These songs demonstrate how Neil Peart expanded the parameters of what heavy rock drumming could be.
albums, bringing in friends to recreate and revise Rich's drum parts in their own style. He took the stool for this rendition of the 1940 Duke Ellington composition on the first Burning set, playing it as confidently as anything in the Rush cannon, finding limitless possibilities on a kit vastly more limited than what he used with Rush.
The hot, Grammy Award-nominated instrumental covers more in four-and-a-half minutes than some bands accomplish on an entire album, and Peart's mad scientist fills are a big part of that. Certainly the best all-time use of Morse code in a hard rock -- or perhaps any -- song.If you thought "2112" was an epic statement, Rush raised the bar with this two-part, nearly half-hour pairing that spanned two separate albums.
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