'What made Neil so special is he invented a style'
albums during the mid-'90s. They stayed in touch ever since, and in the wake of Peart's death he recalls their friendship and Peart's impact and influence.
With Neil, it didn't surprise me, but in this crazy day and age of Headline News and all kinds of world drama, Neil passing really affected drummers and the music industry and people in general. My brother's a psychoanalyst and he knew who Neil Peart andwere, and he felt bad. Neil dying triggered all kinds of stuff. With Rush there was no band that sounded like that. They owned their own island, so to speak.
He was such a gentle, sweet man. Every time we'd talk it was always cool; it wasn't even about drumming so much. When he wrote the foreword for my autobiography, he wanted to see some chapters to get a feel for what the book is about, and that was a smart move because he got personally involved with the book so he could write a foreword that meant something and that he could relate to. And I saw the last time, I think, in L.A. when [Rush] played there on their final tour.
I knew something was wrong with him a couple of years ago, but I was asked not to say anything, so I didn't. I reached out to him a couple of times last year, just to say, "Hey, how you doing?" Somebody close to the family was trying to put us together for a dinner, and the word that came back was he wasn't feeling up to it. He wasn't feeling good.
I can say I'm really happy for him that even though he's not physically with us, he's getting such a great, loving response to his contribution. If anybody believes in legacy or likes legacy, he certainly has created one.
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