[North Stars: Canada's Top 10 Guitarists]

Gibson.com posted their list of Canada's Top 10 Guitarists for a feature on their website yesterday. Topping the list was Rush's Alex Lifeson and here's what they had to say about Lerxst:

It must be hard being Alex Lifeson sometimes. Despite the fame and money, imagine having to match the drum and bass skills of Neil Peart and Geddy Lee for 37 years? Lifeson has done it, though. An undeniably great riff writer, he is also one of rock’s most idiosyncratic soloists, blending strong melodies with neo-jazz flurries across a Rush catalog that has leapt from Zep-esque slammers to acoustic ballads, from reggae-inflected pop to instrumental prog rock.

An advocate of blending raw tone with technology (see the Alex Lifeson Les Paul Axcess), Lifeson remains one of rock guitar’s relentless explorers of new sounds.

And Rush have even become cool again. “I think that younger bands look at us as perhaps a model that you can do it your way. You can play the music that you want to play,” Lifeson recently told Crawdaddy.com. “You can find your audience, you can grow.” Lifeson continues to do so.

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