Nothing wrong with that. While I am sure there were some girls to be had, these guys never got into the booze and drugs and groupies thing. Peart more than anything else read to start with. He still goes off to a quiet spot to read after he does his warm up in the bubba gump room they set up for him. While they all have done drugs and quite like a drink or two there is no addiction problems in the band. Might speak to why they can play such complicated music so well and still rock out heading into sixty. They do a three hour show which is a marathon playing live.
All are married and have kids now.
He sure works hard at it. From what I have read, he stops drumming altogether after a tour is done and gets into being a home body with his family. He has other interests like writing prose and travel. I think that he has toured so much that even when he doesn't tour, he'll tour without playing. Loves hiking and used to ride a bicycle first around cities they would play in, then from city to city then a bike tour of Africa. He then got a motorcycle and after he learned to ride, he started doing some runs, then while the other guys bought a plane to fly from show to show, he rented a bus and driver, with a trailer for the bikes, and travels to most of the shows by motorcycle. He usually takes a riding buddy along, Michael in the US and Brutus in Canada, Europe and South America.
They guy is a hardcore iron ass. Covers thousands of miles a year by motorcycle and not on the freeways either.
I played bass professionally when I was young, and having a family I had to let that go and work to make sure we had what we needed and provide my share of the parenting duties along side my wife. Better for the lids that way we think. A few years ago I started playing guitar as a hobby and have found quite a bit of joy in learning a new instrument. Music is technical, as technical as physics, computer science or anything else, but the beauty of it is that all that still gets reduced down to the lowest common denominator. The tapping foot. Get that and you get music. The more I learn about music the more there seems that I can learn about music.
Yeah Burning For Buddy. Excellent stuff! Buddy Rich was an altogether different animal. Kinda like Miles Davis or Beethoven.
