Legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart died on January 7, 2020 and a few drummers clearly had no concept what the phrase “having an oz of respect” means.
In an interview with Q104.3, Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson stated drummers started hitting up Rush about doubtlessly filling in for Peart inside minutes of the announcement of his demise. As a result of nothing says, “I am an enormous fan of your band,” fairly like asking, “hey, your finest buddy of literal many years died however can I fill his sneakers instantly?” Idiots.
“Oh, properly, yeah, in fact, as a result of we’re bombarded by it on a regular basis. After Neil handed, it did not take various minutes earlier than we began getting e-mails from every kind of drummers who needed to audition for the band, considering that we had been simply gonna exchange any individual that we performed with for 40 years who wrote all of the lyrics for our music. I do not know what a few of these individuals had been considering.
Lifeson added: “So, yeah, we have had the dialog, as a result of we won’t keep away from it. However truthfully, Ged is my finest buddy. I speak to him — I need to speak to him on daily basis. We get collectively for dinner, we play tennis, we’re doing all this charity work collectively. He is my finest bud, so, yeah, I’m going over there. He performs bass, I play guitar — yeah, we’ll play just a little bit. I’m going over there ostensibly to play with him and we find yourself simply sitting and consuming espresso and laughing the entire day.
“So it is not simply Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush. I’ve a deep loving relationship with this man, and it is not all about creating one thing that we did from the previous. You by no means know what life brings you. Proper now I am tremendous comfortable doing what I am doing. I am engaged with a whole lot of musical stuff. I really like being a musician. I really like taking part in guitar. I really like taking part in guitar a lot. It is not only a car for making a residing. It is me. It is on the core of my essence. So it would not should be about Rush or Envy Of None. I imply, I do what I do.”
As for the way forward for Rush or Rush-related actions, it looks like there’s a complete lotta nothing occurring. Although presumably one thing this summer season? Despite the fact that that appears like a protracted shot.
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