on his MIDI marimba.

Rest in peace Neil, play for God now, everyone back here on planet earth miss you

Neil GOAT!

Nothing says you can’t have more than one favorite drummer, or guitarist, singer, etc. I definitely have multiple, and often for different reasons. I think a big reason many are drawn to The Professor is he is, at the core, just a really good person. Listen to some interviews with him, and you’ll see he’s a thoughtful, intelligent, humble, and compassionate human being. As you look around all the big names, whether it’s sports, or music, or politics - many of them lack what this man had - integrity. I’m not trying to deify him, but IMHO Neil Peart is someone you can look up to without reservation. Cheers!

A very unique man. My favorite.

HE WAS IN HIS MID 50'S HERE

I like that comment that the other guys were playing to his lead, because I feel like that's not far from the truth. Neil was a force of nature.

🇨🇦 Simply, the Best ever !

I was fortunate enough to see him do this live many times. I watched his solo evolve and increase over the years. RUSH Night was always very special. It was a different vibe in the RUSH crowd, even before the show began, just filling into the arena, it was different from any other concert. Most of the people had seen them before and knew how cool it was going to be. It was a different level of excitement at one of their concerts. No dummies in a RUSH crowd. It was a different level, badass, concert with the hardcore fans in attendance. You could feel the vibe in the air. Everyone was smiling and so happy to be there before the show. You could just FEEL the anticipation! It was such a cool scene. Special, that’s the simplest way to describe it, RUSH was special. You KNEW it was going to be Great, guaranteed! Flawless live band! Walk out of there with a serious buzz! 😁👍 RUSH ARMY!

He controlled the sound effects and the jazz and big band music on a foot pedal while being a human metronome. He was the GOAT! The world lost a treasure when he passed.

Good reaction. Drummers use a Metronome to keep time. A Metronome uses Neil Peart to keep time. 4 limbs move in 4 different directions. Each one different rhythm. He does this in the middle of a 3-hour concert.

“This is not normal.” 🤣 You got that right!! Ha Ha! 😆 That’s something they will never be accused of! Just your average, World Famous, Canadian, power trio! 🇨🇦

Neil was THE man

His lifetime dedication to making his feet and hands independent. His heros were Buddy Rich, Max Roach and Bill Bruford of Yes Was lucky enough to see them 9 times the 1st time at my high school before Neil and Alex

A God on the drums.. you can't understand unless you play drum. Just unbelievable!! Long Live Neil. ( look up Buddy Rich, Neil's mentor. You'll see why he played the way he did

By-Tor and the snowdog studio version from their second album (first with Neil Peart). Amazing!

He's not breathing hard because he's breathing steady

peart was born in 52 the other 2 in 53 so by the 2011 working man live in cleveland time machine tour they were not spring chickens and that was at the end of a 3 hour show.. then there is iron maiden. check out rock in rio the clansman 2001 9/16 running around on stage constantly, leaping in the air, even dancing. they just finished a tour. drummer is 71 and had a stroke in jan that left him para;yzed on his right side but at rehearsals in may and on the road.

When Neil was asked to Audition for Rush, he had Pretty much gave up on Drumming because he hadn’t Found a band that challenged Him as a player. He was working at his dad’s farm Equipment company when the Offer was pitched to him. he Wasn’t going to go, but his dad Encouraged him to go because He knew it was Neil’s dream to Be the drummer he could be.

The keypad he uses is called a MalletKat. It is basically a sampling unit for drums. It can make xylophone sounds, and it's what you wondered he used to make that one sound with. It's also what he used to make the gong sound at the end too. And FYI, Neil was 67 when he passed.

3:46 for the funniest (and most honest) thing I’ve heard from a Reaction Channel Host.

Larnell Lewis - The City Lights - Drum Solo... only 3:47 long, but his musical IQ is OFF THE CHARTS!!! I call it a modern Moby Dick. It's brilliant!

Neil is the Master! Check out Malignant Narcissism. Great Solo at the end of the song and it showcases Alex and Geddy in the beginning minutes. Its FIRE Keep rockin you got alot more Rush to check out

Neil Peart’s drumming initiated the whole ‘drum cam’ thang! In the days of DVD, you would have the ability to select just the camera on him and just watch him. Because, as a drummer, especially in their older really complex albums, you just needed to see how he composed and performed the really unique and complex pieces.

"This isn't normal" ... lol.

And since you recognized his amazing stamina, a quick story. In the mid 90's I saw a RUSH show in Miami and then drove up to catch them in Orlando the next night. Neil was an avid cyclist and rumor was he biked the 250 miles to the next show. The Professor was an icon we may never see the likes of again.

Very African influenced. Best drummer ever. A lot of Buddy Rich in there too

Look up Carlos Santana 'Soul Sacrifice' the long version at Woodstock........a very famous drum solo. i think the kid was around 20 at the time. I can't remember his name, but the entire band was on LSD . Carlos has said in a couple of interviews that they were all trippin' hard.

Listen to EMERSON, LAKE, AND PALMER Drummer Carl Palmer will absolutely blow your mind 72 yrs old still killing it. The song "Toccata"

A good watch is Buddy Rich vs Neil.... You can see one of the men who influenced the great Professor and go head to head

Now THAT's cold !!! GOAT

rush where's my thing here it is live in dallas. instrumental with drum solo

Something else amazing you must witness is Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, from the album of the same name, by Iron Maiden. That was one of the most enthralling experiences ever and I was lucky enough to see it live about 5 years ago.

