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OVERVIEW:August 27, 1953), is a Canadian musician, known as the 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. Aside from music, Lifeson is part owner of the Toronto restaurant The Orbit Room, and is a licensed aircraft pilot, motorcycle rider, and gourmet cook.[3]
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] 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.Lifeson was born Aleksandar Zivojinovic in Fernie, British Columbia to Serbian immigrants, Nenad and Milka Zivojinovic (from Serbian: Живојиновић, Živojinović), and raised in Toronto, Ontario.[3] His assumed stage name of "Lifeson" is a semi-literal translation of the name "Zivojinovic", 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. Lifeson eventually married his girlfriend Charlene and currently has two sons, Justin and Adrian. Biography Credit: eurotard |
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BiographyFriends and Familyadrian lifeson (2# son) :: justin lifeson [Associate] (1# son) :: charlene lifeson [Associate] (spouse)Trivia and QuotesQuotes I think that`s given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don`t think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns. Certainly after the tragedy in Neil`s life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn`t too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it. The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It`s more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche. Not particularly... the reason is because we made a promise to ourselves years ago that whatever we did in the studio we would try to recapture live. But when Neil called, I have to say that my heart soared. And the reason was, because it said so much about his recovery... that he was coming back to the world of the living. When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and that`s definitely reassuring. Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him. At the same time, I`ve never been afraid of death or the concept of death. Well, I stand by that comment, I think a couple of years ago, I think we all felt the same way, we weren`t sure wanted to release another live record. And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we`re very fortunate. But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions. You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band`s development with a live record... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package. I think we`re quite unique in that we do have our own sound and approach and we don`t really care what`s going on elsewhere... we`ve never wanted to be part of another trend or movement. I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our music and that`s wonderful to know, that people would take the time to be that involved. I`d say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band. When we signed our deal in 1974, we`d already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week. Rush has never been a spontaneous group. We may be spontaneous in our writing, we may be spontaneous as individuals in our day to day lives... certainly I think am and always have been, but I think when it comes to Rush and our presentation of our music it`s quite controlled. If there was any one achievement, it would be that we`ve have done it on our own terms. We`ve managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we`ve never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren`t commercial enough. | ||
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