“I’ve never been very confident, to be honest with you, as a player,” Alex Lifeson told Guitar World in 2025. “I’ve always felt like I had to work hard, and maybe I didn’t appreciate that I have a natural talent for playing guitar.”
Anyone who’s heard his work as one-third of the prog-rock institution Rush – from those crashing, Pete Townshend-like chords to his dramatic, shimmering arpeggios – knows he’s being charmingly modest. That, or maybe he just needs to re-examine his own songs.
