In a brand new interview with Pete Pardo of Sea Of Tranquility, RUSH guitarist Alex Lifeson revealed that he lately met up with a few the members of METALLICA. He stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): ”The blokes from METALLICA had been in [Toronto] final week. And I obtained along with Kirk [Hammett, METALLICA guitarist] and Rob [Robert Trujillo, METALLICA bassist]. We went out for dinner after which we obtained collectively and jammed afterwards — really, proper right here [at my house]. They came to visit after dinner and we performed for a number of hours, and it was nice.
“Typically up to now, when you jam with a a bunch of individuals, we might play a 12-bar bluesy factor; everyone can play that: ‘Let’s do this.’ However whenever you play with nice musicians like these guys are, locations you go is, it is simply unbelievable,” Alex defined. “It is so outstanding. And God, I cherished each second that we did that. The three of us simply had been oozing with enthusiasm, that entire factor. And that is fairly cool.”
Lower than two years in the past, Trujillo spoke to Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station about his participation in Geddy Lee‘s four-part TV documentary sequence “Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Gamers Human Too?” The Paramount+ sequence featured the RUSH legend digging into the lives of Trujillo, former NIRVANA bassist Krist Novoselic, PRIMUS bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, and former HOLE/SMASHING PUMPKINS bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur. Robert stated that it was surreal for him to be spending time together with his musical idol whose enjoying had influenced him from his teenage years. “I performed in yard celebration bands at age 16 and we performed [RUSH‘s] ‘La Villa Strangiato’, we performed ‘YYZ’, we performed all these basic songs,” Robert stated. “The more durable, the higher again then. And we in all probability butchered them, however we’d play these yard events and play RUSH songs in the identical means that we additionally performed Ozzy [Osbourne] songs and we performed BLACK SABBATH songs and VAN HALEN and all these totally different bands. So you may think about hanging out with certainly one of your heroes and simply attempting to remain grounded. On the finish of the day, everyone’s a human being and also you at all times wanna deal with individuals with respect and, once more, keep grounded. However on the similar time, you are going, ‘Rattling, that is Geddy Lee.'”
Trujillo and Hammett performed a rendition of RUSH‘s “La Villa Strangiato” throughout METALLICA‘s April 26 live performance at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Lifeson made his mark on the music trade over 50 years in the past, redefining the boundaries of progressive rock guitar. His signature riffing, copious use of results processing and unorthodox chord buildings befitted him the title by his RUSH bandmates as “The Musical Scientist.” Whereas the majority of Lifeson‘s work in music has been with RUSH, he has contributed to a physique of labor exterior of the band as a guitarist, producer and with the discharge of his 1996 solo album “Victor”. Lifeson ranks third total within the Guitar World readers’ ballot of “100 Biggest Guitarists” and can be included in Rolling Stone‘s “100 Biggest Guitarists Of All Time.”
ENVY OF NONE, the band that includes Lifeson, Andy Curran (CONEY HATCH),Alfio Annibalini and singer Maiah Wynne, launched its second album, “Stygian Wavz”, on March 14 by way of Kscope.
