Neil Peart died.

[Doktor Howl]

[trippinprincezz13]

Brain cancer too. That's awful 

I've always enjoyed Rush, but I've heard (before and since his passing) that a lot of Neil's writing was really good too. May have to check it out at some point soon.

[LMNO]

...this is gonna disrespect the dead, but whatever.  Dude was a Randian. As in Ayn.

Good drummer, tho.

[Doktor Howl]

...this is gonna disrespect the dead, but whatever.  Dude was a Randian. As in Ayn.

Good drummer, tho.

Yeah, 2112 was a dead giveaway for that. 

But unless an artist is goose-stepping around with swastikas on them, I normally don't care what an artist's politics are.  As Plato said, all artists are trouble to begin with.  And drummers are just trouble that lurk in darkness.

[Doktor Howl]

That being said, it requires a degree of specialness to think Ayn Rand was a "genius" or even "readable".

[trippinprincezz13]

...this is gonna disrespect the dead, but whatever.  Dude was a Randian. As in Ayn.

Good drummer, tho.

Interesting. Do not think I knew that. I like the band, thought he was a good drummer, but didn't follow personal/political lives that closely. Kind of makes sense with the few people that told me he was a good writer, though.

[LMNO]

Also, when you think about it, the protagonist in "Red Barchetta" is the bad guy.

[Doktor Howl]

...this is gonna disrespect the dead, but whatever.  Dude was a Randian. As in Ayn.

Good drummer, tho.

Interesting. Do not think I knew that. I like the band, thought he was a good drummer, but didn't follow personal/political lives that closely. Kind of makes sense with the few people that told me he was a good writer, though.

It was sorta stamped right on the cover of 2112.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Neil who?

[Doktor Howl]

Neil who?

Some Canuck.  You never heard of him because he's a drummer.