RUSH 'Fired Up' By Career-Spanning Documentary

June 16, 2010

Andy Greene of RollingStone.com recently conducted an interview with RUSH bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

On being approach by filmmakers Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen about making a documentary about the band's 40-year career:

"We thought, 'How foolish are these guys?' We're just this dull band. I remember Neil [Peart] asked them rather pointedly, 'What's your angle? What's the story you want to tell?' They said, 'Well, to be honest, we don't know.' We liked that and said, 'Good luck, let you know what you want us to do.' "

On RUSH's upcoming Time Machine Tour, which will feature a complete performance of their 1980 LP "Moving Pictures":

"It's only a 40-minute album and the beauty of a three-hour show is we can throw the whole damn thing in there and still have lots leftover. We've got quite a different setlist from the last tour.

"With RUSH fans it's always nice to not reveal it until show day. They only have one day before the Internet gets the setlist and then it's all blown. Let's give them that one day."

On releasing the new tracks "Caravan" and "BU2B" online:

"[We wanted] to do things differently this time out. The industry's changing, record stores are dying — sadly — but we thought, 'Well, this is just change with the times. Let's just mix it up a little bit.' "

"In addition to the two released songs, we have five others written. We'll take a short rest after the tour, go into the studio and finish the album and then hopefully go back out on tour again."

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