[Rush's Alex Lifeson: The interview]
UPDATE - 4/20@8:49AM: I'd forgotten to mention that you can also listen to Alex's interview at this link or using the player below.
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Keith Spera of the New Orleans Times-Picayune wrote a great article along with a superb interview with Alex Lifeson that appears in today's edition. The article is titled Still a Rush: Geddy, Alex and Neil continue to dazzle this critic and the interview can be read at this link. Alex talks about the tour and the new live album, but also touches on Rush in Rio, his little mishap in Florida, Rush's lyrical themes, Snakes & Arrows and other topics. But where it really gets interesting is when he discusses the band's future:
... With every tour, it feels like it's the last tour. But we're really enjoying ourselves. We're playing the best that we've every played. We're sounding really good, really tight. But there are other things in life. You keep thinking as you get older that maybe you want to pursue other things, or maybe it's time to pack it in, blah, blah, blah.
But this time, though, just before we started rehearsals, Ged and I were talking about what we're going to do on the next tour. So I guess we're looking forward. I don't know what our plan is. I think we want to take a little bit of a break after this tour ends.
We're saying that, but I don't know what's going to happen. We might get itchy like Ged and I normally do; after a few months we'll want to start writing and get back into it. Whether we go back in the studio and make another record or do another tour...hard to say.
We've got so much catalog. I'd love to do a tour where we just play stuff that we've never played before. Don't play anything that we play now and call it the B-track Rush tour. Play some of the stuff nobody has ever heard us play live. That would be a lot of fun. There are lots of opportunities and directions that we can go. ...
... There's been talk about getting an orchestra together and doing "2112." That's almost Spinal Tap-ish in concept. But at the same time, it might be kind of cool with a great visual presentation.
The B-track Rush tour?! 2112 with an orchestra!!?!?! That's the kind of stuff I like to hear. I'm skeptical but we'll see. It's cool to know that this type of thing at least crosses their minds. Thanks to Sean for the heads up.
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