Alright. You might want to sit down, prog-rock faithful, because this one’s gonna sting a little.
Rush—yes, that Rush—have been jamming again. The surviving duo of Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reunited in 2025. Well… not exactly. According to the guys themselves, it doesn’t sound like a divine rock resurrection.
Last year, Lifeson reflected on his weekly sessions with Lee. He said: “We just picked some Rush songs and we started playing them and we sound like a really, really bad Rush tribute band.”
First off, let’s acknowledge the obvious. Neil Peart is gone. The Professor, the wordsmith, the metronome from another galaxy—he passed away in 2020 after a brutal battle with brain cancer. And with him, most fans assumed, went any chance of a true Rush comeback.
Even Geddy and Alex admitted they were done. And not in the wishy-washy rockstar retirement tour kind of way. It was real. It was grief. Alex even said he didn’t touch music for over a year after Neil died.
But grief does strange things. And time—well, time softens the sharpest edges. In recent interviews, including one with Q104.3’s Ken Dashow, Alex Lifeson opened up on jam sessions with Geddy.
It started small. Just the two of them. No grand plans. No world tour. Just two best friends in a room, goofing around with the instruments that once filled stadiums.
