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The Rush hit Geddy Lee said it is tough to play live

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The Rush hit Geddy Lee said it is tough to play live

Formed in Toronto, Canada back in 1968, Rush started more as a Hard Rock group, being even compared with Led Zeppelin on their first album. But after the drummer Neil Peart joined the band and became their main lyricist, Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee also explored more their Progressive Rock influences, mixing Prog with Hard Rock, creating a unique sound. They experimented a lot in their career, writing simple and really complex songs.

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Sometimes they even had trouble playing the songs they recorded. Geddy Lee once talked about a Rush hit that is tough to play.

The Rush hit Geddy Lee said it is tough to play live

As Lee said in an interview with Prog magazine in 2013, the song that is difficult to play live is “Spirit of Radio”, released on their 1980 album “Permanent Waves”. “There are two or three songs we do every night when I hope that we’re all on the same time when we play them. The Spirit Of Radio is one. It was always hard to play and it’s still hard to play! I always hold my breath a little bit before we play it. And some nights it goes completely haywire. It’s a toughie!” Geddy Lee said.

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