![]() While he was ready to let go of the guitar, downsizing his collection ended up affecting him more than he’d expected. Lifeson refers to the semi-hollow ES-355 as the “quintessential Alex Lifeson guitar” – Gibson had reproduced the gold-plated character piece as a Lifeson signature in 2008, though the guitarist notes that the neck was a bit fatter on the repro than his Norlin-period original – and it was featured on every Rush album from 1977’s A Farewell to Kings through 1996’s Test for Echo. ![]() The case was wrapped in bubble wrap, and I sat in the mudroom in my house just holding it, talking to it and kissing the bubble wrapĪmongst the cull was a prized white ES-355 he’d picked up from Gibson’s then Kalamazoo-based factory in 1976, along with a Dove acoustic and a double-necked 1275. While sizable, the collection used to be a whole lot bigger, with Lifeson explaining that he’d recently sent off 63 guitars to be sold at auction. The deep brown body of another Tele was made out of a door that once hung at the long-gone Le Studio facility in Morin-Heights, Quebec, where Rush recorded seven albums between 19. This includes a beauty, butterscotch ’52 reissue Telecaster from 1980 that Lifeson wagers he wrote “at least 70-80 percent of Rush’s material on” and a prized 1953 J-50 acoustic that Geddy Lee gave him on his 65th birthday. ![]() “It’s one thing to pick up the guitar and play for 10 to 15 minutes a day it’s another thing to devote a whole day to recording and developing a part.”įittingly enough, Lifeson is explaining this while seated in front of a couple dozen guitars hanging from the walls of his Toronto-area home studio. “You need to have a focus like this,” Lifeson suggests of finding inspiration within Envy of None. “A few of those tracks are on my website, some of them are on the Envy of None album.” So I continued to write, just for my own benefit,” he says. I didn’t want to lose it I didn’t want to feel like that was the end. “After the last Rush tour in 2015, I made sure I started writing immediately. At the time of that announcement, he’d already been drafting the original passes of tunes like Envy of None’s Kabul Blues, an evocatively sandy sway of back-masked guitar tricks and slack, snapped banjo licks. While Lifeson revealed in 2018 – some 50 years after forming Rush as a teenager – that the group were basically done, he clearly hadn’t closed the book on music altogether. Ultimate Classic Rock also reported Curran, Wynne and Lifeson are joined by guitarist Alfio Annibalini in Envy Of None with contributions from drummers Tim Oxford (Arkells) and David Quinton Steinberg (Dead Boys, the Mods).Though Lifeson is excited to be taking himself in a new sonic direction, Envy of None’s debut album nevertheless follows Rush’s staggeringly impressive and iconic body of work – Canada’s greatest power trio left a wholly immeasurable imprint on music fans across 19 full-length albums and countless mind-bending live performances. I think he went out of his way to really scratch an itch that he hasn’t played that way in Rush.” "We spoke about heavy, heavy guitars and he said, ‘There’s only really two songs, Andy, that I feel need that crunch and oomph. “He’s having a real fun time manipulating those guitar sounds," the bassist continues. “I would say to him, ‘What did you do there? This sounds like a violin’ or ‘This sounds like a keyboard!’ He was like, ‘Well, I put this, this and this on it and I flipped it backwards.’ “He’s gone out of his way to process and put cool things on his guitar that you’re like, ‘Wait a second, that doesn’t sound like a guitar,’” Curran added. That’s kind of what this project sounds like.” ![]() It’s like, if you can picture maybe Massive Attack (opens in new tab) with a little bit of some electronic stuff with Nine Inch Nails influences, with this beautiful, fragile, sweet voice and some very, very dark heavy sounds. ALEX LIEFSON SOUND ON AMPKIT FULL"There’s some beautiful guitar that he’s played all over it – but full transparency, it’s not Rush and it’s not Coney Hatch. “I think there’s a lot of Alex Lifeson in these," Curran told Ultimate Classic Rock about the sound of Envy Of None. “Those two, ‘Kabul Blues’ and ‘Spyhouse,’ at this moment Maiah is singing over them, so they’re going to be part of the Envy of None project,” Curran explained. ![]() And even though Lifeson revealed to Sweetwater in the video at the top that Kabul Blues and Spyhouse are compositions the guitarist had been sitting on for some time, they may also be a part of Envy Of None. “Now we have 10 songs in the can with this project called Envy of None," said Curran. If you can picture maybe Massive Attack with a little bit of some electronic stuff with Nine Inch Nails influences, with this beautiful, fragile, sweet voice and some very, very dark heavy sounds Andy Curran ![]()
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