{"id":29593,"date":"2024-05-24T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/rushs-geddy-lee-and-alex-lifeson-reunite-at-gordon-lightfoot-tribute-show-in-toronto\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T18:00:57","slug":"rushs-geddy-lee-and-alex-lifeson-reunite-at-gordon-lightfoot-tribute-show-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/rushs-geddy-lee-and-alex-lifeson-reunite-at-gordon-lightfoot-tribute-show-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reunite at Gordon Lightfoot tribute show in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rush<\/strong>‘s Geddy Lee<\/strong> and Alex Lifeson<\/strong> made a surprise appearance May 23 in Toronto, reuniting for a concert paying tribute to the late Canadian singer\/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Lightfoot, known for songs like “If You Could Read My Mind” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” died in May 2023 at age 84.\u00a0Variety<\/em> reports<\/a> that at the event at the famed Massey Hall, Lee and Lifeson performed Lightfoot’s song “The Way I Feel<\/a>,” backed by the Canadian band Blue Rodeo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The two also joined in on the finale: a group performance of the song “Summerside of Life,” which included Canadian musicians like The Guess Who<\/strong>‘s Burton Cummings <\/strong>and Tom Cochrane<\/strong>, as well as Lightfoot’s daughter\u00a0Meredith Moon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was important for us to pay tribute to Gordon,\u201d Lee told Variety.<\/em> \u201cNot being folk or pop artists, Alex and I were looking for one of Gordon\u2019s songs that might better suit our style of play and we found that in \u2018The Way I Feel.\u2019 Its structure was loose and more open to interpretation than many of his more popular tunes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moon seemed to approve: Lee said that she told them afterward, “Leave it to Rush to make \u2018The Way I Feel\u2019 sound prog.”<\/p>\n

“So I think we succeeded,” Lee noted.<\/p>\n

Lee and Lifeson were most recently together onstage in December at Massey Hall for Lee’s book tour in support of his memoir,\u00a0My Effin’ Life.\u00a0<\/em>Since Rush retired from the road in 2015, the two had performed together in public just four times: at Rush’s 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, at the 2022 Taylor Hawkins<\/strong> tribute concerts and at the 2022 South Park<\/em> 25th anniversary concert in Colorado. Rush drummer Neil Peart<\/strong> died in 2020.<\/p>\n

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George Pimentel\/Getty Images Rush‘s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson made a surprise appearance May 23 in Toronto, reuniting for a concert paying tribute to the late Canadian singer\/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. Lightfoot, known for songs like “If You Could Read My Mind” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” died inRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}