In a quietly revealing dialog with Pete Pardo of Sea Of Tranquility, Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson shared an expertise that reads extra like a rock fan’s fever dream than actual life: an impromptu jam session with Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo at his home in Toronto.
“The blokes from Metallica have been in Toronto final week. And I obtained along with Kirk and Rob. We went out for dinner after which we obtained collectively and jammed afterwards — truly, proper right here at my home. They came visiting after dinner, and we performed for a couple of hours, and it was nice,” Lifeson shared.
That is already a staggering sentence, however Lifeson did not cease there. “Typically previously, in the event you jam with a bunch of individuals, we might play a 12-bar bluesy factor; everyone can play that: ‘Let’s try this.’ However if you play with nice musicians like these guys are, locations you go is, it is simply unbelievable,” Alex defined. “It is so exceptional. And God, I cherished each second that we did that. The three of us simply have been oozing with enthusiasm, that complete factor. And that is fairly cool.”
It is not the primary time this connection between the Rush and Metallica camps has bubbled to the floor. Lower than two years in the past, Trujillo appeared on Geddy Lee‘s Paramount+ documentary sequence Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Gamers Human Too?, an expertise Trujillo clearly did not take as a right.
“I performed in yard celebration bands at age 16 and we performed ‘La Villa Strangiato’, we performed ‘YYZ’, we performed all these traditional songs,” Robert mentioned in a earlier interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF. “The more durable, the higher again then. And we in all probability butchered them, however we’d play these yard events and play Rush songs in the identical approach that we additionally performed Ozzy songs, and we performed Black Sabbath songs and Van Halen and all these completely different bands. So you may think about hanging out with one in all your heroes and simply attempting to remain grounded.”
He continued, “On the finish of the day, everyone’s a human being and also you at all times wanna deal with folks with respect and, once more, keep grounded. However on the similar time, you are going, ‘Rattling, that is Geddy Lee.'”
That admiration made its approach onto the stage lately when Trujillo and Hammett carried out a rendition of “La Villa Strangiato” throughout Metallica‘s April 26 live performance at Rogers Centre in Toronto — a becoming homage to the band that helped form their musical DNA.
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