My First Gibson: Alex Lifeson of Rush
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2024
- As a kid, Alex Lifeson would spend every Saturday playing guitar at Long and McQuade’s, his local music shop, until they kicked him out. Watch this episode of My First Gibson to hear the story of Alex’s first Gibson and the guitar players that inspired his choice.
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What's your favourite Rush song? We'd love to know!
La Villa Strangiato
What You're Doing
All of them
YYZ 🎸
Weeeeeeeel I lived passage to Bangkok and I only stopped for the best butthe other side 2112 from start to finish there best honorable mention closer to the heart fly by might lakeside Park working man Tom sawyer spirit of the radio....
Do the icon series with this man...please.
I 2nd 3rd 4th and 100th this statement...
Alex is such a phenomenal guitarist and seems like he is usually overlooked but not by the true fans!!!!!!!
THIS 👆👆👆👆
Or The Collection….
If this doesn’t happen , I’m unfollowing Gibson.
YES! THIS!
Alex Lifeson is one of my favorite lead guitar players. His tone on 2112 is still one of the best guitar tones I've ever heard.
Such an incredible player!
gotta look that up
You damn right!
Fave soloist of the guitar. I listen to punk, classical even world beat but no one plays like him.
Hi Watt, Fender Twin into Les Paul, ES-335 and Strat, with Maestro Phaser, Fuzz face, Gibson Echoplex, Crybaby or Vox Wah wah, Morley Volume
I’m afraid if I ever ran into Alex, I would hug him against his will.
He’s a great player and songwriter, but an even better person.
"Play that Diane Sawyer Song!"
well worth the assault charges 😂🤘
Ha Ha! Well said!
Of the three, he'd be the one. You *wouldn't* have wanted to try that on Neil, while he was still with us. Prolly would've earned a paradiddle on your head.
This man is the reason I play guitar to this day😎
1st song I learned was Bastille Day.. then Heartbreaker😂!
Same
Seek help.
To me Alex is simply the most creative guitarist ever. Of course when you have band mates like Neil and Geddy, it provide a backdrop that invites creativity. Alex’s solos are beautiful and passionate. Just epic! As a player of 48 years the one player I’d love to spend a day with to learn from is Alex Lifeson.
Had the unique opportunity to spend the day and play a round of golf with Alex last September.
Everything you’ve ever heard about Alex is true. He is the nicest, least pretentious, must humble man I’ve ever met.
As a fan of Rush for 40 years now it was a thrill of a lifetime.
Thanks for sharing this video.
How's his game? :)
@@peony519 got me by a stroke.
I never get tired of listening to Alex's playing. HIs phrasing is so unique and so hard to replicate.
Alex lifeson is amazing, my favourite guitar is a Gibson sg I’ve had for goodness knows how long and I still love it to bits
We're so glad you love the SG as much as we do! Thanks for watching!
I would love to hear more of his stories about guitars that mean a lot to him. Yep, yes I would.
Stay tuned!
Still waiting.
The last time I saw Rush I had a smile on my face for a solid week! Go Team Alex!
Gibson "ICONS" 😎✌️🎸❤️
You know it!
@@gibsonguitar LOVE IT ❤️
Thanks GIBSON 🙏❤️😘
Love You Alex!!
Legend!🤘🏻
He sure is
His LP sig guitar with the floyd is one of my all time favs, I wonder if his sig guitar caused the birth of the axcess LP
Alex. My favorite guitar player!!
Love dis guy and the other guys too. Great band, Rush.
Alex is a class act 🤘
So cool Alex! Awesome story. I too bought all my Les Pauls (3 Eiphones and a Gibson Les Paul 60’s Standard Ice Tea burst) at Long & Mcquade. Just not in TO, Victoria and Langford BC. Thanks for sharing your Gibson story. Love your music, been a Rush fan since 1973. 🇨🇦
I’ve bought so many Gibsons at the L&M Victoria I think I paid for the new store.
Love this guy. Lucky enough to meet him more than once. A true gentleman.
