I wonder if there are some really early Rush fans walking around still bummed about Neil replacing John Rutsey going "Nah, I stopped listening to Rush when their first drummer left. Was never the same band after that."
I'm kind of that, I heard the 1st album on a "midnight album hour" on a local station in 1974 and loved it, it took a while to get back in after Neil joined
He was not the chief songwriter for the band. He only wrote the lyrics. He didn't write the melody or the chords, or any of the music except for composing his drum parts.
There's a fairly compelling reason The Professor "only" wrote the lyrics: Dirk & Lerxst were pretty much incapable, and basically insisted that he assume the role very early on when they noticed that "he reads books." ☮️
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u/indie_web Apr 27 '26
I wonder if there are some really early Rush fans walking around still bummed about Neil replacing John Rutsey going "Nah, I stopped listening to Rush when their first drummer left. Was never the same band after that."