RUSH Guitarist Alex Lifeson Talks Concept Albums
May 15, 2007, 17 years ago
Cassandra Szklarski from Chroniclejournal.com has reported on the comeback of the concept album.
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."Read more here.
