In keeping with Alex Lifeson, the potential for a Rush reunion is slim, describing the unlikely occasion as “a cash ploy.”
“So many individuals keep in mind us, and there is disappointment amongst our followers that it ended, they usually need extra, however you possibly can’t return,” he mentioned in a latest interview with classicrockhistory.com. “We won’t simply go and get one other drummer, and exit and play live shows, and make new materials. It simply wouldn’t be the identical. It will simply be a cash ploy.”
Lifeson mentioned that the band is requested continuously about getting again collectively — together with whether or not or not they will rent a brand new drummer to be part of the band in placement of the late Neil Peart — however the guitarist says he is really “pleased with the truth that we’ve not, and that it was over when it was over.”
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“We toured for 41 years, and Neil [Peart] was completed,” he defined. “He could not play like he did 10 years earlier, and it was very troublesome; he didn’t wish to play even one proportion lower than excellent. That was comprehensible. And it was unhappy when it was over, and all of that, however on reflection, we went out on a excessive word, and that is the legacy of Rush.”
Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee Jamming to Rush
Lifeson lately advised UCR that he and bassist Geddy Lee have been casually jamming to Rush songs collectively currently.
“We determined that we might play some Rush songs. As a result of, you realize, we’ve not performed these songs in 10 years,” he mentioned. “We began that a few weeks in the past. We get collectively in the future per week over at his place. We simply picked some Rush songs and we began enjoying them and we sound like a very, actually unhealthy Rush tribute band.”
However, Lifeson careworn, the jamming is only for pleasure.
“I am 70. It is not as simple to get my fingers to do what my mind tells me to do,” he defined. “They are much lazier than they was they usually have a poor reminiscence. Doing this actually helps rather a lot, and it is enjoyable. That is it. The entire thing was that to start with, it was simply enjoyable. We’re having a riot collectively doing that. There is no rhyme or motive. We’re not planning on going again on the street, discovering a brand new drummer or something like that. It is simply enjoyable to do it.”
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