{"id":5917,"date":"2011-07-12T20:08:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T20:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2011-07-12T20:08:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T20:08:19","slug":"youtube-banter-alex-lifesons-never-ending-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=5917","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Banter &#8211; Alex Lifeson&#8217;s Never-Ending Problem!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"YouTube%20Banter%20-%20Alex%20Lifeson%27s%20Never-Ending%20Problem%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lCFcWdco1nw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As demonstrated via YouTube comment!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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, <em><strong>really good guitarist<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alex Lifeson is a freak-of-nature guitarist! Listen to this solo at 3:13&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OnxkfLe4G74\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just blistering freaky cool! <\/p>\n<p>Some people bitch that he&#8217;s &#8220;not Eddie Van Halen&#8221;. Thing is&#8230; He doesn&#8217;t have to be! He&#8217;s the perfect foil for the other two guys in the band. It&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8230; Some will say you&#8217;re OK. I don&#8217;t think he minds too much! All I can say is that pretty much every guitarist I&#8217;ve ever worked with holds Lifeson in the same esteemed groups as <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"YouTube%20Banter%20-%20Alex%20Lifeson%27s%20Never-Ending%20Problem%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>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&#8230; That&#8217;s just blistering freaky cool! Some people bitch that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5918,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions\/5918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}