Legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart died on January 7, 2020 and a few drummers clearly had no thought 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 greatest good friend of literal a long time died however can I fill his footwear instantly?” Idiots.
“Oh, nicely, yeah, after all, as a result of we’re bombarded by it on a regular basis. After Neil handed, it did not take quite a lot of 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 substitute anyone 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 greatest good friend. I discuss to him — I need to discuss to him day by day. We get collectively for dinner, we play tennis, we’re doing all this charity work collectively. He is my greatest bud, so, yeah, I am going over there. He performs bass, I play guitar — yeah, we’ll play somewhat bit. I am 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 completely satisfied 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 does not need to 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 as if there’s a complete lotta nothing occurring. Although presumably one thing this summer season? Regardless that that looks like a protracted shot.
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