UPDATE - 8/14@7:40PM: Geddy and Alex also grace the cover of Rolling Stone Canada's Summer edition as seen in this IG post:
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UPDATE - 8/14@7:28PM: Here's an article with transcriptions of large portions of the interview, such as this portion where Ged talks about his vocal coach:
... "It was important to me to do as many original versions for our audience as we could, and I didn't want to have to start changing keys to every song and go into that whole bulls**t. So how do I do that? Well, a friend of ours recommended this vocal coach for me. His name is Mitch Seekins, and he's a terrific guy. He's a great singer, lives in the country now, and that's his job. He coaches all kinds of people. It's really interesting. He coaches opera people. He coaches a lot of rock bands. He coaches one guy who does the play-by-play announcement at a horse racetrack. So, all kinds of people need vocal training, for various [reasons]... He coaches people that, for one reason or another, have started to lose their voice. And so he's very well-versed in analyzing what you got. So I started with him - what? - about a year and a half ago now. And the first few sessions, he was listening to what I had, and he said, 'Okay. Well, you've got a voice that the muscles are out of shape. So you haven't sung in 11 years. That's normal.' So after the first number of sessions, he said, 'Well, the good news is you still have that range in there, but we've gotta strengthen your voice so you can access it.' So that became the beginning of this whole exercise regime. It's no different than going to the gym and getting strong. I go to the gym four days a week, get my body strong. Well, you have to get this muscle [that controls your vocal cords] strong, and that's what I've worked on. And as we went along, he's very good at getting me to stretch my range and also give me confidence in my range. Part of it is learning new techniques to access your range so that you're not working so hard to do it. He would look at videos. Sometimes he'd come to rehearsal, and he would video me. I'd go, 'Well, that's embarrassing.' And he would show me the video and say, 'Look how hard you're working to hit that note.' But yet when we're warming up, you hit that note, and you're not working hard at all. So you have to learn, while you're standing there, to breathe at the right time - that's more than half of it - and to position your vocals and to take a more forensic look at how a voice makes a sound and apply it.' So it's been a year and a half, but it's paying off, and I'm pretty pleased at my progress. I think if I keep working at it, it'll keep getting better, I think. I hope. And I have to stay healthy," Geddy explained ...
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Rolling Stone magazine has just posted a new, hour-long video interview with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson where they discuss the band's Fifty Something tour. From the YouTube description:
Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson sit down with Rolling Stone senior writer Brian Hiatt - in collaboration with Rolling Stone Canada - for their most in-depth interview about their miraculous return to the road. They discuss the doubts and tensions behind the reunion, Lifeson's decision to quit smoking weed after nearly six decades, Lee's first-ever vocal lessons at 73, how new touring drummer Anika Nilles won the most daunting seat in rock, the legacy of Neil Peart, their thoughts on new Rush music, and much more. Read the Rolling Stone Canada cover story at ca.rollingstone.com and rollingstone.com.
You can watch the entire interview below or on YouTube (thanks Dean S).












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