Geddy Lee (15,430 views)

[queenfan11]

Voice Type: Tenor
Vocal Range: C2-B5

Significant High Notes:
B5 ("Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage" live Fresno 1977, "Something for Nothing" live Toronto 1976)
B♭5 ("2112" IV: Presentation live Passaic 1976, "Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage")
A5 ("2112" IV: Presentation live Passaic 1976, "Anthem", "Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage", "Finding My Way")
G♯5 ("By-Tor and the Snow Dog", "Lessons")
G5 ("2112" VI: Soliloquy, "Before and After", "By-Tor and the Snow Dog", "Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage", "The Fountain of Lamneth" III: No One at the Bridge, "Lessons", "Something For Nothing")
F♯5 ("2112" I: Overture, II: The Temples of Syrinx, and IV: Presentation, "Anthem", "Bad Boy" live, "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres" I: Prelude and IV: Armageddon, "The Fountain of Lamneth" II: Didacts and Narpets and III: No One at the Bridge, "Here Again")
F5 ("Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage", "Fancy Dancer" live, "Freewill", "In the End")
E5 ("2112" II: The Temples of Syrinx, IV: Presentation, V: Oracle: The Dream, and VI: Soliloquy, "Anthem", "Bad Boy" live, "Bastille Day", "Battle Scar", "Before and After", "Beneath, Between, and Behind", "Best I Can", "By-Tor and the Snow Dog", "Closer to the Heart", "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres" IV: Armageddon and V: Cygnus, "Fancy Dancer" live, "A Farewell to Kings", "Finding My Way", "Fly By Night", "The Fountain of Lamneth" I: In the Valley, II: Didacts and Narpets, III: No One at the Bridge, V: Bacchus Plateau, and VI: The Fountain, "Garden Road" live, "Here Again", "I Think I'm Going Bald", "In the End", "In the Mood", "Lessons", "The Necromancer", "Need Some Love", "A Passage to Bangkok", "Something For Nothing", "The Spirit of Radio", "The Twilight Zone", "Tom Sawyer", "Vital Signs", "What You're Doing", "Xanadu", "You Can't Fight It")
E♭5 ("In the Mood")
D5 ("2112" II: The Temples of Syrinx and V: Oracle: The Dream, "Anthem", "Available Light", "Bastille Day", "Battle Scar", "Beneath, Between, and Behind", "Best I Can", "The Body Electric", "By-Tor and the Snow Dog", "Cinderella Man", "Circumstances", "Closer to the Heart", "Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage", "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres" I: Prelude, II: Apollo, III: Dionysus, IV: Armageddon, and V: Cygnus, "Distant Early Warning" live 1984, "Fancy Dancer" live, "A Farewell to Kings", "Fly By Night", "The Fountain of Lamneth" I: In the Valley, II: Didacts and Narpets, III: No One at the Bridge, V: Bacchus Plateau, and VI: The Fountain, "Freewill", "Garden Road" live, "Grand Designs", "Here Again", "I Think I'm Going Bald", "In the End", "Lakeside Park", "Making Memories", "Manhattan Project", "The Necromancer", "Need Some Love", "New World Man" live Toronto 1984, "A Passage to Bangkok", "Something For Nothing", "Take a Friend", "The Twilight Zone", "What You're Doing", "Working Man", "Xanadu", "You Can't Fight It")
C♯5 ("Before and After", "The Big Money" demo version, "Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage", "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres" II: Apollo, III: Dionysus, and IV: Armageddon, "A Farewell to Kings", "In the Mood", "Lessons", "Lock and Key", "Marathon", "The Necromancer", "Out of the Cradle", "Red Barchetta", "Red Lenses", "Secret Touch", "Take Off", "Tears Are Not Enough", "Territories")
C5 ("2112" III: Discovery, "The Anarchist", "Animate" live Tinley Park 1997, "Armor and Sword", "Available Light", "Bad Boy" live, "Bastille Day", "Before and After", "Best I Can", "Between the Wheels", "The Camera Eye", "Carnies", "Cinderella Man", "Circumstances", "Distant Early Warning", "Emotion Detector", "Finding My Way", "Ghost Rider", "Headlong Flight", "I Think I'm Going Bald", "In the End", "Lakeside Park", "Manhattan Project", "Middletown Dreams", "Moving to Bohemia", "Nobody's Hero", "A Passage to Bangkok", "The Present Tense", "Red Barchetta", "Red Tide", "Resist", "Scars", "Show Don't Tell", "Sweet Miracle", "Take a Friend", "Test For Echo", "Tom Sawyer", "Turn the Page", "War Paint", "The Weapon" live, "Wish Them Well", "Witch Hunt" live Toronto 1984)
B4 ("2112" III: Discovery and V: Oracle: the Dream, "The Analog Kid", "Battle Scar", "Beneath, Between, and Behind", "The Big Money", "Carnies", "Ceiling Unlimited", "Cinderella Man", "Closer to the Heart", "Countdown", "Cut to the Chase", "Digital Man", "Earthshine", "The Enemy Within", "Everyday Glory", "Far Cry", "Freeze", "Grand Designs", "Hand Over Fist", "Headlong Flight", "Here Again", "High Water", "Kid Gloves", "Limelight", "Lock and Key", "Making Memories", "Manhattan Project", "Marathon", "Mission", "Moving to Bohemia", "Natural Science", "The Necromancer", "Need Some Love", "Not Fade Away", "One Little Victory", "Out of the Cradle", "Peaceable Kingdom", "The Present Tense", "Presto", "Prime Mover", "Roll the Bones" live New York 2004, "Runaway Train", "Seven Cities of Gold", "The Spirit of Radio", "Subdivisions" live in Mountain View 1990, "Summertime Blues", "Superconductor", "Take Off", "Territories", "The Anarchist", "The Seeker", "Time Stand Still", "The Trees", "What You're Doing", "Working Man", "Working at Perfekt", "Xanadu", "You Can't Fight It")
B♭4 ("The Camera Eye", "Chain Lightning", "Dog Years", "Force Ten", "Ghost Rider", "Home on the Strange", "Lakeside Park", "My Favourite Headache", "Mystic Rhythms", "The Pass", "Red Lenses", "Resist", "Scars", "The Speed of Love", "Superconductor", "Time and Motion", "Totem", "War Paint", "The Way the Wind Blows")
A4 ("Afterimage", "Alien Shore", "Anagram (for Mongo)", "The Analog Kid", "The Angels' Share", "Animate", "Available Light", "Between Sun and Moon", "Between the Wheels", "The Big Money", "The Body Electric", "Carnies", "Carve Away the Stone", "Ceiling Unlimited", "Chemistry", "Circumstances", "Clockwork Angels", "Closer to the Heart", "Cold Fire", "The Color of Right", "Cut to the Chase", "Digital Man", "Distant Early Warning", "Dog Years", "Double Agent", "Driven", "Emotion Detector", "The Enemy Within", "Face Up", "Faithless", "Far Cry", "A Farewell to Kings", "Force Ten", "Freewill", "Freeze", "Ghost Rider", "Grace to Grace", "Grand Designs", "Half the World", "Hand Over Fist", "High Water", "Home on the Strange", "How It Is", "In the Mood", "Kid Gloves", "Limbo", "Madrigal", "Manhattan Project", "Marathon", "Middletown Dreams", "Mission", "Natural Science", "Neurotica", "New World Man" live Toronto 1984, "Nobody's Hero", "Nocturne", "One Little Victory", "Open Secrets", "The Pass", "Peaceable Kingdom", "The Present Tense", "Presto", "Prime Mover", "Red Barchetta", "Red Sector A", "Red Tide", "Rivendell", "Secret Touch", "Seven & Seven Is", "Show Don't Tell", "Slipping", "The Speed of Love", "Spindrift", "Stick It Out", "Still", "Subdivisions", "Summertime Blues", "Sweet Miracle", "Take a Friend", "Territories", "Test For Echo", "The Anarchist", "The Garden", "The Larger Bowl (A Pantoum)", "The Seeker", "The Stars Look Down", "The Wreckers", "Time and Motion", "Time Stand Still", "Tom Sawyer", "The Trees", "Turn the Page", "Vapor Trail", "We Hold On", "The Weapon", "Wish Them Well", "Workin' Them Angels", "Working Man")

