[Alex Lifeson Live Rants Videos]

If you've seen Rush on their last 2 tours, then you probably remember Alex Lifeson's hilarious ranting during La Villa Strangiato. YouTube user tst4eko recently uploaded a bunch of bootleg vids of these rants which you can check out here. On the Counterparts tour, Alex also did some ranting during Closer to the Heart. The ranting wasn't as extensive or strange as the La Villa rants, but it was still funny; he'd start singing the chorus to the song (usually substituting Closer to your house for Closer to the Heart), then introduce the band (the orchestra as he would usually call it) as miscellaneous famous people (he often would introduce himself as Fabio). Anyways, tst4eko uploaded several of these Closer to the Heart rants to YouTube a couple days ago. You can check them all out here.

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