Love Alex ❤
Neil used to say that Alex was Rush’s secret weapon. Long live Lerxst and Dirk!
Alex Lifeson is such an awesome guitar player....the best ad far as i'm concerned. Will always always love all 3 of these dudes from Rush. GET ON TH-cam AND WATCH SOME OF THE COOL VIDS FROM R40 THAT STICKS PUT TOGETHER. REALLY CLEANED THEM UP. ROCK ON 🇨🇦 AS WE ALL WILL ROCK ON IN THE 🇺🇸 ✌🙏💖
By far one of the best rock guitarists I've heard. The guy can play rhythm AND lead like nobody's business. The atmosphere he creates (especially with the power windows era) is truly amazing. The solos are always fitting too. Never overdone or too showy, just the right amount and perfect fit. I agree with others comments, do an icon series with him. There needs to be a definitive story on this guitarist and his journey over the years as a musician.
Lifeson approached prog parts with the power of a rock player but also had the uncommon ability to distill his ideas into the perfect size for the song.
I've always admired and have been influenced by how he uses different chord shapes and inversions so fluidly. It's so creative but gives such an energy.
Now we need an Alex lifeson riff lords video
One of the most storied guitar players ever. Alex was the real deal. He certainly was enjoyable to listen to, and watch, because his creativity was incredible, and pure genius. He is a soft-spoken, really nice man that enjoys impressing his fans. I'm moved by his enormous power that he puts into the guitar, and makes it look easy. I hope that someday I can see him tour with his great long time friend and RUSH mate, Geddy Lee someday. I always loved RUSH, and hope we can relive their great music of the past. I miss Neil Peart dearly: the very best drummer ever!!
Lifeson is brilliant. Gibson Les Paul #1.💯🔥
Truly icon!! ❤
Finally a good sounding interview. The scratchy hidden Lav mic of previous Gibson interviews can go to hell. A Soundman who stood up to the Camera department. Bravo 👏
man i miss these guys !
My fav guitar players: Lerxst, Zappa, Fripp, Hackett, Howe, Wes, Holdsworth, Scott Henderson, Aekerfeldt, Tim Smith, Kavus Torabi.
It’s been a dream come true to listen to Alex play all these Gibson’s!!!
Can't 'like' this enough
Alex Lifeson and Rush were a huge inspiration for me...
...and it's so lovely to see him chat about gear.
He seems like a very humble, lovely peep.
:D
Thank you for posting this. Such a kind and intelligent ambassador for your brand, among my favorite musicians.
Alex is in my top 2 favorite guitarists 😍
Such a good guy who had a massive influence on me as a young guitar player. One of my top, top favorite players ever.
Rush is my favorite band and Alex is my hero and greatest influence. I love his beautifully composed solos and rhythm playing..he's a legend!
Everyone talks about Alex’s solos on this song and that song but I feel his strength was in his rhythm playing. Being in a three piece band he had to learn how to fill out the sound with his rhythm guitar playing and he did so in a wonderful way. Another guitarist that comes to mind in this regard is Pete Townshend. Phenomenal rhythm guitar player.
I agree 💯 I never thought his solos were his primary attraction, Alex had the most unique chord voicings of anyone I've ever heard. Not just what he played but how he played it. Just popping into mind upon writing this "Grace Under Pressure" and "Roll The Bones" have great stand out examples of this"The Camera Eye" another. The whole of "Vapor Trails" has not 1 solo on the whole album! He consciously crafted each song not to include guitar solos because of the importance of that album coming back together after tragedy struck Neil and they fell into limbo uncertain of their continuation as a band. He didn't want it to in any way make one part of the music stand apart from the rest or be about him. Alex is so unique in his style a huge influence on me from my teen years in the 70's when I first heard RUSH I also agree with the "Pete Townshend" comment, a monster talent and guitar player! Love Pete and The Who!
@@aschule5684 I excessively use Alex's chord voicings. I love them and they suck the listener in, whether they realize it or not. In many ways his chord voicings show nuances of chord progressions and voicings I learned studying Joe Pass material, though not the same, they are very enticing and intriguing.
