All Axcess Pass
ACROSS FIVE DECADES with Rush, Alex Lifeson put his own unique spin on the role of the electric guitar in the power trio format, imbuing his band’s compositions with twisted riffs, colorful extended chords, ringing arpeggios, wild whammy bar squiggles, sticky pop melodies and all manner of proggy excursions. So it’s not surprising that when he teamed up with Gibson roughly a decade ago to design his own signature guitar, the result — the Alex Lifeson Les Paul Axcess — was, like the man himself, a distinctive take on a tried-and-true classic.
“I didn’t want to just get my name plastered on a guitar model and then sell it based on that,” Lifeson tells . “I
