The band last performed in 2015, five years before Neil Peart’s death
THE Rush reflected on his farewell tour, the R40 Livewhich occurred almost a decade ago.
In an interview with the magazine Classic Rock (via NME), the vocalist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson explained that they intended to visit more countries in 2015, but the drummer Neil Peart refused.
Peart passed away from brain cancer in 2020, aged 67.
“I tried really hard to get more shows, so we could do these extra performances, but I wasn’t successful,” he said. Lee. “I really felt like we let our British and European fans down. To me it felt wrong that we didn’t do it, but Neil [Peart] I was determined to only do 30 shows and that was that.”
He added: “For him, this was already a big commitment, because he didn’t want to do any shows. He didn’t want to do even a single show. So, in his head, he had already given in. He said, ‘I’m going to do 30 shows, don’t ask me for anything else.’”
“I felt like I owed them, the public, an explanation. Part of the reason I went into so much detail about the death of Neil in the book [Geddy Lee: A autobiografia (My Effin’ Life)] it was to let fans know what really happened. That it wasn’t something simple”, he continued.
“This is how the world of Rush became complicated from August 1, 2015 until January 7, 2020, when Neil passed away. These were very unusual, complicated and emotional times.”
Source: Rollingstone
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