Neil Peart 1992 Drum Clinic - Full Video - 78 minutes 

I was one of the lucky 50 chosen to attend. Still one of the greatest days of my life!

RIP Neil Ellwood Peart. Greatest drummer/lyricist in the greatest band of all time. There will never be another like you.

Wow, he was truly eloquent. No "uhh"s, just a coherent flow of useful information and no bullshitting.

How the f--- does this man's mind work? It's like he a genius and almost freakish with extraordinary talent. Totally blown away. Thanks for posting.

I’m still struggling with the loss of this great man.

Man this really especially hits home now. Seeing Neil here in his prime, hitting so hard each note crystal clear, great sounding Ludwig drums. Before all the loss he suffered and life happened. A true gentleman and a scholar. Thanks again Jeff for sharing this. Rest easy Ghost Rider.

Man he hits the living SNOT out of the snare!! Imagine this video in Blu Ray HD current technology?

Christ he hits hard...

It would be beyond awesome to sit in such proximity to this showcase. Neil Peart was the greatest and always will be.

wow - I've never seen Neil with fans before...super cool to see

!!!!! I was there!!! !!!!!! thank you for this!!!

One of the best drummers ever if not the best, real sorry he's has passed😔 rest in peace Mr Peart thanks for all your music. 🙏🏻😔👍😄

Very rare that he would do drum clinics, rare that he did them at all period especially like this because he was such a private person so it's cool to get a little glimpse into his personality in those days he was in his prime here, and much respect to the people there for being mellow i envy the shit out of them getting to just sit there that close and watch the professor work that's a once in a lifetime memory right there... NEIL

We all know that Neil is the greatest composer, drummer and lyricists of all time, but i reckon he appears to be one of the nicest human beings that ever walked the planet. RIP Mr Peart

I was today years old when I discovered that Neil lifted his leg so high to open his hi hats. That's truly wow! Most drummers I've seen simply used a heel-down technique but Neil MADE SURE he opened them hats. R.I.P., Professor.

The audience is so lucky to be witnessing this!

I know I have seen this before but I am still in absolute disbelief how perfect he plays It is friggin impossible to be so perfect. Everything, every single solitary note it present and accounted for and in perfect time

I had always loved Niel Peart's drumming to rush songs but somehow, and foolishly, at times felt his drumming as a drummer was stiff and overly calculated! But then I discovered this video and heard his powerful performance of those studio parts live! Here he shows his absolute heart and soul and to play the parts with so much power and intensity he made me swollow my former misconception. He plays the parts here as if they were invented and written for the first time. I can only imagine how unique it was to have seen and heard him live. He really puts everything behind it in this video and so I realised that my misunderstanding of his playing had to do with his parts being mixed in the studio. The recordings he sounds isolated and exact. Love here and without gating of his drum sounds he sounds whole and organic. What a powerful player in this video and what musical conviction he showed for the song and it's parts! Amazing

Thank, Jeff this is important video for fans Rush .

I could have just listened to him all day he was such an interesting intelligent person. You hear drummers out there when they speak but nobody spoke like the professor.

Thanks so much for sharing this ! Rest In Peace Neil! You have no idea how many lives you touched and had an impact on!

It's like watching a great professor, teacher like Socrates or Plato giving his students the greatest lecture ever; filling empty vessels with eternal wisdom!

Goddam I miss him.. he was so alive, vibrant here. The best to ever do it. To you, Pratt.

Rest in peace!!!

What a great drummer that I had the pleasure to see in London. Never realised at the time, I would never see him play again. R.I.P.

It's cool to see how Neil's kit and rigs have evolved over 40 years. Thanks for sharing, Jeff Wald.

Cool video. Glad that I came across this! Nice job. I get sad every time I see a video of him. World's greatest in my book.😎👍

Thank you Jeff Wald. One of the greatest of all time. I saw this and a number of the tours. I hope they haven't permanently given up.

Hey I made the 1 thousandth like. I picked up so many things off this video. Its truly a treasure vid. Thank you Jeff for the master piece!

R.U.S.H. Really underrated song heros.

It's a crying shame that this was not recorded with a great quality film and preserved better !!!!

Gotta love Neil in his Hunter S Thompson phase of personal style

Thank you Professor…. For a lifetime of inspiration and magical perspective.

Peart is the one those great Drummer of the world. Since when I'was teen I listen RUSH and Neil for me my inspiration !!

Miss you, dude! My greatest inspiration.

Power windows, insane, blend of tech and organic

At times here, he plays twice as many notes than are on the record.

All the complexity amd souch power to boot.

Priceless and real rare in these RU-vid times. Thank you so much for that.

Thank you Neil. RIP

Neil was and is my all time favorite drummer and my favorite era of his drumming was around this time (1992) and before.

Thank you so much for posting this. I wish I had known about this clinic. I was only 30 minutes drive from Irvine at the time and Neil has been a huge influence on my life since 1980. Still can't believe he's gone.

The most brilliant high school drop out to have ever drawn a breath. I’m guessing it wasn’t his idea to host his clinic on an airport tarmac.

And so sincere truly wonderful

simply amazing, and damn those jets!!

That was awesome! Thank you for sharing! Very cool to see him demonstrate all the sampling stuff that went on during the shows. Quite a bit of choreography going on besides the drumming itself.

Neil, RIP!!! Your magic will be left behind for the musical world to admire and may future generations know that major contributions and impact you made to the music world!

Godspeed Neil. May You Rest in Peace.

Those ludwigs sound so damn good!

It's amazing he played these. What's really incredible though is he composed these drum parts. Creative genius.

Wow?! I never knew Neil did any clinics?! Thx for posting!

