Geddy Lee is 67 today!
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Topic: Geddy Lee is 67 today!
Posted By: SteveG
Subject: Geddy Lee is 67 today!
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 05:42
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Geddy Lee celebrated his 67th birthday today. With so many prog icons passing away, I thought it would be nice to celebrate those who are still with us and hopefully will be for a long time. Happy Birthday Geddy. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 06:14
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Happy birthday Geddy. And Kate Bush is 62 today!
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 06:39
Happy birthday to Kate and a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geddy_Lee" rel="nofollow - belated one to Geddy then!   ------------- 
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 06:59
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He is quite fit for 67. He should open a health club. He can call is Spa Geddy. ------------- ...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... |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 08:18
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wow just a baby by the standards of most of our prog heroes I have to say I listened to most of Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres and, while I don't like them all that much, they were clearly excellent musicians and knew how to show it without seeming stuck on themselves. And Lee's voice works well with the music.
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Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 08:35
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Happy birthday for both.
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 10:31
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Yup, spun a few Rush records yesterday in honor of his birthday....... -------------   
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 10:59
Dirk's birthday is the 29th, but let's keep the celebration going! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 12:59
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Yeah, I forgot to post it yesterday and I hoped no one would notice! ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: thief
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 13:05
| Fantastic, humble guy I'm sure, hopefully we'll see him and Alex on stage in the future! |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 13:40
| Happy birthday Geddy Lee! |
Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 14:48
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Hope he had a wonderful birthday and got to celebrate with his closest friends and family. ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 15:17
Yeah, I don't know if Alex is his closest friend but I would imagine he would at least be invited to the party.  Alex: "Happy Birthday Dirk. What are you a hundred now?" Geddy: "Yeah, something like that Lerxst." Alex: "And yet you don't look a day over 99." Geddy: "And yet I don't feel a day over four." |
Sacro_Porgo wrote:Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 16:34
| A very warm and happy birthday to Geddy. I hope hw remains with us for a very long time. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 19:34
| Trivia information. Geddy Lee's real first name is Gary(Gary Lee Weinrib). When his friends came over they would notice that when his mom called him in her thick yiddish accent it would sound like Geddy and so the name stuck. Ok, who on here didn't know that? :P |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 31 2020 at 02:19
^^ I knew that  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 31 2020 at 05:41
^ I didn't.  ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: July 31 2020 at 06:31
| I didn't know he was Jewish, or at least I forgot. I had a friend who had bought Caress of Steel and 2112 so I knew of them early on but don't recall it coming up, not that it necessarily would. I could see how "Gary", with the right accent, could sound like Geddy |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 31 2020 at 06:38
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I always knew that he was a real mensch.
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: July 31 2020 at 08:57
I read about that and his family history in a rock magazine when I was in HS, so it was early 80s. More details of he and the other 2 came out on Beyond The Lighted Stage documentary. I had actually forgotten about it till the documentary came out. -------------
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 31 2020 at 10:40
I heard about it either through the Beyond the Lighted Stage documentary or the Rush biography book I have. I think it was the book but I'll have to go back and check. That documentary is great. It would be cool if the guys who did it did one on prog in general but they are much more into metal so that will probably never happen. Oh well.
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: July 31 2020 at 11:57
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SoCal-based Rush tribute Caress of Steel's members now go by their real names, but their former stage names were: NEAR PEART ALMOST LIFESON SCARY LEE (he couldn't think of anything better, apparently) https://www.facebook.com/caressofsteel-127501113933960/" rel="nofollow - https://www.facebook.com/caressofsteel-127501113933960/ ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: July 31 2020 at 13:31
The Banger film boys have done a docu on Progressive Rock, part of that Metal Evolution series..... -------------
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Posted By: Braka1
Date Posted: July 31 2020 at 13:52
Oy didn't. ------------- Believe me Pope Paul, my toes are clean |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 31 2020 at 15:25
They did a section on progressive metal . They even had interviews with Steve Hackett, Chris Squire and maybe a few others but that's not the same thing and not a separate section or video on progressive rock. No disrespect to prog metal but I mean just regular prog. I don't know for sure if that's what you are referring to though. Same Dunn is the guy who did the metal documentary that had a section on prog metal and he also is the guy(or one of the guys)who did the documentary on Rush. There actually is a series on prog rock called Romantic Warriors but they focus on various subgenres and never really did a full blown history of prog as far as I know.
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