Alex Lifeson
Alex Lifeson in concert with Rush. Raleigh, NC (June 20, 2007)
Background information
Birth name	Alexandar Zivojinovich (Aleksandar Živojinović)
Born	August 27, 1953 (1953-08-27) (age 54) Fernie, British Columbia, Canada
Genre(s)	Hard rock, Progressive rock, Heavy metal
Occupation(s)	Guitarist, songwriter, Producer
Instrument(s)	Guitar, Mandola, Mandolin, and Bouzouki
Years active	1968-present
Label(s)	Mercury, Anthem, Atlantic
Associated acts	Rush
Notable instrument(s)
Gibson ES-355

Alex Lifeson, OC (born Aleksandar Živojinović on August 27, 1953 in Fernie, British Columbia), is a Canadian musician, best known for his role as guitarist for the rock group Rush. Lifeson founded Rush in the summer of 1968, and has been an integral member of the three-piece band ever since.^[1] For Rush, Lifeson plays electric and acoustic guitars as well as other stringed instruments such as mandola, mandolin and bouzouki. He also performs backing vocals in live performances, and occasionally plays keyboards and bass pedal synthesizers. During live performances, Lifeson, like the other members of Rush, performs real-time triggering of sampled instruments, concurrently with his guitar playing.^[2] The bulk of Lifeson's work in music has been with Rush, although Lifeson has contributed to a body of work outside of the band as well. 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Along with his bandmates Geddy Lee and Neil Peart, Lifeson was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on May 9, 1996. The trio was the first rock band to be so honored, as a group.^[4] Geddy Lee OC is a Canadian musician best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush. ... Neil Ellwood Peart (pronounced ) OC, (born September 12, 1952 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian musician and author. ... The Order of Canada is the highest civilian honour within the Canadian system of honours, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the orders Latin motto, taken from Hebrews 11:16, desiderantes meliorem patriam, meaning they desire a better country. ... is the 129th day of the year (130th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...

On May 1, 2007, Rush released Snakes & Arrows, their eighteenth full-length studio album. Lifeson and the band have followed up the album with the Snakes & Arrows Tour, which began on June 13, 2007. is the 121st day of the year (122nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... Snakes & Arrows is the 18th full-length studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush. ... Rush began the tour to promote their latest album, Snakes & Arrows on June 13, 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia. ... is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

Biography

Early life

Lifeson was born Alexandar Zivojinovich in Fernie, British Columbia to Serbian immigrants, Nenad and Milka Zivojinovich (from Serbian: Живојиновић, Živojinović), and raised in Toronto, Ontario.^[3] His assumed stage name of "Lifeson" is a semi-literal translation of the name "Zivojinovich", meaning "son of life".^[5] His first exposure to formal music training came in the form of the viola which he renounced for the guitar at the age of 12. His first guitar was a Christmas gift from his father, a six-string Kent classical acoustic which was later upgraded to an electric Japanese model. During adolescence, Lifeson was primarily influenced by Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Pete Townshend. Lifeson was primarily a self-taught guitarist with the only formal instruction coming from a high school friend in 1971 who taught classical guitar lessons. This training lasted for roughly a year and a half. In 1963, Lifeson met future Rush drummer John Rutsey in school. Both interested in music, they decided to form a band. The City of Fernie is located in the southeast corner of British Columbia, Canada, surrounded by the Canadian Rockies. ... Motto: Splendor sine occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 36 Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area  Ranked 5th Total 944... Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Image:Toronto, Ontario Location. ... Most Serbian surnames have the surname suffix -ić (IPA: /itj/, Cyrillic: -ић). This is often transcribed as -ic. ... For other uses, see Viola (disambiguation). ... Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE[2] (born 30 March 1945) [3], nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award-winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. ... Geoffrey Arnold (Jeff) Beck (born June 24, 1944 to Arnold and Ethel Beck in Wallington, Greater London) is an English rock guitarist. ... Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitar virtuoso, singer and songwriter. ... For the Scottish football (soccer) player, see Jimmy Page (footballer). ... Pete Townshend (born Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend on 19 May 1945 in Chiswick, London), is an award-winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer, and writer. ... John Rutsey of Rush. ...

