New Rush Album - Update

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New Album News from Neil Peart: On his
website, Neil Peart has given an update regarding the new album, which
bleeds with the excitement he feels over the album's progress. In
addition to the news of the Rush album, Neil gives details regarding
his new "West Coast" kit, as well as his collaboration on three songs
for the forthcoming Vertical Horizon album. The band plans on reconvening in September.
"By
the end of May, we had eight songs that we all liked, and I had worked
out drum parts for six of them...at the end of our month together, I
was driving from Toronto to Quebec for a few days’ rest, and I was able
to listen to the songs we had been working on in the familiar,
pleasurable space of a car cruising down the long, straight highway.
The next day I wrote to Alex and Geddy, 'On the drive back yesterday, I
did have the opportunity to listen to the new songs with some
objectivity, in my favorite listening environment, and I wanted to tell
you I think they are great! The freshest stuff we have done since —
well, ever! As I intuited when I first heard your song sketches, there
is something very different about the character of these songs, and I’m
really pleased by that. I mean to say — at our ages!'...
"While
considering the logistics of getting my drums from Toronto to Los
Angeles and back, I was talking with my friends at Drum Workshop, and
they pointed out that some busy drummers have a different drumset for
each coast, stored and ready when they need it. Since I lived on the
West Coast now, maybe I should have a 'West Coast kit.' Well, yeah,
obviously. So in talking to John Good at DW, we decided to build a pure
'recording' kit, with basic chrome hardware and a natural wood finish.
John designed an elaborate combination of laminates and reinforcement
hoops for each individual shell...Lorne and I had decided on a 'tobacco
sunburst' finish, like a classic guitar, but when John chose 'curly
maple' for the base of it, and master painter Louie applied his
artistry, they looked way better than I had imagined."

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In a recent report on his website, Peart has reported that he has recorded three songs for the forthcoming Vertical Horizon album:
"Late
in 2005, Matt [Scannell] and I started working on a song together, with
lyrics I wrote especially for Matt’s voice — literal and metaphorical.
Matt suggested I might like to play drums on that song, and when I
agreed to that, he started sending me demos of other songs he thought I
might like to play on. (Trickster!). So while I was in Toronto working
on Rush songs, I was also 'moonlighting' on three of Matt’s songs,
playing to his demos and working out drum parts for them. A couple of
nights a week...I started squeezing in a couple of takes of one of
Matt’s songs, too. Through the miracle of modern technology, I was able
to e-mail those recorded sketches to Matt, and collect his comments as
I went along. Thus it came to pass...on June 14, 2006, at Capitol
Records Studio B in Hollywood (Hollywood and Vine, in fact), I recorded
three songs for Matt’s upcoming Vertical Horizon album...The following
day I told Matt that session had been one of the greatest challenges,
experiences, and — now — rewards of my life. That’s the way I have
always felt about making Rush albums, and I have every faith the same
will be true when Alex, Geddy, and I reconvene in September.

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