Rush's Getty Lee Voting For Deep Purple and Yes For Rock Hall
. Fans can catch a preview of what's to come on this starting at 12:00 Noon EST on Thursday (Nov. 14) where for 24 hours we'll have six performances from the DVD available exclusively to stream on Radio.com. And then, starting at 12:00 Noon EST on Friday (Nov. 15), we'll have two songs ("Red Sector A" and "Middletown Dreams") to watch on demand. Placing some strings behind their 1984 song "Red Sector A" adds a certain gravitas to one of the heaviest tracks in the band's catalog. Ostensibly, it's a song about a dystopian future where people are kept in prison camps. But bassist/singer Geddy Lee tells Radio.com that the lyrics are based in the past, and are quite personal to him and his family. Drummer Neil Peart (who doubles as the band's lyricist) wrote the song based on Lee's mother's life. "That's a fantasy song," said Lee, "but there's no question that some of the lines came out of a conversation I had had with [Peart], telling him about some of my mom's experiences at the end of World War II and her liberation from concentration camps. So some of those truths resonated with him, and he put them in another context, a sci-fi context. There's no question that there's not a night that I sing that song that I don't think about that story that my mom told me and about her liberation." Lee's mother was interviewed in the 2010 Rush documentary, Beyond The Lighted Stage, and in an interview last year, Lee noted that she was thrilled about Rush's induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. "[It] made my mom very happy, so that's worth it." He still seems a bit bemused about being accepted by the Hall Of Fame's voting body, which had ignored the band for well over a decade. "I think it's been a slow crossover from the outer reaches of rockdom to the mainstream. I think what happened was, a lot of Rush fans that had grown up with our music and had great passion for our music, started finding themselves in a position to 'pay it back' in a way. And people like [director] John Hamburg making I Love You Man and insisting that the only band that elicits that kind of passionate response is Rush. So that kind of thing kind of reintroduced us into the eyes and ears of many people and the documentary [2010's Beyond The Lighted Stage] went a long way to doing that as well, and slowly there were just these accolades that just helped pique interest." Now, Lee is preparing to fill out his ballot for next year's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction class (all Rock Hall inductees are voting members). While he hasn't figured out exactly who he'll vote for, he did tell Radio.com at least two of the artists who will make his ballot. "Well, certainly Deep Purple, certainly Yes," he admitted. "I have to give it a more complete thought but those are two names that stand out as omissions in my view. I think one of the things the Hall of Fame looks for is influential bands. And if influence is a big part of their criteria, and you can make the case clearly for Deep Purple." more on this story Radio.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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