Alex Lifeson
ARTICLES
Obsessive Progressive: Rush’s Alex Lifeson
December 9, 2017
We break down how prog rock’s most influential 6-stringer combines timeless riffs, a huge sound, and a penchant for experimentation.
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PRS SE A15AL Alex Lifeson Review
February 12, 2016
PRS honors the Rush guitarist with a slim, nimble, and fast-playing flattop.
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Gibson Unveils the Alex Lifeson Double Neck
December 11, 2015
Developed from hands-on analysis and digital scans of the original neck and body profiles.
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PRS Guitars Introduces the SE Alex Lifeson Thinline Acoustic
March 17, 2015
A signature thinline acoustic from the legendary Rush guitarist.
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PRS Guitars Introduces the Private Stock Alex Lifeson Thinline Acoustic
January 24, 2014
The Alex Lifeson signature acoustic is made in PRS Guitars’ Maryland shop and features a bearclaw spruce top and koa back and sides with a mahogany neck and ebony bridge, fretboard, and headstock veneer.
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Rush's "Clockwork Angels Tour" CD/DVD Review
November 27, 2013
A nine-piece string ensemble joins the group on the Clockwork material, as well as on a few older Rush chestnuts (“YYZ” and “Red Sector A”).
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108 Rock Star Guitars
October 25, 2013
Photographer Lisa S. Johnson captures the story behind rock’s most iconic axes owned by Page, Beck, Gibbons, and others—with commentary from the guitarists themselves.
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Rig Rundown - Rush's Alex Lifeson
April 14, 2011
PG's Rebecca Dirks is On Location in Chicago, IL, at the United Center
where she talks with Rush's Alex Lifeson's tech Scott Appleton about the
gear Lifeson is using on Rush's 2011 Time Machine tour. Appleton shows
off all Lifeson's gear, including Gibson Les Paul Axcess Alex Lifeson
Signature models, a ES-355, a Fender reissue '52 Tele, and two '90s PRS
models. Lifeson uses Hughes & Kettner TriAmp MKII Alex Lifeson
Signature heads, Steam Punk Statesman 2x12 Cabinets, and a Hughes &
Kettner Coreblade.
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Interview: Alex Lifeson
March 17, 2009
Rush''s Alex Lifeson on his return to Gibson, emotional attachment to gear, and his epic gearbox.
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