In 92, Roll the Bones Tour, in Indianapolis, Alex broke his B string during Superconductor, which as far as I recall was in a nonstandard tuning. He wrapped it around the headstock, slid up the neck and refingered in a different position, and kept playing. He played the keyboard bridge while Geddy did that bass bit, then went back to guitar. The tech literally came running up, looped a new one over his neck, and took the old one. Alex switched necks between chords and didn't miss a beat.
Wrong, in an interview with Lerxst where he went over all of his equipment for the Time Machine tour, he showed a single Les Paul that he said was tuned down to D# and it is used exclusively for the Overture and Temple Of Syrynx/Finally in order to help out Geddy on vocals, otherwise all other guitars are tuned in E standard. There are a thousand myths claiming this song and that song are drop tuned and some even claiming every song is down tune for Geddy’s vocal, but you heard it straight from the Lerxst mouth that only a single Les Paul is down tuned for the 2112 part of the concert. That is the only song Geddy struggles with vocally. Anything else you hear is bullshit or a myth. This is why he must wait so long for this to be restrung, it is the only one he can’t simply swap out for a different guitar. You’d think he’d keep at least one backup detuned for this kind of occasion, but breaking a string is probably so rare, they never thought to have one detuned to D#. You have to admit the man can dance, like Fred Astaire, or Flintstone, one of those? I get them confused, but I think Fred Flintstone may be the closer match. Gooooo Lerxst! Kick off those shoes so we can hear the pitter patter of those bare feet slapping the floor. He can probably get his car up to speed with those feet.
What?? No temper tantrum? No decapitated stage tech? No walking off stage in a rage and refusing to continue? Noooo sir...this is Rush, the rock band that history will remember as the guys who did EVERYTHING right!! They will be like a case study in music business etiquette and how to keep one's humanity when you find yourself in that gilded cage.
@@MsBenlane I wonder who that 'star'was. If someone takes a pic at a concert if they have been advised not to, it's not the 'star's' concern, but tour management and venue security and even then, only if cell phone video and pic restrictions are clearly in place and two thirds of the audience is standing there like idiots with their phones in the air recording the show.. No performer in their right mind would stop a show because 'someone', meaning 'one guy' took a phone pic.
I only heard Lerxst get mad once & that was at the Houston CA show in December of 2012. There was no sound on his Les Paul for the beginning of Tom Sawyer & he spoke into the mike & said, “you’re fired Scott”!! Scott Appleton was his guitar tech. Then he started laughing as Scott brought him a new Les Paul that worked perfectly.
I love Alex. His sense of humor is amazing. What a very funny man. His wife is very lucky as well as Neil (R.I.P.) and Geddy who got to experience all the laughs.
...And the man comes back like nothing happened, Alex is the best! Let's also not forget to mention that the greatest rhythm section of all time never missed a beat! Neither did Geddy while singing! True professionals, the best band ever!
For those asking, Alex went out of tune. He just swapped for another guitar. The Tech took off the guitar strap of his current guitar and put it on the replacement so he could use the same wireless pack and not have to switch it.
These guys are pros. I'm telling you, they laughed about this afterwards. It happens. It's no one's fault. (They DO try to fix it for next time though!) I was in an all-girl band once and these are the moments you panic during but afterwards laugh about. Pros roll right through it, as they did. Let that happen to one of today's heavily choreographed manufactured pop stars and they would probably stop everything and walk off the stage upset. Oh wait, that's exactly what they DO!
You think its bad for Alex. I saw these guys in LA last year and Neil broke the head on his snare drum. You can't just hand him a new drum. His tech was working furiously to get it repaired. The boys were in between songs so the stage was black except for the tip of Geddy's cigarette. He was getting a little antsy for the show to resume. I thought Neil's play seemed stress after that but he seemed to relax after his solo. We don't mind their flubs because their music has gotten most of us through tough times.
+Milo Jury It was on the Time Machine Tour during the song Camera Eye. Neil breaks his 14" tom head. The only spare ready to go and just swap out is the snare drum.. All the others have to be repaired. He plays over 5 minutes of that song improvising around where he would normally quit hit it.
+Benjamin Lewis-Skeath Geddy Lee smoked until 1985. He went back to it a couple times after that, but is totally smoke free now. Neil and Alex still smoke every day.
