Legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart died on January 7, 2020 and a few drummers clearly had no concept what the phrase “having an oz of respect” means.
In an interview with Q104.3, Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson mentioned drummers started hitting up Rush about probably filling in for Peart inside minutes of the announcement of his dying. As a result of nothing says, “I am an enormous fan of your band,” fairly like asking, “hey, your greatest pal of literal a long time died however can I fill his sneakers instantly?” Idiots.
“Oh, properly, yeah, after all, as a result of we’re bombarded by it on a regular basis. After Neil handed, it did not take various minutes earlier than we began getting e-mails from all types of drummers who needed to audition for the band, considering that we had been simply gonna change any individual that we performed with for 40 years who wrote all of the lyrics for our music. I do not know what a few of these folks had been considering.
Lifeson added: “So, yeah, we have had the dialog, as a result of we won’t keep away from it. However truthfully, Ged is my greatest pal. I speak to him — I need to speak to him every single day. We get collectively for dinner, we play tennis, we’re doing all this charity work collectively. He is my greatest bud, so, yeah, I’m going over there. He performs bass, I play guitar — yeah, we’ll play a bit bit. I’m going over there ostensibly to play with him and we find yourself simply sitting and consuming espresso and laughing the entire day.
“So it is not simply Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush. I’ve a deep loving relationship with this man, and it is not all about creating one thing that we did from the previous. You by no means know what life brings you. Proper now I am tremendous blissful doing what I am doing. I am engaged with a number of musical stuff. I like being a musician. I like enjoying guitar. I like enjoying guitar a lot. It is not only a car for making a dwelling. It is me. It is on the core of my essence. So it does not should be about Rush or Envy Of None. I imply, I do what I do.”
As for the way forward for Rush or Rush-related actions, it looks like there’s a complete lotta nothing happening. Although presumably one thing this summer time? Although that appears like a protracted shot.
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