
Rush mainstays Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee have revealed that they initially had doubts about whether new drummer Anika Nilles would be the right fit for the group and the right musician to succeed the late Neil Peart, after their first rehearsals together.
"We rehearsed for four days, and on the fourth day Ged and I sat down and we weren’t sure," Lifeson reveals in the new issue of Classic Rock. "It wasn’t quite working with the three of us. We were thinking that maybe we should continue with someone else, just to see how that might feel.