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A quick note before we dive in: We recorded this conversation on April 9, a couple of months before the Fifty Something tour kicked off. So you’re hearing us looking ahead to opening night, not back on it.
When Rush said goodbye in Los Angeles in August of 2015, most of us figured that was the last time we’d see them on a stage together. Then came the loss of Neil, and a long, quiet stretch. But as we get into in this episode, Geddy and Alex never stopped being artists.
Ray goes through his list of what the band and its members put out after 2015, all of it from his own collection. Along the way we talk about grief: how Geddy and Alex handled an enormous loss with dignity and grace, and what that taught a couple of fans who were going through losses of their own.
We also get into the road back. That means the Taylor Hawkins tribute, the “just get so-and-so” drummer debate, why bringing in Anika Nilles felt right, the Junos performance as a possible trial by fire, ticket prices, and whether going back on the road could ever tarnish the legacy. (It can’t. This is just another chapter.)
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