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Julien’s Auctions, the world-record-breaking public sale home to the celebs, will honor one of the vital influential music icons and guitar heroes of the progressive rock metallic style with “Property From The Archives Of Alex Lifeson”, a centerpiece of their premiere music public sale occasion, “Music Icons”, happening Friday, Might 20, Saturday, Might 21, with the RUSH legend’s public sale because the grand finale on Sunday, Might 22 reside at Exhausting Rock Cafe in New York and on-line at juliensauctions.com.
Greater than 100 heaps that includes signature guitars, devices, wardrobe, gear and memorabilia owned and utilized by Lifeson, the legendary Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame guitarist and co-founder of RUSH, one of many best-selling progressive rock teams of all time, who’ve offered greater than 40 million data worldwide within the group’s 4 decade and counting historical past of record-breaking excursions and performances, shall be supplied to the general public for the primary time.
Along with enjoying electrical and acoustic guitars with RUSH, Lifeson is famend for his multi-instrumental repertoire of enjoying different string devices equivalent to mandola, mandolin and bouzouki, in addition to keyboards and bass pedal synthesizers all through his musical work with and out of doors of the band, placing his personal signature of sonic experimentation with riffing, digital results and processing and unorthodox chord buildings. All through the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, that experimentation and development could be heard within the band’s 1982 album, “Indicators”, that includes their solely U.S. Prime 40 hit “New World Man” with the sound of synthesizers together with components of ska, reggae and funk. They transitioned again to the band’s core of guitar, bass and drums with Lifeson‘s acclaimed work on the 1989 album “Presto”, 1993’s “Counterparts” that includes their Grammy-nominated tune “Go away That Factor Alone”, 1996 album “Check For Echo” and 2002 album “Vapor Trails”, the place Lifeson used over 50 completely different guitars and was hailed by Guitar Participant as “his most rabid and experimental enjoying ever.”
In 1996, Lifeson launched his first solo challenge “Victor”, named the title observe from the W. H. Auden poem “Victor” with each his son Adrian and spouse Charlene additionally contributing to the album. His dynamic physique of labor consists of instrumental contributions and visitor appearances such because the guitar solos of “Crying Over You” and “Holy Water” on PLATINUM BLONDE‘s 1985 album “Alien Shores”; Lawrence Gowan‘s 1990 album “Misplaced Brotherhood”; visitor tracks on Tom Cochrane‘s 1995 album “Ragged Ass Highway”, “Like A Lady” from I MOTHER EARTH‘s “Surroundings And Fish” album; “The Little Drummer Boy” on the 1997 album “Merry Axemas: A Guitar Christmas”; “Anesthetize” on PORCUPINE TREE‘s 2007 album “Worry Of A Clean Planet” and “Sacred And Mundane” on TILES‘s 2008 album “Fly Paper”. In 2006, Lifeson supplied the unique soundtrack materials for the favored “Trailer Park Boys: The Film”, the place he would later visitor seem within the franchise’s later movies in addition to voice the character Huge Chunk within the animated sequence.
He’s additionally a composer and producer whose credit embrace the theme for the science-fiction TV sequence “Andromeda”; songs on the 3 DOORS DOWN album “Away From The Solar”; Keram Malicki-Sanchez‘s 2014 album “Come To Life” — enjoying guitar on the songs “Mary Magdalene”, “Transferring Darkish Circles” and “The Satan Is aware of Me Nicely”, and on Keram‘s subsequent singles “Synthetic Intelligence”, “That Gentle” and “Rukh” in addition to being featured on Marco Minneman‘s 2017 launch “Borrego”, FU MANCHU‘s 2018 “Clone Of The Universe” album and extra. Subsequent RUSH recordings and touring embrace their Thirtieth-anniversary 2004 EP “Suggestions” which featured their covers of CREAM, THE WHO and THE YARDBIRDS‘ songs, 2007’s “Snakes & Arrows”, 2011 reside album “Time Machine 2011: Reside In Cleveland” and 2012’s “Clockwork Angels”. RUSH ranks fifth for many consecutive gold or platinum studio albums, after the likes of THE BEATLES, THE ROLLING STONES, KISS and AEROSMITH.
Lifeson‘s awards and recognition embrace induction into the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame in 2013 with RUSH; rating third within the Guitar World readers’ ballot of 100 biggest guitarists and itemizing on Rolling Stone‘s 100 Biggest Guitarists Of All Time; in addition to being made an Officer Of The Order Of Canada on Might 9, 1996, together with RUSH bandmates Geddy Lee and Neil Peart, and receiving the Governor Common’s Performing Arts Awards in 2012 — the very best inventive honor in Canada. Moreover, Lifeson is a painter, golfer and plane pilot.
In 2021, Lifeson launched two new instrumental songs, “Kabul Blues” and “Spy Home”, and not too long ago made headlines with the information of his self-titled debut LP from new band ENVY OF NONE, that includes bassist Andy Curran, singer-songwriter Maiah Wynne, and producer Alfio Annibalini, to be launched on April 18, that includes a tune devoted to late RUSH bandmate and drum legend Neil Peart.
“Julien’s Auctions is proud to current this magnificent assortment of coveted artifacts of rock historical past straight from the legendary guitarist and pioneer, Alex Lifeson of RUSH, probably the most influential and modern progressive rock metallic band of all time,” mentioned Darren Julien, president/chief govt officer of Julien’s Auctions. “Lifeson‘s thoughts blowing creativity, musical virtuosity and uncooked energy will take heart stage right here on this epic public sale of his legendary guitars, devices, and uncommon memorabilia representing his enduring legacy as one of many godfathers of progressive rock metallic music.”
