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29 апр 2025 :	RUSH's ALEX LIFESON: 'Moving Pictures' Was 'The Most Fun Record We Ever Made'
25 апр 2025 :	ALEX LIFESON On Possibility Of Performing With GEDDY LEE Again: 'We'll See What Happens'
16 апр 2025 :	RUSH's ALEX LIFESON On His Mindset After NEIL PEART's Death: 'I Didn't Really Wanna Play' Music
15 апр 2025 :	RUSH's ALEX LIFESON: 'I'm Just A Guy Who Loves Playing Guitar'
13 апр 2025 :	RUSH's ALEX LIFESON: NEIL PEART Was 'Amazing To Work With'
11 апр 2025 :	RUSH's ALEX LIFESON Is Open To Writing Book About His 40 Years On The Road
26 мар 2025 :	ALEX LIFESON Doesn't Mind Constantly Answering Questions About RUSH: 'I Get It. It's Okay.'
18 мар 2025 :	NEIL PEART's Brother DANNY PEART Dies Of Same Type Of Cancer That Killed RUSH Drummer
17 мар 2025 :	ALEX LIFESON Says He And GEDDY LEE Were Invited To Take Part In OZZY OSBOURNE's Final Concert
15 мар 2025 :	RUSH's ALEX LIFESON Says Drummers Reached Out To Him And GEDDY LEE Within 'Minutes' Of Finding Out About NEIL PEART's Death
28 янв 2025 :	RUSH Announces First-Ever Career Spanning Anthology 'Rush 50'
17 янв 2025 :	ALEX LIFESON Says RUSH 'Went Out On A High Note': 'I'd Rather Be Remembered For That Legacy Than Returning As The Top RUSH Tribute Band'
3 янв 2025 :	BRIAN TICHY Performs Drums Only Cover Of RUSH Classic "Tom Sawyer" - "I've Been Practicing This Since 7th Grade"; Video
21 дек 2024 :	RUSH's ALEX LIFESON Presented With 'Lifetime Achievement Award' By NATIONAL GUITAR MUSEUM
30 окт 2024 :	RUSH To Release 'The Albums: 1989-1996' Six-LP ATLANTIC Years Box Set
29 окт 2024 :	RUSH's GEDDY LEE To Release '72 Stories' Book About His Baseball Memorabilia Collection
26 окт 2024 :	RUSH Share Classic "Freewill" And "Closer To The Heart" Performance Videos From 1981
15 окт 2024 :	RUSH Share More Classic Performance Videos From Montreal, 1981
14 окт 2024 :	RUSH Share Three More Classic Performance Videos From 1981
6 окт 2024 :	RUSH - Official 1981 Performance Videos Unearthed
17 сен 2024 :	GEDDY LEE Pays Tribute To Late Bass Legend HERBIE FLOWERS - "To His Peers And Fellow Bass Folk He Was A Bright And Shining Star"
9 авг 2024 :	New Unauthorized RUSH Book 'Rush At 50' Due In September
21 июл 2024 :	Classic Solo Albums From ALEX LIFESON And GEDDY LEE To Be Reissued
28 май 2024 :	Watch: RUSH's GEDDY LEE And ALEX LIFESON Perform At GORDON LIGHTFOOT Tribute Concert In Toronto
19 май 2024 :	ALEX LIFESON: GEDDY LEE And I Get 'Substantial' Offers 'All The Time' To Perform Together Again
14 май 2024 :	ALEX LIFESON On Possibility Of RUSH Carrying On With New Drummer: 'It Would Just Be A Money Ploy'

3 дек 2023

GEDDY LEE On Finding 'Lost' Solo Demos: 'It Really Lifted Me Up And Made Me Remember How Much Fun It Is To Make Records'

In a new interview with Q104.3's "Out Of The Box With Jonathan Clarke", RUSH bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee, who is promoting his newly released memoir, "My Effin' Life", talked about how he rediscovered two unfinished demo songs made in the late 1990s. "Gone" and "I Am... You Are" were originally written for his 2000 solo effort "My Favourite Headache", but they didn't end up on the album. Lee came across them while sifting through the archives for "My Effin' Life".

