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All rights reserved. https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/modules/rss/news.xml.php?artist=549 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:21:04 -0400 Sat, 25 Oct 2025 02:03:16 -0400 60 Ultimate-Guitar.Com https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/static/_img/logo_trans.png https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/modules/rss/news.xml.php?artist=549 144 44 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/tab_spotlight/rushs-yyz-teaches-guitarists-the-core-skill-behind-progressive-rock https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/tab_spotlight/rushs-yyz-teaches-guitarists-the-core-skill-behind-progressive-rock Tab Spotlight: "YYZ" isn't very complicated in terms of notes, but playing it at full speed, locked in with the drums, is much harder than it seems.]]> Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:21:04 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/retrospective/rushs-neil-peart-kept-taking-drum-lessons-despite-being-a-master-drummer-what-is-a-master-but-a-master-student https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/retrospective/rushs-neil-peart-kept-taking-drum-lessons-despite-being-a-master-drummer-what-is-a-master-but-a-master-student Retrospective: "And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession."]]> Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:02:01 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/what-the-f--k-are-we-doing-geddy-lee-and-alex-lifeson-on-the-moment-they-realized-that-a-rush-reunion-was-actually-happening https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/what-the-f--k-are-we-doing-geddy-lee-and-alex-lifeson-on-the-moment-they-realized-that-a-rush-reunion-was-actually-happening Music News: "That's when we looked at each other in the studio and went, 'Yep, we have a real problem, because now we have a drummer and we're going to make a commitment.'"]]> Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:02:01 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/new-rush-drummer-anika-nilles-says-learning-neil-pearts-parts-was-unlike-anything-shes-done-before-you-cannot-really-write-it-out-a-lot-of-it-is-kind-of-a-feeling https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/new-rush-drummer-anika-nilles-says-learning-neil-pearts-parts-was-unlike-anything-shes-done-before-you-cannot-really-write-it-out-a-lot-of-it-is-kind-of-a-feeling Music News: "I learned those songs in a completely different way. My preparation was so different from how I prepare myself usually."]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:46:34 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/how-neil-pearts-arrival-turned-rush-from-a-led-zeppelin-clone-into-something-all-their-own-186992 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/how-neil-pearts-arrival-turned-rush-from-a-led-zeppelin-clone-into-something-all-their-own-186992 Features: On the 1974 debut, Geddy Lee's wail drew Robert Plant comparisons and Alex Lifeson's riffs echoed Jimmy Page so closely that critics wrote the trio off as imitators. Lee never denied it, recalling the three of them sitting in "utter awe" of Led Zeppelin's first record. The break came on "Fly By Night," where long-form ambition and a quieter, stranger streak started crowding the blues out.]]> Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:02:02 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/alex-lifeson-on-rush-guitar-parts-i-often-take-the-easiest-route-that-sounds-the-most-difficult-relearning-them-for-the-reunion-was-another-story https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/alex-lifeson-on-rush-guitar-parts-i-often-take-the-easiest-route-that-sounds-the-most-difficult-relearning-them-for-the-reunion-was-another-story Music News: "Like Adam Jones, for example, 'How does he play that?' And then, you know, you kind of figure it out, or he shows you. You go, 'Oh my god, that's way simpler than I thought.'"]]> Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:49:28 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/rushs-geddy-lee-nick-raskulinecz-changed-neil-pearts-entire-approach-by-clockwork-angels https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/rushs-geddy-lee-nick-raskulinecz-changed-neil-pearts-entire-approach-by-clockwork-angels Music News: "He wanted Nicky in the room conducting him and firing him up to keep him all jazzed."]]> Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:02:01 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/alex-lifeson-on-rushs-keyboard-era-im-the-guitar-player-in-this-band-what-happened https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/alex-lifeson-on-rushs-keyboard-era-im-the-guitar-player-in-this-band-what-happened Music News: "The frequencies occupied by keyboards are similar to heavy guitars. So, you can't really take that approach to fit something in."]]> Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:02:02 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/geddy-lee-alex-lifeson-would-play-a-brilliant-riff-forget-it-five-minutes-later-and-have-to-relearn-it-from-a-cassette https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/geddy-lee-alex-lifeson-would-play-a-brilliant-riff-forget-it-five-minutes-later-and-have-to-relearn-it-from-a-cassette Music News: "I'm methodical. He's the opposite of methodical. He's spontaneously brilliant."]]> Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:26:35 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/gear/alex-lifeson-will-recreate-rushs-classic-guitar-sounds-on-reunion-tour-using-digital-tech-tom-sawyer-limelight-the-whole-gamut https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/gear/alex-lifeson-will-recreate-rushs-classic-guitar-sounds-on-reunion-tour-using-digital-tech-tom-sawyer-limelight-the-whole-gamut Gear: "It's not just the same thing for an hour and a half."]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 08:35:30 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/a-lot-has-been-written-about-whether-alex-was-happy-geddy-lee-on-rushs-synth-era-and-the-bands-relentless-drive-to-evolve https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/a-lot-has-been-written-about-whether-alex-was-happy-geddy-lee-on-rushs-synth-era-and-the-bands-relentless-drive-to-evolve Music News: "We were all for one, and one for all. So we embraced, and Alex embraced, the changes, because it was in our nature to do so."]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 01:48:32 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/rush-was-heavily-in-debt-and-alex-lifeson-risked-becoming-a-plumbing-assistant-then-they-made-2112-that-was-my-protest-record https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/rush-was-heavily-in-debt-and-alex-lifeson-risked-becoming-a-plumbing-assistant-then-they-made-2112-that-was-my-protest-record Music News: "We just say screw everybody, we're just going to make the record that we want to make, and if it fails, then at least it's our thing, we did it."]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 04:02:01 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/some-people-will-never-forgive-us-for-going-on-with-someone-else-geddy-lee-on-why-rush-made-the-non-competitive-choice-with-neil-pearts-successor https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/some-people-will-never-forgive-us-for-going-on-with-someone-else-geddy-lee-on-why-rush-made-the-non-competitive-choice-with-neil-pearts-successor Music News: "She has the guts to sit in that seat, to accept that gig and take whatever fans are going to dish out."]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 23:51:47 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/geddy-lee-was-so-sick-of-tom-sawyer-he-didnt-want-it-on-moving-pictures-can-you-imagine-how-dumb-that-was https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/geddy-lee-was-so-sick-of-tom-sawyer-he-didnt-want-it-on-moving-pictures-can-you-imagine-how-dumb-that-was Music News: "It was a very difficult song to make, difficult song to mix. Every step of the recording was beset with problems."]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 04:02:01 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/geddy-lee-says-many-drummers-were-pushing-themselves-to-join-rush-after-neil-pearts-death-he-found-it-most-distasteful https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/geddy-lee-says-many-drummers-were-pushing-themselves-to-join-rush-after-neil-pearts-death-he-found-it-most-distasteful Music News: "People who are close to us – good friends that are successful drummers – would never infer something like that because they have too much respect."]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 23:34:12 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/rushs-anika-nilles-on-what-makes-neil-peart-so-hard-to-replace-he-had-a-very-distinctive-way-you-recognize-him-immediately https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/rushs-anika-nilles-on-what-makes-neil-peart-so-hard-to-replace-he-had-a-very-distinctive-way-you-recognize-him-immediately Music News: Neil Peart's "very melodic" approach "set him apart and made him stand out to many drummers, for whom he was — and still is — a role model," Nilles argued.]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:51:48 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/why-rush-didnt-want-someone-like-dream-theaters-mike-portnoy-as-neil-pearts-successor-its-just-too-easy-to-make-comments https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/why-rush-didnt-want-someone-like-dream-theaters-mike-portnoy-as-neil-pearts-successor-its-just-too-easy-to-make-comments Music News: "I think Alex and I wanted to stay away from the obvious comparisons," Geddy Lee said.]]> Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:11:55 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/geddy-lee-on-the-rush-reunion-name-dilemma-we-were-twisting-ourselves-into-a-pretzel-to-avoid-using-it https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/geddy-lee-on-the-rush-reunion-name-dilemma-we-were-twisting-ourselves-into-a-pretzel-to-avoid-using-it Music News: "What the fuck should we call it, Iron Maiden?"]]> Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:56:05 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/geddy-lee-on-what-neil-peart-would-say-about-the-rush-reunion-you-guys-are-idiots https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/geddy-lee-on-what-neil-peart-would-say-about-the-rush-reunion-you-guys-are-idiots Music News: "Neil is irreplaceable. And if he had something to say to us right now, he'd probably say, 'You guys are idiots.'"]