RUSH GUITARIST LIFESON SEES GUITAR HERO SAVING MUSIC

[superslayerguy]

Im 14, im a perfect example of a kid that played RUSH on guitar hero then got a real guitar :D

[CrazyycclowN]

i have been listening to Rush since i was 3 years old. My dad was working with Rush for a while, originally selling software to them in the mid-nineties, then becoming best friends with them, eventually working for them by setting up their concerts. By the way, he got to test out Neil's drum set, have personal conversations with them alot, and right now, i have a pair of Neil's used drum sticks in my room, sitting on top my TV. And they're autographed.

[tacoforest]

@CrazyycclowN You are one lucky dude

[rhinocoach]

It is Y. Y. ZED!!!! not Y.Y. ZEEE.

Rush is Canadian so you have to understand the Canadian dialect

By the way every airport has a 3 letter code and Toronto's is YYZ.

[st0pm0ti0n]

@rhinocoach is the song named after the airport, or the airport's named after the song?

[ncomase]

@st0pm0ti0n YYZ is the airport call letters for Toronto, and has been for many years before the song of the same name. The song was written as a tribute to their home city airport, as they always looked forward to the trip that had those letters on it.

The beginning sequence is "YYZ" in morse code: -.-- -.-- -..

[ncomase]

@st0pm0ti0n YYZ is the airport call letters for Toronto, and has been for many years before the song of the same name. The song was written as a tribute to their home city airport, as they always looked forward to the trip that had those letters on it.

The beginning sequence is "YYZ" in morse code: -.-- -.-- -..

[Dillbob1]

and really, thats why guitar hero is a great game, it doesnt discourage people from playing real instruments, some people just dont want to play real guitar so they use guitar hero as an outlet for the energy that comes from music. and it actually does help people find other music that they might enjoy. honestly the only two things that really got me into rush were watching the documentary just cuz i thought it would be interesting, and playing 2112 on guitar hero

[RockBassist2112]

she mispronounced "YYZ" -.-

[SpunJacked1]

My ten year old nephew was inspired by Guitar Hero. His name is Nicholas and he is playing guitar in a power trio called Death Valley and the name of their song is "Robotic Generation". Look up their song on youtube.

[pelagic6]

Alex is a class act. Standing up on stage and observing his fans and audience like that, and realizing the interest youth these days really does have for quality music. Bravo Rush.

[pivot174]

lol Young kids getting off on it :3

[Dillbob1]

@pivot174 haha, i laughed at that too

[happyface4444]

I like the fact that it brings good music back but I hate that people think shredder's are best because the way the game is set up. If they had string bends David Gilmour would be some of the hardest songs. Thats why I stick to real guitar.

[zombiesunite2010]

@happyface4444 - Amen.

[Rushguitarist1]

I'm like the hugest Rush fan.They should have Guitar Hero Rush (supporting "fabioproductions") Alex is right about the kids playing guitar hero getting to play real guitar but, Guitar Hero should say something like " If you learn to play these songs it will entertain guests and become a hobbie which gets you a job and then pretty much sets you up for life" GO RUSH AND ALEX IF YOU SEE THIS MESSAGE I REALLY WANT TO MEET YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[warriors6411]

Rock Band has all of Moving Pictures, The Trees, Working Man, Closer to the Heart!

Rock Band wins in terms of having the most Rush.

[brianbrianbrian10]

0:31 IS THAT JOE PERRY?

[shredder1965]

@brianbrianbrian10 yes.

[drinkingwithwalruses]

I totally agree with Alex. Unfortunately now DJ Hero came out... Rush is a great band and they should make a Rush Rockband or Guitar Hero. Screw DJ Hero.

[WaggunTin]

Oh great now these retarded interviewers got Alex's phone number...

[drum394]

me and my friend love rush and we hate all this new pop crap and i sure alex is right about GH helping rock stay

Now its up to us to save good music

[Markcip1]

Actually, I am bull at these '70s bands (like van Halen, the Eagles, etc) going on tour. Rush has been the very few out there who have been left to fight the battle against "Pop" alone. Now that RNR is coming back, these idiots say "Hey, we've been absent for 20 years. Lets go on tour." These bands out to pay homage to RUsh for being the only ones out there keeping the 70s music live. These bands are traitors to Rock, unlike Rush.

[eggjones1]

What can this strange device be??

[unholyimage]

@eggjones1, when I touch it, it gives forth a sound.

[lddevo88]

@unholyimage it got wires that vibrate, and make music.

What can this thing be that I found?

[Lucretiaband]

@lddevo88 I can't wait to share this new wonder.

[lddevo88]

@Lucretiaband The people will all see its light.

Let them all make there own music, The Priests praise my name on this night!!!