Highlights of this public sale embrace Lifeson‘s music arsenal of famend devices used on a few of RUSH‘s iconic recording periods, hits, excursions and performances equivalent to a 1976 “Whitey” Gibson ES-355TD electrical guitar custom-built for Alex Lifeson on the Gibson manufacturing unit in Kalamazoo and Lifeson‘s most important guitar from 1976-2015, his whole time with RUSH.
“I bought this guitar in 1976, it was custom-built in Kalamazoo only for me. It has been my most important guitar and is the enduring Alex Lifeson guitar,” mentioned Lifeson.
“Whitey” is featured on all albums from “A Farewell To Kings” (1977) to “Check For Echo” (1996), and could be seen being performed by Lifeson on stage throughout all excursions from “A Farewell To Kings” (1977-1978) to “R40” (2015) as effectively in most of RUSH‘s music movies accompanying “A Farewell To Kings”, “Hemispheres” and “Transferring Photos”, in addition to “Present Do not Inform” from “Presto” (1989). This splendid guitar that was a part of RUSH‘s most explosive period of creativity and legendary music has a conservative estimate of $200,000 – $300,000.
One other notable Lifeson axe — his 1980 custom-built Hentor Sportscaster electrical guitar used on the recording of RUSH‘s seminal albums since “Transferring Photos”, particularly “Grace Beneath Strain” the place it was the primary recording guitar will head to the public sale stage. This iconic guitar was Lifeson‘s favourite for soloing, together with the solo from RUSH‘s Billboard hit “Limelight”. The Hentor Sportscaster’s heavy however versatile sound embodies RUSH‘s daring sonic explorations of the Eighties and Lifeson‘s progress as a soloist throughout this time. The Hentor Sportscaster could be seen within the music movies for “Important Indicators”, “Countdown” and “Enemy Inside” and has an estimate of $100,000 – $200,000.
A 1981 Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion electrical guitar that served as Alex Lifeson‘s most important guitar on the 1981 “Transferring Photos” tour in addition to on quite a few excursions by the 2007 “Snakes & Arrows” tour and a 1971 Jose Ramirez classical acoustic guitar utilized by Alex Lifeson on all classical-style recordings from the 1978 RUSH album “Hemispheres”, together with “The Bushes” and “La Villa Strangiato”, will rock the public sale stage. Every of those extraordinary guitars include an estimate of $100,000 – $200,000.
Headlining the public sale are a 1976 Gibson Dove acoustic guitar utilized by Lifeson to jot down “Nearer To The Coronary heart” and different songs from the 1977 RUSH album “A Farewell To Kings” and performed on quite a few excursions, together with “A Farewell To Kings” (1977-1978), “Hemispheres” (1978-1979), and “Transferring Photos” (1981) in addition to a 1970 Gibson Les Paul electrical guitar acquired by Lifeson on RUSH‘s inaugural tour in 1974, and performed extensively by Lifeson on all RUSH albums and excursions from “Fly By Evening” and “2112” to “Hemispheres” (every guitar estimate $100,000 – $200,000).
Different highlights embrace:
A 1976 Gibson J-55 acoustic guitar utilized by Lifeson to compose RUSH‘s early 1976 platinum-selling album “2112”, in addition to 1977’s “A Farewell To Kings” and served as the primary acoustic guitar on “Pure Science” and “Digicam Eye” from 1980’s “Everlasting Waves” and 1981’s “Transferring Photos” (estimate: $80,000 – $100,000);
A 1990 Fender Stratocaster utilized by Alex Lifeson on most albums since “Roll The Bones” (1991) each on solos and for doubling Gibson guitar tracks and seen within the music video for “Huge Cash”, in addition to reside performances of “One Little Victory” from “Vapor Trails” (2002) (estimate: $60,000 – $80,000);
A 1992 Paul Reed Smith (bolt-on) CE electrical guitar — Alex Lifeson‘s most important guitar from its debut on the 1993 RUSH album “Counterparts” and accompanying tour by RUSH‘s excursions within the early 2000s (estimate: $50,000 – $70,000). Throughout this time, the 24 frets made this guitar a favourite for Lifeson‘s distinctive and virtuosic soloing fashion. “This was my most important ’90s-era Paul Reed Smith guitar. I nonetheless use it lots due to the 24 frets. It was an actual workhorse and I cherished it,” mentioned Lifeson.
A 2015 restricted run Gibson EDS-1275 double-neck electrical guitar created particularly for RUSH‘s Fortieth-anniversary “R40” tour and performed reside by Alex Lifeson on songs requiring each a six-string and twelve-string guitar, together with “Xanadu” from the 1977 album “A Farewell To Kings” (estimate: $20,000 – $40,000)
Particular exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York for the general public to view highlighted objects previous to the public sale shall be held at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills April 11-15 and in New York in Might.
Julien’s Auctions
257 N. Canon Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Public exhibition
Exhibition: Monday, April 11 – Friday, April 15, 2022
11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time day by day
Free to the general public
Reside and on-line public sale at Exhausting Rock Cafe New York
Music Icons
Friday, Might 20
Session I: 10:00 a.m. Japanese Time
Session II: 1:00 p.m. Japanese Time
Saturday, Might 21
Session III: 10:00 a.m. Japanese Time
Session IV: 1:00 p.m. Japanese Time
Sunday, Might 22
Property From The Archives Of Alex Lifeson
Session V: 10:00 a.m. Japanese Time
Session VI: 1:00 p.m. Japanese Time
Registration is required to bid on this on-line public sale and could be carried out in individual on the exhibition, or on-line earlier than the sale on the JuliensAuctions.com Registration web page to bid by cellphone, proxy or in individual, or on-line at JuliensLive.com to bid reside on-line, or by calling (310) 836-1818. For inquiries, please e mail [email protected] or name 310-836-1818.
