Canadian progressive rock legends Rush won't tour anymore, not big tours anyway. Guitarist Alex Lifeson said that it was tough enough for them to get drummer Neil Peart to play last year's R40 tour. The trio has not discussed the state of the band beyond that tour. They could still play one-off shows or short runs in the future and could still record music but the future is uncertain.

"Neil was prepared to commit to 30 dates and he told us that right from the very beginning," Lifeson told Rolling Stone. "He didn't even want to do the tour, to be honest with you. It's been increasingly difficult for him, but he committed to the tour and we got through it. As far as he was concerned, that was the end of touring."

"His shoulders were hurting, his arms were hurting, his elbows, his feet, everything," Lifeson continued. "He didn't want to play anything less than 100 percent. He was finding it increasingly difficult to hit that mark on this last tour. So, all those things combined, I get it. I'm disappointed and I think Geddy [Lee] is very disappointed and we'd love to continue this tour a little bit longer, but we're off now."

But Lifeson is optimistic. "You never know," he says. "Maybe next fall or something like that, we'll plan something. We took a year off before the last tour and we didn't discuss anything about the band or work, and everybody had a great time, and we came back from that. We're getting older and it's getting tougher, but I don't know. We'll see."

Source:	torontosun.com
Band profile:	Rush