[tigerhearted87]

@lddevo88 See how it sings like a sad heart

And joyously screams out its pain

Sounds that build high like a mountain

Or notes that fall gently like rain

[BringBackBlink182]

@tigerhearted87 2112 : Discovery. Love the song.

[tigerhearted87]

@BringBackBlink182 hell ya!

[iTzNoxy]

Without Rockband, I would have never given Rush a chance.

[ninedeep]

Hey, I'll take it - whatever it takes, eh!

I took my nephew to see Rush when he was 16 and he damned near crapped himself. Now I'm in a Rush tribute band in Pittsburgh, and he was floored again when he collected tickets at the door for us.

Remember - it's up to us to pass on the Rush legacy.

"Real guitars are for old people" - Eric Cartmann

[DaveGuilmour]

i don`t think that Rock games are gonna destroy today's popular comerial music, but i hope in at least do sth

[rushnut1958]

There was no promise made....the part you played.....the chance you took.

[cadgod120]

I see his point perfectly. I got into playing guitar after getting GH2 for the PS2. I've been playing for almost 3 years and I'm glad I picked up the real thing.

[millenniumoverdrive]

It's really cool people are discovering Rush through GH. I grew up with them and now I play for a living, I'm glad eager musicians get to find out how g-r-e-a-t Rush really is...

[crazyedd123]

i discovered alot of good bands too (primus,living colour,rush)

i just don't like the people who take the game so seriously (TTFTF syndrome) those guys are wierdos

[P4tCau]

with this good news, I expect to see sick Rush songs on GH or RB such as La Villa Strangiato, limelight, 2112 (hopefully, but i doubt they will put the whole 20 minutes as one, although it would be sick) amongst others

[Despotes518]

and i also play guitar now. mostly rush! been playin for a little less than a year

[Despotes518]

Well Alex is right! I discovered Rush through Rockband a year ago, now I have all of their albums and know a ton about them. I really enjoy the classics a lot more now then I did before Rockband. May be silly but it's true

[alexlifeson4pres]

Dude right on. My dad told me about them when I was like 5. I'm 16 now and I'll I listen to (no kidding) is Rush.

[cmg2112]

That's right. It might even inspire them to play for real if they haven't before. That would be really good. Long Live Rush.

[cmg2112]

Thanks for your comment mate. You must be a guitarist too huh?

[cmg2112]

Gee! He's really changed my mind. I used to view GH as something silly but if as Alex says it promotes their music and the desire to play then power on GH. Nevertheless, I still prefer doing it for real.

[negtype13]

Totally bro! Me too! Must admit... I never thought of it in that perspective. So as long as they are not giving up the real thing (guitar, bass, drums..any REAL instrument) and it promotes that as well as the introduction to the classics.... Then I'm all for it!

[kfreezy23]

Rock Band Rush would take over the world!

[sonicismybrawler]

I loved Rush before Guitar Hero, and was fucking boucing off walls when I found out that YYZ was on GH2. I was like :O Then I was like :D Then I was like ^_^

I love Rush, I love GH, I love everything about the combonation of the two. GO LIFE! LIFE IS GOOD!

[bonavita2]

i listened to rush before guitar hero,dosen't mean like them because of some video game

[rapjr123]

GH:RUSH! GH:RUSH!! GH:RUSH!!! Please!!

[KingKulltheGreat]

No. Rock Band Rush would be better.

[SparkleSugar]

Could you imagine that 360 degree plastic drum kit? xD

[KingKulltheGreat]

lol that would rule. I want Rock Band Rush for the bass and vocals. For Geddy!

[Briggie]

Yeah, Rock Band: Rush would be awesome. Especially drums :)

[pima262]

gh Rush, that would be a dream come true for me. Although, if it ever did come out, I probably shouldn't buy it. I don't think this excuse would go well with my professors:

"The reason I have not been in class for 3 months is because I purchased gh Rush, and I refuse to leave my house until I master every song on expert."

Which is exactly what would happen. But hey, Rush kicks ass so who could blame me?

I would by the game in a half a heartbeat :D

[IndyAfro92]

Yeah dude Alex is right. My little neighbor bugs me all the time to bring GH:3 down so she can play HIt Me With Your Best Shot. I mean, that's not the best song in the world, but it beats rap.

[prankcallz444]

man.... i think guitar hero has recked rush... people only know them from yyz and tom sawyer ... im 16 and ive been listening to these 3 guys since i was born. and i have been to about 18 concerts. :)

[Petruccibear]

Sounds stupid, but I played guitar hero before I decided to pursue guitar and it helped me when I had to stretch my pinky finger. :P

[rothwellullathorne]

With GH supporting the bands from the golden age of rock music, I'm enthusiastic for the future of music. I'd much rather see a kid playing Sweet Child of Mine or playing Geddy's bass solo from Driven or buying a kit and aspiring to be like Bonham or Peart. Much better than rapping about killing people or going for a ride on somebody's "disco stick".