Lifeson recalls what inspired him to play guitar in a 2008 interview:

Lifeson's first girlfriend, Charlene, gave birth to their eldest son, Justin, in October of 1970, and they married in 1975. As of July 2008, they are still married, and have a 2nd son, Adrian, who is also involved in music and performed on two tracks from Lifeson's 1996 solo project, "Victor"

Body of work

While the bulk of Lifeson's work in music has been with Rush (See Rush Discography), he has also contributed to a body of work outside of his involvement with the band in the form of movie/television appearances, as well as instrumental contributions for other musical outfits. Lifeson's first major outside work was his solo project, Victor released in 1996. Victor (the album) was attributed as a self-titled work (i.e. Victor is attributed as the artist as well as the album title). This was done deliberately as an alternative to issuing the album explicitly under Lifeson's name. This is the discography of the Canadian rock band Rush. ... Victor is a solo album by Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson which was released January 9, 1996 on Atlantic Records outside of Canada and Anthem Records within Canada. ...

Lifeson made a guest appearance playing guitar on Lawrence Gowan's 1990 album, Lost Brotherhood. In 2006, Lifeson founded The Big Dirty Band, which he created for the purpose of providing original soundtrack material for Trailer Park Boys: The Movie. Lifeson jammed regularly with The Dexters (The Orbit Room house band from 1994-2004). The Dexters' lead guitarist, Bernie LaBarge, nicknamed Alex "Big Al Dexter".^{[citation needed]} Recently, Lifeson made a guest appearance on the 2007 album Fear of a Blank Planet by UK progressive rock band, Porcupine Tree, as well as the 2008 album Fly Paper by Detroit progressive rockers, Tiles. He plays on the track "Sacred and Mundane". Outside of band related endeavors, Lifeson composed the theme for the first season of the science-fiction TV series Andromeda. Lawrence Gowan is a Canadian musician, who has been both a solo artist and a member of the band Styx. ... Media:Example. ... A jam session is a musical act where musicians gather and play (or jam) without extensive preparation or predefined arrangements. ... The Orbit Room is a Toronto restaurant owned by Alex Lifeson (a member of the band Rush) and Tim Notter. ... Bernie LaBarge (b. ... Fear of a Blank Planet is the ninth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree which was released on April 16, 2007 in the UK and Europe, and on April 24, 2007 in the United States. ... Porcupine Tree is an English progressive rock band formed in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England by Steven Wilson. ... Tiles is a progressive rock band from Detroit, Michigan, USA. TILES was formed in February 1993, featuring Mark Evans (drums), Chris Herin (guitar), Paul Rarick (vocals), and Jeff Whittle (bass). ... Gene Roddenberrys Andromeda is an American science fiction television series, based on unused material by Gene Roddenberry developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced posthumously by his widow, Majel Roddenberry. ...

