Neil Peart- Cotton Tail with drum solo (Buddy rich Tribute)

[@coltonpugh9669]

That bass player deserves a round of applause. He's been talking that thing for a walk.

[@isjones2112]

Love the reaction when he hits those cow bells

[@UnknownCosmic]

More cow bell!

[@SteveoGregg]

​@@UnknownCosmic You can never get enough cowbell.

[@Jonny-o3l]

Play it baby,..play it!

[@CharlesButler1]

They knew as soon as he started hitting that floor tom then the first couple seconds of cowbell what was coming. The Professor.

[@Augfordpdoggie]

you can even see Neil hold back a smile as everyone cheers

[@tiosav6251]

that guy with granny hair behind the drummer was really happy watching him play

[@gerardkienstra1441]

Agreed

[@theaestheticcactus7889]

Wouldn't you have been?? This was a masterclass of drumming

[@UnknownCosmic]

That was the lead saxophone player, and if I'm not mistaken, he played with Buddy Rich.

[@Apple-International]

thats a Beethoven

[@Ruan-xh6ns]

Pure joy on his face. I watch this video just to see his reaction every time

[@timperley69]

Everyone on that stage is elite!!!

[@tomlichnofsky.7048]

The Master! 👊😎✊😎👍😎🍁 RIP Neal Peart 😔🍁♈🍁♈

[@billysheppard6091]

All the worlds a stage....and then some..thank you Neil.. semper fi..

[@BSinNH]

For those that didn't BR, will probably go down as the greatest drummer of all time. Growing up a Rush fan, I always though NP was in a class by himself. I have watched videos of BR and can only say...WOW. How awesome would it have been watching the two of them side by side?

[@UnknownCosmic]

Neal would have pissed Buddy RTFO!

[@JonHop1]

@@UnknownCosmic The 2 best were Morello and Buddy... One big band, the other Cool Quartet Jazz... Just wonderful... neither ever played to click tracks or used a metronome... Just pure ability and a gift from God!

[@UnknownCosmic]

You know what they say about opinions... 😬

[@JonHop1]

@@UnknownCosmic why? you disagree with my opinion?

[@N0ZYnate]

@@UnknownCosmic I mean it's objectively true that Buddy rich and Joe Morello were 2 of the greatest and most innovative drummers of all time. And like Jon said, were all natural. Neal is a great drummer, and he improved throughout his life. He became very versatile. But he is no Buddy Rich or Joe Morello. Buddy and Joe pretty much innovated all modern rock drumming. If you listen to the interview from 1971 of John Bonham, he got a ton of his fills and solo ideas from Joe, and he got a lot of his technique ideas from Buddy. And if you talk to most Rock drummers from the 70's they pretty much all drew inspirations from Joe and Buddy.

[@peterperez1285]

Just LOOK at what he did with a small drum set. A real MASTER…. RIP sir! Thank you for your music.❤️

[@JonHop1]

You wanna see what can be done with a small rig? Watch Morello with Brubeck... Dude was arguably better than Buddy Rich and he was mostly blind.

[@jonyopp8306]

Compared to neils usual setup, small. But really most drum kits are about that size and any drummer of worth can make even a 3 piece kit worthwhile to listen to.

[@COLLYD420]

It is great but check out Elvin Jones or Roy Ayers or Charles Richmond will blow ur hair back

[@thesheffinator7124]

Outstanding. A workman and a craftsman, a rare combination. We are truly not worthy, and we all miss you Neil.

[@chrisblack1119]

Hey haters, for crying out loud, it was a TRIBUTE to BR! He would have never considered himself even as good as Buddy, much less superior. He helped organize this show to share with the world how great BR had been. It’s total respect. He even performed a mini-tribute during his solos with Rush. Give the man his due. He loved Buddy Rich as much as you do.

[@FlavioSerradorVersiani]

that s a lesson what a super progressive rock drum player can do in jazz , neil what ever you are , we will never forget you

[@gezatherton1071]

He’s up there drumming with Buddy.

[@FlavioSerradorVersiani]

@@gezatherton1071 i hope so

[@zombywoof1015]

Hadn't heard this recently. I forgot how much fun it is.

[@tatonkaa]

Saw him do this live when I was a kid. They did Cotton Tail but there was no band.

[@SurgicalAxe]

In this type of music it is not the ob of the drummer to outshine the other instruments but to complement them and make certain areas stand out and he did exactly that.

[@jenniferwaters3177]

The Professor at work.❤

[@bestdrummer4607]

One of my favorites.

[@davemardon6756]

Every time I watch this, deep chills down my spine.....In a good way. RIP good sir.

