ALEX LIFESON Alex Lifeson was born August 27, 1953 in Fernie, BC and grew up in Toronto, Canada. When Alex was thirteen, he received a guitar for Christmas and by the summer of 1968, he cofounded the band that would become Rush. As Rush’s guitar player for more than 40 years, Lifeson played electric and acoustic guitars as well as other stringed instruments such as mandola, mandolin, and bouzouki. He also performed backing vocals in live performances as well as keyboards and bass pedal synthesizers.
Instrumentally, Lifeson is regarded as a guitarist whose strengths and notability rely primarily on his signature riffing, electronic effects and processing, unorthodox chord structures, and a copious arsenal of equipment used over the years that has benefitted him the title by his bandmates as “The Musical Scientist.”
