GEDDY LEE SAID SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENED AFTER RUSH’S FIRST SHOW — AND HE COULDN’T EXPLAIN IT. 🥺🕊️ — THEN THE BIRD CAME BACK A SECOND TIME, LEAVING HIM WITH A MOMENT HE STILL CAN’T SHAKE Geddy Lee has opened up about a bizarre encounter that happened after the opening night of Rush’s Fifty Something tour in Los Angeles. While staying at a hotel, the Rush frontman noticed a bird on the floor that looked remarkably similar to the bird featured on the tour’s posters. What happened next left him stunned, as the bird flew into his room, landed on the edge of his bed and appeared to stare directly at him before flying away. Lee insists he isn’t someone who normally believes in supernatural signs, but the strange encounter became even more unsettling when the bird unexpectedly returned while he was telling Alex Lifeson about it. And when the conversation turned to the late Neil Peart, the moment suddenly took on a deeply emotional meaning… 🕊️💔

Geddy Lee has detailed a spooky encounter that took place on the opening night of Rush’s ongoing Fifty Something tour in June.

During an interview with Toronto radio station Q107 to celebrate the trio’s first hometown shows in a decade, host Joanne Wilder asks Lee if he’d felt the presence of late Rush drummer Neil Peart on the tour.

“Spooky question!” Lee responds. “Well, it’s funny. I’ll tell you a little story. After the opening night, we were staying in L.A., and I was texting Al [Alex Lifeson]. We were in the same hotel, but we were texting each other.

“My door to my room was open a crack, and I don’t know if you’ve seen the posters [for Rush’s Fifty Something tour] that have two birds on a wire and the one bird is flying away. I looked in front of me, on the floor, and there was a bird on the floor that looked just like that bird in the poster.

“I was kind of shocked. And, you know, I love birds, so I approached it, and it flew by me and flew into my bedroom and sat on the edge of my bed. And when I approached it, it was like it was looking at me, and then it flew out the door. So, I quickly ran to the computer and was texting Al this crazy story that had just happened.

“Now, I’m not a guy who believes in all that mumbo jumbo. But it was a kind of remarkable moment, and as I was texting him, the bird returned and just stuck its head in the doorway, like to give me another nod. And then I said, ‘Okay, bye,’ and it flew away. It was crazy, crazy.”

Wilson, who appears slightly more inclined to believe in all that mumbo jumbo, reacts by saying, “Okay, well I will believe for you. If you don’t want to believe, I will believe for you. That was Neil.”

A new documentary about Peart, Neil Peart: No One’s Disciple, will premiere on CBC on September 23. The film includes footage of Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson performing Rush songs with the likes of Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Stewart Copeland (The Police) and Danny Carey (Tool).