Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Def Leppard stars for Neil Peart tribute concert
It's streaming this weekend
More than 20 drummers from across the rock world will be taking part in a virtual livestream concert this weekend in honour of late-great Rush drummer Neil Peart.
Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins, Def Leppard’s Rick Allen, The Police’s Stewart Copeland, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, Carmine Appice, Mike Portnoy, Anthrax’s Charlie Benante and Brian Tichy are just some of the drummers paying tribute to Neil Peart as part of the one-night-only 2020 Modern Drummer Festival livestream concert.
Produced by LiveXLive, the show costs $12.99 (£9.99) to watch, and according to the official website, it’s also available to view in the UK. It takes place at 1am on Sunday morning (13th September) UK time. You can find out more details here.
Proceeds from the livestream will to benefit brain tumour research at Cedar-Sinai Medical centre in memory of Neil Peart.
The legendary Rush drummer and lyricist died after a heroic three-and-a-half-year battle with brain cancer in January 2020.
Alongside the live performances on Saturday (Sunday UK time), there will be special appearances from Eric Singer, Carl Palmer, John Good, Ari Gold, Eric Leiderman (Late Night with Seth Meyers), Don Lombardi, Jonathan Moffett, Chris Stankee, Eddie Trunk and Rob Wallis.
The full list of performers are as follows:
Rick Allen (Def Leppard)
Kenny Aronoff
Carmine Appice
Charlie Benente (Anthrax)
Gregg Bissonette (Ringo Starr)
Jason Bittner
Cindy Blackman-Santana
Keith Carlock
Stewart Copeland
Dom Famularo
Alex Gonzalez (Mana)
Gavin Harrison
Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters)
Thomas Lang
Ray Luzier (Korn)
Mike Portnoy
Jim Riley (Rascal Flatts)
66 Samus
Kristina Schiano
Danny Seraphine
Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Steve Smith
Wyatt Stav
Todd Sucherman (STYX)
Brian Tichy
Narada Michael Walden
Earlier this week, Rush vocalist and bassist Geddy Lee issued a statement confirming he wasn't dead despite trending on Twitter.