Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson were announced in a post on social networks on Monday that they rehearse about 35 songs to take part in the tour as Rush next year.
The dates of the tour are still announced from June to September 2026 in the USA, Mexico and Canada, with two shows scheduled in August in Toronto.
Rush played his last concert in Los -Angeles in 2015. Any hint of reunion ended when the Nile Pyrt Drummer drummer died in 67 on January 7, 2020, three years after he was diagnosed with aggressive glyoblastoma of brain cancer.
In the group, Anika NILLS, German, German, in previous credits include its own albums, as well as in the tourist group of the deceased legend of the guitar of Jeff Beke, join the group.
Lee recognized the problem of “replacing the indispensable” Pirta, but said that in rehearsals chemistry with Niels was undeniable.
“You and I play with her began to charge us when we heard our songs returning to life,” he said as a couple announced the tour in the message on social networksField
The sharp vocalist of Geddy Lee answers eight quick questions from National Jan Hanomansing about his musical inspiration and memories.
Lifeson said that, although each show will have its own unique aspects, “we will always have part of the show that gives tribute to Nile.”
“It will be beautiful to celebrate him every night,” he said.
Lee and Lifleson sometimes united their forces on stage since the death of Pirte, in particular, for Tribute shows for Gordon Lightfut and Taylor Hawkins from Foo Fighters.
Two Canadian musical halls of fame were engaged in side projects. Lee released his autobiography in 2023, while Lifeson released two albums with his envy group from None.
Lee and Lifleson said that it is also likely that they will add the fourth musician for the fifty tour, probably on the keyboards Leaving their classic Power Trio line.
Watch | Lifeson on personal, professional problems after the death of Pirte: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vshsfn-trm8
Life -lifelong friends
The musicians spoke in detail in the past calls of a living show for Lee, known for processing the bass and the keyboard in the studio.
“It will be very released for you, and we can start working on the dance routes that we wanted to do for so long,” Lifeson joked his friend for almost 60 years.
Lee and Lifeson, 72, first met at high school in North York, Ontario.
Binding over music and groups, such as cream and WHO, they played in a series of groups before Rush agreed around 1970. The original drummer John Rutsi left shortly after the release of his first album, which was replaced by a pyrta, which was from Saint -Katarins, Ontario, in 1974.
With PEART on board, not just the drummer, but also as the main lyric of the group, Rush won the most promising group in 1975 and the group of the year in 1978 and 1979 at the Juno award.
After many years of support for groups, starting from New York dolls to a kiss in Nazareth, and feed on popular radio books, such as Fly at nightIN Closer to the heart And Tom SawyerRush ultimately became a headliner at arens and stadiums in the United States and beyond.
Watch | Lee, Lifeson and Peart are the focus of attention in 1981: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeopgyueuo
The future of the group was open to the question in the late 1990s, when the first wife of Pirta and his daughter died. But he pronounced himself ready to return in 2001, and the group would have acted on a trip to the strength of three more studio albums until 2015.
Lee, in his memoirs My effective life And for his subsequent book tour, admitted that for some time he was indignant at the pyrt. The drummer decided to bow after 2015, wanting to spend more time with his second wife, with whom he shared his daughter.
For his part, Lifeson said that more recently, in January 2024, in an interview with Sirius XM, that there were no plans for rush to tour again.
Rush is just the second Canadian group after a group that will be introduced into the Rock -N -Roll Hall in Cleveland. This honor of 2013 is one of the many awards that they received, which also include the introduction of the Musik -Slavva (1994) and the Glory Hall of Canadian songs of the songs (2010), as well as the 2012 General Art General Arts Hall for life art.