YES. Exactly. Over the years I've come to appreciate Alex's deep brilliance at coming up with such excellent harmonic textures and soundscapes, his chords and tones. He does have some really outstanding solos of course, but what he accomplished with rhythm guitar and that more subtle composition to create the great Rush songs cannot be overstated.
There’s a rhythm section roughly three minutes into Xanadu. I think he was using the twelve string on his doubleneck with all his usual effects on it because his tone on the chords is both lukewarm and ice cold. It’s simply amazing.
Always a treat to watch my hero discuss Gibsons.
I love Alex's excitement when he talks about his guitars. He's no doubt played quite a few brands over the years, but you can always sense his passion when he mentions the 335's and Les Pauls.
I have a couple LP Classics and I don't even care about the weight after playing one for a couple hours. Such a joy to play.
Alex is one of the greats and very underrated.. Thank you for all the great music over the decades...
Would love to have one of his "Access" Models. that neck/heel carve is smooth... Sunburst with a Floyd Rose please!!!
Alex, thanks for this video here, You are the Master of your Craft Man, I cant get enough of Hearing you play, My Best to you, Cousin Figel
Wow hi Alex this is crazy your the reason I have Gibson guitars les Paul and sg my first guitar was a Kalamazoo k2 a Gibson that felt like a stratacaster mixed with a sg seen every rush tour the crazy thing is I just opened the case of my first stratacaster my collection is complete
Thanks so much for watching Thomas.
@@gibsonguitar no ,thank you all my tribute honeyburst and my sg with Lyndy Fraylins in her plus my first guitar from my mom the Kalamazoo this company RULES ROCK and yes thats why there's a crown and yes you can use my slogan lol
You gotta get him in for a longer interview, so much to talk about from their self titled release to Signals.
I'm 71 and started playing in 1966 and played my first party in 1967, (Wild Thing, Hanky Panky, stones) the same stuff everyone else was learning, by late 67 a friend sold me a Double Cut Jr which I played and destroyed over 12 years.
When Rush and Van Halen came along, I was still trying to figure out Johnny Winter and Montrose.
I was in luck because none of the drummers that I was playing with could play Rush and I was totally lost. In the 80s I met a guy that could sing Rush and Play Geddy Lee, so We played 3 tunes along with Police and of course Hendrix, then In the 90s I met another Bassist that could sing Geddy. So Half the World can and Half the World can't.
Rush is a Rush, always Clean and intricate. very inspirational.
Ritchie Blackmore Played an ES 335 right up to In Rock
Eric Clapton during the Cream Years
I currently have a 90 Les Paul Standard and an 1981 ES-347
I am playing over 50 years and Alex is by far my favourite player...just incredible and so humble....would love to have a few beers with him!
Great to hear Alex’s early guitar experiences!
My hero. Such a down to earth human. His story is relatable to so many of his fans.
Owning a standard guitar of known high quality like a Gibson Les Paul Standard is a great education for a guitarist who has not had access to such a thing before. Great guitars of course (I love mine) but they will also dispel some of the _mythology_ surrounding such instruments versus cheaper ones. I was surprised to discover that my much cheaper guitars were better than I thought they were and their actions were not actually bad. Not only are the Gibson Les Pauls etc wonderful guitars to own they give you a better perspective on electric guitars in general; a solid reference (no pun intended).
I was lucky enough to get the chance to play a cherry 69' ES 335 at The Arts Music in Newmarket, and honestly I can see why Alex fell in love with his sunburst 68'. The neck was thin and so fast, and the guitar overall had such a great balance in the hands, there really was nothing else like it. I almost couldn't put it down. Unfortunately I couldn't afford it, but it inspired me to begin work on a kit based on that very same guitar. Alex has been such an inspiration for me as a guitarist, and I can't thank him enough.
I can't believe I heard Alex Lifeson tell my guitar story!!! Seriously, I spent countless hours at Long & McQuade playing guitars that didn't belong to me. This is literally how I learned how to play guitar in the 90's!
