This is a perfect aid to learning how some of these parts are actually played string by string.

This is the strangest type of bootleg I've ever heard, which also makes it the coolest

I ran this from my phone into my pedalboard into my fullstack tube/ss guitar rig. I was able to use my chorus pedal, distortions, delays, and reverbs at all the right parts of each song and absolutely *nail* the way it would sound through a rig onstage and fed through front-of-house. It was a blast to be stoned while doing it, and even better, the neighbors now have to think I am a guitar *god.*

This is brilliant for anybody trying to learn the songs

Hearing The Analog Kid without effects proves what an amazing guitarist Alex is.

For me, Alex Lifeson is in the top 3 of all time great rock (Prog rock) guitarists! His playing is so original and exciting, and quite emotive at times. He literally 'paints pictures' with his playing, and is a true music artist extraordinaire!

Hahahah Ok this is for all of those people who have no clue to what is going on here. Some people are claiming this is no way Alex. You're wrong. This is 100% for sure Alex and taped from a live show. Let me explain this to you very clearly and easily. I am a 55 year old lifelong guitar player (40)years and have studied Alex and his finger picking ways at the top of my list since I started and I have tinkered with wireless transmitters my entire life. This is Alex and this is the raw recording from an instrument at a concert. This is what is happening here. I was also doing this in the late 80's. I would sit outside the Salt Palace here in Salt Lake City and would listen to the wireless transmitters coming from inside the arena from the bands instruments. Since I was outside the arena I got much more static than you all are hearing on this recording and I never thought to record some of what I was hearing but I wish I would have. I sure listened to some pretty big bands back in the day. And also any event that used wireless mic or instruments. The circus, comedy shows etc. The reason this sounds a little out of tune (sometimes) is because it was recorded on a cassette. They are and have never been exact on keeping a perfect speed, thus some warble or tune issues and obviously recorded from inside the arena so much better reception. The Transmitter is connected to the guitar and that is the only signal transmitted to the receivers on stage. Its always been that way and still happens the same way today. The receiver the guitar is transmitting to is right up there within feet from Alex and it will never have the static or warble you all are hearing. This guys receiver was obviously just a little bit further but not further than say a few hundred feet or so but definitely inside the arena. The on-stage receiver placed at Alex's feet next to his pedal board then takes that signal from the guitar and feeds it to the pedal and effects boards and then out to the amps so there will never be any static that we can hear sometimes. There is nothing mysterious about this recording. This still is in use today at all concerts that use wireless transmitters EXCEPT....... The wireless transmitter today have digital and scrambling features that make it almost impossible to interfere with, listen to, or record. Back then, in the 90's the transmitter signal at the guitar was analog and transmitted around the 200MHZ range and easily monitored with a simple police/scanner that had military freq unlocked (which was in the 200MHZ to 250MHZ band) then the input was fed into the cassette recorder. Very simple. My guess, It was a scanner savvy roadie or someone pretty close to the stage like maybe an arena worker. Very nice catch. I wish I would have thought to record some of my intercepts. I was maybe a half block from the stage AND outside and could hear their transmissions pretty good but not this good. It would be epic to have those today... Aerosmith, Kansas, black Sabbath, Kiss, ...... I would scan around that band (which was not very big) and find the different instruments that used wireless. Wireless mics were also used and I remember very well a wasted and drunk Joan Jett wirless mic that sounded absolutely horrid without the music but was very faint in the background. Wow, this is a very cool recording. Well done. The Better question here is........... If he went to this extent to record this wireless frequency of the guitar why didn't he do Geddy's bass at the same time. Maybe he did? Where is it? He had to have done more.

Man he's sooo good. So creative. He wrote the coolest guitar music. I love hearing his playing this raw. He's why I play guitar(since 1983)

Alex is one of the top 10 rock guitarists in the history of rock and roll in my honest opinion. His creativity is off the charts and is unmatched by anybody else I can think of. It's amazing that a rock band like Rush could stay together for so long. It was just like a marriage, till death do us part for the sake of rock and roll.

God bless Alex for not taking this down! This is so amazing to listen to and learn.

Considering the volume he and the guys would have been pushing out on stage, this is pretty bloody incredible in terms of his accuracy and precision throughout the complete set. Pretty mind blowing stuff.

