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 bought along with Kirk [Hammett, METALLICA guitarist] and Rob [Robert Trujillo, METALLICA bassist]. We went out for dinner after which we bought collectively and jammed afterwards — truly, proper right here [at my house]. They came to visit after dinner and we performed for just a few hours, and it was nice.
“Typically previously, for those who jam with a a bunch of individuals, we would play a 12-bar bluesy factor; everyone can play that: ‘Let’s do this.’ However once you play with nice musicians like these guys are, locations you go is, it is simply unbelievable,” Alex defined. “It is so exceptional. And God, I liked each second that we did that. The three of us simply had been oozing with enthusiasm, that complete 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 social gathering bands at age 16 and we performed [RUSH‘s] ‘La Villa Strangiato’, we performed ‘YYZ’, we performed all these traditional songs,” Robert stated. “The more durable, the higher again then. And we most likely butchered them, however we might play these yard events and play RUSH songs in the identical method that we additionally performed Ozzy [Osbourne] songs and we performed BLACK SABBATH songs and VAN HALEN and all these completely different bands. So you may think about hanging out with one in all your heroes and simply attempting to remain grounded. On the finish of the day, everyone’s a human being and also you all the time 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 business over 50 years in the past, redefining the boundaries of progressive rock guitar. His signature riffing, copious use of results processing and unorthodox chord constructions 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 outdoors of the band as a guitarist, producer and with the discharge of his 1996 solo album “Victor”. Lifeson ranks third general within the Guitar World readers’ ballot of “100 Biggest Guitarists” and can also 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 through Kscope.