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Thursday’s Gordon Lightfoot tribute concert at Toronto’s Massey Hall was full of high-profile talent, but one performance stood out among the rest: a surprise reunion of Rush‘s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. The duo, who were not announced on the bill ahead of time, joined house band Blue Rodeo to perform “The Way I Feel” in honor of Lightfoot, who died last May at age 84. You can watch the performance below. Other fellow Canadian artists gathered to pay tribute to the late singer-songwriter included former Guess Who singer Burton Cummings, “Life Is a Highway” rocker Tom Cochrane, City and Colour...
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According to Alex Lifeson, the possibility of a Rush reunion is slim, describing the unlikely event as “a money ploy.” “So many people remember us, and there’s sadness amongst our fans that it ended, and they want more, but you can’t go back,” he said in a recent interview with classicrockhistory.com. “We can’t just go and get another drummer, and go out and play concerts, and make new material. It just would not be the same. It would just be a money ploy.” Lifeson said that the band is asked frequently about getting back together — including whether or not they’ll hire a new drummer to join t...
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Alex Lifeson recently discovered a brilliant new practice regimen to keep his chops up: playing Rush songs with former bandmate Geddy Lee. It’s something they hadn’t done regularly in nearly a decade, as Rush played their final show in 2015 and called it quits after the death of drummer Neil Peart in January 2020. But lately, the guitarist has been getting a kick out of casually revisiting the band’s catalog with Lee. “We decided that we would play some Rush songs. Because, you know, we haven’t played these songs in 10 years,” Lifeson tells UCR. “We started that a couple of weeks ago. We get t...
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Alex Lifeson recently discovered a brilliant new practice regimen to keep his chops up: playing Rush songs with former bandmate Geddy Lee. It’s something they hadn’t done regularly in nearly a decade, as Rush played their final show in 2015 and called it quits after the death of drummer Neil Peart in January 2020. But lately, the guitarist has been getting a kick out of casually revisiting the band’s catalog with Lee. “We decided that we would play some Rush songs. Because, you know, we haven’t played these songs in 10 years,” Lifeson tells UCR. “We started that a couple of weeks ago. We get t...
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Alex Lifeson appears as a guest on a brand new song by the prog rock trio Trifecta, titled “Once Around the Sun With You.” The track comes ahead of Trifecta’s upcoming album, The New Normal, which will be released April 12. “‘Once Around the Sun With You’ is an anniversary song written for my wife in commemoration of all the years she’s put up with me,” bassist and singer Nick Beggs explained of the track. “Need I say more. The woman is a saint.” You can listen to the song below. Beggs formed Trifecta in 2021 with his fellow Steven Wilson bandmates Craig Blundell and Adam Holzman. The offshoot...
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