For any guitar player who's an Alex Lifeson fan, this HAS to be the coolest thing on YT. It's so raw and so revealing, on many levels. THANK YOU ARTHUR SANTOS for posting this!

This is what Geddy heard during live performances, he preferred to hear Alex without effects for his in ear monitors

This is why mr. EDDIE VANHALEN said "ALEX LIFESON IS THE GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL GUITARIST EVER".

WOW, thank you so much for sharing this. Amazing and brilliant.

Thank you and thank you again! This is an amazing study tool for so many reasons!

I have listened to this a couple of times now and just now realized this was my FIRST RUSH CONCERT!!! I was actually at this show!! Thank you for posting this! Absolute GOLD!!

This is GOLD! Thanks soo very much for sharing this

This is OUTSTANDING. Thank you!!!

Thank you, Arthur! I love this. It's wonderful! I love Alex even more than I have for the past 40 odd years for hearing this! So much SOUL!

This is absolutely perfect to hear from him this way...just perfect...wish I had this when I first started guitaring up...

This is so amazing, it's so appreciated. Alex is my fav guitarist ever, and now I can hone in and really hear what he's playing.

This is the best video EVER on KZfaq. Thanks for all, Learst, you’re a GENIOUS!!

Amazing! Thanks for sharing

As a guitar player & lifelong Rush fan, this is honestly the coolest thing I've seen on KZfaq all year. Thank you very much for the upload

what a treat to be able to sit and play drums and sing along to this show..!! I practice like it's the nightly news, what a gift .. look forward to more of these "points of view" of my favorite bands music.

At 16:03 you can here the chorus of Time Stand Still thru his active pickups. This would be difficult to fake. I think this is a genuine wireless signal recorded onto magnetic tape, which would explain the warbly parts that sound out of tune. Fascinating.

This is great! Thx for uploading. Will make a handy learning tool.

Ive been playing guitar for many years and listening to this incredible band since 1989 and i always thought that Alex Lifeson is one of the best guitar players of the planet since the guitar itself was invented. With this incredible stuff i got certain of that. Tks for posting.

THANK YOU for posting this YT. I am using this concert to relearn songs for my Rush Tribute. It is mind-blowing, how many nuances I missed over 40 years, how many chords are just a little different, and how he DIGS into each note with such power. I loved hearing all of his rhythmic ghost notes. I could finally hear his speed picking patterns on La Villa and Freewill.

Learning these tunes like this is my new practice regiment.

omg this is brilliant !!!!

This should be made into law. Every guitar great should have a line out recording. Now I finally can attempt to play these songs with great accuracy. Long live Lifeson

There are so many parts that I thought were Alex but were actually Ged and pedals and so much that I never guessed was Alex but there it is!😊

So cool! This will help me learn these songs what a great find.

This was awesome! Did anyone else go "Hey!" during 2112? 😆

Waow ! Awesome job dude ! 👍 this really allows us to realize how gigantesque is Alex Lifeson in terms of harmony ...

The Limelight solo with a clean tone and no reverb was a blast.

This is absolutely brilliant! Far out!

Awesome breakdown!

I could sit and listen to these guys acoustic by a campfire under the stars. Wouldn't that be great? Best group ever!!

Wow.. this is way cooler than I thought it would be. I can't stop listening.

I think a lot of people forget him and Geddy are running all over the stage during a show. Plus he's changing guitar effects frequently. All these things make for a whole different animal than studio recordings lol.

Somewhere in my old, old box of tapes is me playing along to Rush as a kid when I didn't have anything...no amp, effects, nada. Just my guitar plugged into a Radio Shack mixer. It sounded a lot like this. Some of this though, especially anything off of P/G, I never really learned a whole lot simply because I could not get the sound he was getting and also couldn't really tell as easily what he was playing so this is a really cool look into Alex playing and what's crazy is it sounds like some bedroom playing but there is a live audience and show going on there. Amazing!

I don't play a lot of guitar but have been a Lifeson superfan since 1991. I think this definitely him; anyone who thinks of him as a totally clean player live in a 20,000 seat arena with his massive rig and effects hasn't listened to much live Rush, especially during the 80s, 90s, and 00s. Very cool bootleg!

Definitely gives insight into how to articulate his parts more precisely. Hearing things through amplifiers can sometimes make the techniques utilized elusive. With this you can’t get any closer to knowing how it is played.

