Rush, Lifeson and PRS

[TFC]

Great thread! Thanks for all the research, TFC!

My pleasure. I'm just glad I was able to put my useless info to good use!

 

[Shawn@PRS]

Andrew, our videographer at PRS, was kind enough to help me with this. He suggested we go to the roof of the factory for the shot. I'm holding Alex's CE 24 with Tortoise Shell finish and LR Baggs X Bridge.

 

[vchizzle]

Andrew, our videographer at PRS, was kind enough to help me with this. He suggested we go to the roof of the factory for the shot. I'm holding Alex's CE 24 with Tortoise Shell finish and LR Baggs X Bridge.

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Yes!
Have to admit this thread has got me jonesin' for a CE again.

 

[bodia]

Andrew, our videographer at PRS, was kind enough to help me with this. He suggested we go to the roof of the factory for the shot. I'm holding Alex's CE 24 with Tortoise Shell finish and LR Baggs X Bridge.

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And I was afraid I'd drop it! Sheesh!

 

[alantig]

Paul would have played catch with it...

 

[Alnus Rubra]

And I was afraid I'd drop it! Sheesh!

Yeah first thing I thought of and then I realised, hang on it’s Shawn, guns of steel! Strong core!!

 

[presence]

I remember the PRS print ad with Alex Lifeson talking about how he was in the Royal Canadian Air Force, etc. Would be cool to see that again.

Strange how Alex never got a PRS signature electric model over the 15-20 years he was using PRS heavily. Then at the end he had the signature PRS acoustic. Seems like a wasted opportunity for PRS. Oh well.

 

[Johnny Rigs]

Strange how Alex never got a PRS signature electric model over the 15-20 years he was using PRS heavily. Then at the end he had the signature PRS acoustic. Seems like a wasted opportunity for PRS. Oh well.

I think many of those years overlapped with the time period where PRS wasn’t doing signature models (Santana being an exception). Still, there was opportunity.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

I think many of those years overlapped with the time period where PRS wasn’t doing signature models (Santana being an exception).

And even that took ten years... these kids these days with their signature models have it easy.

 

[Whitecat]

I remember the PRS print ad with Alex Lifeson talking about how he was in the Royal Canadian Air Force, etc. Would be cool to see that again.

Strange how Alex never got a PRS signature electric model over the 15-20 years he was using PRS heavily. Then at the end he had the signature PRS acoustic. Seems like a wasted opportunity for PRS. Oh well.

I'm not sure PRS would have been able to compete with the dumptruck full of money Gibson likely parked on his driveway though in the final decade of Rush's existence... nice that they had what they had with the acoustic(s), the shout-out on the HB12 product copy and the fact that he was occasionally still using one or two PRSes live, and that probably didn't cost them anything.

 

[Staredge]

Hollowbody w/piezo - photo in Snakes & Arrows tour book, Mystic Rhythms - R30

My all time favorite Rush song. Do you guys play it??

 

[TFC]

We've got about 2 hours worth of songs in our set list so far, but that's not one of them. Love that album, though.

 

[Staredge]

That was the first of theirs I bought, purely for that song. Great album, though. Interestingly, I first heard it as the theme song for a news program hosted by Connie Chung.

 

[Rockmark]

Some shots of Alex's arsenal I shot up close.

 

[Rockmark]

Some of Alex's guitars

 

[Rockmark]

 

[Rosengoo]

Love this thread. Thanks to all for contributing to it.

 

[marooned]

Cool thread, awesome to see and read about the guitars Alex used/uses. Must admit Alex was partially responsible for choosing my first PRS in 93....went for a CE over a custom because Alex used one. Sad but true lol.

 

[Rockmark]

 

[marooned]

Hmm, don't think Neil would be happy with such a small kit