{"id":2445194,"date":"2019-06-11T10:14:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=846746"},"modified":"2019-06-11T10:14:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:14:48","slug":"flashback-rush-play-their-final-song-as-a-band-at-last-concert-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/flashback-rush-play-their-final-song-as-a-band-at-last-concert-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Rush Play Their Final Song as a Band at Last Concert in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not that it\u2019s any big surprise at this point, but Geddy Lee recently re-affirmed the sad fact that Rush<\/a> are over as a band in a new interview with the Toronto Sun<\/em>.<\/a> \u201cNeil [Peart] insisted that [the 2015 R40 tour] was his last gig,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd you know, Alex [Lifeson] and I would look at each other and go, \u2018Yeah, yeah, yeah, he\u2019s just saying that.\u2019 So I think we kind of knew, we should have known, it was the last show. But I think being eternal optimists we hoped that after a break we would be back out there. That never materialized.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2015 tour took the novel approach of presenting the band\u2019s music in reverse chronological order, meaning they began the show with songs from their most recent albums and slowly worked back to their earliest material. As time went backwards, stagehands would swap out the backdrop to match the period they were visiting. That meant by the time they reached the encores, it looked like they were playing in the high school gyms of their youth.<\/p>\n

The tour wrapped up at the Forum in Los Angeles on August 1st, 2015. Here\u2019s fan-shot video of the final encore of \u201cWorking Man\u201d with a quick \u201cGarden Road\u201d tag at the end. \u201cThank you so much Los Angeles,\u201d Lee tells the crowd when it\u2019s done. \u201cOn behalf of the greatest crew and organization in the world, thank you United States of America for 40 awesome years and I do hope we\u2019ll meet again sometime. Bye-bye.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was midway through delivering those words when Peart stunned him by running to the front of the stage to join him and Lifeson for a very quick bow. \u201cI\u2019ve never crossed what I call the back-line meridian,\u201d the drummer said<\/a> in the Rush tour documentary Time Stand Still.<\/em> \u201cI stay behind my drums and cymbals for 40 years and never go out front, never. It\u2019s not my territory. Eventually, I talked myself into it. It was totally the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee and Lifeson were still hoping at that point that Peart would agree to continue playing in Rush in some capacity, but he was adamant that the physical demands of touring were too hard on his body and he\u2019d rather spend his time being a full-time father to his young daughter. Simply hiring another drummer wasn\u2019t even a thought. \u201cWe always said that if the three of us aren\u2019t on board, we don\u2019t do a thing,\u201d Lee said. \u201cThere have been other decisions in our career where the three of us weren\u2019t on board and we didn\u2019t do it. Nothing as profound as ending our touring life, but fair enough. So one guy doesn\u2019t want to do that thing anymore that I love to do. That hurts. But there\u2019s nothing I can do about it and that\u2019s part of the agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right now, Lee is on a worldwide tour promoting his new book Geddy Lee\u2019s Big Beautiful Book of Bass<\/a>.<\/em> A solo project of some sort is a possibility, but he hasn\u2019t agreed to anything. \u201cI\u2019m reluctant to leave my family again,\u201d he told the Toronto Sun.<\/em> \u201cSo for me to do another musical project that would involve touring, etc., it would have to be something I feel really strongly about. I\u2019m not saying I wouldn\u2019t do it. But I would have to be so charged up about it, it\u2019s worth that separation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Not that it\u2019s any big surprise at this point, but Geddy Lee recently re-affirmed the sad fact that Rush are over as a band in a new interview with the Toronto Sun. \u201cNeil [Peart] insisted that [the 2015 R40 tour] was his last gig,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd you know, Alex [Lifeson] and I would look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 17:01:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}