With the new Paramount+ docu-series Geddy Lee: Are Bass Players Human Too? set to launch on Tuesday (December 5th), Consequence is exclusively premiering a clip from the episode featuring the RUSH legend alongside Les Claypool of Primus.
The four-part series features Geddy Lee engaging in random activities with fellow bassists in an effort to “show the world that a bass player can do many things,” in his own words.
For example, this exclusive clip sees Claypool showing Geddy how to use an excavator to consolidate some burn piles on Claypool’s land. At first, Geddy looks confounded by the heavy equipment.
“I’m a nice urban Jewish boy… where do I come to this kind of machinery?” asks Geddy.
Les responds by giving Geddy a Stetson and some coveralls while encouraging him to expand his horizons. Soon enough, Geddy gets the excavator arm moving and gets to work, picking up the basics fast.
“My life as a bass player has been leading up to this moment,” he jokes.
In the other episodes, Lee will also meet up with Krist Novoselic (Nirvana), Robert Trujillo (Metallica), and Melissa Auf der Maur (ex-Smashing Pumpkins, ex-Hole).
“The idea for this show was born out of interviews I did for my first book, The Big, Beautiful Book of Bass,” commented Lee in a press release for the docu-series. “I was struck that these accomplished musicians also lived incredibly interesting, multifaceted lives offstage.”
In addition to promoting the new docu-series, Lee is currently in the midst of a book tour in support of his new memoir, My Effin’ Life. Tickets to the remaining shows are available here.
Check back Tuesday (December 5th) for another exclusive clip from the episode featuring Novoselic. See Claypool teaching Lee how to use the excavator, and visit Paramount+ for more on the new docu-series.
