Geddy Lee
Geddy Lee
Geddy Lee Weinrib, OC, known professionally as Geddy Lee, is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush. Lee joined what would become Rush in September 1968, at the request of his childhood friend Alex Lifeson, replacing original bassist and frontman Jeff Jones. Lee's first solo effort, My Favourite Headache, was released in 2000...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth29 July 1953
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.
That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.
Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard.
It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.
So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.
Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.
Back in the day, fans wrote letters to groups - you'd get them, although it could take a while. Now, artists can go online and there's discussions about what you should and shouldn't be doing. The minute you announce that you're recording an album, thousands of people are telling you what that album should be.
So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.
I was thrilled to support the Teenage Cancer Trust while celebrating the music of The Who - a band that changed my life.
I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.
Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.
With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.