[@mabry1351]

7:20 look at his posture, he is buddy rich himself

[@ElClásicodelos30s]

that was almost the same playing as Buddy Rich... Simply wonderfuly replicated! I hope more drummers would do tributes like this to Buddy Rich and/or to Gene Krupa

[@christianstichnoth7727]

OH MAN......... NEIL IS ABSOLUT UNBELIEVABLE......... HE IS THE KING CLASS OF DRUMMING....... THANK YOU FOR YOUR MUSIC.

[@GMitchell5150]

*Virtual standing ovation* , for the baddest drummer to EVER allow us to listen.

[@ThepenofPublius]

Wrong

[@GMitchell5150]

@@ThepenofPublius How can my opinion be wrong? LOL

[@COLLYD420]

​@@GMitchell5150because he isn't not the baddest drummer ever lol. Elvin Jones and Roy Ayers are pretty high up

[@GMitchell5150]

@@COLLYD420 So are Alex Van Halen and Jeff Campitelli, they're just not on the same level as Neil Peart was.

[@daviddryden8088]

This wasn't so much about the performance or whether he was as technically proficient as Rich or any of the other masters of drumming. It is more about where Neil, the man, was in his life at this point. He had just lost his wife and daughter a year previously and was in a state of depression that threaten not only Rush, but his interest in drumming. It was Freddie Gruber who took Neil under his wing at this time and renewed Neil's passion for drumming again. This was Neil getting back on stage after quite a long time of hiatus from performing.

[@AndrewTrimarchi-du1vb]

This was well before his wife and daughter died.

[@stevencooper659]

@@AndrewTrimarchi-du1vbyep. This was in 1991 well before the tragic loss of his daughter then wife to cancer.

[@ChristopherPlasencia]

" BEAUTIFUL "

[@robertfenton934]

RIP Niel peart an amazing around musician not just one of the Greatest drummers to have graced us with his talent

[@chrishomer1247]

This just makes me smile❤

[@ElClásicodelos30s]

me too

[@andrewgjennings]

I've seen this video many dozens of times, but only recently did I notice one tiny detail. On Neil's drums is a trademark or logo of sorts - "NP" inside of a chevron shaped thing. Ostensibly that's for "Neil Peart". But the rest of the band has the exact same chevron logo, except it's embedded with "BR" instead. That's kind of cool to me, that level of detail here.

[@188tonysk]

Cara, esses rudimentos....😱😱😱😱😱😱 Expetacular... Versatilidade insana.... Mestre Neil Peart... Não é atoa que tocou com outros mestres no Rush. RIP, Neil! O melhor baterista que ja caminhou por esse planeta...🥁

[@legalgal12]

Preternatural talent...... Simply amazing. RIP 💜🙏🏼

[@elson.1990]

This is what I would call a drum solo. 👌🏻

[@DrummerGrrrl]

My neck hurts from just watching Neil's horrific posture. I bet he stopped hunching over the drums after this incredible performance. I have Scoliosis and absolutely can't hunch over like Peart was doing here. I would have to be carried off my drum throne and given strong muscle relaxers. 😢😂

[@earthelder2065]

Great drummer, song writer, producer, Guy, did I leave anything out?

[@jrrari_i]

And a motor cycle driver 😎

[@Good.London]

R.I.P Mr Peart , best drummer to ever have lived.

[@JonHop1]

No..... but he was good... XD

[@fernandotenorio1768]

Fabulous!!!!!!

[@alexanderabrahamtubay968]

One of the greatest drummer in the world 🥁🎵🎶🥁😃 Rock, Jazz and everything 😁🥁🥁🥁

[@said7794]

I love you video

[@stuie46]

Exceptional.

[@RealOrigenDue]

The tempo is so fast! I love it! The BRB complained that everyone too slow so Neil sped it up a bit, love him! Neil loved Buddy. He’s built off Buddy, and others, and really took it to another level. Half the stuff pro drummers were probably invented or modified by Neil, lol! 😂 Thank you for posting, and Thank you, Neil!!! 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

[@danieljorge2096]

Magnífico

[@TheFaithfulColumnPodcast]

Neil is the show.

[@juandelpuerto7437]

Una leyenda homenajeando a otra.

[@brianjansen3103]

You're up right after Neil's solo. ...Sir? Hello? On a serious note I can't remember ever seeing anyone play a clear batter head on a snare

[@justfelix6171]

Mainly a 70s-80s invention. Thankfully we came back to our senses.

[@brianjansen3103]

@@justfelix6171 I always played coated vented snare heads & single ply toms, then I switched to coated on the floor tom too, idk why but it stuck, coated down low, single ply up high

[@jonanderson8211]

One of my fav Pearts performances. Buddy's got some serious chops.(no pun intended).