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:29:32 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/retrospective/neil-peart-said-live-performance-is-the-real-test-of-a-musician-he-meant-every-word-of-it https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/retrospective/neil-peart-said-live-performance-is-the-real-test-of-a-musician-he-meant-every-word-of-it Retrospective: "I know people give me that respect so I feel I have to earn it."]]> Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:02:03 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/rush-bet-their-whole-career-on-2112-to-defy-their-label-it-paid-off-and-still-stands-strong-50-years-later-185750 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/rush-bet-their-whole-career-on-2112-to-defy-their-label-it-paid-off-and-still-stands-strong-50-years-later-185750 Features: "I felt this great sense of injustice that this mass was coming down on us and telling us to compromise, and compromise was the word I couldn't deal with."]]> Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:02:16 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/how-led-zeppelins-kashmir-and-high-times-inspired-rushs-a-passage-to-bangkok-2112-book-author-explains https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/how-led-zeppelins-kashmir-and-high-times-inspired-rushs-a-passage-to-bangkok-2112-book-author-explains Music News: "It has more exotic melody, so it presents this kind of melodic break from what was on '2112.'"]]> Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:07:24 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/i-dont-know-if-i-want-to-play-this-new-rush-drummer-had-a-yikes-moment--first-time-she-tried-tom-sawyer-geddy-lee-reveals https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/i-dont-know-if-i-want-to-play-this-new-rush-drummer-had-a-yikes-moment--first-time-she-tried-tom-sawyer-geddy-lee-reveals Music News: "She was kind of nervous because of the importance of that."]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:43:37 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/alex-lifeson-and-geddy-lee-on-how-rushs-reunion-actually-began-we-were-really-terrible https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/alex-lifeson-and-geddy-lee-on-how-rushs-reunion-actually-began-we-were-really-terrible Music News: "You suddenly realize those songs are hard. We made them hard, not expecting to have a problem later."]]> Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:15:28 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/geddy-lee-and-alex-lifeson-on-why-they-thought-anika-nilles-was-not-gonna-work-as-neil-pearts-rush-successor-and-how-it-all-clicked-she-suddenly-understood-what-we-were-talking-about https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/geddy-lee-and-alex-lifeson-on-why-they-thought-anika-nilles-was-not-gonna-work-as-neil-pearts-rush-successor-and-how-it-all-clicked-she-suddenly-understood-what-we-were-talking-about Music News: "She suddenly understood what we were talking about that whole week. Not about the technical aspect, but about the stuff in between the big stuff."]]> Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:01:41 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/geddy-lee-on-new-rush-music-who-knows-whatll-happen-but-i-suspect-some-music-will-eventually-come-out https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/geddy-lee-on-new-rush-music-who-knows-whatll-happen-but-i-suspect-some-music-will-eventually-come-out Music News: "It's all speculation until it isn't, so…"]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:02:02 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/how-rushs-alex-lifeson-and-geddy-lee-returned-to-gibson-and-fender-for-counterparts-after-a-decade-of-synth-heavy-1980s-albums-184262 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/how-rushs-alex-lifeson-and-geddy-lee-returned-to-gibson-and-fender-for-counterparts-after-a-decade-of-synth-heavy-1980s-albums-184262 Features: "What is the bass you played on 'Moving Pictures'?"]]> Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:55:38 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/its-that-adrenaline-geddy-lee-names-the-only-thing-he-misses-about-touring-and-how-hes-preparing-for-rushs-upcoming-reunion https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/its-that-adrenaline-geddy-lee-names-the-only-thing-he-misses-about-touring-and-how-hes-preparing-for-rushs-upcoming-reunion Music News: "I really had kind of settled into a nice life without the roar of the crowd, and I think I adjusted pretty well to it."]]> Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:17:40 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/there-was-a-lot-of-gnashing-of-teeth-wringing-of-hands-how-rush-decided-it-was-time-to-reunite-with-a-new-drummer-according-to-geddy-lee https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/there-was-a-lot-of-gnashing-of-teeth-wringing-of-hands-how-rush-decided-it-was-time-to-reunite-with-a-new-drummer-according-to-geddy-lee Music News: "There was a lot of emotional back and forth."]]> Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:30:51 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/she-was-not-a-rush-fan-geddy-lee-on-the-daunting-task-in-front-of-rushs-new-drummer https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/she-was-not-a-rush-fan-geddy-lee-on-the-daunting-task-in-front-of-rushs-new-drummer Music News: "Well, of course it was a very difficult decision to go back on the road, and that was the main stumbling block, obviously."]]> Sat, 25 Oct 2025 02:03:16 -0400