While Rush officially moved beyond the lighted stage following the death of Neil Peart in 2020, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson recently hinted there may be more to the band’s future. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, the surviving bassist and guitarist danced around the idea of playing with a replacement for the formidable drummer.
Despite Rush’s inactivity from the stage and the studio following Peart’s sudden passing from brain cancer, the remaining members have kept busy. CBS reporter Jim Axelrod caught up with Geddy and Alex at a brewery in Toronto over a few pints of Rush’s Canadian Golden Ale while Lee plugged his new memoir, My Effin’ Life. Since its publication last month, the bassist has grabbed headlines with stories about the time he was briefly fired from the band, doing cocaine during Neil’s drum solos, and even the last time he saw the drummer alive.
“We all think we know ourselves,” Lee told Axelrod of writing his long-awaited memoir. “It takes sometimes a deep dive like that to turn over all the stones and see ‘wow, that was me.’”
In addition to sitting for interviews, Lee is also out on the road promoting the book on a speaking tour. Between publicity interviews and his onstage appearances, Geddy has expressed interest in working with Alex again and indicated that they both have a desire to write songs together. Knowing Rush’s fans, he has also made sure to level expectations that this does not necessarily mean a full-fledged Rush reunion.
“We don’t know whether that will bear fruit or not,” Lee said in a TV interview last month. “If it does bear fruit, great. Then we might release some songs.”
Asked point blank on-camera whether he and Alex would tour with a ringer on drums, the answer remained murky with Lee responding, “Have we talked about it? Yeah. Will it happen? It’s not impossible but at this point I can’t guarantee it.”
Lifeson, however, was slightly more optimistic, saying, “It’s just not in our DNA to stop.”
Should they choose to go out and play Rush songs again, Geddy and Alex wouldn’t have any shortage of able volunteers. Since Peart’s passing, the remaining two-thirds of the band have performed Rush classics with Tool‘s Danny Carey at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert as well as Primus‘ Tim “Herb” Alexander at the South Park 25th-anniversary shows. Just last month, Lifeson reconnected with Tool once again when he sat in with the band on “Jambi” in Toronto.
Though the future is still uncertain, for now, Geddy and Alex seem content cranking out official Rush beer and mustard and titillating fans with the possibilities of a reunion.
“Do what you believe, because if you do what someone else believes and you fail you got nothing,” Lee said. “If you do what you believe and you fail you still have hope.”
What’s next for Rush? | CBS Sunday Morning
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