Rush’s legendary guitarist Alex Lifeson talked about today’s music to Indie Power:
“Generations change, tastes change, music changes. I think for a long time, rock music always occupied a certain area, and pop music came up, and it was all sort of related.
“Pop music today is not so related – it’s not guitar-based like it was in the past – so it’s really, really different.
“Like my grandkids, for example – [they are] 15 and 11 – they listen to all the stuff that they listen to; they listen to rap and some pop music. So I get to hear some of it.
“Our music is not their music, they really don’t connect to it at all, even in that classic rock sense; they’re just not interested in it. So I don’t know where it’s going.
“I just know that I still have a lot of fun playing music. I work with a lot of different people now – very, very different things; a great variety – so that’s what’s really important to me.”
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!