YouTube Banter – Alex Lifeson’s Never-Ending Problem!
As demonstrated via YouTube comment!
This must be? the best band ever : Geddy Lee, one of the best basist in the world, Neil Peart, THE best drummer ever, Alex Lifeson, really good guitarist
Alex Lifeson is a freak-of-nature guitarist! Listen to this solo at 3:13…
That’s just blistering freaky cool!
Some people bitch that he’s “not Eddie Van Halen”. Thing is… He doesn’t have to be! He’s the perfect foil for the other two guys in the band. It’s impossible to say, but I wonder how EVH can handle all the chord and time changes packed into most of the Rush catalog. And I’m not dissing EVH in any way. He and Alex do different things, function in different ways in their bands. In any other band, Alex would be the bona-fide super star? of the band! But when you have two other musical freaks-of-nature as band mates… Some will say you’re OK. I don’t think he minds too much! All I can say is that pretty much every guitarist I’ve ever worked with holds Lifeson in the same esteemed groups as
Music / Video | Sonicfrog July 12, 2011
5 Comments to “YouTube Banter – Alex Lifeson’s Never-Ending Problem!”
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By Jeff Alberts, July 13, 2011 @ 2:07 am
I prefer Mike Oldfield.
By Sonicfrog, July 13, 2011 @ 2:28 am
That’s just weird! I was, for some reason, looking up his bio this afternoon!
Coincidence? I think not!
By Jeff Alberts, July 13, 2011 @ 5:32 am
Were you smokin’ a doob at the time?
By Sonicfrog, July 13, 2011 @ 5:04 pm
Nope!
By Jeff Alberts, July 14, 2011 @ 1:38 am
Ah well, maybe it was just teleconnection.