Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson made an increasingly rare appearance onstage together Thursday as the Rush duo covered Gordon Lightfoot ’s “The Way I Feel” at a Toronto tribute concert for the late Canadian singer-songwriter . Lee and Lifeson, who were billed as “L+L” on the lineup, performed alongside the Canadian country act Blue Rodeo at the gig at Massey Hall, the same Toronto venue where Rush recorded their All the World’s a Stage live album in 1976. “On Thursday evening at Massey Hall in Toronto, both Alex and myself had the profound pleasure of paying tribute to a true Canadian musical legend, Gordon Lightfoot,” Lee wrote on social media after the performance.
“A huge thank you to the gracious members of Blue Rodeo for sharing their stage and prodigious talents with us both- a tremendous evening full of compelling performances and warm remembrances. An honour to be there.” Speaking to Variety , the bassist added, “It was important for us to pay tribute to Gordon.
Not being folk or pop artists, Alex and I were looking for one of Gordon’s songs that might better suit our style of play and we found that in ‘The Way I Feel.’ Its structure was loose and more open to interpretation than many of his more popular tunes.” A post shared by Geddy Lee (@geddyimages) Lee and Lifeson have only reunited onstage a handful of times since the death of Rush drummer Neil Peart in 2020, first to play the band’s “Closer to the Heart” at a South Park 25th anniv.