Alex is my main influence as a guitarist. What I love is that he covers so much ground. He has awesome bluesy riffs, monstrously heavy parts, weird progressive-psychedelic chords, tasteful acoustic passages, weird synth New Wave flourishes, funky strums and some insane shred solos. His body of work is the envy of most guitarists. Just a really versatile player. I always recommend that people check him out.
It's awesome to see so many comments of other people who also picked up the guitar because of Alex Lifeson. I hope he knows that. So many guitar players influenced me, but it was his unique creativity that absolutely enchanted me.
The only guitarist who makes me really wish I could play guitar to a good level!
There are so many to select from, but these have a passion and intensity that i love. My 1st is Afterimage, 2nd is Between the wheels, 3rd is Available light. Alex's solos on these songs just are amazing! Then there are these...The analog kid, Digital Man, Leave that thing alone, Marathon, Resist!!
Lerxst looks great Rush was best band ever !
My first Gibson, July 3, 1976, a mid-60's ES-335 12-string. I never played it with 12. A wonderful guitar for country, rock, and jazz. The neck is a bit thin at 1-9/16 but you get used to it. Last year I FINALLY replaced the saddle pieces and nut with 6-string saddle pieces and nut. Yep, I play that guitar almost every day... 47 years later. I also bought a Montana SJ-200 several years back and I bought an Epiphone Les Paul 4 or 5 years ago. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. I love my 335. Oh, I also have a Heritage 575. Not a Gibson but still made at 225 Parsons.
Xanadu is my favorite song, and because of Alex playing a white Gibson double neck, I purchased my first Gibson, a while double neck! I was able to make payments on it over the summer after I graduated from high school!
Thank you Gibson and Alex. My first Rush cover was "working man" on my first Gibson, SG custom. Worked at a car wash, every weekend for a year. Thanks Gibson, I still have it too!
Legendary guitar player. One of the best to ever do it. Talent off the charts.
I was also 12 and the es-335 was my mothers guitar. Older brother ended up pawning it somewhere in Washington state.
I remember the first time I played a Gibson Les Paul. It was so much easier to play than the guitars I was using at the time and i fell in love.
Cool! Like many others, for me, it was seeing/hearing Lifeson play ES 3x5 guitars that made me long for one of my own. Mine was a '79 ES-335 CRR that a friend pulled out from under his bed in 1985, and said, "It's for sale". Nowadays, my Gibson is a Memphis-made 2011 ES-345. Wonderful instrument!
lol, lifeson and schenker are the reason I play today. they seemed like vikings with gibsons.
The long blonde hair back in the days
As well as being an unbelievably funny man, Alex is such a sweetheart.
come on children...... the guy was a legend from the start..... first time I saw them (76-77 I was 13-14), they were opening for kiss in san antonio texas. hitch hiked the 40 miles to the show. went there to see kiss. was so blown away by the rush guys, I barely even remember their (kiss) show. instantly hooked. alex was the reason I took up guitar. owned many (1st was an $850 les paul custom that my brother broke over my back during a fight) over the years. my red explorer I played the longest. now, its usually my 335. great memories of such a fun life......
The Gibson spoke to you Alex and then you spoke back !Loudly!❤
What is really impressive to me is during the 80s when RUSH was heavier into synths, Alex still found a way to cut through. Many of his tones and structures were so good. One example is his live guitar solo on "Force Ten" from "Show of Hands". I wish that was extended a little more, because it was some beautiful stuff.
The world is a better place because of Alex Lifeson.
Please please please
Alex
You're a big inspiration
Do others videos like these :)!!!
Excellent! You should do a show about Long and McQuade's music store.
I can't answer just one.
Picking my top five #1's
La Villa Strangiato, YYZ, Something For Nothing, Trees, Losing It
My Fist Gibson was an ES 295 Reissue with a Bigsby. I still Have It! WooF!
