Two surviving members of Rush, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, express regret over the limited scope of their final tour in 2015, wishing they had pushed harder to include more shows in Europe and the UK.
The surviving members of 1980s hitmaking-band Rush have revealed they regret their final tour in 2015 being so short. The progressive rock group played their last gigs almost a decade ago, but now Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson , both 71, say they feel they 'really let down' fans in the UK and Europe after not pushing harder to take the R40 Live gigs outside of North America. Late drummer Neil Peart had been opposed to more shows and only wanted a limited run.
'I’d pushed really hard to get more gigs so that we could do those extra shows and I was unsuccessful,’ Geddy told Classic Rock magazine, as he shared the lasting impact of that on him emotionally over the years. He added: 'It felt to me incorrect that we didn’t do it, but Neil was adamant that he would only do 30 shows and that was it. That to him was a huge compromise because he didn’t want to do any shows. He didn’t want to do one show.’ Despite Peart’s restrictions on the tour and his health issues, Lifeson admitted a 'dozen or so' extra dates may have made the band 'a bit more accepting’. Lifeson and Lee wished they had 'pushed harder’ to play gigs to European fans when drummer Neil Peart said no. The rock group formed in 1968, but was best known as a trio from 1974 formed of Lifeson, Peart and Lee. The guitarist explained: ‘There was a point where I think Neil was open to maybe extending the run and adding in a few more shows, but then he got this painful infection in one of his feet.’ He recalled that Peart could ‘barely walk to the stage at one point’ and had to be driven to it in a golf cart instead. ‘And he played a three-hour show, at the intensity he played every single show.
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