[@cashcashhsac]

best ever...

[@Rennsport-Media]

The night that the entire band got drumming lessons!

[@daz.6112]

Utter genius.

[@Vette5577]

Just plain amazing

[@DonKelleyMusic]

I love how he plays the first part until the solo completely straight, perfect, machine like, but only just very very slightly doing anything remotely creative or showy.... and then solo until the last hit of the song it's all out awesome, combining many of his greatest creative ideas into one masterpiece

[@michaeltortu5897]

The greatest rock drummer of all time.

[@captainhowdy6353]

Still number 3 of the Ps

[@JonHop1]

@@captainhowdy6353 Purdie baby

[@aldodrumsz]

❤

[@jordynamundsen4672]

feels weird seeing Neil with such a minimalistic kit. (looking at you Exit Stage Left)

[@scottyh.6992]

I have never seen Neil behind a smaller kit.

[@RogueBurn]

This guy is good. He should be in a band. JK XD

[@roycelorenz748]

He was in a band he was in one of the baddest bands ever he was Neil Peart the drummer for Rush but he passed away here recently so he's no longer with us that was younger years his idol was Buddy Rich one of the baddest jazz percussion drum players ever too he was doing that in honor a Buddy Rich

[@jreality9875]

He wasn't trying to outdo , buddy guy , he was trying to match him

[@ivanuslai2922]

Grande Batterista. Rip Neil.

[@user-mw3mb2uv8n]

To think, Neil could actually fit this drum kit in a trailer that can be towed by a motorcycle instead of a semi truck and trailer.

[@yannmondehard4171]

Neil Peart: I have a solid beat Pianist *starts swinging* Neil: ooooohshiiiii

[@y9xda]

He loved the music of Frank Sinatra. Old school swing and jazz besides rock (book : ghost rider)

[@roybeckerman7843]

It would have been strange only hitting 4 drums, compared to his normal set up. A clear batter snare head..

[@davidday726]

Peart with Buddy Rich’s band… soooo hot

[@oreally8605]

The only time Neil played with another band.

[@edvisme]

I wonder if Neil and Buddy ever met each other...

[@eviltreesloth]

Un. Fucking. Believable.

[@NelsonMontana1234]

Sure, it's stiff. That's what made Neil such a great, solid, metronomic drummer. But it's in opposition to what this type of music requires. Kudos to him for attempting it. He did it better than Buddy would have done in RUSH.

[@MadSevenVideos]

Yes, totally agree..

[@enricomandragona163]

I'm not in agreement with you! !! Niel was simply the best Drummer in the world hands down!! No matter what type of music!!

[@enricomandragona163]

@@NelsonMontana1234 used who? Niel? I'm not denouncing his jazz drumming. As in my opinion nobody did it better than Niel !! So I'm my mind your statement is confusing

[@captainhowdy6353]

Go back to the shallow end of the pool

[@rogerallen6644]

I was ready to jump to criticize you. But I went back and listened to BR on the same piece. You’re absolutely right. There’s a smoothness with Buddy that’s not there with Neil. Peart does a heck of a job on the solo. Masterful. But it’s missing the touch of a master jazz drummer.

[@stevendion3787]

There is only one professor

[@sergecaron2798]

When was it ?

[@MadSevenVideos]

April 8, 1991

[@jamestheredd]

"Where are the rest of my toms?"

[@coina-dig-tion6322]

more cowbell!!

[@kennicholaisen1268]

BAM!

[@rocknroll7400]

Buddys grinning, here is a true consumate pro, but of the Mongrol matched grip mutants. 😮 He can't keep it unmatched grip, & do snare work vs playing matched grip & using drumset tecknique & rythyms on the snaredrum.

[@erikk77]

8:55 That's quite the smile of accomplishment.

[@unclerhombus]

Now take Buddy Rich and ask him to cover Rush songs on drums. He’d be lost.

[@isjones2112]

Great point!

[@eyericht]

When you've hit the drums so hard over the years, well, I would forgive the lack of swing, however he does nail the essence of jazz drumming, an I reckon many rock drummers would be well behind the genre mark 'The Professor' due to his incessant reading, understanding, an literally prowess-that title could easily of sat well with his drumming an the amazing array of his percussion arrangement Aye, well missed

[@UnknownCosmic]

You were definitely drinking or high when you wrote this nonsense.

[@jrrari_i]

7:50 😭🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 AS A DRUMMER THAT SHIT WAS TO SEXY

[@tamaracooper5797]

You have to remember Neil and Buddy were friends.

