Almost six years after his last performance, Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson declared that “there’s no way Rush will ever exist again.” Taking as an example the death of drummer Neil Peart in 2020, Lifeson hopes that he and Geddy Lee will one day reunite in music.
Lifeson was invited to Eddie Trunk’s Trunk Nation Sirius XM program, reviewed Rush’s history, and presented his current activities. Speaking to Trunk (transcribed by Blabbermouth), the guitarist said: “I know Rush fans are a unique bunch, and I love them. And certainly, everything that we’ve done, we’ve always done to satisfy ourselves before anybody else, and I think Rush fans understood that and were always very supportive — very critical at times too, but always supportive. And that was the nature of our relationship with our fans — it was a really good two-way relationship.”
Despite the rumors and hopes the band might play again, Lifeson shared, “I talk to Ged every couple of days or so,” he went on. “We try to get together for dinner. That’s been a more challenging thing lately. But we did get out once recently. It’s great, ’cause mostly we’re pals.”
“If there’s something that comes up in the future — an opportunity for us to do something — we’ll decide over a cup of coffee what that’ll be,” explained Lifeson while pointing out, “But there’s no urgency or there’s no pre-planned thing now. He’s doing whatever he’s doing, I’m doing whatever I’m doing, and we keep each other informed and stuff like that, but, God, we had such a great history and did so much great stuff together, it’s not really a big deal if, for the rest of our lives, we’re just best friends.”
He added later: “I get asked this all the time — are we gonna do this, or are we gonna do that? Who knows? All I know is we still love each other and we’re still very, very good friends, and we always will be.”
Rush made their last performance on August 1, 2015. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