First time watching your channel and video. I agree that Peart is in a class of his own. I got to see many of the great hard rock drummers of the 70s in their prime. Bonham in 75 Graffiti tour, Ian Paice in 74 Burn tour, Bill Ward the last two tours with Ozzy, Cozy Powell with Rainbow a couple of times, Barrymore Barlow with Jethro tull, although not hard rock, brilliant none the less. I only got to see Rush one time, and that was the Hemispheres tour and check this out...a friend got me backstage at the very end of the show to watch Neil do his amazing solo from stage left! All I remember is that it was LOUD and, of course, amazing. I never got to meet him but met Geddy and Alex. They were real gentleman and signed our programs but Neil just walked past us and left the dressing room alone. It hurt then but i get it now. Still a great memory to have. I look forward to checking out more of your videos. Rock on!

He’s the best

Never, ever, even approaches getting old. As always, very much enjoyed your reaction. Thank you. ❤

You are officially in the RUSH ARMY now. Welcome, brother. 😁 No going back at all! I think the number 2112 is in your future.

Since you love drums, please react to the classic power drumming that inspired Neil Peart. Keith Moon originated the power-rock drum sound in the "power-trio" format. Also react to more Ginger Baker/Cream, and of course John Bonham. Neil was from a slightly later period in rock, more "prog-rock" with improved studio recording techniques. Totally different from 1960's early-70s tech, Neil took drums into a whole new musical period in the 80s and 90s. Seen in this video, Neil was a "musician/percussionist", as well as a "drummer".

The Camera Eye 2112 Overture.

React to Neil Peart drum solo Cottontail

Neil has always been known as one of the best drummers with some of the best stamina as if you ever watch them do YYZ and leading to a drum solo. He plays on a all white shelled drum system and he wears a tank top and you see just his arms alone are very well developed.

The professor...we all get schooled

There several other Neil videos on RU-vid well worth checking out.

Another great reaction and commentary!! His playing is still being analyzed, and dissected...and will probably be interpreted by many future drummers and musicians. His love for his craft, was evident, each and every time he sat behind the drum kit. You should check out his cover of Buddy Rich's , Cotton Tail. That will show you another side of his expertise. See what you think..

That low falling off boom sound might be either a timpani or a large floor tom of some sort being detuned. You can get those with a pedal on them to dynamically detune them and then when you let up on it the drum goes back to its normal intonation.

Four limb independence at its best 💯

Snakes and Arrows Solo

All of them were really Stellar. Check out La Via Strangiato to see all of it on display by all three of them. But really there are so many. And I like his work on 2112 as well. And all of them multitask like crazy during live shows.

I don't know if you've reacted to anything from RUSHS' final LP, CLOCKWORK ANGELS, but if you haven't, I highly recommend "Headlonf Flight", and the last RUSH track," The Garden." You will be so glad you did! ☮

Neil didn't do the original working man he did in concert But it was another drummer in the initial stages of rush

The human drum machine

the drum solo ppl need 2 watch is Neil Peart solo from counterparts tour

Rush Roll The Bones

Please take a listen to La Villa Strangiato by Rush. It is a 9 minute Jazz Rock Fusion instrumental piece that is easily their hardest piece. A great video for live as well is the Live in Cleveland on the Time Machine Tour video 2011. They kill it as old men.

With Neil Peart, its never "just" a drum solo.

👽 Aliens: "Yes! Yes we DO take credit for 🥁 'The Professor'... he IS one of us!" ☺🥰🐰

try TOAD Ginger Baker drum solo Royal albert hall killer stuff ....

The constant jingle in the background is made by 1 of his 4 feet

Check the body of work Ginger Baker from Cream laid down. He's another drummer you only need a couple crashes or rolls to know who it's Ginger.

Watch the YYZ Live in Rio version. A song i have not seen you react to is The Trees, one of my favorites

Watched again!!! SOOOOOO GOOOODDD!!!! :) LOVE the reaction!! :) ♥ “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” ~ Romans 15:13

Imagine, that RUSH got inducted into the US Rock n'd Roll Hall Of Fame. BUT!!!!!! Never has a song break into the top 80 of the US Bill Board Charts.

Actually Geddy would stand right off stage and watch every one of his Solos.

check out Danny Carey drum cam Pneuma by Tool live He and Neil are my favorite percussionists.

Neil used a lot of electronics, and RotoToms.

If you are liking the "Power Trio" I fully reccommend Triumph and the first song is "Lay it on the line". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gCWj8Nz5DUg.htmlsi=lbsVPJYAti0VL45i

It must be hard for non drummers to understand the coordination required to play drums, but as a prog-rock drummer of over 50 years who started playing when I was 8 it's not something that can be taught. Even I don't know how it happens, it just does, but then I'm useless at sports and I don't understand how people do the pole vault. One builds up the right muscles and stamina over the years and good technique makes things easier. Let the bounce from the drum heads do the work.

LOVE the reaction SOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!! !! :) ♥ “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” ~ Romans 15:13

What made you react to Frankfurt?

I have no problem saying who's better. Neil... easily is better than Bonzo. Easily.

9:52 Well, he's old in the grave. He's dead. He died from inoperable brain cancer. Poor soul! And, yes I agree that he "was" one of the greatest percussionists in the world!

Peart vs Bonham. Hmmm. I am a bias 58 year old from Toronto. I think what it should be is who cares who was better...they didn't. Two Mammoth musicians and human beings . We were blessed and honored by both why compare just listen and enjoy