Guitar equipment

In Rush's early career, Lifeson used a Gibson ES-335 for the first single and the first four Rush studio albums. For the 2112 tour, he used a 1974 Gibson Les Paul and Marshall amplification. For the A Farewell to Kings sessions, Lifeson began using a Gibson EDS-1275 for songs like Xanadu and his main guitar became a cream-colored Gibson ES-355. During this period Lifeson used Hiwatt amplifiers. For effects Lifeson used various phaser and flanger pedals, a Cry Baby Wah Wah, along with Marshall 100 watt Super Lead amplifiers and 4x12 cabinets. Beginning in the late 1970s, he increasingly incorporated twelve-string guitar (acoustic and electric) and used a Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble and later, the Boss Dimension C. By 1982 Lifeson's primary guitar was a modified Fender Stratocaster with a Bill Lawrence high-output humbucker L-500 in the bridge position and a Floyd Rose vibrato bridge. Lifeson increasingly relied on a selection of four identically modified Stratocasters from 1980 to 1986, all of them equipped with the Floyd Rose bridge. For the Moving Pictures and Signals albums, and on concurrent tours, Lifeson used up to four rare Marshall 4140 Club & Country 100W combo amps. In the mid 1980s Lifeson switched from passive to active pickups in his guitars, and from vacuum tube to solid-state amplification, all with an increasingly thick layer of digital signal processing. He became an endorser of Gallien-Krueger and Dean Markley solid-state guitar amplifier lines and Dean Markley Blue Steel strings respectively, gauges .009-.046. In the late 1980s he switched to Carvin amplifiers in the studio and his short-lived Signature brand guitars onstage and in the studio. The Gibson ES-335 was the worlds first commercial semi-hollowbody electric guitar, released by Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1958. ... The Gibson Les Paul is a solidbody electric guitar originally developed in the early 1950s. ... The Marshall Logo Marshall Amplification is a British company which designs and manufactures music amplifiers. ... Rush (A Farewell to Kings) A Farewell to Kings is the fifth studio album by the Canadian band Rush, released in 1977 (see 1977 in music). ... The Gibson EDS-1275 is a doubleneck Gibson guitar introduced in 1958. ... Xanadu is a song recorded by the Canadian progressive rock trio Rush for their 1977 album A Farewell to Kings. ... The Gibson ES-355TD-SV was Gibsons top of the range thin line (TD) semi acoustic guitar, fitted with stereo wiring and varitone (SV). ... Hiwatt is a British company that manufactures amplifiers for electric guitars and bass guitars. ... A phaser is an electronic audio signal processor used to distort a signal by mixing a dry, or unprocessed, signal with a copy of itself that has been filtered through an all-pass phase-shift network. ... A flanger could be: Railroad maintenance of way equipment designed to clear snow from the flangeways of railroad tracks – see Flanger (railroad) Audio processing equipment that combines two audio streams of opposite phase – see Flanging This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise... The twelve string guitar is an acoustic or electric guitar with twelve strings, which produces a richer, more ringing tone than a standard six string guitar. ... Stratocaster redirects here. ... Bill Lawrence Bill Lawrence (born Willi Lorenz Stich on March 24, 1931 in Wahn-Heide (near Cologne), Germany) is a recording musician and an electric guitar pickup designer/maker and guitar designer/maker in the musical instrument industry, designing pickups and guitars for Fender, Gibson, Peavey and other guitar companies... Traditional Open Coil (uncovered) humbucker pickup A conventional humbucker (or Humbucking pickup) is a type of electric guitar pickup that uses two coils, both generating string signal. ... Floyd Rose Original Floyd Rose is the organization that licenses, distributes and manufactures the Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo invented by Floyd D. Rose. ... Digital signal processing (DSP) is the study of signals in a digital representation and the processing methods of these signals. ... Gallien-Krueger is a bass instrument amplifier manufacturer. ... Carvin (Guitar manufacturer) Since 1946 Carvin has been building and selling high quality and highly regarded musical instrument products direct to the consumer. ...

Lifeson primarily used PRS guitars during the recording of Roll The Bones in 1990/1991. When recording 1993's Counterparts, Lifeson continued to use PRS Guitars and Marshall amplifiers to record the album, and for the subsequent tour. Lifeson continued to use PRS along with Fender and Gibson guitars, Hughes & Kettner Triamp MK II and zenTera amplifiers and cabinets. In 2005, Hughes & Kettner introduced an Alex Lifeson signature series amplifier with $50 from each amplifier sold will be donated to UNICEF. PRS Guitars is an American guitar manufacturer, based in Stevensville, Maryland. ... Roll the Bones is the fourteenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1991 (see 1991 in music). ... Counterparts is the fifteenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1993 (see 1993 in music). ... Hughes & Kettner (or Hüghes & Kettner), founded in the mid-1980s, is a German brand of guitar and bass amplifiers, cabinets and effects processors. ... UNICEF Logo The United Nations Childrens Fund or UNICEF (Arabic: ; French: ; Spanish: ) was established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946. ...