Alex can’t just swap here of all his guitars or he probably would just grab another. I saw an interview where Lerxst said that one Les Paul is the only guitar drop tuned to D# to help Geddy out vocally by the half step drop. I have heard so much bullshit from people in the comments claiming that they down tune for Natural Science, Closer To The Heart and many other songs, some going as far as to claiming every Rush song is down tuned because of Geddy’s vocals. of course it takes me two seconds to pick up a guitar or even launch GarageBand on the same iPad and check any of these bogus comments since I know every Rush song and what key they were originally recorded in. Most of all, I just trust my ear since I have perfect intonation as long as a don’t have a cold or something. Now, I have it verified byAlex that there is only one drop tuned guitars in his entire live lineup of guitars and that is a single Les Paul used for the Overture and Temples Of Syrynx. You heard it here first, well you actually can hear it in that interview about his set up for the Time Machine tour and Lerxst doesn’t lie. He might bullshit around a bit, but takes his guitar shit seriously. One thing you have to admit, the man can dance, like Fed Astaire, or Flintstone, it’s one Fred or another. Either way, it’s a sight to behold.
I’m sure you’re right, as I am no musician of any kind. But I do follow what you’re saying. That said, it does seem like he expected something in exchange for the bad guitar.
That's so funny, Alex looks over and says the new guitar is not working...until he turns up the volume knob lol. Alex always seems to have problems. On November 29, 1996 at America West Arena in Phoenix, he was having some serious problems early in the show and he was so pissed I thought he would walk off the stage. I wonder if there's a video of that.
These guys are the best at handling in concert bloopers, have yet to see them get pissy, but just smile and joke until fixed. Must make the tech appreciate working with them
Neil and Geddy are always unfazed and plow forward, but I've seen Alex lose his shit several times at his tech and once at an audience member ruining the show for those next to her by being drunk and distracting. He's a pretty emotional guy and perfectionist that's very hard on himself.
They are all perfrctionist (can you tell) but nice. Alex had more equipment issues over the years than the rest (guitars you know) and he did loose it a few times. There's a clip of Geddy getting pissed at the crowd pushing toward the stage. One and only time I ever heard Geddy get mad.
im a drummer too and no basically nothing about guitars, but when i saw RUSH in 2011, Alex broke his strings at least twice... my guess is that he just plays really hard. alot of drummers do the same thing and break 30 sticks in 1 night or smash through their snare. either way RUSH KICKS ASS!
Alex's set up is crazy, but they double everything for redundancy - so don't know why it took that long to get back up. I would be thinking string break as well - but that other guitar should have been ready. Something happened on 2112 in Houston too - but, typical Lerxst, being that it was the last show goes up to the mike and laughs and says, "That guy"s fired!" The funniest Lerxst issue still has to be "Still No Guitar" on La Villa. Hilarious!!
i didnt see anything about a broken string.. not sure what you guys are seeing. I think Alex might have just went out of tune at the end, right before he gives his guitar. I dont think he tech even knew that he was gonna change , swap guitars right then. No warning! So it went fairly well and quick considering
His tech must have slipped over the years. I saw them back in 1985 in Cleveland. His guitar died and his tech had a new out there in just a bar or two. In fact, unless my memory has faded, he threw his defective one to the tech while the tech threw the new one simultaneously. The guitars passed each other in flight. Barely missed a beat. But in this video, his tech must have been asleep at the wheel. You can see how it irritates him.
Well, something to consider in this particular situation is that he's using a guitar tuned a whole step down for 2112. So the tech may have needed to go get the backup 2112-tuning guitar. Or maybe the tech quickly fixed the issue on the same guitar. I don't know if the guitar he gets at the end is the same one or not.
@@RMosack the Test for Echo your was when they started doing 2112 tuned down. Also the first and only tour where they played all 7 parts of 2112. That was the tour when they stopped having opening bands, and they made 2112 the closer for the first half of the show.
I know why the issue, that's the only guitar he has in Drop D to help Geddy's singing of 2112, so when that guitar messed up, they couldn't toss him a ready one
Dude have you watched that "Dinner With Rush" vid they made? It's here on CZcams and you should check it out if you haven't already! Cheers and Rock On 🤘
How come I still hear guitar when Alex has nothing in his hands? And please don't tell me it's bass that I hear. I can hear the guitar chords very faintly.
Alex.... SAME! Tech,,,, shit where did I put the other sunburst!! Alex.....where s it at cmon man!!!! Tech....F me!!! Alex......not impressed bro slow as shit!! Tech....tonight indeed. Com
As a drummer I know nothing about guitar gear, but he ALWAYS seems to have issues. I wonder why. I've never seen a guitarist over the course of years live who has the issues he seems to hvae. Is it the roadie? Is his set-up too crazy? ANy thoughts?
