A potential RUSH reunion is likely to be on the horizon, as surviving members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson have been jamming a few of the band’s songs collectively.
Lifeson mentioned his new follow regiment with Final Traditional Rock, revealing that he’s been assembly up with Geddy in-person to jam RUSH songs — one thing they haven’t achieved usually since 2015, when the band performed its ultimate exhibits.
“We determined that we’d play some RUSH songs,” Lifeson stated. “As a result of, you already know, we haven’t performed these songs in 10 years. We began that a few weeks in the past. We get collectively at some point per week over at his place.”
To date, it’s been gradual going, because the guitarist and bassist ease again into the advanced songs they helped write collectively years/a long time in the past.
“We simply picked some RUSH songs and we began enjoying them and we sound like a extremely, actually unhealthy Rush tribute band,” stated Lifeson.
He continued: “Attempting to determine the songs, I’m considering, ‘Why did we write that so tough? Why is that this so arduous to play?’ After about three run-throughs of all of those songs, muscle reminiscence kicks in and your hand simply goes to the place it goes. You form of get out of the best way and also you play and also you go, ‘Thank God, I did make this less complicated than it felt.’”
As Lifeson and Lee’s fingers are “getting limber” and their “calluses are increase once more,” we are able to solely assume that the 2 will finally start enjoying the songs with a drummer.
Final yr, Lee insinuated {that a} RUSH reunion may occur, and that he was engaged on Lifeson to contemplate touring once more. Again in 2021, Lifeson insisted that there was “no approach RUSH will ever exist once more” following the 2020 passing of drummer Neil Peart.