Alex Lifeson playing his Garrison GD25-12 guitar

For the 2007 Snakes & Arrows Tour, Lifeson replaced his PRS Guitars with Gibson Les Pauls. In a 2007 interview for Guitarist magazine, Lifeson states "I hear PRS on everything these days and I wanted a little bit of a change ... I love them [PRS] but they have a smaller sound than the bigger heavier Gibsons ... I just wanted to be more traditional."^{[citation needed]} He has Fishman Aura piezoelectric pickup systems installed into his Les Pauls to model acoustic guitar sounds without changing guitars. He has also replaced his Hughes & Kettner zenTera amp heads with Switchblade heads (which, like the zenTeras, include built-in programmable digital effects, such as chorus and delay, but are valve-powered instead of transistor-powered), while retaining his signature series H&K Triamp heads. His effects for the 2007 tour include a TC Electronics G-Force rack multi-FX, a TC Electronics 1210 spatial expander and a Loft 440 Delay Line/Flanger, as well as the effects built into his Switchblade heads. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 571 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (709 × 745 pixels, file size: 496 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 571 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (709 × 745 pixels, file size: 496 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Rush began the tour to promote their latest album, Snakes & Arrows on June 13, 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia. ... Three magnetic pickups on an electric guitar. ... A chorus effect is: A condition in the way people perceive similar sounds coming from multiple sources. ... Delay is an audio effect which records an input signal to an audio storage medium, and then plays it back after a period of time[1]. The delayed signal may either be played back multiple times, or played back into the recording again, to create the sound of a repeating... Mesa Boogie Mark IV, A guitar combo amplifier A guitar amplifier is an electronic amplifier designed for use with an electric or electronic musical instrument, such as an electric guitar. ... Mesa Boogie Mark IV, A guitar combo amplifier A guitar amplifier is an electronic amplifier designed for use with an electric or electronic musical instrument, such as an electric guitar. ... TC Electronic logo TC Electronic is a Danish audio equipment manufacturer, founded by two brothers, Kim and John Rishøj, in 1976. ...

Other instruments played

In addition to traditional stringed instruments such as acoustic and electric guitars, Lifeson has also played mandola, mandolin and bouzouki on recent Rush studio albums, including Test For Echo, Vapor Trails and Snakes & Arrows. During live Rush performances, Lifeson uses a MIDI controller that enables him to use his feet to trigger sounds from digital samplers, without taking his hands off of his guitar. (Prior to this, Lifeson used Moog Taurus Bass Pedals before they were obsolesced and replaced by Korg MIDI pedals in the 1980s.) Lifeson and his bandmates share a desire to accurately depict songs from their albums when playing live performances. Toward this goal, beginning in the late 1980s the band equipped their live performances with a capacious rack of samplers. The band members use these samplers in real-time to recreate the sounds of non-traditional instruments, accompaniments, vocal harmonies, and other sound "events" that are familiarly heard on the studio versions of the songs. In live performances, the band members share duties throughout most songs, with each member triggering certain sounds with his available limbs, while playing his primary instrument(s).^[7] It is with this technology that Lifeson and his bandmates are able to present their arrangements in a live setting with the level of complexity and fidelity that fans have come to expect, and without the need to resort to the use of backing tracks or employing an additional band member.^[8] mandola A mandola (US and Canada) or tenor mandola (Europe, Ireland, and UK) is a stringed musical instrument. ... This article is about the musical instrument. ... For bouzoukia, see nightclubs in Greece. ... Test for Echo is the sixteenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1996 (see 1996 in music). ... Vapor Trails is the seventeenth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music). ... Snakes & Arrows is the 18th full-length studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush. ... A device, real or virtual, which generates and transmits MIDI data for operating musical devices or other devices which are electronically enabled for MIDI operation. ... An AKAI MPC2000 sampler Playing a Yamaha SU10 Sampler A sampler is an electronic music instrument closely related to a synthesizer. ... The first model of the Moog Taurus bass pedal synthesizer was created and manufactured by Moog Music from 1976 to 1981. ... A typical accompaniment pattern of a Mozart concert or aria. ... This article is about musical harmony. ... An instrumental is, in contrast to a song, a musical composition or piece without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. ...