I’ve heard another series called scanners…same thing…unmistakably superb and very special… non believers you apparently are unfamiliar with the man himself.,familiarize right here.I am truly honored to live in the same lifetime with lifeson.,I’m a man who appreciates and it doesn’t get any better than the bare bones captures here.

Ah, just the way he wanted it to be heard LOL. This is seriously awesome thanks for this.

This is so cool.

I saw this tour in Seattle and Portland and it was (not surprising) fantastic. So nostalgic listening to this. Sad to think we won't get any more shows (though I'm glad they went out in top form and on their own terms).

this clip is like gold its so original and clear , its a shame the photo above doesnt feature the prs of that time on the bones tour. brilliant show as well !!! thanks to santos for uploading this . 😜

Masterful. Not only did he create these lines, he's playing them to near perfection live.

Amazing !

thanks

lol, all the people commenting "see, Lerxst is a human after all". Hearing the clean signal with no effects is pretty amazing. I don't play guitar, but I have a decent understanding of effects. It would be huge fun to try to put the appropriate effects and amp modelers on this to get the "full rig" tone. Some real precise playing on a lot of this, the articulation. Like Time Stand Still...

amazing

OMG, I couldn’t believe what I was listening to. I had to go back and play it again to make sure I wasn’t going crazy. Love it, not sure how somebody got their hands on this.

Fascinating!

I had no idea how good Alex until this video. His time changes are seamless.

If anyone is interested I downloaded the audio from this and Re-amped it, the video is on my channel. And obviously yes this is clearly Alex playing, you can hear the RF interference, and all of his normal habits. The video on my channel is titled "Re-amping Alex Lifeson's DI from 1992". I obviously don't make money off of this. Enjoy!

Cool video/audio! Thanks for posting. I'm looking at my ticket stub right now and the date matches - but it's actually Riverport Amphitheater. My ticket was row 3 right center and was $24.50

gold!

Nice one.🤘

I wonder what Alex himself would make of recordings like these. His playing is totally naked and exposed. There are tiny flubs everywhere, but none of would have made any difference during an actual live show, especially after running through his guitar rig and wet with effects. This recording does demonstrate the unique approach he takes to his role in the band. Lots of open, chimey chords with embellishments played over the ringing notes, hinting at a classical guitar influence. This would be borrowed heavily from Lifeson by the likes of Ty Tabor. This can be a hard listen at points, but it is a VERY instructive and insightful glimpse behind the curtain into one of the main components of the Rush sound. Thank you for posting this.

Very cool!

Rare tune, Love it 💗 what an exceptional bootleg tune. Historical for new fans even in future. 😉 Nice up 🤪

Pretty cool. I was at this show with my (future) wife. We had already seen Rush on the Roll the Bones tour at the Arena in STL the previous fall ('91), and I remember this show was the following summer outside at Riverport Amphitheatre. We were living in Carbondale, IL, and it was literally a last minute decision on Friday after work to drive up to STL and see them. We got there a little late, bought tickets at the ticket window, and missed the opener (I can't remember who the opener was - Eric Johnson? Mr. Big? - we missed it). We walked in and found our seats - which were way down front, off to the side very near Alex (!), at the break before Rush came on. Great memory.

The static makes a lot of sense, actually. If the date is real, this was done at a time when recordings and photos at concerts were stil banned - there were no smartphones then. There were also no long-life lithium batteries, etc. - this setup needed electricity to record a full show. The person who would have bootlegged this would have had to have worked at the arena and wouldn't have been doing this from inside the concert hall. He would have been in a room off to the side or in a private booth to have the electricty and privacy to do this - somewhere the radio signal from the guitar wouldn't have been as strong.

One thing that stands out to me is that the guitar has good clean sustain even straight from the wireless pack. Gotta love PRS.

Este señor es un genio.

It’s nice to know that Alex Lifeson is human like the rest of us.

53:23 Vital Signs 1:09:31 Where is my thing 1:41:50 La Villa Strangiato omg 🤩love it

Very cool. First, this makes me realize that I've been playing a lot of Rush songs wrong ha ha! Second, Having been around at the advent of widespread wireless guitar use I always assumed that one could "catch" these signals using some type of scanner but it was never more than just a thought though some of the geeks I knew then talked about it and might have done it... Anyway, I was always after the isolated amped signals from live guitars but this offers greater insight into what he is picking and when. Now, I wish there were more of these types of bootlegs.

