Neil Peart

[Juan Expósito]

That´s great Steve!
Looking forward to watching your video.

I remember the first time I listened to Rush.
Neil´s fills and drum arrangements were unique...
I think everything was unique in Rush, songs, lyrics, sound...

And for a drumming point of view, man, those long fills from the smallest tom to the biggest, those tom fills phrases, BD/crashes in the coolest places, groove compositions, ghost notes...

Neil Peart!!!!

[Pocketplayer]

Yeah Steve...this is gonna be good! Your attention to detail
will really honor this man. No pressure, just know you will
do it right. I will send it to all my non-drumming RUSH buddies.

[Steve Holmes]

Thanks guys - it's coming along. I'm at the cut-cut-cut phase trimming the fat and keeping the pace moving and making sure it's visually interesting as much as possible .

[Kurtis]

Oh boy.

[langmick]

Thanks Steve. I read his book Traveling Music a couple weeks ago, was planning to well before he passed, had a vacation to Florida planned nd powered through.

He lived a life. He did think of his life as heroic, it seems, he lived it that way. He talks in depth about his time in London, and having mo prospects as s drummer. It's happenstance that he got in Rush, really.

[sturla]

Long time since I've posted here, but I am really looking forward to seeing your video Steve. Neil´s passing hit me quite hard, so I've been going through - as I guess a lot of us - many of his recordings and YouTube etc.

[Steve Holmes]

Here it is:

[Steve Holmes]

It's funny how the YouTube copyright detection system works. It's pretty impressive really. It got Spirit of the Radio despite me talking over it for all of 5 seconds. I expected lots of copyright claims preventing monetization of course - but there was a couple bits from Free Will where I talk about a cool fill in the guitar solo and show several clips of that same fill. Those clips were detected and resulted in the video being BLOCKED in most countries. I had to remove that little segment.
We'll see if future copyright claims pop up. I let the video simmer for a bit before making it public.

Anyways, I hope folks like it.

[Andrew<3'sVinnie]

Amazing Steve. Thanks so much for making.

Curious - why the thanks for Adam Neely and Rick Beato? For inspiration for these types of vids?

[nomsgmusic]

Really nice, sincere, and very well done Steve, I learned a lot. He touched a lot of people, I hope he knew just how many people he affected. I wish it was more accepted for us to do things like this while people were still alive. Just a good honest appreciation for a person and his artistic contributions. Unfortunately the stalkers and the obsessive nut cases ruined it for everyone.

Kudos, great job!
MSG