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Geddy Lee Answers if Fans Will Ever See Rush Live Again: ‘It’s Possible’
“It’s been eight years since the last Rush gig. To start the whole thing up again takes an incredible amount of koyech.”
Nov 14, 2023 by The_Phoenician [UG Writer] 52,700
Geddy Lee Answers if Fans Will Ever See Rush Live Again: ‘It’s Possible’
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Geddy Lee said it was “possible” for him to play [as] Rush again in a live setting, and also mused on the idea of staging a Rush tribute show alongside Alex Lifeson.
It’s been five years since it was announced that the beloved Canadian prog-rock trio would definitely be retiring and three since drummer Neil Peart’s tragic passing all but cemented the end of Rush in the eyes of both fans and its two surviving members. Although he didn’t go out of his way to get back on the stage again, Geddy Lee tells the “Los Angeles Times” in a new interview that he does miss being up there:
“Oh fuck yeah, enormously. It was hard for me when Neil [Peart] announced he was going to retire, which is a word I refused to hear, la la la. Do I miss the adulation? No. But I miss the sound of the crowd a little bit. When I go see my friends on tour, I am jealous. They’re still enjoying it.”
“It’s been eight years since the last Rush gig. To start the whole thing up again takes an incredible amount of koyech [Yiddish for strength]. Would I do it again? [pauses] It’s possible. Will I do something else musically? It’s possible. Now that I’ve turned myself into a farkakte [Yiddish for lousy] writer, I have to get this out of the way first.”
As for whether he sees Rush being out there again, Geddy said:
“There could be a show that paid tribute to the songs of Rush. I would never say there will never be another Rush show. We get approached all the time.”
Looking back on how he and Alex get approached “all the time” by drummers willing to try and fill Neil’s shoes, Geddy said:
“At the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert [in September 2022], Alex and I played with Dave Grohl and a bunch of other drummers. Neil would have loved it. I know he was looking down at us — or looking up at us [laughs] — and thinking, F—, that would have been fun.”
With his upcoming memoir “My Effin’ Life” just around the corner, the bassist has been making rounds with the media as of late, giving fans the opportunity to understand his position concerning Rush’s future (or even if it has one).
Recently, Geddy said that going out there as Rush “had been a taboo subject, and playing those songs again with a third person was the elephant in the room, and that kind of disappeared.” He added:
“It was nice to know that if we decide to go out, Alex and I, whether we went out as part of a new thing or whether we just wanted to go out and play Rush as Rush, we could do that now.
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