Geddy Lee talks about Colbert, new comp.

Excellent new interview with Geddy Lee. Some excerpts:

EW: So how did you settle on the 14 songs on the new collection?
GL: We usually send each other a bunch of emails. Management will make suggestions, and we’ll try to ignore as many of their suggestions as possible. [Laughs] For me it’s all about trying to do something interesting for our fans. Our fans probably have all those songs in one form or another, so if we’re going to put something out there we’d like to try to make it a little different. We tried to include some unusual versions of some of those songs. If I had my druthers it would be a boxed set of three discs. But that’s not very practical. I would like to spend some time at some point doing some creative boxed sets. I think that would be fun.

EW: So there’s a lot of unreleased Rush material sitting in the vaults, then?
GL: There isn’t. None. There’s lots of unreleased live material. Hours. Months. But there’s no [studio] material that we’ve recorded and not released. It’s like this: if we’re working on a song where we don’t love it enough to put it on the record, we throw it away. If we’re disappointed in them, we trash them.

EW: What kind of response did you get after Colbert?
GL: Surprisingly, many of our fans were upset about [a gag where the show cut to commercial in the middle of the "Tom Sawyer" performance]. They didn’t take it in the spirit with which it was meant. I think they’ve got to lighten up a little. It’s a comedy show. They just thought it was rude, even though it was all kind of staged to be that way. He wasn’t trying to be disrespectful. He was trying to make people laugh. We were laughing. But there were also a lot of fans who came to gigs afterwards holding up Colbert signs.