Rush have released a lot of albums and videos over the years, but the release of double DVD/CD \"R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour\" has notoriously quiet drummer Neil Peart so pumped that he\'s actually talking about it on Blabbermouth.net.
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Neil Peart, one of the most proficient drummers in rock history, generally prefers to let the music do all the talking, but now he has taken some time to to answer multiple questions.
Among the topics discussed are Peart\'s first show with Rush in front of about 11,000 people, only two weeks after he had joined the band in August 1974, how he wanted to learn more about what drummer Bill Bruford once called \"life beyond the cymbals\", and how the three Rush musicians have managed to stay together as a band for 30 years.
In related news: a complete video of R30 Overture, taken from the upcoming \"R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour\" DVD, has been posted online at Yahoo! Music.
R30 Overture is an instrumental medley consisting of the Rush tracks Finding My Way, Anthem, Bastille Day, A Passage to Bangkok, Cygnus X-1 and Hemispheres.
\"R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour\" is due later this month. It was recorded September 24, 2004 at Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany.
Rush have released a lot of albums and videos over the years, but the release of double DVD/CD \"R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour\" has notoriously quiet drummer Neil Peart so pumped that he\'s actually talking about it on Blabbermouth.net.
