While Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson were humble about the overwhelming response to them reuniting as Rush for a tour that starts this Sunday at The Forum in Inglewood, California — where they did their last show on August 1st, 2015 — it came as no surprise that the original schedule of 12 dates would be all they would do, which Geddy alluded to just days after the tour was announced.
Here’s Geddy Lee on putting a team together to enable Rush to tour again.
“Just to say to go back on the road is a huge effort. It’s a huge amount of work to put all those things back together and we are in the heat of rebuilding everything and putting a show together. And I was very happy to see that [our] fan base responded so overwhelmingly and they’ve accepted Anika. You know, she was a bit nervous. That’s big shoes to fill, but it’s all been kind of an incredible week for all of us coming to terms with the response to our announcement.”
The Fifty Something tour has since ballooned to 58 shows through December followed by 30 more next year in South America and Europe.
