What About Geddy Lee's Voice!! - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Enough with all these pretenders. What about Geddy's voice? An acquired taste or smooth as velvet?

Edited by SteveG - April 30 2020 at 08:25

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Quite annoying actually.

What kind of sound does velvet make...?

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin

An acquired taste no doubt. His voice never stopped me from listening to Rush.

Geddy Lee's voice is right up there with his keyboard playing.

...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...

Love it. Prefer his singing to Jon Anderson's.

Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen

Woo yeah!

Well... Odd that you start this one. I was just listening to Nektar's A Spoonful Of Time and they do a cover of Spirit Of The Radio. And I must say I like Roye's vocals better than Geddy. He can play guitar as good as Alex. No one can outdo Neil on drums though. I feel another poll coming on on artists doing cover albums.

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

Rush is totally part of the 'Big' club for me (and it puzzles me if in a Progressive Rock site it isn't). For me Rush, fulfils my (progressive) 'power' needs.. and Geddy's screams is a great part of the deal.. I'm not into metal, nor things like Faith no More (though can listen), but, on a more 'classic (progressive) rock' flavor, for me this is as good as it gets in terms of power. But yeah.. perfectly understandable if it is an acquired taste; with my school friends long ago there was also a moment when we started questioning 'the witch', but in my case (and theirs too) it was a short hiatus and then I returned for good; for me Rush is indispensable, I'm always listening to them. I was in a band called 'Jacob's Ladder' totally inspired by Rush, and we 'tackled' some of the more affordable Rush' songs, but, the moment you have to sing one of them, you are completely at loss...

Favorite moments: Anthem with that scream.. 2112 when he starts the song high above.. Hemispheres beginning:

"When our weary world was young
The struggle of the ancients first began
The gods of Love and Reason
Sought alone to rule the fate of Man"

Edited by Machinemessiah - April 29 2020 at 12:28

Can't say I'm particularly bothered by the sound of a "Cat being chased out a door with a blow-torch up its butt" LOL

Of course Geddy is an amazing musician. This says its better than anything I could think up:

Music industry writer Christopher Buttner, who interviewed Lee in 1996, described him as a prodigy and "role model" for what every musician wants to be, noting his proficiency on stage. Buttner cited Lee's ability to vary time signatures, play multiple keyboards, use bass pedal controllers and control sequencers, all while singing lead vocals into as many as three microphones. Buttner adds that few musicians of any instrument "can juggle half of what Geddy can do without literally falling on their ass.

sorry for all the 'ass references'!

Thank goodness I don't like Rush so I don't have to hear his voice.

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