Neil Peart’s Original RUSH Drum Set “Chromey” Sells for $500,000

Neil Peart Drum Kit Chromey Sold at Auction

The first nice drum kit that Neil Peart purchased after joining the band Rush was a 1974 Slingerland 7-piece drum set. Neil later recalled, “I don’t remember being particularly fixed on getting Slingerlands. I think I just saw them on the music-store floor and fell in love with them.” And loved them he did. Someone […]

Art Blakey – In Memoriam – October 16, 1990

This week we honor the late great jazz drumming icon, Art Blakey, who lived from October 11, 1919 until October 16, 1990. Art Blakey was a Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader and is known, alongside Kenny Clarke and Max Roach as one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming. Blakey was […]