“That’s all I want to say about that right now”: Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee admit they record their weekly jam sessions, but are coy about what they’re recording them for
While a Rush reunion seems unlikely to materialise anytime soon, fans can take comfort in knowing that Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee are keeping the music alive in their own way.
As the two surviving members of the Canadian prog rock outfit following drummer Neil Peart’s passing in 2020, the duo recently revealed that they have been meeting regularly for jam sessions.
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“It’s good to jam with friends as you get older,” Lifeson shares in a recent conversation with Classic Rock. “I need to play. Once a week I go to Ged’s — it’s in the calendar — keep my fingers moving, play Rush stuff, new jams.”
The sessions are also recorded, but before you get your hopes up, Lifeson makes it clear that it’s still uncertain what — if anything — will come of them.
“We do record it, but I couldn’t even begin to tell you where it’ll go,” the guitarist muses.
Equally tight-lipped about the sessions, Lee offered little more beyond his enduring friendship with Lifeson, saying, “Al and I are lifelong friends. We jam together once in a while, it’s true. That’s all I want to say about that right now.”
Also in the chat, Lifeson reveals he’s been spending the summer getting back into the groove of playing and writing music again after taking a break from it all due to his day jobs.
“This was a summer that I dedicated to being at home for my family and also to be able to get my fingers back in shape and to get my head around writing different things, writing poetry and prose,” he says. “And I don’t know if that will end in those things becoming songs, if they’ll surface in music or be left as prose. I don’t know.”
“But I needed this time to touch base with all those things that made me a musician and all those things that I had been ignoring to do these other projects. And that’s where I am. I’m sort of at a crossroads where I don’t know which way that will go. But I feel better prepared if I do decide to step into the breach and make music again.”
Last May, Lee and Lifeson came together for a one-off show to honour Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist Gordon Lightfoot, sparking hopes of a full-fledged reunion further down the line. Despite the thrill of playing Rush songs once again though, Lifeson later told Classic Rock that he has no plans to reform the group, for fear that they will tarnish the band’s cherished legacy.
“After those two gigs and the months of prep Ged and I went through, I was excited by the response and to be in the dressing room again with so many fellow artists in Wembley and LA I respected and felt a kinship towards,” Lifeson said. “But after a few weeks that wore off and it occurred to me that despite all the pain of loss, Rush went out on a high note playing as well as ever with one of our best stage shows on R40.”
“I guess I’d rather be remembered for that legacy than returning as the top Rush tribute band.”
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