This gentleman has so much humility, and a great sense of humor. But as a musician, he’s the most fearless and adventurous player ever.

The most underrated guitar player in the history of Rock. Alex is a bonafide bad-ass.

Lucky to have born in 61 and got to enjoy the 41 year run by these great guys. RIP Neil Peart...and thank you Rush

What a beautiful human being.

My favourite member of Rush. Way too underrated in my opinion.

He's absolutely a great guitar player that should really get way more attention.

People from Serbia are proud of you! :)

Best guitarist I've ever heard Incredible solo on The Necromancer, his playing on La Villa Strangiato and Free Will is superb but it's Xanadu that stands out for me. Every note perfect and the intro/outro, and just impeccable brilliance nails it for me. Lovely guy too

Guitarists come and go but Alex Life son is one of the most inventive and technically gifted players of his or any generation.

He's a rock guitar virtuoso, and yet so humble.

It's been 8 years now and I still can't get over the fact that Rush is not an entity anymore except in our memories😢

Alex is really cute. He's like a cuddly teddy bear!

here again from the first album. most powerful solo ever...actually every lead break from the first 4 albums...how do you create that kind of brilliance in your early 20`s...pure genius !!

Alex is the very best--one of a kind in every way. Fan since first listened to Moving Pictures as an 11 yo in 1981. Endless number of great emotional guitar solos and riffs (the obvious well known solos already mentioned below, but Chemistry, Analog Kid, Kid gloves, Ghost of Chance, and an endless list of others....Anarchist, Witch Hunt on Different Stages, Bravado on Different Stages, We Hold On....endless). Thank you Alex for everything. Great interview, way too short.

Greatest guitarist ever to grace this planet. 🤘🏻♥️

In '74...Rush (Paramount), first saw 3 months after Neil Peart. Then... KISS played. Saw Music Menu in Lakewood (a mile away)... from my house. ;-)

They are just sweethearts i fucking love them. Best guys ever.

I will always hava special place in my heart for Rush. I've been a fan since I was 8 years old. Now I'm 43.

One of the best guitarists I've seen live, and I include the likes of page ,blackmore, schenker ,Clapton and Howe. One of the greats .

I love how rush dosent really take themselves too serious! I love em'.

Best guitar player ever!!!!

THank you Mr. Lifeson! GREAT interview! I knew there was a reason my insomnia would 'pay off' while web surfing at 4AM!

Legend and Class Act!

What a pleasant guy...

A true gentleman. Unbelievable that crap they pulled on him 10 years ago in Florida

I'm in love with him. Have been since 1978. Not a stalker though. I love him from afar.

Best Rush solo in my book -- always has been.

His work on “Envy of none “ is pure ART

My fav solo is freewill

Aleksandar Živojinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Aлександар Живојиновић, OC, born August 27, 1953) better known by his stage name Alex Lifeson

good actor too

Interesting to hear Rush writes music more based on feel than theory. I would have thought the opposite.

Typical of those Rush guys.... Lerxst making a bookstand for Pratt. So loving and giving towards one another.

World class rock guitarist, and then some! In the top 5 for sure!

One of my favorite guitar players ever!! Seems like a great guy as well!! Would love to meet him!

Besides all the jokes he is a great guitar player ive seen rush in concert twice still listen to them great band

I love interviews from bands. With bands. The best

Love Alex! One of the most underrated guitarists ever (by mainstream critics and such), but who cares what they think anyway...LOL.

For my money one of the best solos Alex ever recorded - and this didn't really hit me until many years on, after I'd been playing guitar more seriously later in life - was the one in "Between the Wheels" off of GRACE UNDER PRESSURE. It is more than just a solo; it's a mini-composition all its own in the middle of the song. See kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j-CFnc2IuZrepHk.html and especially the figure that starts at 4:22

I started playing in high school with a "Elektra" Les Paul, a "Osbourn" sound technologies 2 x 12" P.O.S. (Which blew up at a party outside Vegas on the dry lake bed near Bob Vercoda's. Then used a 90 watt Randall head to power it after that. We were usually a 3 piece band + a singer, known as "Double Xposure" in Vegas. Ever since I have understood sounds, and the ones I want to use live and in studio, I would have to classify them as "The Alex Lifeson sound". Not by design, by by ear. A overdriven distortion with chorus, "quick tap" 400ms. delay, and slight reverb added in for that big room sound. The first time I really was happy with the overall sound I was getting was when I got a "{BOSS ME-6 w/ Expression pedal. God I loved that thing... I still have that same kind of sound today. I find that it enables the player to anticipate and cover any small "gaps" in between chord progressions and leads. Thanks Alex. Hope to meet you, and jam with you one day... 4/15/2015 Brad D. Baker aka "The Radster". Radster Baker on KZfaq.

He is one of the greatest people on earth besides his playing.

The solo from Mission blows my mind every time.

I would be too starstruck to even formulate a thought in his presence. Kudos to those that do! All I'd be able to muster is "blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah."

These are GREAT questions, and not just wasting the artist's time. Nice going!

What a great, little interview!

Somebody shouldve asked about his guitars! Past + present!

Alex Lifeson for Prime Minister! Spread the word!

Alex is top ten guitar player.No doubt.He's very underrated.

