He was the best drummer I heard on the radio back in the 80s so back then I rigged up our large home radio system and big speakers in my bedroom with my drum set and cranked up Tom Sawyer rewinding it over and over again on the tape player until I finally learned how to play Tom Sawyer and what a joy it was to play the entire song right without missing a beat. Another guy in school that I knew at the time also played drums and often practiced to Rush where he could play Tom Sawyer good as well. I never saw a man with better dream drum sets to have than Neil did. What fun it would have been to play on them. What I liked about him was he didn't do it for the fame, just for the love of music as he seemed to prefer to be left alone otherwise. He inspired a lot of drummers to become better ones and made a lot of people enjoy pretending to drum while listening to him, especially in their concerts.
..... as Atlas shrugs.