Since by now Rush was starting to be reviewed in the music and mainstream press, this is probably a good moment to acknowledge one of the more controversial aspects of Rush’s sound: my voice. (Oh, must we?) John Griffin wrote in the Montreal Gazette that I sounded like “a guinea pig with an amphetamine habit”; in Circus, Dan Nooger said, “If Lee’s voice were any higher and raspier, his audience would consist exclusively of dogs and extra-terrestrials.”
