Despite Geddy Lee's My Effin' Life: In Conversation spoken word tour ending this past December, Ged announced back in April that he'd be doing a special one-off show at the Grand Théâtre de Québec as part of the Quebec City Summer Festival on July 13th at 1PM. Due to the first show selling so well, he decided to add a second show taking place shortly after the first at 4PM. The shows will take place in the 500-seat Salle Octave-Crémazie room, and some VIP tickets that include an autographed copy of his memoir have been made available (although there aren't many left). Tickets are $57 CAD ($140 VIP) and are on sale at this location while they last. The first show is nearly sold out, but the second still has plenty of great seats available. Moment Magazine posted a review of Geddy's My Effin' Life this past week, saying the following:

... A gifted storyteller, in this book Geddy Lee brings about a balance between the personal and professional. He also manages to combine two very different genres-the autobiography of a rock star and that of a child of survivors. This striking contrast shows up in the pictures with which Lee intersperses his text. The fun photos show the evolution of his band, Rush, from a simple three-man band in 1969 to a colorful, extravagant, psychedelic group in 2015. Then there are the family photos, which strike a more somber note, from his bar mitzvah invitation (on which his mother got his middle name wrong) to snapshots of his relatives in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, found through an AI method developed by a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, Daniel Patt of From Numbers to Names. ...

The 37th Annual TD Toronto Jazz Fest kicks off today, and for the first time ever they are also hosting an online auction as part of the festivities with all proceeds going towards supporting local and Canadian artists. Rush's Alex Lifeson has donated a signed guitar to the auction, as described in this Toronto Sun article:

Alex Lifeson ... is auctioning off a signed crimson red Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster guitar as part of the TD Toronto Jazz Fest's first ever online auction. The instrument is also an Artist Proof Prototype which means it was built by Fender in 2021 specifically for Lifeson to try out that was based on a Stratocaster he used "back in the day." Bids for the guitar, and other items, are being accepted between June 1-30, with the festival's inaugural gala being held on June 20 at the Windsor Arms Hotel with a roaring '20s theme before celebrating Cuban jazz and salsa. ...

For all the details visit torontojazz.com, and you can place your bid on the Alex Lifeson guitar here.

Styx front-man Tommy Shaw was recently interviewed in the run-up to a recent show the band played in Cleveland, and he mentions Rush when asked about a potential Styx Rock Hall induction (thanks RushFanForever):

That's the "living in the future" we talked about. I hope we all live long enough to find the answer to that question. But that's not for me to decide. If it really was up to me, Bad Company would be in the Rock & Roll Hall Fame. I don't know the process and it's really none of my business. It's a nice thing to have people rally around artists they like, but we have zero influence. I'm glad when artists are recognized. It's a great thing for everyone. Like when Rush was in inducted? Appreciated. Deserved. It's an honor for anybody who is inducted, but it doesn't help write that next song. We all know the reality: it's looks good on television.

On the latest episode of Rush Roundtable (#232) on the Rushfans YouTube channel, the panel chooses three Rush songs where they prefer the live version over the studio version.

That's it for this week. Have a great weekend and enjoy the summer everybody!