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"I can still remember the three of us sitting there on the bed in utter awe": Geddy Lee recalls the day that Rush listened to Led Zeppelin for the first time

Hearing Led Zeppelin's debut album changed everything for Rush: "This was our new paradigm" Geddy Lee recalls

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”Jethro Tull influenced me a lot in the later years of Rush - that attitude of taking your music seriously but not taking yourself seriously”: Geddy Lee’s prog stars

He believes Clockwork Angels is the best record he’s made… but can’t decide which of two is the worst

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Book Review: Rock 'n' roller and Rush pioneer Geddy Lee goes deep in his memoir, 'My Effin' Life'

Geddy Lee is a rock star, that’s undeniable

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"It had been a taboo subject" – why Geddy Lee isn't ruling out a Rush reunion with Alex Lifeson anymore

The Canadian prog legends' debut album will be 50 years old in 2024 – could something be on the cards?

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Geddy Lee won't rule out future Rush shows with Alex Lifeson

Having previously ruled out continuing without late drummer Neil Peart, Rush appear to be softening to the idea

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Dolly Parton: The Queen Of Country on assembling rock's A-List for her mammoth, hugely anticipated rock album: only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Geddy Lee, The Struts, Duff McKagan, David Bowie, Guns N' Roses, ZZ Top, The Gaslight Anthem, Clutch, KK Downing and more

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Post your questions for Rush frontman Geddy Lee

Ask anything of the prog rock star, who is publishing his memoir in November and doing a spoken word tour of the UK

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"I was sitting there thinking, I can’t hear guitar": Alex Lifeson on the battle behind Rush's most divisive song, Subdivisions

Sonically, Subdivisions took Rush further into the world of synthesisers – and guitarist Alex Lifeson wasn't happy about it

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Billy Sheehan's 6 top tips for bass players: “Listen to any great band and think about how the bass and drums work together, like Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Geddy Lee and Neil Peart, or Steve Harris and Nicko McBrain"

“Speed is just one of many tools you can use to create music”

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"If I can't sing it with conviction then it doesn't matter, I can’t do it": What happened when Rush met the Manic Street Preachers

At the end of 2007, there was a clash of cultures as Welsh rockers the Manic Street Preachers went head to head with Rush and probed their inner secrets

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“You bassists who think your bass isn’t loud enough, you’re right! I always want my bass louder in the mix”: How Geddy Lee found his sound with Rush

Geddy Lee used distortion to “knit together” his live sound with Canada’s pioneering power trio

Guitar World

“A reunion is something I'm absolutely resistant to”: how Yes weathered a decade of turmoil to return with their finest album in years

Yes men Steve Howe and Jon Davison look back at the band’s turbulent recent history – and what the future may hold

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Gene Simmons says Geddy Lee "didn't understand what a blues scale was" when they first jammed together

At that point, the Kiss bassist says, "Geddy played purely by ear." Of course, he continued, "later on, he learned what the notes were and stuff like that“

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"Geddy didn't understand what a blues scale was." Gene Simmons recalls the time he gave Rush's Geddy Lee a bass lesson on tour

Kiss' Gene Simmons reflects on helping Rush's Geddy Lee with his bass knowledge while the two bands were on tour together

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Listen to Geddy Lee’s isolated bassline on Freewill. The Rush song Alex Lifeson said was their “most ambitious”

Geddy Lee: “One moment it’s heavy riffing and then you utilise the rhythm section verses the guitar”

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"For a while, it was the worst song on the album…" The story behind Rush's Tom Sawyer

Inspired by old books and new technology, Tom Sawyer was the song that reinvented prog giants Rush – but it almost never made the album

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Crown Lands: the duo ushering prog’s illustrious past into a magisterial future

Canadian hopefuls Crown Lands on the "mathiness" of modern prog, world building, indigenous rights, and sounding a LOT like Rush

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When Cliff Burton met Geddy Lee: “He started pacing, he started smoking pot, and he was like, ‘Oh my God!’”

Kirk Hammett remembers when Rush frontman Geddy Lee showed up at a Metallica show

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Primus's Les Claypool names 7 bassists who shaped his sound

The alt-rock innovator on "one of the most underrated bass players ever", who he sees as the instrument's Jimi Hendrix and that time a low-end hero "f**king kicked my ass" in a jam

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Could Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reunite for Rush's 50th anniversary next year?

Alex Lifeson's Envy of None band mate Andy Curran discusses the possibility of Lifeson and Geddy Lee working together again

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U2’s Adam Clayton: “The bass has to either be sexy or aggressive, or it shouldn’t be there as far as I’m concerned”

The bassist for one of biggest rock bands of all time on cramming a stadium-ready rig into Fender’s first-ever signature bass amp, what prompted him to play an Ibanez on one of the group’s most iconic songs, and why he’s only just started exploring five-strings four decades into his career

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Video: Geddy Lee tugs heartstrings with stirring baseball narration

Ten years since Geddy Lee threw out the first pitch at his beloved Toronto Blue Jays, the Rush man is back to recite a poem to accompany another season opener

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Geddy Lee autobiograpy now slated for November release

Geddy Lee's delayed autobiography, My Effin' Life, will now be released in November

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Losing my way: how I fell out of love with my favourite band, Rush

Some fans never forgave Rush for moving past their swords n' sorcery phase: Classic Rock's Geoff Barton was one

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Crown Lands: so deep in 70s Rush you can almost see Geddy Lee’s kimono flapping about

Crown Lands' Fearless may sound exactly like vintage Rush in parts, but it's an album peppered with great songs and pulls off some daring feats of pomp, pop and rock

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