Significant Low Notes:
E3 ("2112" V: Oracle: the Dream, "Alien Shore", "Anagram (For Mongo)", "The Angels' Share", "Animate", "Armor and Sword", "Available Light", "The Big Wheel", "The Body Electric", "Bravado", "BU2B", "Bravest Face", "Cold Fire", "The Color of Right", "Countdown", "Cut to the Chase", "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres" V: Cygnus, "Digital Man", "Distant Early Warning", "Dreamline", "Driven", "Entre Nous", "Face Up", "Faithless", "Far Cry", "For What It's Worth", "The Fountain of Lamneth" I: In the Valley, IV: Panacea, and VI: The Fountain, "Freewill", "Ghost of a Chance", "Good News First", "Grace to Grace", "Half the World", "Hand Over Fist", "Heresy", "Madrigal", "Mission", "Mr. Soul", "Neurotica", "Nocturne", "O Canada", "One Little Victory", "Open Secrets", "Out of the Cradle", "Peaceable Kingdom", "The Present Tense", "Presto", "Prime Mover", "Rivendell", "Roll the Bones", "Seven & Seven Is", "Seven Cities of Gold", "The Spirit of Radio", "The Anarchist", "The Larger Bowl (A Pantoum)", "The Wreckers", "Time Stand Still", "Tom Sawyer", "Workin' Them Angels", "Working at Perfekt")
E♭3 ("Chain Lightning", "Heart Full of Soul", "Heresy", "Lock and Key", "Losing It", "Scars")
D3 ("Anagram (For Mongo)", "Bravado", "Ceiling Unlimited", "Cold Fire", "The Color of Right", "Cut to the Chase", "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres" V: Cygnus, "Double Agent", "Dreamline", "Driven", "Everyday Glory", "Ghost of a Chance", "Hand Over Fist", "Jacob's Ladder", "Making Memories", "Manhattan Project", "My Favourite Headache", "Need Some Love", "Neurotica", "New World Man", "Nobody's Hero", "Open Secrets", "Red Tide", "Rivendell", "Roll the Bones", "The Speed of Love", "Stick It Out", "Territories", "Test For Echo", "The Way the Wind Blows", "Time and Motion", "Virtuality", "War Paint", "We Hold On", "The Weapon", "Window to the World", "Wish Them Well", "You Bet Your Life")
C♯3 ("Dreamline", "Ghost of a Chance", "Heresy", "Losing It", "My Favourite Headache", "O Canada" live Baltimore 1993, "Second Nature", "Superconductor", "Time Stand Still", "The Trees")
C3 ("The Angels' Share", "Animate", "Caravan", "The Color of Right", "Faithless", "In the End", "Jacob's Ladder", "Red Tide", "Resist", "Show Don't Tell", "Slipping", "Spindrift", "The Garden", "Time and Motion")
B2 ("Cut to the Chase", "For What It's Worth", "O Canada" live Baltimore 1993, "Madrigal", "Need Some Love", "Seven Cities of Gold", "The Spirit of Radio")
B♭2 ("Resist", "Roll the Bones", "Superconductor" live Mountain View 1990, "Test For Echo")
A2 ("The Spirit of Radio" disco version from 2011 Time Machine tour skit, "The Trees")
G♯2 ("Red Lenses")
G2 ("Roll the Bones")
E2 ("Double Agent", "The Spirit of Radio" country version from 2011 Time Machine tour skit)
C2 ("Double Agent")