Bring on GH RUSH, I'd camp at the shops for it.

[rothwellullathorne]

My parents both played music and were into bands like Rush, Zeppelin, etc. I went to performing arts school with a whole pile of musical enthusiasts and have just recently realised, upon my graduation, how few young people are keeping the rock and roll traditional stuff alive. Everyone goes right to The Jonas Brothers to have a swing and I'm no fan of theirs but at least they've got guitars in their hands and the kids can see that .

[Tata996]

I agree and have always believed what Alex is saying. Everything that's out these days is total crap.

[rufio2001]

I agree with Alex that Guitar Hero helps people decide to play music, but I think the only thing Guitar Hero's really proven is that music can be a profit.

[BigGunDownThere]

Alex is completely right, if it weren't for Rock Band I would never have decided to play drums, and now I play in an actual band, after two years of playing.

[fabioproductions]

ALEX tell activition to make GH RUSH!!

[4myself4]

YEAH! Or Rock Band Rush, whichever. That would be awesome.

[zackjp]

@fabioproductions not a good idea it makes fans that only know 3 songs by them and listen to jobro's at the same time and make it become a huge fad to become a rush fan like most new pop artists like blackeye peas and make them overplayed until everyonelikes them and will be anoying people talk about rush 24/7 when they only know 3 songs not saying new rush fans are like that but it would be a big increas of fans who only know rush from GH

[zackjp]

@fabioproductions it isnt a good then some fag who listens to lady gaga will like  rush and it will be like omg wat is this and i like it it is now cool to like rush

NO RUSH IS THE NERD BAND IM A PROUD NERD :D

[KicksMcgee23]

@zackjp luckily that won't happen

[crushy44]

@fabioproductions id buy 200 copys

[412light]

@fabioproductions That would be the best GH or Rock Band ever!

[412light]

@fabioproductions That would be the best GH or Rock Band ever!

[TheStepMachine]

I'm 13 years old. My dad has been trying to get me into country and classical. Bleh!

I love Rush, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, etc etc. Can't stand the Jonas fags, hannah montana, or any of those talentless bastards.

Rock on!

[givmetube1]

Play what is in you to play. Country will come later.  Rock on!

[shredder1965]

@TheStepMachine Rock on little man!

[codyhinkle]

@TheStepMachine good job man

[Hiki321]

@TheStepMachine Haha, nothing wrong in some country music :P Also classical is great but yeah, fuck the new fags

[popoaggie]

@TheStepMachine Love Page and Lifeson, but check out Brad Paisley and his Telecaster. He's no slouch.

[fabioproductions]

people need to realise the world NEEDS guitar hero rush, It would be the first ever amazing guitar hero in my own opinion XD

[KoscoVideos]

I knew about Rush like 3 years before my first guitar hero game; I was 10... and I would like there to be a Rock Band: Rush, not Guitar Hero because Rock Band has always had a Rush song(and DLC) on the games

[scrambles12]

why the hell isnt there a guitar hero rush????????

[Sires83]

there should be, definatley

[scrambles12]

with every song they have ever done

[NinjaTurkey14]

thatd be waaay too many. 19 albums? good luck

[bearmare]

Now, that would be THE game. Guitar Hero; Rush. 30 songs, and the live version of YYZ with the drum solo. That would be sick!

[numbuh95]

oh yeah that would so sick

[fabioproductions]

because that would be the smart thing to do. seriously that would be the smartest move activision or whatever, whoever made guitar hero, they might had not realised this but rush is the greatest rock and roll band in canada

[bearmare]

Better yet, how about designing game characters that look like Alex, Geddy and Neil. The characters could cover the "kimono period", the "80s Trying to Look Cool" period, and the "Does Geddy Really Look Like Ozzy"? period of today.

[shaftymcshifterson]

fucking rights!!! rush rocks

[supercool126]

yeah im 13 and i knew most of the bands off rock band and guitar hero before it came out. Especially Rush

[basisti94]

Alex is right

[HurricaneTBag]

I hope he's right, at least in Guitar Hero, kids are listening to better music than this pop horse shit. I mean granted Guitar Hero is gay as fuck, but still. Ends justify the means.

[moses132049]

alex said "young are kids are getting off on it"...LOL

[BenadrylAnnug]

hahaha

[tgicmusic]

In response to rushlimelight23's comment: At no time does he say that modern music sucks. He simply points out a low point. A lot of this is do to labels and the way they have done business. By overplaying singles, dropping the artist, and bringing in something new. Along with the fact that recorded music has to be looked at as an expense instead of income (due to the fact that it can be easily copied and distributed). Please don't try to sum it all up with "modern music sucks"

[lukiyx]

i dont play any game but the 60s 70s and 80s music is the only thing i listen

[rushlimelight23]

Alex is right...... modern music sucks, i don't see what's so great about it. a lot of kids think music form the 70's, 80's, and 90's is uncool. i see it more in girls, though cuz boys play more video games like guitar hero and rock band.if kids were given a month or even less without modern music, they will see that non modern bands are awesome!

