A Look at Neil Peart's Gear with Paul Wells (Part 3: 1994-2015) - EP 199

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• DR

  @DrummerKev3838 · 3 weeks ago

  I’ve come back again to watch all three episodes again. I really think these episodes are the best, although I love every episode of the Drum History Podcast!

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• AD

  @adrianbiankin · 2 years ago

  5th time through the Neil vids, can’t get enough of it!

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• JA

  @jackshittle · 3 years ago

  As a casual Rush fan and 30+ year bassist - I would watch 20 parts of this - love it & thank you so much guys!!

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• BA

  @bakerfam1000 · 3 years ago

  Honestly Him skipping the 12” concert Tom is something I’ve noticed but never understood but in Xanadu the ‘77 video you can see him several times going from the 10 CT to the 12 “closes tom” pretty great stuff and really helps paint a picture of which drums sounded what way and how tuning can really change the contour of the kit and how Neil’s tuning changed kit to kit and album to album

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• TH

  @thecleandirtbags2776 · 1 year ago

  Please do this with Bill ward. I'm begging you. His early kits are so small. Total genius. Thank you for sharing

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• DA

  @davidd5213 · 3 years ago

  Neil didn't wright the "Hockey Night in Canada" music.  That has long been their theme.  He just did a reworking of the song.

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• RL

  @rle440 · 3 years ago (edited)

  My favorite was the Ludwig then the Tama kits.  I preferred the sound of those kits although every kit that he played sounded great.  Maybe it was the era and production that made the biggest difference.  The Ludwig and Tama’s just sounded so precise and had pop.

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• KE

  @kevindohn6776 · 3 years ago

  The time machine kit was the most depressing experience I ever had at a Rush concert, it was the first time I ever realized that my eyes don't work anymore. I couldn't even see the kit clearly and I realized, f*ck I'm getting old and it's downhill from here. But I was lucky enough to have seen every kit since the black slingerland A farewell to kings tour, when they were still young, and just starting to make it big ! I think it was there first world tour as a headline act. I'm not one of these rich guys that's seen them 150 times , but I have seen 1 show from every tour since 1978, every time they came to Montreal

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• AD

  @adityatyagi4009 · 3 years ago

  I have been impatiently waiting for part 3. Thank you so much!

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• NE

  @nealbraatz3911 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I remember seeing El Darko sitting backstage at the R40 show in Lincoln, NE , and getting all excited, because I thought that I was going to get to hear those concert toms fills that I always loved. The long, concert tom fill in The Temples Of Syrinx was one of the reasons I became an instant Neil Peart and Rush fan back in 1976. Unfortunately, El Darko ended up sounding like it was still submerged in that lake in Romania. Even though DW made all those incredible shells and finishes, they still never sounded as good as the Ludwigs, Tamas, and Slingerlands IMHO.

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• MM

  @MM-kh7nx · 3 years ago

  I Soooooo enjoyed the hell out of this 3-part Neil series!!! RIP Professor.....

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• GC

  @gchampi2 · 2 years ago

  Well that was a most enjoyable 5+ hours. A tad unexpected, as I'm neither a drummer, nor a fan of Rush's music. I guess it's comforting to know there's this level of geekery/obsession in the world, and it's nice to see Mr Wells' visible excitement at being given the opportunity to expound at length on a subject he so obviously loves. Bravo, gentlemen...

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