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Primus drummer recounts how a "crazy Neil Peart solo " helped him get his start

Tue, Dec 5, 2006@9:20AM | comments removed/disabled

[Primus drummer makes himself at home in Valley]

Most Rush fans are familiar with alternative-metal/thrash-funk band Primus. All three members cite Rush as a major influence and they toured with Rush on both the Roll the Bones and Counterparts tours. After a short hiatus in 2002 they reunited and are currently finishing up a tour. Drummer Tim Alexander recently spoke with The Arizona Republic. He discusses how his career got started and recounts his first professional gig which was as a session drummer:

... "I played what was basically a crazy (Rush drummer) Neil Peart solo. It was completely inappropriate for studio work, but he put me in touch with a band who was looking for a drummer," he reminisces.

That band was Major Lingo, now a veteran of the Arizona music scene, then a nascent group of hippies playing eclectic jam rock in Jerome. In 1985 Alexander packed up his equipment and hopped a Greyhound bus for Flagstaff.

"I had my drums in cardboard boxes and pillowcases and my girlfriend's father drove me down to Jerome. The music was like nothing I'd listened to before, but we clicked and I got the gig," he says. "Lingo was a good time, they introduced me to a lot of different music - I was always basically a Rush-Led Zeppelin kind of drummer and they introduced me to all this ska and folk and world music." ...

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