Neil Peart ― Sites
Updated 07/23/2013
Sites about Neil Peart
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Neil Peart.net - This is Neil Peart's official Web site. The site launched around 4/26/05.
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Wikipedia entry on Neil Peart - The free Web encyclopedia's entry on Neil.
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Power Windows.com page on Neil Peart writings - One of the most comprehensive Rush sites on the Web, with an excellent section on Neil's writings.
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Neil Peart Drumsticks: A Photographic History by Michael DF Lowe: Pictures and information about the different Pro-Mark 747 sticks Neil Peart has used on Rush tours. It's interesting to see how the design has changed over the years.
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Drummer World page about Neil Peart - Great site for just about any drummer, run by Bernhard Castiglioni in Switzerland. Good photos of Neil, as well as a unique "Performed With" section.
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Neil Peart Drum Kit Restoration Web Site - A site dedicated to the restoration of Neil's 1980's Artstar prototype. "All told, $20,000 was spent to get it back to what it used to be when Neil first put it together."
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Carrie Nuttall Photography - The Web page for Neil's wife. Go here to see the "Rhythm and Light" series. You can also buy the book of the same title.
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Power Windows.com page on Neil Peart allusions in Rush songs - Great page about the many allusions in Rush lyrics.
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Rush Lyrics Alluding to Mystic Dissociative Phenomena - A site devoted to the mystic altered-state phenomena in Rush lyrics (If this doesn't make sense, here's a sentence from the site: "[Rush] lyrics are crafted to lend themselves particularly well to carrying subtle double-entendres alluding to common experiences of the LSD mystic altered state." Strange, but interesting!)
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Forever Drumming's Neil Peart Page - Cool page that contains Billboard rankings of Rush songs. This page contains outdated information.
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Neil Peart's Art Star prototype on eBay - Neil gave away the Tama Art Star prototype kit in a Modern Drummer "drum solo" contest back in 1986. He used this kit to record Signals, Grace Under Pressure, and Power Windows. Since that time, the kit has changed hands many times, usually selling on eBay.
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Rush.com - The Official site.
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New Bands like Rush - BandsLikeRush.com is a music discovery podcast and blog from composer/performer Ben Sommer. Interviews with musicians and artists who's music "sounds like" Rush - the great progressive rock trio from Canada.
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Rush is a Band - A great news and resource site by Ed Stenger that uses the power of blog technology. Updated regularly with interesting news and pictures. This is a site I visit daily.
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Limbo - The Italian Rush Portal - A beautifully-designed site with a lot of great info. I especially like the English/Italian lyric translations.
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MitA's Rush OdDiTiEs - Great Rush site with some REALLY COOL content. Check this one out!
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Kevin Shirley's website (recording engineer of Counterparts) - Rare pictures of Alex and Geddy
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Durrell Bowman's Dissertation about Rush: Permanent Change: Rush, Musicians’ Rock, and the Progressive Post-Counterculture (9 MB .pdf file -- 300 pages)
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Power Windows - A Tribute to Rush - One of the most comprehensive Rush sites on the Web.
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Echoes of Old Applause - Great pictures, interesting stories from a super fan.
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Hugh Syme official site - The Web site from the man who brought us almost every Rush cover (and artwork).
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Rush Petition II - Tallies the fans' votes for songs they want to band to play on tour. For the Vapor Trails tour, Rush actually played many of the top songs on the petition (By-Tor and the Snow Dog and Cygnus X-1).