RUSH Guitarist ALEX LIFESON On Touring With KISS - "We Toured With Them Over A Fairly Long Period Of Time; We Were Very Close And We Had A Lot Of Fun"
December 14, 2008, 15 years ago
RUSH guitarist Alex Lifeson is featured in a new interview with UGO.com. An excerpt is available below.
UGO.com: Looking back on the early years, I've read that Rush toured with KISS in 1975.
Alex Lifeson: "That was our first kind of 'big tour.' We had started touring in '74 - we were opening for a few different bands. But the KISS tour...and this was the start of their career, as well. The tour that we did with them, we opened for them, and we were playing 3,000-5,000 seat halls. They were a new band, and no one had really heard of them. So we did a lot of work with them - we probably toured with them for 60 or 70 shows. Back in those days, we were doing 200 to 250 shows a year anyways. But we toured with them over a fairly long period of time. We were very close and we had a lot of fun. We were both young bands, and quite different from each other - I think that was a nice compliment playing together. But like a lot of things, you sort of drift apart over the years. We stayed in touch for a while, but not so much in the past ten years or so."
UGO.com: Any specific memories of that tour?
Alex Lifeson: "It was always a crazy scene at the end of tours - they'd plaster us with cream pies, there was always some sort of surprise lurking around a corner! And certainly, there were some fun nights - parties and things like that. They lived a little more of a rock n' roll lifestyle than we did."
Go to this location for the complete interview.
