If you’ve seen Rush live on their last few tours, you’ll notice Geddy and Alex don’t have amps or cabinets on stage (unless they’re props). To fill the space, Geddy resorted to having appliances on stage, most notably Maytag clothes dryers. Here’s a clip where he goes into detail about how they came about.
Instead of a backline of bass guitar loudspeaker cabinets, Geddy chose to use three fully operational Maytag Laundromat dryers. The machines tossed shirts throughout the evening, which were eventually thrown to the audience by the band members before the start of the encore. In order for the dryers to stay optional, they were coin-fed intermittently during the shows by stage techs. – January 2003
by Christopher Buttner in Bass Guitar Magazine
“Hey man this shirt came from Geddy’s dryers.” –eBay Listing
I’ve always thought it would be the ultimate fan-geekery thing to have some kind of clothes dryer as a stage prop, but never pulled the plug on the many free or almost free dryers I’ve seen for sale online. I did come up with a 3D printed model but haven’t actually printed it yet. Here’s a rendering:
