Rolling Stone has posted a new interview with Alex Lifeson where Lerxst talks about a number of subjects including his health, Envy of None, his new line of signature gear at Lerxst Amps, and more. Envy of None is currently working on the follow-up to their self-titled debut album, and Alex was asked about the potential of playing any live shows:

... Yeah, on the one hand, it would be awesome to do it because I think the presentation of us live would be stunning with the right lights and and the right setup on stage with the right players. It would be really great if we could recreate the feel of the records. But at the same time, this is not latter-day Rush. This is a start of a smaller unit. Traveling probably in a van! [Laughs.] Or I don't know if it would be that basic, but I wouldn't want to start all over again for any reason. I'm just too old and I have too much stuff in my life that I'm loving and happy with. And it's great to be with my family on a more permanent basis and all of that. So then that goes back to the whole thing about Rush. Ged and I are hanging out a lot - and we always do - but now we're hanging out at his place and we're playing. And we're actually playing a lot of Rush songs. ... It's funny because we sound like a really bad tribute band for the first three or four run-throughs on these things. It's "Oh, my God, what did I play there? Why did I play that so hard?" And then muscle memory kicks in, and we're having a ball doing it. It's good for the fingers. We're together in a room like we've always been. That's been really good, but there's no chance that we're going to get a drummer and go back on the road as the rebirth of Rush or something like that. And if we wanted to write new material, nobody cares about new material anymore. They just want to hear the old stuff from guys like us.... we've talked about it in depth, and I was waffling between maybe considering it and not. And then my health issues came up. I know if we went on the road, it couldn't be like we used to do it. You need to go out for five or six months. You can't just go out and play on the weekends. It just doesn't work that way, especially if it's going to be a big production. I don't know. We talk a lot about it. We're in different worlds. I've been working on this Envy of None stuff for four or five years now. He's been busy writing his books and he travels a lot and he does all those things that are important to him. He hasn't been playing on a regular basis, and that's why he really loves it when we're together like this. And this is where we came from when we were kids. This is not about putting something together for a possible tour or a record or something. This is the joy of those two teenagers sitting in a room looking at each other and trying to learn how to play an instrument better. ...

You can read the entire interview online here.