I know Geddy ran everything direct in their late period, meaning NO onstage amps, speakers or monitors. This is smart because it minimalizes mishaps and if there ARE problems, at least he knows it won't be a fried speaker or one of a billion cables all over the stage. Maybe Alex still has more of those variables. Here is another theory; have you noticed that Alex is notorious for grinding his pic into the string to make the harmonic shriek at some point in almost every solo? its a wonderfully, scary thing that is also harder on strings. he needs to stick to heavy gauge strings if he is doing alot of that.
Alex runs a complicated and unconventional setup unfortunately, with lots of potential points for failure. Figuring out which part died out of 30 possibilities can take time. Is it the guitar? wireless pack? one of his 3 amps? his axefx? TC chorus? power conditioner? apple mainstage? midi switcher? wah? speaker simulator? volume pedal? a random cable in the giant signal chain? Alex uses an old school approach and runs a lot of stuff in series, so any one component failing can take out the whole rig. His amps and digital effects have redundancy, but everything else doesn't.
@@BxFletcher I saw him have problems in Nashville once. There is a video on CZcams setting up for Montreal show that gets detailed on techs and what they deal with. Alex I think has most room for problems to arise. Then again you can break a guitar string easier than a bass string or drum head.
In 92, Roll the Bones Tour, in Indianapolis, Alex broke his B string during Superconductor, which as far as I recall was in a nonstandard tuning. He wrapped it around the headstock, slid up the neck and refingered in a different position, and kept playing. He played the keyboard bridge while Geddy did that bass bit, then went back to guitar. The tech literally came running up, looped a new one over his neck, and took the old one. Alex switched necks between chords and didn't miss a beat.
That's a PERFECT EXAMPLE why it's important to Learn and Know every note on the fretboard!!
Wrong, in an interview with Lerxst where he went over all of his equipment for the Time Machine tour, he showed a single Les Paul that he said was tuned down to D# and it is used exclusively for the Overture and Temple Of Syrynx/Finally in order to help out Geddy on vocals, otherwise all other guitars are tuned in E standard.
There are a thousand myths claiming this song and that song are drop tuned and some even claiming every song is down tune for Geddy’s vocal, but you heard it straight from the Lerxst mouth that only a single Les Paul is down tuned for the 2112 part of the concert. That is the only song Geddy struggles with vocally. Anything else you hear is bullshit or a myth.
This is why he must wait so long for this to be restrung, it is the only one he can’t simply swap out for a different guitar. You’d think he’d keep at least one backup detuned for this kind of occasion, but breaking a string is probably so rare, they never thought to have one detuned to D#.
You have to admit the man can dance, like Fred Astaire, or Flintstone, one of those? I get them confused, but I think Fred Flintstone may be the closer match. Gooooo Lerxst! Kick off those shoes so we can hear the pitter patter of those bare feet slapping the floor. He can probably get his car up to speed with those feet.
@@RoarOfWolverine what a strange rumor, i can play easily along with the song in standard tuning, lol
Geddy Lee It IS tall Guy?
Alex: *turns volume knob*
Person behind camera: YEAHHHHHHHHH
Hahaha
What?? No temper tantrum? No decapitated stage tech? No walking off stage in a rage and refusing to continue? Noooo sir...this is Rush, the rock band that history will remember as the guys who did EVERYTHING right!!
They will be like a case study in music business etiquette and how to keep one's humanity when you find yourself in that gilded cage.
i forget who it was but 1 star walked off stage because someone took his pic.
@@MsBenlane I wonder who that 'star'was. If someone takes a pic at a concert if they have been advised not to, it's not the 'star's' concern, but tour management and venue security and even then, only if cell phone video and pic restrictions are clearly in place and two thirds of the audience is standing there like idiots with their phones in the air recording the show..
No performer in their right mind would stop a show because 'someone', meaning 'one guy' took a phone pic.
Yes, they are absolute professionals.
I only heard Lerxst get mad once & that was at the Houston CA show in December of 2012.
There was no sound on his Les Paul for the beginning of Tom Sawyer & he spoke into the mike & said, “you’re fired Scott”!!
Scott Appleton was his guitar tech.
Then he started laughing as Scott brought him a new Les Paul that worked perfectly.
