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Alex Lifeson discusses the concept album

Tue, May 15, 2007@10:51PM | comments removed/disabled

Yesterday I pointed you to an article where Alex Lifeson discussed the encore. Today's topic of discussion is the concept album. Lerxst was quoted in an article titled Revenge of the concept album? As the single rules, old-school format is back. Here's what he had to say:

... Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson, whose catalogue of concept discs include "2112", "Hemispheres" and "Caress of Steel," says the Canadian trio has always been partial to large-scale thematic works.

But physical limitations of the vinyl LP restricted the way that vision could be realized.

"The format has changed so much," Lifeson says of today’s digital world.

"Being able to play as long as you want to play now makes it a little easier to get into an idea, I suppose. On LPs you only had less than 20 minutes per side and you were sort of fixed with how far you could go with it." ...

Thanks once again to Metal Tim for the heads up.

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