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Topic: RUSH - Alex Lifeson rig changes - Les Pauls and Jubilees

Hey All,

Just went to see RUSH last night on their Clockwork Angels tour.  Amazing show!!!!

At any rate, I was checking out what Alex is using on this tour and the Clockwork Angels cd.  Come to find out he dropped his H&K line of amps and went with Marshall 2550.  Then he had Mojo Tone make him a clone of the Silver Jub.  He said they are amazing amps and that the 2550 is in a box somewhere in his storage.  He is using those amps from Mojo exclusively on this tour as his main amp.  Plus he is using a Mesa Boogie mark V and a H&K.  He also used a Les Paul on every song but 1.  I saw that he used his signature axcess in black for most of the show.  Used a black custom a couple of songs.  On the heavier songs he used both a 57 reissue gold top and what looked like a58 reissue.

Here is a link to his rig.  The guitars he used are pictured in photos #4, 6, 7, 9, and 10.  The reissue 58 is not on this link.

http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/I … p;#gallery

Geddy used every bass on this link last night...

And for the first time they had a small orchestra on stage during the second half of the show with them...this allowed Alex and Geddy to just rock out!!!

Barry

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Re: RUSH - Alex Lifeson rig changes - Les Pauls and Jubilees

OMG, I can't believe he finally ditched the H&K's, for the most part. It's been a long time coming. Small orchestra??, that sounds extra primo. You could post something on the concert in Other Artists, would not hurt my feelings. thanks.
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Re: RUSH - Alex Lifeson rig changes - Les Pauls and Jubilees

The H&Ks sounded bad. He had a really messy, fuzzy tone for ages. Hope he is going back to the 70s...
Best album tone for me is Caress of Steel...by far.

4 Reply by masque (edited by masque 2012-10-25 13:46:48)

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Re: RUSH - Alex Lifeson rig changes - Les Pauls and Jubilees

hemispheres or moving pictures tone for me.


out of the "newer tones" i prefer the sounds on counterparts.  even though that album is damn near twenty years old......lol

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Re: RUSH - Alex Lifeson rig changes - Les Pauls and Jubilees

Bring back the Hi-Watts!

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Re: RUSH - Alex Lifeson rig changes - Les Pauls and Jubilees

Hmmm... I heard a couple of days ago that he had gone Axe-FX for this tour?!?  Pure modelling...

http://www.fractalaudio.com/artist_alex_lifeson.php

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Re: RUSH - Alex Lifeson rig changes - Les Pauls and Jubilees

Check out the feature article in Guitar Player mag for the full skinny. Basically the rig is a Jubilee for crunch and MkV for clean with a switchblade for the odd song. The Axe FX is used for effects only. There's also some Guitar Rig stuff in there as well. If memory serves, the Jubilee is a 50 watter that was introduced to Lifeson by their producer.
Hint: buy the mag it's a quality article.

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8 Reply by kestrou (edited by kestrou 2012-10-26 19:02:07)

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Re: RUSH - Alex Lifeson rig changes - Les Pauls and Jubilees

Saw Rush about 4 weeks ago in St. Louis - wore my t-shirt from when I first saw them in 1980 on the "Tour of The Hemispheres".

Alex is playing Les Paul's almost exclusively on this tour!

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Re: RUSH - Alex Lifeson rig changes - Les Pauls and Jubilees

# 1 on Caress of Steel

god to see another of my fav guitar players using Jubilees , never really
dug his H+K  Hiwatts and early marshall sounded awesome...

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Re: RUSH - Alex Lifeson rig changes - Les Pauls and Jubilees

Crave1 wrote:

Check out the feature article in Guitar Player mag for the full skinny. Basically the rig is a Jubilee for crunch and MkV for clean with a switchblade for the odd song. The Axe FX is used for effects only. There's also some Guitar Rig stuff in there as well. If memory serves, the Jubilee is a 50 watter that was introduced to Lifeson by their producer.
Hint: buy the mag it's a quality article.

Yeah good article

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