Today is the day we've been waiting for. Geddy Lee has released two demos in a double-A single entitled Lost Demos. (Available where ever you consume music). They were originally written and recorded for his solo record My Favourite Headache. They were shelved. People were first able to hear them in the audio version of his memoir My Effin' Life. Here is what Geddy said. I'm excited to see these 2 'lost demos' released," said Lee in a press release. "I loved the songs when they were written and in some ways they feel as fresh and perhaps more relevant all these years later." In a recent interview on Out of the Box, Geddy spoke on both songs. "Gone" was written about just after the loss of Neil's daughter Selena. "When you lose somebody, you relive a lot of your other losses and I was thinking about how does one deal with a sudden disappearance of someone form your life especially a daughter. I wrote this song with Ben (Mink). It was the first song we wrote for My Favourite Headache and we demoed it, it just felt beautiful. I felt it was too raw, too close to the bone. I didn't think it was appropriate to relase it out of respect for Neil and the way he was. I didn't think it was right. So we shelved it." Geddy on "I Am... You Are." "The other one was a song we had left sort of incomplete, but most of it had been recorded. It was called "I Am... You Are." It was about relationships and about me in the midst of a difficult conversation with my wife which happened more then once in my life. I think the personal nature of that made it also something that I wasn't prepared to follow through with." One both songs. "Hearing them last year, when I discovered them again, I was like 'wow.' I was amazed how they stood up. So I asked my friend and part-time Rush producer, David Bottrill, to come in a have a listen to them. He came over, sat down, and loved them. He loved how raw they were and loved how honest he thought the vocals were. Very different from the other things that are on the album. He said 'just leave it with me. Let me play with them and see if I can clean them up without changing too much.' He didn't want to lose all. The gutiars are original, my vocals are original. They were done almost 24-years ago. We put now drums on it. Got a friend of mine to play drums on one song. Then we called Benny up, Ben Mink, and said, because David thought the song really needed a violin solo, and Ben is amazing. Ben is so amazing. He's like the Jeff Beck of violin and he pulled off a corker of a solo. "Anyway. He mixed them and sent them to me and I was really shocked. It really lifted me up and made me remember how much fun it is to make records." Geddy is a superb and wonderful human. Humble and genuine. Enjoy.