Everybody has a different list, but Alex is in my top 5 when I consider his contribution to Rush's overall work. Alex is fantastic!
This may be the Gibson TV channel, but I've got the PRS A15AL(Alex Lifeson signature model) acoustic guitar. It's a thinline body and the best acoustic I've ever had.
That's how I felt when I got my first strat, it was so light and easy to play the action was much better than my..... well whatever I had back then, can't remember but it was cheap.
Still love a strat, but there's something marvelous about an SG or a les paul it of course feels different. Although I do prefer playing the SG if I'm just sitting down noodling. The LP has a bit more weight 😊, marvelous instruments though, such a great tone.
Legend, I recall the early days of L&M but I think he was going to the original store in Yorkville and I was doing sort of the same thing at the 2nd location on Bloor Street in the Annex. I was also infactuated with a LH LP Goldtop back then. Alex is a real legend indeed.
Long & McQuade has been my main store for guitars, I was hoping Alex would mention the store.
Alex is one of my major influences. His playing inspired me to pick up the guitar in high school.
Big Al started off on a Gibson LP, then got the ES 335, (or was it the other way around?). I remember he went through the Fender type guitar stage having the Red Strat and the white "Hentor Sportscaster, lol. Then as time went on, he gravitated towards the Gibson LP, with the Floyd Rose whammy on it, which is now his signature guitar. I'm a HUGE Lifeson fan. His playing is so unique. Everybody loves that "F# Lifeson chord", aka, The "Hemispheres chord". Lol.
i love this man so much.
The 335 is an iconic instrument, but it takes a serious musician to play one well - hello Alex !! 😁I have too many favourites to nail it down to one track, but I guess, 'Natural Science' is in the top two.
Took 30 years and many hours to arrive at the same conclusion. The flow between the several movements, the force in the music, the thoughtful lyrics. Can say that about many of their songs but in Natty it all just comes together. Lasts forever and ends at the exact perfect time. Maybe 2-3 other rock bands all time could pull off a song like that.
& who would disagree with you, CVN ?
@@andrewtongue7084 Probably nobody in this thread, ha.
Exactly !
Greatness.
apparently someone asked EVH "What's it like being the best guitarist alive?" and he said "I don't know ask Alex Lifeson!"
Great vid. Such an inspiring player - skillful, inventive, expressive... Fly By Night was the first song I learned in guitar lessons. From there, I used to come home from school every day and play along to all four sides of All the World's a Stage - whether I knew the parts or not:)
I always get a smile when I hear guys like Alex talk about the Beach Boys. I wonder when he realized Tony Tedesco was playing on all those songs. Neil Peart learned about Hal Blaine early in on. So it I be curious to know when Alex realized who was playing on all those songs.
Love seeing you Lerxsty 😀
Alex is just the best!!!!! So are Gibsons!!!! Keep up the great work 🎸👍
He’s 100% correct. When you buy your first Les Paul, it’s a very special moment for any musician.
Alex Lifeson is so down to earth. To think that when Rush was still a garage band, I was a young American in Toronto, oblivious. Bucket-list item: Buy Alex a beer. I’ll even do a Sink the Bismarck if he’s game! 🤠
Phenomenal player. True artist of the thing, 6er.
Sometimes depends on my mood…when my buddies and I get into this topic I start by choosing my favorite from each album then it’s either Natural science or Xanadu these songs all the elements of Rush
This man is the reason why I still drink beer.
I think Alex Lifeson is the most influential guitarist of all time, I find it interesting that all my favorite players are his favorites.
Bought my 84 Explorer brand new and still own it.
Gibson you should do a”The Collection “ video with Alex!
I am envious of the walls in that studio...
All the world's a Stage...."Bytor and the Snowdog"....When Alex did his lead thing in the middle, he created sounds I'd never heard on a guitar before. Sure, he had his effects, but the notes he came up with were all him. He never played it note for note the same way. I'm just glad they taped that one for the record........ I've been a huge fan ever since. There are better technical players, more flashy players, but no one "hears" notes and chords on a guitar like Alex.