Hear Hear
lol most bands couldnt get away with that, but all lerxst has to do is dance and it fixes everything
I love Alex. His sense of humor is amazing. What a very funny man. His wife is very lucky as well as Neil (R.I.P.) and Geddy who got to experience all the laughs.
Neil was just something else. Miss you man!
It warms my heart that at :57 even the other guys in the band are not immune to Neil Peart's air drumming mojo.
...And the man comes back like nothing happened, Alex is the best! Let's also not forget to mention that the greatest rhythm section of all time never missed a beat! Neither did Geddy while singing! True professionals, the best band ever!
For those asking, Alex went out of tune. He just swapped for another guitar. The Tech took off the guitar strap of his current guitar and put it on the replacement so he could use the same wireless pack and not have to switch it.
2112 sounded pretty cool with just drums and bass! lol
Miss those guys R I P Prat
I saw another video of this moment haha cool to see it from a different perspective
Same
What a class act. Straight in once he'd strapped the guitar on, no messing.
When you have a good bass player you've got gold in the rock trio department
So glad to see Rush still having fun. This may be a good sign for we the listeners, eh?
Little did we know, 😢
Que maravilha!
lerxst class act all the way
Lol, Lerxst is hilarious. You were lucky to witness this!
These guys are pros. I'm telling you, they laughed about this afterwards.
It happens. It's no one's fault. (They DO try to fix it for next time though!)
I was in an all-girl band once and these are the moments you panic during but afterwards laugh about. Pros roll right through it, as they did.
Let that happen to one of today's heavily choreographed manufactured pop stars and they would probably stop everything and walk off the stage upset. Oh wait, that's exactly what they DO!
Also kinda sounds like Guns n Roses. Axl Rose would probably do something rash immediately after a band mate screws up and storm off the stage
Asshole Pose is nothing like Rush. He's a burned out, drugged out, talentless POS and always was.
We are the priests of the temples of dancing
Was third row for This one.. Also at the still no guitar in Boston.. Classic stuff
God I miss them. ☹️
Yep, everyday. But so grateful to have seen them live so many times.
That was hilarious! Hey, no guitar to play for the moment, might as well do SOMETHING! Alex is a riot!
You think its bad for Alex. I saw these guys in LA last year and Neil broke the head on his snare drum. You can't just hand him a new drum. His tech was working furiously to get it repaired. The boys were in between songs so the stage was black except for the tip of Geddy's cigarette. He was getting a little antsy for the show to resume. I thought Neil's play seemed stress after that but he seemed to relax after his solo. We don't mind their flubs because their music has gotten most of us through tough times.
Didn't Geddy quit smoking in 1982?
+Milo Jury It was on the Time Machine Tour during the song Camera Eye. Neil breaks his 14" tom head. The only spare ready to go and just swap out is the snare drum.. All the others have to be repaired. He plays over 5 minutes of that song improvising around where he would normally quit hit it.
+Benjamin Lewis-Skeath Geddy Lee smoked until 1985. He went back to it a couple times after that, but is totally smoke free now. Neil and Alex still smoke every day.
I thought Neil quit when he took up biking. And certainly after his late wife died of cancer.
Nope. He talks about it in numerous relatively recent blogs. Heavy drinker of Macallan too.
WOW! Just WOW!
That was awesome! Ha Ha!
Thanks for catching that for us!
I like how you can see Neil's drum stick fly up into the air, but you can't really see him
The stage of this tour is very nice, with all these steampunks elements
Alex Lifeson is a funny dude 😂😂
"Still NO Guitar" is my favorite Rush gaffe.
Alex can’t just swap here of all his guitars or he probably would just grab another. I saw an interview where Lerxst said that one Les Paul is the only guitar drop tuned to D# to help Geddy out vocally by the half step drop.
I have heard so much bullshit from people in the comments claiming that they down tune for Natural Science, Closer To The Heart and many other songs, some going as far as to claiming every Rush song is down tuned because of Geddy’s vocals.
of course it takes me two seconds to pick up a guitar or even launch GarageBand on the same iPad and check any of these bogus comments since I know every Rush song and what key they were originally recorded in.
Most of all, I just trust my ear since I have perfect intonation as long as a don’t have a cold or something. Now, I have it verified byAlex that there is only one drop tuned guitars in his entire live lineup of guitars and that is a single Les Paul used for the Overture and Temples Of Syrynx.
You heard it here first, well you actually can hear it in that interview about his set up for the Time Machine tour and Lerxst doesn’t lie. He might bullshit around a bit, but takes his guitar shit seriously.
