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Liz Scarlett

"Geddy didn't understand what a blues scale was." Gene Simmons recalls the time he gave Rush's Geddy Lee a bass lesson on tour

Geddy Lee and Gene Simmons

Kiss' Gene Simmons has recalled the time he gave Rush's Geddy Lee an impromptu bass lesson while their bands were on tour together.

While it's hard to imagine Lee being schooled on his musicianship, with his skills  having cemented him as one of the greatest bass players in rock music, Simmons reveals how the Rush axe-slinger actually had some blind spots when it came to musical theory back when his band were first starting out.

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