Rush guest appearance at Foo Fighters show in Toronto March 23, 2008
Foo Fighters fans who attended last night’s show at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto got a BIG surprise about half way through the set. Right at the end of Taylor Hawkins’ drum solo Dave Grohl announced that he wanted to introduce a couple of his friends … Geddy Lee and Alex Fucking Lifeson! (apparently Alex has a middle name I wasn’t aware of). Then came the opening chimes of YYZ and they jammed out the entire song. They left immediately afterwards without saying anything but Dave Grohl kept bragging about it for the rest of the show; We just had Rush play at a Foo Fighters concert, Taylor had the balls to play drums for Rush in Rush’s hometown, etc. The Foo Fighters are huge Rush fans and got to know the guys through common producer Nick Raskulinecz. Many thanks to the lucky bastards who were at the show and gave me their reports - Brian, Amanda G and dingo. 
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