Rush have been what Geddy Lee calls a “big venue band” for most of their career. But of course they did play small places at the start.
When they weren’t busy temporarily firing their new frontman (“Still sore!” jokes Lee), they took whatever infrequent gigs they could, graduating from high schools and bar mitzvahs to bars and clubs.There were some mismatched pairings along the way. Especially the time they opened for lipstick-smeared proto-punk pirates the New York Dolls at Toronto’s Victory Theater in October 1973.