Television and film appearances

In a 2003 episode of the Canadian smash hit mockumentary Trailer Park Boys, titled "Closer to the Heart", Lifeson plays a fictional version of himself. In the story, he is kidnapped by Ricky and held as punishment for his inability (or refusal) to provide the main characters with free tickets to a Rush concert. In the end of the episode, Alex reconciles with the characters, and performs a duet with Bubbles at the trailer park. Mockumentary (also known as a pseudo-documentary)[1], a portmanteau of mock and documentary, is a film and TV genre, or a single work of the genre. ... This article is about the television series. ... Closer to The Heart is a single by Rush, released 1977. ... Robb Wells (b. ... Mike Smith as Bubbles Mike Smith (born August 27, 1972, Thorburn, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian actor, who plays Bubbles on Trailer Park Boys. ...

Lifeson appears in Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, as a traffic cop in the opening scene. He made his film debut as himself under his birth name in the 1972 Canadian documentary film Come on Children.^[9]

The Naples incident

On New Year's Eve 2003, Lifeson, his son, and his daughter-in-law were arrested at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Naples, Florida. Lifeson, after intervening in an altercation between his son and police, was accused of assaulting a sheriff's deputy in what was described as a drunken brawl. In addition to suffering a broken nose at the hands of the officers, Lifeson was tasered six times. His son Justin was also tasered repeatedly. For other uses, see New Year (disambiguation). ... Location in Collier County and the state of Florida Coordinates: , Country State Counties Collier Settled 6 November 1886 Incorporated (town) 1925 Incorporated (city) 25 May 1949 Government  - Type Council-Manager  - Mayor Bill Barnett   - City Manager Robert E. Lee  Area [1]  - city  14. ...

According to Justin's file in the Felony section of the Public Records database of Collier County, Florida,^[10] the judge determined that, based on the testimony of the prosecution's witnesses, including one of the police officers involved in the incident, that while the potential for violence existed, none was offered by Justin. As part of the plea agreement Lifeson and his son were each sentenced to 12 months of probation with the adjudication of that probation suspended. Upon successful completion of the probation, the matter is to be expunged from their records. In addition, they had to pay all court costs. In the fall of 2005, the court granted early dismissal from probation to both Lifeson and his son.

In his journal-based book Roadshow, Peart relates the band's perspective on the events of that New Years Eve. He also says the incident was and still is a traumatic event for Lifeson and his family.

Awards

• "Best Rock Talent" by Guitar for the Practicing Musician in 1983
• "Best Rock Guitarist" by Guitar Player Magazine in 1984 and May 2008
• Runner-up for "Best Rock Guitarist" in Guitar Player in 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986
• Inducted into the Guitar for the Practicing Musician Hall of Fame, 1991
• 1996 - Officer of the Order of Canada, along with fellow bandmates Geddy Lee and Neil Peart
• "Best Article" for "Different Strings" in Guitar Player (September issue).
• Most Ferociously Brilliant Guitar Album (Snakes & Arrows) - Guitar Player Magazine, May 2008

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References

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External links

• Audio-Technica interview with Alex
• Read 2002 CNN interview with Alex
• Alex Lifeson gear, by songs