Neil Peart was as soon as requested by Godsmack singer Sully Erna if he would play on one of many band’s songs. He politely declined, however he had a very good clarification for it.
Talking with Revolver, Erna recalled asking the Rush drummer, whose 2002 ebook Ghost Rider: Travels on the Therapeutic Street had straight impressed Erma to put in writing a tune known as “Serenity.” As luck would have it, Rush was taking part in in Miami across the similar time Godsmack was recording their third album, Faceless, at Standards Studios. “Neil’s assistant reached out to my assistant on the time,” Erna recalled. “He is like, ‘Hey, we’re on the town. We all know you guys are followers of the band, and Sully all the time talks about Neil and he’d like to have you ever guys on the present.”
After they met, Erna confirmed Peart the lyrics to “Serenity” and requested if he could be taken with taking part in drums on the observe. However Peart gently turned it down. “He mentioned, ‘You will see in the future while you’re nicely into your 50s that while you’re on break, you are on break. And as soon as that is performed, I will be taking a while off,'” Erna mentioned. “And now I get it as a result of I am in my 50s.”
The 2 musicians went on to take care of a friendship that lasted till Peart died in 2020.
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“After I obtained the decision, it was like a giant a part of my life ended there, too, as a result of, you understand, he was an incredible affect,” Erna mentioned on the time. “I am unable to even articulate how a lot this man meant to me, and the way huge of an inspiration he was and an affect on me being a musician. He was one of many every little thing folks in my life.”
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