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IN PRAISE OF PEART

I’d like to say my profound thanks to all for an emotional, thoughtful and excellent feature on the much-missed Neil Peart. I have to admit, the Friday the news broke, I got a little emotional waiting for my taxi to work, and the thought-provoking yet excellent words from Jerry Ewing did their work and got me emotional again. You did as fine a job of music journalism as I’ve ever read. I’d like to think Neil himself would have appreciated it.

Sean Dunne

STICKING WITH NEIL

If you’ve been a fan of music for as long as I have, you hear every once in a while about guitarists who are trying to “play like Jerry”, a reference to the late Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. They buy a guitar like his, amps like his, effects boxes like his and then they try

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