[chuckD0Tstax]

that is so right

[DonDrummer]

guitar hero is ruining future musicians IMO

[ButtNugent]

That's what I think too. Totally lame game but at least it's got good tunes, for the most part, and is turning kids on to REAL MUSIC, instead of this squeezed out of a tube B.S. "Music" the record companies have been subjecting us too for the last 15 years or so. Britney Spears etc. and rap SUCK !!!!!

[Bigdogjr1994]

i love rush far cry is awesome

[zack2703]

I first heard Rush from Futurama when I was like 11-13, now I'm 16 and There one of my favourite bands.

[gretel32]

He's right. These games are the best thing to happen to the rock music industry. It introduced one of my friends to Rush, and introduced me to bands that are more under the radar, like Dream Theater. It also inspired another friend to start drumming, and he's actually pretty good. I'm glad Guitar Hero finally included Joe Satriani too. It's about time he got some attention from the mainstream media

[0guitarplayer0]

I was into Rush way before Guitar Hero and Rockband.

[andymanscar]

me too

[outlaw6066]

Let's just hope that if G.H. & R.B. really influence kids to pick up actual instruments. That they actually make good music instead of making more of the crappy, mainstream, MTV pussy shit thats out today. I highly doubt it though. These days it seems that it's more about money for most so-called musicians instead of the music. The majority of musicians today aren't good at all. Instead they go on MTV looking stupid & making asses of themselves. The few who are seem to be the underrated ones.

[HurricaneTBag]

No thanks, already enough douche bags playing music...we don't need anymore.

[badideass]

not enough good douche bags tho...

too many douche bags with no talent, kinda like you...

[AkilesJose]

True art always finds its way to trascend... even with Nintendo's is kind of weird, but glad this kind of things happens, really :)

[Liltyke0]

I agree with you, Xvoid6f. After playing Guitar Hero 2, 3 and Rock Band and being able to play most songs on Expert, I've know got an acoustic guitar and am learning to play that. I firmly believe that with Guitar Hero, i wouldn't be playing a real guitar now.

[ACELLOFAWARENESS]

THANKS ALEX!!! we got my nephew a REAL bass and within a month he was playing full songe, including the ghost notes, now a few months later he is unbelievable! took him and his sister to 2 shows in '08 rocked his world at age 11!! in Holmdel i got them from row 8 to the front with signs that said "THEN NEW RUSH GENERATION IS HERE!" and "RUSH, PLEASE WRITHE THE SOUNDTRACK TO *MY* LIFE!" (with RUSH in red font from hemispheres). ALEX was right on them smiling at the end of the show...awesome!!

[grungyflannel]

omg, the apocolypse cant be long now

[IiiioooiiiI]

ur right Alex!- alot of the 'magic' HAS been taken outta the music and i hope that people realise that the world NEEDS real music, instead of ''computer machinery bullsh*t'!!- Much love! ALEX-GEDY AND NEIL!

[ShinigamiXV]

But keyboards are still kool.

Right?Right?*crickets*

Seriously, when you can make music in a few clicks on a PC, as opposed to mastering music on it, you have to wonder "Do I really have any REAL talent?"

[IiiioooiiiI]

A musician feels the essence in the music a p.c. has NOOO feeling!!@ShinigamiXV.........­.....so stfu and stay OUTTA MY PVT MESSAGES!.YOUR BLOCKED!!~

[ShinigamiXV]

...THATS WHAT I SAID DUMBASS!

[JackTR21]

All this machinery

Making modern music

Can still be open-hearted

Not so coldly charted

Its really just a question

Of your honesty

[sexystoner76357]

Yeah your honesty

[rainbowmonkey27]

keyboards are still kool

[pestopalooza]

I think hes right,

thats why I play guitar now bc I heard bulls on parade in Gh3

I thought it was so cool and Morello is now one of my inspirations. It was my first song I learned to play

and music does need help

rapping over fake instruments isn't music

singing over drums a bass and guitar, in my opinion, is

[DeadPoet1974]

Umm...Actually It's Guitar Hero & Rush 1st.... "YYZ" Off GH2....

[TheCityOfKingsALC]

Guitar Hero and Rush? Whatever. It's Rock Band and Rush

[JealousPhantom]

Alex Lifeson is God.

[aajoeyjo]

I still don't know about Guitar Hero. The jury's still out with me. On the one hand, sure they'll get some kids into music who wouldn't otherwise do that. But it also seems like a replacement for real instrumentation. It's a totally different way to play, and that matters. We'll have to see how it plays out. Mostly it's nice to be able to play an instrument without having to plug in to a wall or tv.