Biografie

His round sunglasses

His unusually high pitched vocals

Distinctive nose

Long hair

Fender Signature model Jazz Bass

Lee's real name is Gary. His nickname is attributed to his mother who pronounced "Gary" with such a heavy Yiddish accent that it came out sounding like "Geddy." The name stuck and he has been known as Geddy ever since.

The son of Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors from Poland.

Attended school in the Toronto, Canada area with comedian Rick Moranis.

Starting in the mid-1990s, would choose to use a concert venue's "house" speakers rather than amplifier stacks, which created a vast empty space behind him. He would soon use that space to put kitchen appliances, clothes dryers, etc. for humorous purposes.

With Rush, released "Feedback", an EP containing 8 cover songs. This marks the first Rush release wherein the band performs songs other than their own. After "Feedback", Rush embarked on a highly successful Thirtieth Anniversary Tour ("R30" for short). On this tour, the band performed some of the cover songs live -- also a first for them.

[on re-imagining an earlier composition] Once you start playing it, it's amazing how you can put yourself back into that mindset of how you felt when you wrote the song. You can reignite a point-of- view, and a good feeling about playing it, even though initially your instincts said: "Oh, I can't play that song anymore - that's too dated". But you can. You can go home again.

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

I think, basically, the music industry is scattered and in a mess. I think you've got lots of people that are so-called "experts" that have no idea where it's headed.

Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.

I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was For Your Love by The Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song.