This is proof that Neil actually could one-take entire songs in the studio back in the day

I really like the way his drums are set up here.

As one Jeff to another, I thank you. Nice!

Love the VHS recording

Fantastic!! Thanks for posting. Would love to see more gems like this.

Thanks for this video. Hope all young kids out there see it 👍

Awesome! Thanks for posting

My drum hero.. Thanks for posting this cool video Rest in peace

I think it is ironic that although Neil had to audition for an already existent Rush, without him there really would never have been Rush as we knew it.

Thx a bunch Jeff ♥

I still think Hold Your Fire is a top notch album and one of my favorites. Right up there with power windows and counterparts! And test for echo..and…well, EVERY album is top notch!!

Absolutely amazing

He is (was) a Cyborg. One of the few great throughout history. Part Man, Part Machine. Obviously. We (the average) should be grateful to have experienced his greatness in person.

thank you so much awsome

Thanks so much for sharing! Awesome vid!

His kind of explaining...👍❤👍

I was there. Great memories

That was very cool, thanks bro!

É desesperador assistir este vídeo e saber que este gênio não está mais entre nós.😢

No cabe duda que Neil es y será el mejor baterista de todos los tiempos, larga vida para éste gran músico! !!

All the 👍s up for the Master !!

Lol... @11:58 Oh how I miss those loud annoying jets from El Toro Marine Base. Great video post.

Just want to say thanks for this, Jeff.

RIP Neil :-(

Fantastic. RESPECT.

Neil put on a clinic alright ... R I P brother

54:12 - Great to hear Steve Jansen from Japan was an inspiration. One of my favourite drummers and bands.

I went to this gig.

OCD. The man was nuts as hell. I loved him.

Thanks for sharing! What I would have given to be at this clinic.

amazingly complicated. Just think Neil could have been anything in this world, nuclear physicist, NASA engineer, or college professor, but he choose to entertain us.

The critics who are not impressed by Peart do not know anything about drumming. This man was the 2nd person elected to the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame. The first person was Buddy Rich. Rich was perhaps the greatest musician North America has generated since Charlie Parker. Neil Peart was the second drummer elected to the Modern Drummer HoF. The guy who Buddy's daughter Cathy called upon to put together the Buddy Tribute Records? It was Neil. Neil was far more stiff in the 1970's as he was learning his craft, as great as his drumming may have been. The people who bash him are always punk drummers or drummers who are lazy. People who adopt the foolish less is more philosophy. As Neil says, less will always be less. If you play something that is not technically challenging, it better be exceptional. A technical master like Steve Gadd or Bernard Purdie can play something simple but in an exceptionally great way because they do it with the confidence and conviction of a master who has studied and enhanced his craft. It communicates itself in a different manner than a drummer who plays something simply because that is all he knows. Moreover, if Neil Peart had no groove and was stiff as a board, his group wouldn't be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rush has sold well over 50 million records, and you cannot do that with just playing music that is technically complicated. Your music has to move people. Rush's record sales, in essence, defeat the arguments of his antagonists. Neil also worked with Freddie Gruber, the master teacher from Buddy Rich's era (see his "Work In Progress" video and Rush's documentary "Beyond A Light Stage") when Neil did feel a bit of stiffness getting into his playing due to the brilliant but technically challenging 1982-1988 period of Rush's music that relied so much on sequencers. Neil post-2001 became more improvisational as a drummer than he had ever been due to his studies with Gruber and Peter Erskine. Instead of guys like Keith Moon and John Bonham who didn't give a shit about getting better and drank themselves to death, at least Neil cared about his artistry and getting better as a musician. Saying a musician doesn't have feel is just an excuse. It's basically trying to uplift musicians who don't put the time and effort into learning how to properly play an instrument. Rush's record sales, their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame status, and the numerous awards they have won in their own country prove that each musician in that band plays music that moves people. You can cannot move people if you do not have feel and are stiff. Rush's critics and Neil' s critics continue to be idiots who wish to elevate the punk drummers of the 70's and or the countless drummers of the 70's who had ability but wasted it due to substance abuse problems. That being a drunk or drug addict made you a more authentic artist. I say B.S. If you play an instrument, you become as technically proficient as possible. Doesn't matter what style of music you are playing. Rush's record sales and Neil's drumming proved that you could still MOVE people but also impress technical musos.

13:32 - nice Skullet

Awesome! Thanks Jeff!

Awesome work guys!

Fantastic. So wish they played UK?Europe on the R40 tour.

RIP NEIL!!!

On the synth period albums, the production seems to bury the drums beneath the synthesizers. "Time Stand Still" in this video almost reminds me of the drum sounds that were on "Moving Pictures".

46:36 resumes his entire life.

While watching I was just waiting for Super Dave Osborne to show up

No one better

@Jeff Wald where’d you pull this from. I was unaware #NeilPeart ever did this on #RUSHstage during the afternoon. Just WOW!!!

So for all the folks saying chicks arent into Rush. Well they dig the drummer....check out the women in the front, right after big money. They know. ❤

ha I thought that stage looked familiar... I saw them in Irvine many times over the years

OMFG camera guy!!

simply ballistic

Superb! Ever wonder if Neil is related to Hunter S. Thompson?

very cool. r.i.p. Neil. also see pat torpey and Eric Martin at end of vid. another great drummer gone

The nerve on this guy that keeps interrupting Neil? Now days so many would pay mountains to talk to him in an intimate setting. Maybe that's yet another reason why he stopped doing things like this. He used to give so much back to drummers and musicians. He was so open,and accessible in comparison. People spoiled it. That dude just needs to listen. Neil would have answered his question. That's great value he gave about saying no,and sticking to your guns