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Favourite Alex solo?


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Rush played so many different styles over the decades, but Alex's solos were always very appropriate and tasteful. I wondered what you think is your favourite burst of six-string majesty - not from instrumentals but in the context of a beautiful addition to a song. As someone who tries to play guitar, I have always been seduced by technical, fast guitar work and for me (today!) I think Alex's solo in The Analog Kid is one of his best.

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Standouts:

 

La Villa Strangiato (both solos)

Necromancer

Soliloquy

Limelight

Jacob's Ladder

Freewill

Cinderella Man

Cygnus X-1

Camera Eye

Analog Kid

Digital Man

Here Again

 

Just to name a few...

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far too many to consider but i'll throw in that lovely little abstract thing he does in Time & Motion, typical imaginative Alex, nothing like him

 

Edit: just giving Turn The Page a listen and he does the same kind of abstract solo in that too, in fact the whole track is a rock guitar masterpiece of using the keyboards, weaving in and around them like an abstract painter, just beautiful stuff. Helped that Ged's keyboards so exquisite too of course.

 

This band were just out there in another universe

 

Another Edit: Entre Nous just came on, like wtf... where did THAT come from. Just beautiful, these guys were kids at the time

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far too many to consider but i'll throw in that lovely little abstract thing he does in Time & Motion, typical imaginative Alex, nothing like him

Good choice!
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I cannot tell how how many Rush songs Alex saved for me. He's an emotional guitar player.

 

Hemispheres

The Weapon

Spindrift

Digital Man

 

 

And many, many more. The above are those that came to mind quickly for me.

No Xanadu??? :wacko:

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I cannot tell how how many Rush songs Alex saved for me. He's an emotional guitar player.

 

Hemispheres

The Weapon

Spindrift

Digital Man

 

 

And many, many more. The above are those that came to mind quickly for me.

No Xanadu??? :wacko:

 

That's a given, but believe it or not, one of my favorite guitar parts on Xanadu is played by Geddy. It's the rhythm guitar at the end.

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Working Man

By-Tor and the Snow Dog (from ATWAS)

The Necromancer

Cinderella Man

YYZ

Headlong Flight

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