Underlines marks notes in backing vocals or otherwise muffled/obscured in the mix.
Italics mark spoken notes.
Boldface marks particularly impressive notes.

NOTE: The B♭2 and G2 in "Roll the Bones" were pitch-shifted down three semitones on the recording, making them sound as G2s and E2s. This is how the passage originally sounded.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Albums checked}Rush:
Rush (1974) (B2-A5)
Fly By Night (1975) (C3-A5)
Caress of Steel (1975) (E3-G5)
2112 (1976) (E3-G♯5)
A Farewell to Kings (1977) (B2-B♭5)
Hemispheres (1978) (A2-F♯5)
Permanent Waves (1980) (B2-F5)
Moving Pictures (1981) (E3-E5)
Signals (1982) (C♯3-B4)
Grace Under Pressure (1984) (G♯2-E3-D5)
Power Windows (1985) (D3-C♯5-D5)
Hold Your Fire (1987) (C♯3-C♯5)
Presto (1989) (C3-D5)
Roll the Bones (1991) (G2-C♯3-A4)
Counterparts (1993) (C2-B2-B4-C5)
Test For Echo (1996) (B♭2-C5)
Vapor Trails (2002)
Feedback (2004)
Snakes and Arrows (2007)
Clockwork Angels (2012)

Solo:
My Favorite Headache (2000) (C3-B4-C5)

