Rush vocalist/bassist Geddy Lee spoke last year about Paul McCartney encouraging him and guitarist Alex Lifeson to get their band back on the road, and on his recent book tour to promote his autobiography My Effin' Life, Lee revealed that McCartney wasn't the first of his heroes to reach out to him and Lifeson while they were grieving.
On the Los Angeles date of his book tour, at the Orpheum Theatre, Lee revealed to the evening's host, long-time Rush fan Jack Black, that he and Robert Plant had first connected while both men were holidaying in Morocco in the mid '90s. The story was Lee and his wife Nancy were on a cycling holiday and had rented a bungalow at La Roseraie in the Atlas Mountains, and were astonished to discover that Plant was in residence in a bungalow facing their own. The two musicians subsequently met at dinner in the hotel, and shared stories about their travel experiences, and "hit it off really well" according to Lee, who described the former Led Zeppelin frontman as "friendly and charming."