Oh my God! I thought the Omega concern was some kind of environmental organization out of Canada or something. I thought Rush was promoting it, which is why it was on many of their albums.

Ya know Alex has got my favor. Im 52 and just became a Rush fan . Dont know why it took all my life to love this band . Ya i play bass and like Getty too and all but. But Alex is where its at. And You can tell Mr Lee that. Sorry Getty.

Alex is the cat's nads. Love those guys.

You can literally bathe in his chords they are that immersive.

3 dislikes. Why exactly ? the Guy is incredible

Love you Alex (hope you're enjoying retirement)❤🇨🇦

RUSH was always bleeding edge using computers to write, compose, record. Even on amps, they were never elitist on tube technology, etc.

Man I been on a Rush kick since July 4th when I saw them live in Milwaukee Wisconsin! I have been on Youboob searching out Rush every day since the 4th! I hope the play in Mexico City some day soon!

Eddy Van Halen when asked how it felt being the best guitarist alive was readily stated.I don't know why don't you ask Alex Lifeson... true...

saw Rush as a boy before they even had an album

Todor DeOliveira - Agreed; that was total bullshit! The man was defending his son ( who wasn't causing any trouble either ) & they gotta get all militant with him! Nonsense!

We love you Alex!

Gentleman genius 🤘🏻👍🏻❤️

LOVE this kind of stuff, thanks for the upload!! I just learned the "j" in his surname is silent or "y" sounding. LMAO at the duffoscope!

his own prescence makes life funny

Listening to Darren Reddick on PR has got me into Rush. Plus, I'm getting old so I need some more applicable tracks for old people. I was listening to "Outta Get Me" by Guns N Roses yesterday and although it's a great song, it's not really applicable to me anymore (unless you count the traffic wardens in my area). "There out to get me, i'm f**king innocent, please don't issue that ticket ..."

Technicaal guitarist question re: Limelight solo. (I agree, it is one of Mr. Lifeson's best ever.) The solo chorus effect has a randon character to the way it sort of "cycles", giving the effect a truly organic color-the way I had always hoped choruses would evolve. How was this achieved? Voltage-control pedal? Also, may I join the band? I can sing, I know all the required chords cold and I promise to say far away from the stage.(I can just play from backstage somewhere while viewing a video monitor.) Thanks.

I think subconsciously Lifeson got it,(the solo idea from limelight) from Listening to Pink Floyd in the 70s

Awesome Q + A!

I like Necromancer solo the best. Or maybe making memories.

Picking a favorite solo--or why stop at one? "Carve Away the Stone," "Distant Early Warning," "Nocturne," "Alien Shore," "Natural Science," if I can only name a dozen or so....

interesting questions and answers thanks

Limelight guitar solo 👍!!!

Lol the Omega Concern...

I like rush great band i just never understood the night gown thing by the way you can find lee and lifeson making jokes about that era in certain interviews they never really liked the night gowns it was their manager at the times idea they bought these gowns in a chinese clothing store in some china town in the usa

Rare human.

Whenever I see other musicians acting so full of themselves and think they're special I think of the guys in rush and say actually you are nothing.

RUSH RULES.

I love Alex. :)

🐐G.O.A.T

Working man sounda like SABBATH!

What is your golf Handicap Alex ? If you handle golf clubs like the guitar neck, Man you must be a Golf Pro !!!!

Alex Tell us about the Howard Roberts guitar ?? Likes and Dislikes ?

Wow the hair plugs look good.. wish I could afford them. 🤣😆

Nononono! Geddy does NOT have to cut his hair! He has the most amazing hair! He just needs to wear it the way he used to. With bangs. Or at least, parted in the middle. Besides he had all the wanky haircuts back in the eighties because that was all the rage. He decided he liked it better long, I remember hearing from somewhere. So leave him alone about it!!

Something tells me a lot of questions were rejected for good reason.

I like that where’s my thing is playing

I can't imagine how Rush would have ended up if Alex hadn't changed his name from Zivojinovich to Lifeson. Maybe they would have still been great, but we would have called him Alex Z. Or A-Zed.

Thanks Alex

Rush is always singing about trees an stuff RICKY TPB

I want to hang out with Alex !!

I taught Alex everything he knows.

1:06 to 1:16, I would have said Joe Satriani or Larry Mitchell.

Never knew he was Serbian, I always assumed he was Scandinavian

Can you PLEASE play Greece or Israel LIVE?? PRETTY please??

The solo to Limelight simply gives me goosebumps... There's a feeling of anguish to it and depending on my state of mind it actually brings me to tears... Alex is amazingly technical and yet has so much feel and melodic purpose... I'm a fan of flashy guitar playing but I really dig this aspect of guitar as well. Most guitar enthusiasts these days are in a sort of rivalry of technique vs feeling, whereas I think both are crucial... I'm baffled though, as to why the "feeling" enthusiasts who bash on technical players don't often mention Alex that much, most usually mention guys like David Gilmour who to be perfectly honest never really affected me much...

What is the song playing in the background? They are ripping!

Anybody else notice the couple of hairs standing straight up on the back of his head?

Alex, i have a question: blah blah blah blah??

Son of a son . . . ;-)

Rush are gods.

Limelight is their best song.