#738 The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, R.I.P. Neil Peart & Opinions on Beach Slang

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🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys elevated pop music to new artistic heights with the band's 1966 masterpiece Pet Sounds. With its ingenious orchestrations and earnest lyrics, the album remains an enormous influence to this day. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot present a Classic Album Dissection of Pet Sounds. They also review the new album from punk band Beach Slang and bid farewell to Neil Peart of Rush.

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0:00.0	You're listening to sound opinions and today we are revisiting our classic album
0:04.1	dissection of the Beach Boys' orchestral masterpiece Pet Sounds. But first, Greg,
0:09.9	very sad news, we have to bid farewell farewell to the great drummer of Rush, Neil Peert. Neil died at age 67 on January 7th was announced a couple of days after he passed in California. He was only 67 years old.
0:35.5	He had been battling brain cancer. We got to interview his bandmates, Alex Lifson, and Getty Lee of the band. It was so exciting for us. We wish we had the
0:46.6	professor, but Neil Pier was already pulling back from the group because of the
0:51.5	physical toll he said the drumming was taking.
0:54.3	We now know he was already fighting brain cancer at that point.
0:57.6	Why is this death hitting people so hard in the rock world?
1:02.0	There is the rush cadre of super fan, but above and beyond in any genre,
1:10.4	people who appreciate drumming love Neil Piers. As a drummer, you very graciously thought I could
1:18.6	speak to that. Most of the obituaries I've been reading in the mainstream media have been talking about people
1:24.4	like Chad Smith or the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stephen Perkins of Jane's addiction, the
1:29.0	guys in Primus and Dream Theater.
1:31.1	Okay, there was a level of progressive rock technical virtuosity that
1:35.8	Neil Piert brought to his drumming that is undeniable, but his big influences in addition to virtuosic masters like Buddy Rich.
1:45.4	He loved the big band drummer Buddy Rich.
1:47.9	He loved Ginger Baker of Green.
1:50.3	He also loved John Bonham.
1:52.4	It is my thesis as a drummer, but no matter how complicated the
1:57.0	complicated 7-eighths time signatures, Pert was always keeping that hard rock rhythmic pulse. You never lost that. He may have he was
2:07.2	infamous for playing surrounded by dozens of drums, gong bass drums, crotales, right?
2:15.0	I'm thinking of those wonderful tuned percussion Ziljan,
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