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RUSH Rolls Out New Songs On Tour

July 25, 2007

Michael Senft of The Arizona Republic recently conducted an interview with RUSH guitarist Alex Lifeson. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

The Arizona Republic: How is the tour going so far?

Lifeson: It's going great — we've got one leg under our belt and we're now working our way down through the West. The response has been amazing, we usually do well on our tours, but the attendance is up almost 40 percent and everyone is familiar with the new material.

The Arizona Republic: You seem to be pushing the new album quite a bit on this tour.

Lifeson: Yeah, we typically only do about four new songs a tour, but this time we're doing nine total. This album is such a joy to play and the response has been overwhelming to it. We did the greatest hits nostalgia thing on our 30th Anniversary Tour in 2004, playing all the old stuff that we hadn't done in awhile — we didn't need to do it again.

The Arizona Republic: The new album is your strongest in quite awhile. The songs are almost paradoxical — they are straightforward yet are also densely layered. How do you recreate the music live?

Lifeson: Once we start playing songs live they take on a new identity. It isn't as difficult as I thought it would be though. The layering is missing, but we make up for that in just the sheer power of the whole band live. It doesn't destroy the song if it's missing a vocal harmony here or a guitar overdub there.

The Arizona Republic: You seem to have a much stronger presence on the album — there are acoustic guitars and even mandolin all over the record.

Lifeson: Well, the guitar is the heart and soul of rock and roll. And when we started working on the record and putting it all together with (producer) Nick Raskulinecz, he really understood that and moved the guitars up in the mix.

Read the entire interview at The Arizona Republic.

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