![]() ![]() I really did obsess over it and bury myself in it. “After a couple of years I found solace in working and writing. Geddy Lee thought it was the end of Rush and recorded a solo album. Roll the Bones was our answer to that.” Grace to Graceġ9, Neil Peart lost his daughter (car accident) and partner (cancer) and the band had pause their activities. We were just not very good at playing in a relaxed state. Rush has a tendency to play very hyper, very fast. And I think as our relationship evolved, Alex became more of the guy to convince, and Neil and I relaxed into our roles. I accepted that maybe I had taken it a bridge too far. “Alex was driving at that point and he made it very clear we were drowning under a synthy noise and he wanted the guitar to return to its rightful position. That’s the beauty of a relationship that lasts.” Roll The Bones As we grew as a band, I became trusted by him to be his sounding board and his editor, and if I couldn’t get into a thing, he would leave it alone. Being an interpreter for Neil has been a singular pleasure of mine and a really difficult job at the same time, because I’m not always on the same page as him. ![]() It has felt very comfortable at times, at times very uncomfortable. It served us very well.”Ībout Neil Peart writing almost all the lyrics of the band, Lee said: “It has felt odd at times. We decided that anything we were going to say no to instinctively, we would now say yes to. But we were going through a phase where we decided to take the George Costanza approach to our career. “When John Hamburg approached us about it, our instincts were to say no. The musician didn’t want to include “Tom Sawyer” on the list, he said: “But how could I not? It changed our lives.” He told the story of the song in the movie I Love You, Man, where the song was the central role as the glue that binds Jason Segel and Paul Rudd. Yes, it is an indulgence, but it seemed to be a pivotal moment for us in creating a fanbase that wanted us to be that way.” Tom Sawyer ![]() They just love it when we go into that crazy mode. I included it here because it surprised me how popular that song was among our fans. We thought: ‘We’re going to write this long piece and then we’ll just record it live off the floor and boom!’ But it was really difficult. “That was a song where I would have to say our ideas exceeded our ability to play them. When that whole thing came out in the press it seemed to take an odd political bent to it, which wasn’t really where we were at.” La Villa Strangiato The whole idea of that time in our lives was that we were trying to write original material and we didn’t want to compromise. We were influenced by Ayn Rand, yes, but to me The Fountainhead was an artistic manifesto. So we were prepared to go down with the ship, and we almost did.” “They really wanted us to be Bad Company 2 and we had loftier aspirations, so we stayed away from that and insisted on our own way of doing things. As far as I was concerned he was hired from the minute he started playing.” Then he sat down behind this kit and pummelled the drums – and us. And He comes in, this big goofy guy with a small drumkit, and Alex and I thought he was a hick from the country. He drove up in this little sports car, drums hanging out from every corner. To talk about 2112, Geddy Lee had to reveal how they met Neil Peart, that would become the band’s drummer.“He was one of the goofiest looking guys I’d ever seen. Finding My Way became a symbol to me of saving our first album.” 2112 ‘OK, let’s record that and one other song, and we’ll remix the others. When we heard it we were heartbroken.” Producer Terry Brown was hired to remix and asked the band for more songs. ![]() While recording their debut album they found that the initial mixes were “wimpy and weak. And then, when we turned 18, we became unpopular on the bar circuit because we were too loud.” You’d pull up in Magnetawan, Ontario, set up your gear and start playing and the crowd would be looking at you to say: ‘What is this? I can’t dance to this!’ So we started by being unpopular on the high school circuit. The greatest Rush songs according to Geddy Lee: Finding My Way ![]()
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