'We wanted some of the old-timers, like Joe Morello and Max Roach and Ed Shaughnessy, who were Buddy's peers,' says Peart. Rather than brood over the concert's failings, Peart 'got over my disappointment and replaced that with a resolve to do it again sometime.' A few years later, when space unexpectedly opened in Rush's schedule, Peart decided he'd found his 'sometime' and called Cathy Rich about assembling a tribute album.Д«etween them, they came up with a list that spanned a wide range of talent and reputation. Ultimately, that caused me to be a little disappointed with how it came out, because my expectations, as usual, were too high. 'It was a concert with six different drummers appearing with the band, so there were obvious technical and technological difficulties involved. 'I was both excited and tremendously intimidated by that,' he recalls. Cathy Rich, the drummer's daughter, asked him to perform at a Buddy Rich Memorial Scholarship Fund concert in New York. Peart got his chance in 1991, four years after Rich's death. So I saw that potential in big-band music, and kind of had an idea for a long time that I'd like to give it a go.' In Rush, we like to have our music well-arranged and presented, but then have freedom within that structure to express ourselves. 'There are certain parallels, too, in the way the music is constructed. 'It was the only other style of music I could imagine being satisfied by, other than what I did in Rush,' he says. Still, Peart retained a lingering fascination with big-band music.

Certainly, I've been a rock drummer all these nearly 30 years.' 'And when I was playing drums, it was rock that I was interested in. 'As soon as I was old enough to start listening to music for myself, I immediately rejected all my father's music and turned straight to rock,' he says, laughing. Not that this influence came out in his own playing. So that was kind of into my blood before I ever touched a pair of drumsticks.' 'My father was a fan, so around our house on the record player was always Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Sinatra, Tony Bennett and so on. 'I grew up with big-band music,' he explains over the phone. So what prompted him to produce a Buddy Rich tribute album? Well, it all goes back to his childhood.

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