RUSH's Neil Peart Talks Fitness In Rare Interview
July 23, 2011, 13 years ago
In a rare interview, James S. Fell from the Los Angeles Times spoke with RUSH drum legend Neil Peart about how a rocker can keep his body a skin-smashing machine after 37 years in the same rock trio.
"Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint," said Peart. "The stamina aspect is great because you don't lose that with age so quickly. I know there will be a day when I just can't do it, but at 58 years of age it hasn't come yet. I can still play as fast and as powerful and as long as I ever could.""Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations," he added. "My mind is as busy as it can be, and so is my body; full output all the time."
Peart thinks, with apologies to their parents, that drumming is a good physical activity for kids.
"Years ago I got involved in a charity trying to help troubled kids and came up with a slogan: 'If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.' I can't do it professionally because it's so disciplined — I've got to control the band and tempos — but there is such a thing as getting a kid's aggression out on a drum set."Read the entire interview Latimes.com.
