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Their covers album, 2004's Feedback, pays testimony to the songs they grew up covering and then encoring with in places like the small Toronto neighbourhoods of Willowdale and Hamilton. Rush began their career by spending six years as a bar band playing rock and roll and R'n'B (not the Usher kind). When you're learning to play with just notation it's not the same - what the right hand is doing is so important and you never get to see that stuff." But I loved doing the Garageband stuff, though, and the end result is just great. "I guess," and there's another laugh, "I'm not sure how much time I spent on that solo originally, I didn't know better, I was a kid when I wrote that. We imagine it's quite difficult to master at its normal pace. "It was odd, you realise how difficult it is to play some of those solos slowly, especially on something like Working Man." It's really comprehensive stuff and you can slow it down to really watch what I'm doing. I went in and they filmed me for four days doing a song a day: Tom Sawyer, Limelight, The Spirit Of Radio and Working Man. It's great, you'll be able to download me. "They have this new thing on the Garageband software where songwriters and musicians teach people how to play their songs. "The Apple thing was fun", he says by way of explanation. Times are tough all over, and even though Lifeson once made a name for himself in pan-stick make-up and a kimono promoting the band's 2112 album, who knew that it might come to this?Īlex is at home in Toronto and he's laughing, he laughs almost as much as Rush drummer Neil Peart smokes that's quite a bit refreshed and relaxed after a friend's wedding in Barcelona and being off the road and out of the studio for almost a year, a year which, by all accounts, he's pretty much dedicated to playing golf and tennis. The next time you see Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson it'll either be as a cross-dressing cop or he'll be showing you how the extended and somewhat tricky guitar solo on Working Man is done via your home computer set-up. In an exclusive interview for Prog, Alex Lifeson takes Philip Wilding on a journey of time and motion. With roots as a modest jobbing rhythm and blues bar band in the 60s, by the 70s Rush had reinvented the progressive rock wheel and set the tech-metal bar for generations to come. RUSH & The Story of Prog Metal By Philip Wilding, Classic Rock Presents PROG, August 2009, transcribed by John Patuto
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