Geddy Lee
Geddy Lee ( born July 29, 1953 in Toronto, Ontario as Gary Lee Weinrib ) is a Canadian musician.
He is a singer, bassist and keyboardist for the rock band Rush. Lee is an honored with numerous awards musician whose playing style and technique of the bass had a noticeable impact on different genres of rock and the heavy metal and, ( according to their own statements ) bassist Steve Harris of Iron Maiden, John Myung of Dream Theater influenced Les Claypool of Primus and countless others. Live Lee must not only take over the bass part and sing, but also ensures that in most cases, to trigger sound effects, plays keyboards or served over the synthesizer pedals, if at the time played song requires a bass and a Synthpart. While his skills were rated never negative on bass, Lee was at least often if his voice criticized in the early days of Rush. Some critics was his high and then some shrill screaming voice an eyesore. Even though his voice over the years was gentle, she was always an often criticized point where divorce tastes.
The son of Polish- Jewish parents, the survivors of the Nazi concentration camps were saying, about the origin of his stage name (and later the civil name ) " Geddy " that this nothing else was as the outspoken by his mother in heavily accented birth name " Gary ".
His solo album, My Favorite Headache, was released in 2000. In addition to his compositions, arrangements and performance obligations for Rush Lee produced albums for various other bands, including Rocket Science.
Geddy Lee married Nancy Young in 1976. She is the mother of two joint children, son Julian and daughter Kyla Avril.
Along with his band members Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart Lee was appointed on 9 May 1996 an Officer of the Order of Canada. The three were the first rock musicians who were honored in this way.
Instruments
Geddy Lee's equipment varied widely in his career. But the selection of his bass changed frequently. While he played a Fender Precision Bass in the day when Rush only a locally known band was mainly, he moved in time for the debut album by Rush on the brand Rickenbacker basses. The Rickenbacker 4001 was his main bass, but also a Fender Jazz Bass from the first half of the 1970s appeared occasionally on recordings and live. He played live and like to have a Rickenbacker 4080/12 ( double-neck guitar with 4- saitigem bass and 12 -string guitar), which was made especially for him. The instrument can be heard on the album Exit ... Stage Left on the songs A Passage to Bangkok and Xanadu. He plays rhythm guitar during Alex Lifeson solos and fills the gap in the bass with his bass pedal. For the recording of the album Grace Under Pressure and the subsequent tour Lee used a Steinberger headless, but then the bass of the British brand Wal Basses had to give way. These were replaced again in 1993 to the recordings of the album Counterparts of his old jazz bass. In 1996 came another four on his Jazz Bass ajar Fender Custom Shop basses to also model the Jazz Bass. In 1998, Fender gave out those produced in Japan " Geddy Lee Signature Jazz Bass " which bass is similar to his 70s jazz. He used exclusively Fender Jazz Bass, including the model Jaco Pastorius Signature Jazz for the recordings to Snakes & Arrows.