Neil Peart's News, Weather, and Sports Archives

     Back in July of 2005, Neil Peart launched his official website at www.neilpeart.net. At that time, Neil began to post blog updates under the heading of 'News, Weather, and Sports'. His entries usually included some information on Rush however, more often that not, Neil's updates included varied details of the adventures in his life; be it traveling across the globe on his motorcycle, becoming a new father again, working on a new drumming project or catching up on his extensive reading list.

     Because Neil's writings have touched many Rush fans across the globe, I thought it fitting to create an archive of all of his entries here at Cygnus-X1.Net. While some of the most recent entries are still available at www.neilpeart.net, all of the older entries dating back to the launch of Neil's site in 2005 are no longer available.

     Until now.

     Below is Neil's original introduction to his website along with links to each of his 'News, Weather, and Sports' updates - complete with the original images that accompanied many of the entries.

     Enjoy-

Hello, and welcome.

Right off the top, I must confess that when Michael, my on-tour riding partner and a professional computer maven, first suggested this idea, I hadn't envisioned anything nearly so GRAND - maybe just a page showing my books, the instructional video, the Buddy Rich tributes, that kind of thing, and linking back to rush.com.

However, just like those projects themselves, and so many others I seem to get involved in, the idea kind of grew with the telling.

Michael contacted Greg Russell, who had registered the domain name a few years previously. A fellow motorcyclist, fellow drummer, and longtime Rush fan from New Jersey, now living in California, Greg had been inspired to register the name by my book Ghost Rider, wanting to reach out somehow in a sympathetic tribute, and give me what he described as a "cyber-hug."

Greg's burgeoning career as a TV and film graphic designer kept him too busy to develop the site on his own, and although our paths almost crossed a few times, through mutual friends, he was content to leave it up to "natural forces." It turned out that Michael contacting Greg was what I described in Ghost Rider as, "...'the principle of serendipitous confluence.' Or more simply, finding the right person at the right time."

Michael and Greg put their heads together, and once they started "cooking," I realized this site was going to be a lot more elaborate than a "page."

Still, I wanted it to remain a kind of satellite to the official Rush site, focused on stuff that was more-or-less separate from the band. Stuff that was "all about me."

I'm not sure yet how it will develop in the future, but we'll try a few things, and see what works. For now, apart from the above-named solo projects, I will start a list of other people's CDs and books that have caught my attention lately, and I'll try to keep up with that (no promises!).

Thanks for dropping by, and I hope you enjoy the site.

(And sincere thanks to Michael and Greg for working so hard to make it happen.)

- Neil Peart