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Mon, Apr 27, 2026

Rush cover feature in the latest edition of Prog magazine

Tue, Apr 7, 2026@9:31AM | comments

UPDATE - 4/20@7:53PM: John at Cygnus-X1.net has transcribed/scanned the entire feature and made it available online here.

UPDATE - 4/14@3:31PM: Guitar.com has posted an article including a few interview snippets from the feature where Geddy Lee blames Alex Lifeson for introducing him to marijuana:

"... [Lifeson] was the one who introduced me to it," Lee says. "I was playing in this other band whose drummer was a Who freak - he dreamed of being in The Who. Me and Al were hanging out... and he gave me my first joint. I got so fucking stoned." Unfortunately, it was only after getting thoroughly high that the penny dropped - Lee had somewhere to be. "Suddenly I went, 'Shit, I have to go to rehearsal!'" he says. Aware that he had been the one to corrupt Lee, tempting him to get stoned in the middle of the day, Lifeson offered to walk with Lee to his rehearsal. "Al came with me, and we were walking in slow motion across the park," Lee remembers. "I got to the guy's house, and he looked at me and went: 'Look at your eyes, man. Are you stoned?' He was freaking out like you'd expect your parents to freak out." "I was like, 'This is a bummer, man! Al, this guy's a drag!'" Lee laughs. "I said, 'I gotta go home. How do I come down from this stuff?' And [Lifeson] went, 'You gotta drink Coca Cola. It brings you down.' So, yeah, we kind of bonded over marijuana." While Lee adds that he's "never touched the stuff since", it's a comment clearly made in jest. ...

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Rush is featured for a cover story in the next issue of Prog magazine (#169), which will hit newsstands in the UK this coming Friday, April 10th (May 6th in the US). The cover includes a photo of Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee with their double-neck guitars, with a tagline reading, RUSH are back and they're loving every minute of it, along with the featured quote, "We're an overnight sensation, 50 years in the making". From the Instagram post cover reveal:

... With their twin-neck guitars and knowing smiles harkening back to a golden era, @rush grace the cover of the new issue of Prog Magazine. We chat to Geddy and Alex about their friendship, about the band and about their upcoming Fifty Something tour. We also get the story of the band's 1984 album, Grace Under Pressure, which has just been reissued as a Deluxe Edition box set! ...


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