The first of two planned tribute concerts for the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins took place 2 weeks ago at Wembley Stadium in London, and Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson along with dozens of other members of rock royalty participated in the event. Alex and Geddy took the stage about 3 and a half hours into the epic, 6-hour show, and played 2112: Overture and Working Man with Dave Grohl on drums, then finished off with YYZ with Omar Hakim on stick duty. The entire show was streamed live worldwide on Paramount+ (US only), MTV YouTube channels (Globally), and Pluto TV internationally, but those streams have since been taken down. A heavily truncated, 1-hour TV special edit of the show aired on CBS the evening after the show, but Rush's performance was not included. There is also supposed to be a 2-hour TV edit airing later this month on MTV globally. Although the official video links have been removed, the entire show can currently be found on the Internet Archive here, although that's likely to be removed at some point. John over at Cygnus-X1.net posted a bunch of screenshots of Rush's performance and made them available online at this location. Both Geddy and Alex posted some reflections on the concert to their Instagram pages this past week, with Geddy saying the following:
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