"During the course of writing the book, my co-writer on 'My Favourite Headache' came across these demos that we had sort of forgotten about," Geddy said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). "And there are two songs. I talk about them in the book a little bit. One of them is a song called 'Gone' that I had written just after Neil's [Peart, RUSH drummer] daughter, Selena [Taylor], had passed away tragically in that car accident [in 1997 at the age of 19]. [Editor's note: Peart's wife died less than a year later of cancer.] And when you lose somebody, you relive a lot of your other losses. And I was thinking about how does one deal with a sudden disappearance of someone from your life, especially a daughter. So I wrote this song with Ben [Mink]. It was the first song we wrote for 'My Favourite Headache', and we demoed it, but it just felt — it was beautiful, but I felt it was too raw. It was too close to the bone. I didn't think it was appropriate to release it, out of respect for Neil and the way he was. I didn't feel it was right. So we shelved it. And the other one was a song that we had left sort of incomplete, but most of it had been recorded. It was called 'I Am... You Are', and it was about relationships. And it's about me in the midst of a difficult conversation with my wife, which happened more than once in my life."

He continued: "I think the personal nature of that made it also maybe something I wasn't prepared to follow through with, but hearing them last year when I discovered them again, it was, like, 'Wow.' I was amazed how they stood up. So I asked my friend and part-time RUSH producer David Bottrill to come in and have a listen to him. And he came over and sat down and, well, he loved them and he loved how raw they were and he loved how honest he thought the vocals were — very different from the other things that are on the album. And he just said, 'Leave it with me. Let me play with them and see if I can clean them up,' without changing too much, because he didn't want to lose all the guitars original. My vocals were original. They were done almost 24 years ago. We put new drums on it, and we got a friend of mine to play drums on one song. And then we called Benny up, Ben Mink, 'cause David thought the song really needed a violin solo and Ben is so amazing; he's like the Jeff Beck of the violin. And he just pulled off a corker of a solo. Anyway, he mixed them and sent them to me, and I was really shocked. And it really lifted me up and made me remember how much fun it is to make records. And so they're on the ['My Effin' Life'] audiobook, and they will be released to radio, and I hope people get a kick out of them. I call them the lost demos — 'cause that's what they were, really. I'd forgotten completely about them."

To date, Lee has only released one solo album, the aforementioned "My Favourite Headache". The disc was recorded during a time when RUSH's future was uncertain. The band was in the midst of what would be a five-year break from the road following the tragic deaths of Peart's daughter and wife.

In a 2015 interview with the A.V. Club, Lee stated about what it was like writing an album without his longtime RUSH bandmates Peart and Alex Lifeson: "That was a real interesting period for me. It was tough, because I had planned to do some jamming with my dear friend Ben Mink, who is an amazing musician, producer, and songwriter in his own right, and a violinist and guitarist. Because we had been friends for so long, and we had never actually made a record together aside from him playing on the song 'Losing It' from our 'Signals' album, we had always planned that some time when the band was on a break, we would just get together and start writing together and see what happened. We were planning to do that, and suddenly tragedy struck Neil's life. His daughter was taken from him in a car accident, and everything got really weird and it was just a horrible period. So I decided after a few months this idea of working with Ben might be a real tonic for me, because I didn't know really whether there would ever be another RUSH album. I had no idea; it was not something we were focused on, and people get through tragedies in different ways. I was kind of going crazy and needed something to focus on, so this project that was sort of in the back of my mind with Ben suddenly became critical so we started getting together in my home studio in Toronto and I would go to his place in Vancouver and over a series of months we gathered a whole bunch of material together and then we decided to go for it and make the record."

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