Thursday’s Gordon Lightfoot tribute reside overall performance at Toronto’s Massey Hall was total of superior-profile experience, but just a single efficiency stood out amongst the relaxation: a surprise reunion of Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson.

The duo, who had been becoming not introduced on the bill in advance of time, joined house band Blue Rodeo to carry out “The Way I Feel” in honor of Lightfoot, who died preceding May maybe at age 84.

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Other fellow Canadian artists gathered to fork out tribute to the late singer-songwriter bundled preceding Guess Who singer Burton Cummings, “Everyday living Is a Freeway” rocker Tom Cochrane, Town and Color frontman Dallas Inexperienced, and Lightfoot’s daughter and folk singer Meredith Moon.

Right just after the show, Lee described the impact Lightfoot left on him and other musicians of his ilk. “Gordon Lightfoot was to musicians of my era a genuine Canadian musical hero — and to boot he was a truly sweet human being,” he told the Canadian Press by employing textual content material. “Both equally Alex and I truly required to shell out tribute.”

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Lee and Lifeson’s shock Massey Hall appearance marked their first official neighborhood overall performance due to the fact September 2022, when they took section in a pair of tribute concert events for late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins. Nonetheless, Lifeson instructed UCR previously this month that he and Lee have been recently began casually jamming to Rush tunes with each other.

“We started that a couple of weeks ago,” the guitarist pointed out. “We get collectively just one working day a 7 days around at his position. We just picked some Rush tracks and we begun actively playing them and we seem like a truly, actually negative Rush tribute band.”

Although this enhancement could excite Rush followers, Lifeson explained they on the other hand ought to not hope a Rush reunion with no drummer Neil Peart, who died in 2020. “So numerous men and women remember us, and there is unhappiness amongst our lovers that it ended, and they want a lot more, but you are not able to go again,” Lifeson instructed Basic Rock Record. “We can’t just go and get one more drummer, and go out and participate in live shows, and make new product. It just would not be the very same. It would just be a dollars ploy.”