Many many years ago I was a Rush bootlegger and I had a recording of Alex's inner ear monitor for the whole show. You could hear his vocals, but the mix was mostly guitar and just enough of those others two guys. The shows was called "Stick It Out, Alex" from Toronto 1997, not to be confused with the "An Evening With Rush" SB in Toronto 1997. I just checked my files and the evening show files are in the stick it out folder, I screwed up somewhere.

Invisible airwaves crackle with life... King Lerxst rules!!!

what this actually proves is that because Neil (RIP) and Geddy are SO PRECISE , Alex HAS TO play around them, so his accenting is all over the place!I Alex never played things the same exact way twice, EVER! And he was so humble and down to earth, it even comes through in his playing. He left the bombast to Neil, and the Virtuosity and Emotion to Geddy. I think he knew how lucky he was to be playing with those guys, and he was just trying to add flavor and colour to the sauce....

He is so creative. I have seen him play 7 times, he always plays with so much emotion. He only misses a few notes in a whole show, it's so incredible.

Interesting to hear Alex's jacket sleeve sometimes brushing against the strings and be picked up by the pickups (which are basically microphones)

whoa, what?! this is crazy.

Now I don't feel so bad...this how I sound playing along✌️😂

So often, the melody comes from the bass, it kind of clouds what Alex is doing. Interesting to hear this because his transitions from rhythm guitar to lead guitar to fitting-in-to-space guitar are pretty clear. Makes me think he hears the songs much, much differently than the rest of us do in the finished product. But I can't listen to this in one sitting. Its interesting, but this is something I keep coming back to for small doses.

The extended guitar solo at the end of Bravado was really cool to hear on here

super interesting

Now this is a surprise! a very unusual bootleg

So interesting hearing the solos without any effects

Xanadu and all of it is so cool to listen to. Going to try and re-amp it into my Fractal and see what happens. Rush was the first concert I saw back in 1979 and have to give Alex as one of my biggest influences and made me take guitar playing seriously.👍👍👍

Goes to show what a huge difference massive effects and studio productions make.

And 2 weeks later I was born. Coincidence? I think not.

Love all of his dissonant riffs. Great player. It's weird, but when I hear it clean it sounds like a style similar to Doug Hopkins of the Gin Blossoms. Alex has such a fine command over the guitar. Really wonderful to hear this.

So you can really hear what he's doing on these songs. Yes, it sounds sloppy at times but, to me, that is totally normal and expected because he's listening to the amplified and effected sound and playing to that (different sustain, feel, just totally different when playing with distortion than without) and he's playing live where he's probably emphasizing the performance. For example, in those opening chords for Limelight you can totally hear him do the Pete Townsend strum which is not how he probably played it on the original recording!

This is RAD!

How cool would it be to go camping with Alex and he busts out his guitar and starts jamming this stuff around the campfire? It would be a rockin' evening for sure!

This is definitely legit. Alex's vibrato and trem use are very obvious to spot as are his legato lines.

This is awesome!

Unbelievable

Whoa!!! He’s actually human!!! I’m no longer afraid to really go at it on guitar, I thought that I really sucked, even though I OK,… now I have hope!!! This is Great! Go Alex!!!

It seems to me to be a bootleg of Alexs wireless pack on his guitar, This can only be reached by obtaining the frequency from the receiver unit or looking at the pack itself. Then getting a similar brand receiver in that frequency range to dial into the frequency itself and then recording the output of the hidden receiver. This would be the dry guitar signal..... So whoever did this had access to the gear and was at the gig. I can hear RF interference every now and again which is typical at a gig with many frequencies in the air within close proximity on stage etc...... OR this guy just played everything. The channel owner is a badass guitar player so its one of the two.

Sh!t... Just ran into this YT, um, well it's not really a video, so WTF do you call it? Anyways, this is the Holy Grail for Alex Lifeson fans such as myself. Thank you for posting this since it's probably the most amazing thing I have witnessed in my life until we have the news media reporting our first, true contact with another, alien race/civilization.

There was no Redbird Arena in St. Louis in 1992. They played at Riverport Amphitheater in St. Louis on June 12, 1992

Only two people on the planet play huge chords with a powerful yet loose flinging flamenco strum like this: 1. Pete Townsend of The Who and 2. Alex Lifeson of Rush(who got it from Pete Townsend of The Who) Thanks for sharing