[@UnknownCosmic]

Really? Please tell me more!

[@MikeMeacham-gu1bi]

Doctor Proctor Clocked Her

[@chickentwisties2298]

Neils no Buddy but he's brilliant

[@richcapo]

Jazz drumming without snare comping is … odd to put it mildly. Gotta pop that corn if it’s gonna be jazz.

[@DonKelleyMusic]

plenty of snare comping throughout... but he clearly held back until getting closer to the solo break where he really started to play more. Also, he was trying to play traditional grip until he got really into the solo, which was never his forte

[@enricomandragona163]

You seem to want to argue here because a progressive rock drummer does it better than a jazz drummer!!

[@kennicholaisen1268]

Love the comments, especially from people who couldn't do any of this, and probably couldn't master anything they talk about. "Snare comping." "Pop that corn." Give me a huge break. LOfuckingL!!! Put your corn where your big mouth is and then I'll decide. Please, PLEASE, PLEASE send me the link to your snare mastery... popping corn and such. 😂

[@af7119]

He could have easily played a young Slugworth

[@johnjohnson9093]

Think the bass plsyer is even more impressive.

[@chrishomer1247]

Never even broke sweat

[@poboygregg7877]

I don't miss a beat ... .. .. evr; Anthony Luke Whaleheart Glendinning

[@poboygregg7877]

You are my evry heartbeat

[@respectpartii6302]

I never miss a beat I'm lightnin' on my feet And that's what they don't see, mm-mm...

[@Mark-sd7fc]

Neil was a much nicer person! Buddy treated people like yit

[@rocknroll7400]

I swear I'm not trying to be mean or partial, but this guy taught me this way to play drums.. OK here goes this is his last solo, buddy had passed away 2 yrs b4, and I think his muscle memory still out plays and put does Neil perts Buddy solo tribute maybe 10 to 1 .. So don't judge us, we toured putting a drumset in front of his deceased body and he beat all comers till sis or buddy's daughter got an injunction.. You can still put a stick or his ring his tie for cymbal work, shoes for bass drum and they outplay pretty much all challengers. Did you miss it? He played single bass, faster than double bass .. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5bWiHpsdpuaY80feature=shared

[@DavesTrumpet]

Doesn’t even acknowledge the soloists with even a hint of his attention.

[@tomcollins3649]

How could he, they’re behind him

[@rogerw-interested]

you can age neil by the size of his drum kit :)

[@U2WB]

Neil was great at what he did. This was out of his comfort zone; he had no sense of swing for this style music. It took courage to try.

[@enricomandragona163]

To try!! Seriously!! Hmmm you give it a shot!!

[@johnnyboy55]

Seems to me that he did pretty damn well!

[@enricomandragona163]

@@johnnyboy55 agreed

[@U2WB]

@@enricomandragona163 As I said, he approached a big band piece like a rock drummer. No swing whatsoever. But, decent try. Neil did his own thing best. This was just not his thing.

[@enricomandragona163]

@@U2WB Decent try!! Yeah whatever 🤣

[@ryancox5097]

That was seriously horrible. My God.

[@gheewhiz]

😣

[@DonArchie]

Wake up,

[@edellis515]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@SteveoGregg]

He puts buddy Rich to shame. And people say buddy was the best ,Huh!! B.S.

[@chrisbaughman9860]

Buddy would of smiled

[@kennicholaisen1268]

You must have meant that "Buddy would HAVE smiled." There's no such thing as "would of". 😮

[@willieb6993]

None better!

[@skylerJ777]

How’s does one suck so badly as Rush. But here dudes pretty okay! Neil is his name?

[@TanMann23]

Rush definitely isn’t for everybody. No way in hell you’re able to sit there and say they suck though. That’s just painfully incorrect.

[@skylerJ777]

@@TanMann23 it’s new age contemporary metal… come on. Talent and music doesn’t always go hand in hand

[@TanMann23]

@@skylerJ777 Are you actually that dumb and truly know nothing about music?

[@TanMann23]

@@skylerJ777 “new age contemporary metal?” What? that’s not at all what they are, they’re one of the groups to pioneer the genre of prog rock. Also, talent and music definitely go hand in hand. If they didn’t have talent, they wouldn’t have music. And vice versa. That argument makes no sense at all.

[@kennicholaisen1268]

So... Let's hear what you came up with, musically, that is. 😘 Also, might want to work on your stupid, ignorant grammar (yeah, it matters). 😬

[@haberjennings475]

It’s pretty rubbish really

[@Roach1105-d7]

What do you mean

[@calferath]

Damn that was crazy