One of the most unique Progressive Rock bands of all time, Rush entered Rock history with their classic line-up which had Geddy Lee (Vocals, bass, keyboards), Alex Lifeson (Guitar) and Neil Peart (Main lyricist and drummer). Their main influences were British bands like Cream and Led Zeppelin and the Prog Rock groups that appeared especially after 1967, when two seminal albums for the music genre were released: Pink Floyd "The Piper At The Gates of Dawn" and The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Over the decades he talked about many of these bands and one of them was Pink Floyd, which is the most successful Progressive Rock band of all time. What is Geddy Lee's opinion on Pink Floyd Geddy Lee likes Pink Floyd and praised their songs a couple of times, revealing that for example "Speak to Me", "Breathe" and "Money" are some of his favorite ones. “Pink Floyd, I remember seeing them in Toronto. I think ‘Dark Side of The Moon’ was just coming out or hadn’t come out yet. I think the first set they played ‘Echoes’ from the previous album, you know. Like a 20 minute extravaganza. They were impressive also to a young musician, not just because of their song structure in the atmosphere. But the fact that they really put on an amazing show. They really understood showmanship,” Geddy Lee said in an interview on Sirius XM ‘Classic Vinyl Influences‘ show (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage) in 2013. He mentioned "Money" when he made a playlist for Amazon Music of the 21 songs that inspired his bass playing consciously or subconsciously. (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage) “I chose these songs because I’m such a ‘bass-centric dude’. That’s all I’ve been thinking about for the last few years. Is the role of bass in popular music. What I tried to do with my book (The Beautiful Book of Bass) was provide an alternate history of popular music through the point of view of the bass player. From the murky bottom end to the twangy top end,” Geddy Lee told Amazon. All the tracks are part of the best-selling Pink Floyd album "Dark Side of The Moon", released in 1973. It sold an estimated amount of more than 45 million copies worldwide. Geddy Lee said "Meddle" is his favorite Pink Floyd album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raV_A8YcBu0&pp=ygURb25lIG9mIHRoZXNlIGRheXM%3D Although Geddy Lee praised "Dark Side of The Moon", his favorite album by the British band is actually "Meddle" (1971). Speaking to The Quietus in 2012, he said that in his opinion that record was the start of Floyd's peak. "That was probably the last Pink Floyd album before they went into their run of classics. Before their really big records. But… again… again… it was their show in Toronto that captivated me and fired the imagination. They opened that show with the whole of Meddle. Immediately I could sense the possibilities were immense for this band." "It was really exciting because you could tell that something unique was happening. Where would they go next? Well, it was a great precursor to 'Dark Side of the Moon'. There were genuine ‘echoes’ of that already in place. It remains my favourite because of that timing. That moment when a band really starts to hit its peak. I am aware of Syd Barrett’s Floyd,. But, in a musical sense, that was a different time, a different band," Geddy Lee said. Although Geddy Lee said "Meddle" was the last Pink Floyd album before their big records, the band's follow up was "Obscured by Clouds" released in 1972. Some of the most famous tracks of "Meddle" are "One of These Days", "San Tropez" and "Echoes". He said "Comfortably Numb" has one of the best guitar solos of all time Geddy is a huge Led Zeppelin fan and when talking to Classic Rock in 2021 about his love of the album "Led Zeppelin IV", he said that alongside "Stairway To Heaven", Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" also has one of the greatest guitar solos of all time. “On one hand you’ve got Stairway To Heaven. That (one) and (Pink Floyd’s) Comfortably Numb vie for the greatest guitar solo ever recorded," he said. Although the members of Rush never played with Pink Floyd or its members, the drummer Neil Peart tried to do so back in the early ’90s. As he said in an interview for PROG magazine in 2013, he offered to play drums at Roger Waters’ classic show at the Berlin Wall in 1990. "I heard that Roger Waters was planning the Berlin performance of The Wall. I also heard that he was having international performers and all of that. So I wrote to him - faxed at the time. I said, 'I'd love to be a part of this.' Sadly, it was too late," Neil Peart said.The post Geddy Lee’s opinion on Pink Floyd appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.