Are you a Bass player? >> ^dag:

Nice one. Makes me want to be slappin' da' bass.

You've got to give it up for Neil Peart. He is a legend and a great influence to any drummer that grew up in the 70's/80's/early 90's. That said, there has always been criticism of his lack of spontaneity. Most drummers will change up parts and fills from one performance to the next, but Neil Peart always plays the exact same parts, fills and open solos. Of course they are well composed and appropriate to Rush's elaborate songs, so there is a good case to be made for the strict consistency.

@RadHazG - Most of the time I feel the same way - and I play drums for a living. The problem is that it is difficult to create a moving musical experience with unpitched percussion instruments. Most of the time, drum solos end up being disjointed displays of virtuosity, which are technically impressive but lacking from an aesthetic standpoint.

There are some great drummers out there who really know how to emote. Elvin Jones, Jack Dejohonette, Vinnie Colliuta, Terry Bozio (Zappa knew how to pick his drummers) and Peter Erskine are some of my favorites in this category.

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I always feel like an ignorant uncultured swine seeing drum solo's that I'm told are epic. I *want* to appreciate them, but half the time (if I'm truly honest) all I hear is a lot of banging around. Most of this was quite good even to me, but again lots of it just seemed like banging to me. Wish I had more of an ear for it.

>> ^enoch:

i was lucky enough to see moving pictures and was astounded how they had to set up the drum set around neil peart.
if you have not seen a live RUSH show,i highly recommend that you check them out.


I saw Grace Under Pressure tour, astounding indeed.

YEsSSsesSSSSS.. not much into drum solos but big time into Rush

I love Tool, just wanna say that first. With that said...

That's not a drum solo. Solo means it's just drums...

That was a drum solo?
This, imo, is a drum solo. But everybody has their own heroes, I guess...

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by chicchorea. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Ice-Drum-Solo-Single-Use-Only

Here is a video of him using the drums: http://videosift.com/video/Ice-Drum-Solo-Single-Use-Only

I couldn't post it because it's already on the sift - but it's dead - I'm hoping someone will fix it.
It's here: http://videosift.com/video/Ice-Drum-Solo-Single-Use-Only

In reply to this comment by Drachen_Jager:
I spent this entire video waiting for him to hit the cymbals.

Very disappointed.

Here is a video of him using the drums: http://videosift.com/video/Ice-Drum-Solo-Single-Use-Only

I couldn't post it because it's already on the sift - but it's dead - I'm hoping someone will fix it.
It's here: http://videosift.com/video/Ice-Drum-Solo-Single-Use-Only

*dead
Completely suitable for work - I don't know why that's on there.

Here is a new embed: http://videosift.com/video/Ice-Drum-Solo-Single-Use-Only

*discard - It was a Dupe of this one http://videosift.com/video/Ice-Drum-Solo-Single-Use-Only

A video on the Making of the drums is here: http://videosift.com/video/How-to-Make-Drums-from-ICE

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