SPOILER: Click to show

{Questionable notes}G♯5: ("2112" VI: Soliloquy, uncertain pitch)
G5: ("In the End" brief yelps)
F5: ("Best I Can" overshot E5)
E♭5: ("Take a Friend" overshot D5)
C5: ("The Big Money" overshot B4, "Natural Science" overshot B4)
E3: ("Between Sun and Moon" brief dip)
C3: ("Everyday Glory" brief dip)
B♭2: ("The Pass" anacrusis, "Territories" brief trail down)
A2: ("The Fountain of Lamneth" V: Panacea, anacrusis, "Mission" brief dips, "Show Don't Tell" implied harmony)
F♯2: ("The Angels' Share" crackly and fryish, "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres" V: Cygnus, crackly and fryish)

Thread by Sandblasted on TRP3, with revisions by me. This is currently a placeholder and will be re-researched.

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

Never forget this classic Geddy E5 <3

[Dark Star]

Can we bold the C#5 in "Marathon" and the F5 in "Freewill"?

[Zedd Squared]

I can get on board with Marathon but that Freewill F5 doesn't strike me as particularly remarkable for him personally.

[fedemayhemile]

Geddy lightly hitting the "Freewill" high part in kinda recent times: [www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE2WjSmUcRA - www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMm9GELnck], idk if it's relevant or not but based on the fact that he stopped risking that notes around the 80's, it might be the only song in which he continued to do so.

[Dark Star]

The C5s on "Wish Them Well" could also use a bold. Great control.

[Batfleck]

Hey guys, I found the non pitch-shifted version of the “rap” that Geddy does in Roll the Bones: youtu.be/L1QVjOFcUNM

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

Yeah, we found that a while ago actually - it's currently listed as an underlined note at A2 for that song. Though I personally hear a lot of B♭2s in it and a few short G2s myself.

[queenfan11]

The backing A2 wasn't referring to the rap section, it was actually an octave harmony in the pre-chorus sections.

[Batfleck]

Sept 2, 2021 20:31:39 GMT queenfan11 said:

The backing A2 wasn't referring to the rap section, it was actually an octave harmony in the pre-chorus sections.

That's what I thought. If it was a rap, it wouldn't be underlined unless it's a backing vocal/harmony. I'd also probably italicize it too because it kinda sounds spoken.

[Zedd Squared]

Personally I think that A2 in Mission is countable. Also, while considering it countable might be a stretch for some it's probably at least worth listing the F#2 from Second Nature in the spoiler box on "opEN letter to the powers that be" at 0:25.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0KylC35d-Y&t=25s

[rob]

Did he not at one point have a B1 or am I mistaken?

[Zedd Squared]

Yeah, but it was just a nano-note during the Double Agent spoken section iirc. Nothing that's prominent enough to list, or indeed even mention in the spoiler section.

Also:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFwR6VLFPuY&t=192s
A2 here in "The Big Money" live A Show of Hands 1988.

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

I'm only hearing C3 there personally.

[queenfan11]

I don't think i'd count that. It seems like a dip not really aiming for a specific pitch.

Recently realized I had forgot to recheck the albums after My Favorite Headache. I will do that in the coming days.

[SpeedDemonJi]

SpeedDemonJi “Sex Vocalist” stamp of approval

[Homelander]

Funny voice type suggestion: Tenor Sawyer

[Tetra]

i'd prefer if you didn't

[Yojojo]

Apr 28, 2024 15:31:39 GMT Homelander said:

Funny voice type suggestion: Tenor Sawyer

i thought she was a contralto

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

Feb 15, 2024 5:34:22 GMT queenfan11 said:

Recently realized I had forgot to recheck the albums after My Favorite Headache. I will do that in the coming days.

Did this ever end up happening? They're still listed with no album ranges next to them in the OP.

[Homelander]

Can we have links to the extremities? Tbh, I find it difficult to believe that Geddy Lee can hit a B5 with modal voice (although if anybody could, it'd probably be him).

[Homelander]

Jul 12, 2021 20:30:11 GMT Dark Star said:

Can we bold the C#5 in "Marathon" and the F5 in "Freewill"?

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that none of the notes currently bolded in this thread are really all that impressive except for the bold A4s, the E5 from Best I Can, and ironically the Bb2 from Resist. I haven’t heard the F5, but I think the C#5 in Marathon is really no better or worse than any of his other notes in that area.

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

In light of recent discussions in the John Frusciante thread about counting pitch-shifted notes after reverse-shifting them back to the presumed original pitch, I suggest we move the "Roll the Bones" rapped notes to the spoiler.