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Watch Mike Portnoy join Umphrey's McGee onstage in Chicago for covers of Spinal Tap's Big Bottom and Rush's YYZ
By Fraser Lewry published
Dream Theater man Mike Portnoy contributed the traditional "lead bass" part to Big Bottom before retreating to the kit to tackle Neil Peart's iconic drum part on YYZ

Geddy Lee releases two previously unheard solo tracks
By Fraser Lewry published
Gone and I Am…You Are both come from the sessions that resulted in Geddy Lee's debut solo album My Favorite Headache

Geddy Lee says he and Alex Lifeson have talked about recruiting one of the world's great drummers to tour as Rush again
By Stef Lach published
Geddy Lee drops strongest hint yet that he and Alex Lifeson could get Rush back on the road with a stand-in for Neil Peart

Rush's Geddy Lee scores top five placing on the Sunday Times Bestseller List with My Effin' Life memoir
By Paul Brannigan published
Rush bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee joins Britney Spears, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Connolly and late Friends star Matthew Perry at the summit of the UK's best-selling books chart

"Circus magazine said, 'If Lee's voice was any higher and raspier, his audience would consist exclusively of dogs and extraterrestrials": Watch Geddy Lee read from his memoir My Effin' Life onstage in Seattle with Nirvana's Krist Novoselic
By Paul Brannigan published
Geddy Lee has a suggestion for you if you don't like his singing voice, and it's a pleasingly unfiltered suggestion

"There was so much emotional static and fear and paranoia": Geddy Lee on the Rush album that was the most difficult to make
By Paul Brannigan published
Even for one of the most accomplished bands in rock history, making records isn't always easy

Watch Alex Lifeson join Tool on stage in Toronto
By Jerry Ewing published
Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson jams with US prog metallers Tool on A Passage To Bangkok and Jambi

"I said, 'I'm glad the music meant something to you,' and she burst into tears!": On the road with Rush's Geddy Lee
By Philip Wilding published
In 2019 Classic Rock accompanied Geddy Lee on the road as he promoted Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book Of Bass

"We were never fascists. To suggest that 2112 was suckering kids into a right-wing mantra with fascistic overtones was wrong-headed and irresponsible": Geddy Lee shuts down the idea that Rush were promoting "proto fascism" on 2112
By Paul Brannigan published
Rush vocalist/bassist Geddy Lee has no time for the suggestion that his band were promoting far right beliefs on 2112

"He came and sat and drank with us. We all got plastered together": it turns out Paul McCartney has instructed Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson to get back out on tour
By Fraser Lewry published
Beatle Sir Paul offered his boozy wisdom to Rush's Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts
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