Alright. You would possibly need to sit down, prog-rock devoted, as a result of this one’s gonna sting a little bit.
Rush—sure, that Rush—have been jamming once more. The surviving duo of Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reunited in 2025. Effectively… not precisely. Based on the fellows themselves, it doesn’t sound like a divine rock resurrection.
Final yr, Lifeson mirrored on his weekly periods with Lee. He mentioned: “We simply picked some Rush songs and we began taking part in them and we sound like a very, actually dangerous Rush tribute band.”
First off, let’s acknowledge the plain. Neil Peart is gone. The Professor, the wordsmith, the metronome from one other galaxy—he handed away in 2020 after a brutal battle with mind most cancers. And with him, most followers assumed, went any probability of a real Rush comeback.
Even Geddy and Alex admitted they had been finished. And never within the wishy-washy rockstar retirement tour form of manner. It was actual. It was grief. Alex even mentioned he didn’t contact music for over a yr after Neil died.
However grief does unusual issues. And time—nicely, time softens the sharpest edges. In latest interviews, together with one with Q104.3’s Ken Dashow, Alex Lifeson opened up on jam periods with Geddy.
It began small. Simply the 2 of them. No grand plans. No world tour. Simply two finest mates in a room, goofing round with the devices that after crammed stadiums.