{"id":974372,"date":"2020-01-11T07:03:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T14:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=936560"},"modified":"2020-01-11T07:03:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T14:03:06","slug":"metallicas-lars-ulrich-pays-tribute-to-rush-drummer-neil-peart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/metallicas-lars-ulrich-pays-tribute-to-rush-drummer-neil-peart\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallica\u2019s Lars Ulrich Pays Tribute to Rush Drummer Neil Peart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Metallica\u2019s Lars Ulrich<\/a> paid tribute Neil Peart<\/a> Friday, soon after it was revealed that the legendary Rush<\/a> drummer died<\/a> earlier in the week at the age of 67.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThank you Neil,\u201d Ulrich wrote on Instagram. \u201cThank you for inspiring me and for all your help and advice along the way, especially in the early days when you took the time to talk to a young green Danish drummer about recording, gear and the possibilities that lay ahead\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ulrich continued, \u201cThank you for what you did for drummers all over the world with your passion, your approach, your principles and your unwavering commitment to the instrument!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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As Ulrich revealed in a 2014 Guitar Center interview<\/a>, Metallica\u2019s manager in their early years, Cliff Burnstein, also signed Rush to Mercury Records a decade earlier, so the band sometimes leaned on Rush for advice. \u201c[Burnstein] said \u2018You want to talk about Neil Peart about drums?\u2019\u2026 Talking to Neil was like the god of gods,\u201d Ulrich said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo I actually managed to get enough guts to dial the phone number that I was given and I called him and it\u2019s like I spoke to Neil Peart for a half an hour about Tama drums, it was pretty amazing.\u201d Soon after, Tama sent Ulrich a drum kit to his specifications; the Metallica drummer continues to use Tama drums to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peart died Tuesday following a lengthy and unpublicized battle with brain cancer. Metallica also paid tribute to Peart by posting a previously recorded concert video of guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo jamming out Rush\u2019s \u201cTom Sawyer\u201d onstage:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rest In Peace, Neil\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/ceZXPYaSdd<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Metallica (@Metallica) January 11, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Metallica\u2019s Lars Ulrich paid tribute Neil Peart Friday, soon after it was revealed that the legendary Rush drummer died earlier in the week at the age of 67. \u201cThank you Neil,\u201d Ulrich wrote on Instagram. \u201cThank you for inspiring me and for all your help and advice along the way, especially in the early days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 18:18:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}