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Crank calling Geddy Lee

Thu, Jul 20, 2006@1:35PM | comments removed/disabled

[Too close for comfort]

The Friendly Rich Show is a 75-minute stage show created by Richard Marsella and David Hannan. Over the last year they have been presenting the show on a monthly basis at Luna Lounge in Toronto. They're bringing their show to Montreal for a week and there was a write-up on the show in the Montreal Mirror. Apparently these guys like to pick on Geddy Lee. In describing the "crank call" portion of the show the article states:

... A feature of the show that's maybe a little too appealing to kids is the recurrent crank call. A local Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise might be the unhappy recipient of inquiries about breasts, while an evangelical hotline might get the third degree about made-up illnesses. Another repeat target was Rush singer/bassist Geddy Lee, who once found a drunken collective singalong of "Closer to the Heart" on his answering machine. "He hates me. He absolutely hates me," chuckles Marsella. "I consider him to be a bit of a cartoon character. He's not real to me, even though he's a living, breathing human. He really got mad at me, so I stopped out of respect." ...

Poor Geddy. What I really want to know is, how did he get Geddy's number? :)

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