" Lyrics written by drummer Neil Peart.

By the 1980s, widely popular drummers like Billy Cobham, Carl Palmer, Nicko McBrain, Phil Collins, Stewart Copeland and perhaps most notably Neil Peart were using large numbers of drums and cymbals and had also begun using electronic drums.

* 1996 – Officer of the Order of Canada, along with band mates Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart

Many rock drummers have cited Moon as an influence, including Neil Peart and Dave Grohl The Jam paid tribute to Moon on the second single from their third album, " Down in the Tube Station at Midnight ", in which the B-side of the single is a cover song from The Who: " So Sad About Us ", and the back cover of the record is a photo of Moon's face ; the Jam's record was released about a month after Moon's death.

Many notable rock drummers have been influenced by Keith Moon, including Dave Grohl, Neil Peart, Tommy Lee, Peter Criss, Brad Wilk, and Tre Cool.

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The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist and backing vocalist Alex Lifeson, and drummer, percussionist and lyricist Neil Peart.

Rush held auditions for a new drummer and eventually selected Neil Peart as Rutsey's replacement.

Neil Peart began incorporating Simmons Drums | Simmons Electronic Drums beginning with Grace Under Pressure ( 1984 )

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Neil Peart in concert, 2010

A staple of Rush's concerts is a Neil Peart drum solo.

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* Peart, Neil and Bill Wheeler. Drum Techniques of Rush.

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* 1952 – Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, producer, and author ( Rush )

Percussionist Neil Peart of the rock band Rush uses the glockenspiel in several of the band's arrangements, most notably in the commercial hit songs " The Spirit of Radio " and " Closer to the Heart ", and also in album tracks " Xanadu " and " Circumstances ".

* Drummer Neil Peart of the Canadian rock band Rush recorded a version of " One O ' Clock Jump " with the Buddy Rich Big Band, and has used it at the end of his drum solos on the 2002 Vapor Trails Tour and Rush's 30th Anniversary Tour.

On the " 2112 / Moving Pictures " episode of the television series Classic Albums, Rush drummer / lyricist Neil Peart commented on the writing of the song " The Twilight Zone ," featured on 2112.

Larkin's drumming is thought to " worship at the twin altars of Neil Peart and John Bonham ".

Following themes going back to Rush's second album, Fly by Night, on Hemispheres lyricist Neil Peart continues to heavily utilize fantasy and science fiction motifs.

Featuring the album art of S. Neil Fujita, the album contained all original compositions, almost none of which were in common time: 9 / 8, 5 / 4, 3 / 4, and 6 / 4 were used inspired by Eurasian folk music they experienced during that US State Department sponsored tour.

This device is used by folk musicians, " one man bands " and singer / songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Tom Harmon, Neil Young, Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen and blues singers Jimmy Reed and John Hammond Jr ..

Ra reveals his intention to send the atomic bomb brought by O ' Neil, which was to be used to destroy the Stargate to prevent invasion if a threat is discovered, back to Earth ; its destructive power is now to be enhanced 100-fold with an accompanying shipment of his quartzite-like material to produce cataclysmic results.

In 1982 Neil Young used a Sennheiser Vocoder VSM201 on six of the nine tracks on Trans.

Neil Innes was more diplomatic on the same show, saying " we used to think he had delusions of grandeur, now we know it's only grandeur ".

In Neil Gaiman's book Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion it is pointed out that essentially the same idea was used by the English humourist Paul Jennings in an article Ware, Wye, Watford, published in the late 1950s.

During this period, Coyne made his transition to a higher, more strained vocal style akin to Neil Young, which he first used on Telepathic Surgery's " Chrome Plated Suicide " and has employed ever since.

A London subterranean river, used as a sewer, is visited briefly in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.

The cemetery itself was used in the opening sequence of the 1988 feature film, Clara's Heart, starring Whoopi Goldberg and Neil Patrick Harris.

" Neil Young introduced him to an audiologist who suggested he use an In-ear monitor, and although they cancelled their spring 2010 touring schedule, Townshend used the device at their one remaining London concert on 30 March 2010, to ascertain the feasibility of Townshend continuing to perform with The Who.

The logo which, with slight variation, has been used since 1978. In 1978 Logan moved on, and his deputy Neil Spencer was made editor.

Among the stories drawn for Heavy Metal he continued the saga of his most famous creation, Den which had begun in the short film Neverwhere ( Neil Gaiman used the same title, Neverwhere, later, but the two creations have nothing common ) and a short story in the underground publication Grim Wit # 2.

According to Neil Strauss, " Though he weighs in at over 350 pounds, Mr. Burke carried his bulk as majestically as he used his voice.

He has used Seymour Duncan P-90s in all of his guitars since touring with Neil Young in the early 1990s.

The current Olympic class, the Neil Pryde RS: X was used for the first time in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

As the band recorded a follow-up album, cult filmmaker Quentin Tarantino used the group's cover version of the Neil Diamond song, " Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon ," in his 1994 movie Pulp Fiction.

The use of the Pixo OS in the iPod was never formally announced, although the first-generation iPod's " About iPod " display includes a mention of Pixo, and a Connectix biography of their VP of engineering Mike Neil mentions his role as " lead architect on the Pixo OS that is used in ... the Apple iPod ".

Performers who use acoustic 12-string guitars span a range of genres, from folk ( Arlo Guthrie, Keith Potger, John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, Ben Woodward, Pete Seeger and Noel Paul Stookey ), through reggae ( Bob Marley ), traditional blues ( Lead Belly, Blind Willie McTell, and Guy Davis ), folk rock ( Paul Simon, Neil Young, Tim Buckley, Gerry Beckley, John Allan Cameron ) and country ( Pinmonkey's Michael Reynolds, Taylor Swift and Mike Nesmith ), to rock bands ( Mark Tremonti of Creed and Alter Bridge, Jimi Hendrix on " Hear My Train A-Comin ", Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi, Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys, George Harrison, John Lennon of The Beatles, Robert Smith of The Cure, David Bowie for his " Space Oddity " live performances, Pete Townshend of The Who, Roger Hodgson ( ex-Supertramp ), who used acoustic 12-string on " Give a Little Bit ", " Even in the Quietest Moments ", " C ' est le Bon " and " Know Who You Are "; Melissa Etheridge, Tom Petty and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Greg Lake on " Lucky Man " and " Still ... You Turn Me On ", Brian May of Queen, Andy Partridge and Dave Gregory of XTC, and Nick Valensi of The Strokes ).

SMS messaging was used for the first time was on 3 December 1992, when Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old test engineer for Sema Group ( now Airwide Solutions ), used a personal computer to send the text message " Merry Christmas " via the Vodafone network to the phone of Richard Jarvis.

According to one of the CPU designers at ETA, Neil told a story that his son actually came up with the name-apparently a linotype machine has characters arranged in the order of frequency used in the English language ( etaoin / shrdlu / cmfwyp / vbgkqj / xz )-and the first 3 letters were used.

George Harrison owned one of their MS500 models, which were introduced in 1957 and famed British session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan owned and used a Maton ' Cello ' guitar for many years during the peak of his career, playing it on recordings with Sarah Vaughan, Sammy Davis, Jr., Johnny Keating and his Big Band and Neil Finn from Crowded House.