One thing you have to admit, the man can dance, like Fed Astaire, or Flintstone, it’s one Fred or another. Either way, it’s a sight to behold.
I’m sure you’re right, as I am no musician of any kind. But I do follow what you’re saying. That said, it does seem like he expected something in exchange for the bad guitar.
Priceless
Thank u so much! I was at that show!
That actually made the whole performance.
That dance was hilarious.
Alex is hilarious 😂
That's so funny, Alex looks over and says the new guitar is not working...until he turns up the volume knob lol. Alex always seems to have problems. On November 29, 1996 at America West Arena in Phoenix, he was having some serious problems early in the show and he was so pissed I thought he would walk off the stage. I wonder if there's a video of that.
These guys are the best at handling in concert bloopers, have yet to see them get pissy, but just smile and joke until fixed. Must make the tech appreciate working with them
Neil and Geddy are always unfazed and plow forward, but I've seen Alex lose his shit several times at his tech and once at an audience member ruining the show for those next to her by being drunk and distracting. He's a pretty emotional guy and perfectionist that's very hard on himself.
They are all perfrctionist (can you tell) but nice.
Alex had more equipment issues over the years than the rest (guitars you know) and he did loose it a few times.
There's a clip of Geddy getting pissed at the crowd pushing toward the stage.
One and only time I ever heard Geddy get mad.
im a drummer too and no basically nothing about guitars, but when i saw RUSH in 2011, Alex broke his strings at least twice... my guess is that he just plays really hard. alot of drummers do the same thing and break 30 sticks in 1 night or smash through their snare. either way RUSH KICKS ASS!
@ 4:40 oh where is my other guitar! oops no other guitar, let me do a lil dancing jig in instead!
Pretty cool "call and response" camera work!
That is correct, as I've stated before, but all six strings are tuned down a whole set for 2112. Not just the low E string.
Anyone else think Alex's look in this era reminds them of William Shatner ?
And that soft shoe bit needs to become a staple of their shows.
News flash (couple years) they are a band no more.
That replacement guitar should have been in his hands in 10 seconds
From E to D is a whole step.
too many people with their asses on the chair!!! c'mon people!!! this is not "les miserables" on broadway! THIS IS THE BEST BAND ON THE WORLD!!!!!
Alex's set up is crazy, but they double everything for redundancy - so don't know why it took that long to get back up. I would be thinking string break as well - but that other guitar should have been ready. Something happened on 2112 in Houston too - but, typical Lerxst, being that it was the last show goes up to the mike and laughs and says, "That guy"s fired!" The funniest Lerxst issue still has to be "Still No Guitar" on La Villa. Hilarious!!
I think it was swapping strap and wireless pack over.
i didnt see anything about a broken string.. not sure what you guys are seeing. I think Alex might have just went out of tune at the end, right before he gives his guitar. I dont think he tech even knew that he was gonna change , swap guitars right then. No warning! So it went fairly well and quick considering
been a year today, feels like it was yesterday.
His tech must have slipped over the years. I saw them back in 1985 in Cleveland. His guitar died and his tech had a new out there in just a bar or two. In fact, unless my memory has faded, he threw his defective one to the tech while the tech threw the new one simultaneously. The guitars passed each other in flight. Barely missed a beat.
But in this video, his tech must have been asleep at the wheel. You can see how it irritates him.
Well, something to consider in this particular situation is that he's using a guitar tuned a whole step down for 2112. So the tech may have needed to go get the backup 2112-tuning guitar. Or maybe the tech quickly fixed the issue on the same guitar. I don't know if the guitar he gets at the end is the same one or not.
@@Thompsongs Very interesting! I hadn't noticed that they played 2112 down a half step live. When did they start doing that?
@@RMosack the Test for Echo your was when they started doing 2112 tuned down. Also the first and only tour where they played all 7 parts of 2112. That was the tour when they stopped having opening bands, and they made 2112 the closer for the first half of the show.
Definitly a string break. You can see him pull it out of the way and hear the twang.
you are correct, and because only one guitar was a step down, they couldn't just throw him another step-down guitar
We Have Assumed Control...
I heard at one of their shows out west, someone held up a sign at the end of 2112 that read “We have consumed a troll” and Geddy cracked up.
Dunno how much Alex's guitar tech was getting paid, but he certainly earned his money that night.
This is about the time Geddy was losing his beautiful voice..😞
Wonder if that guy was immediately fired.
uggggh I so should have gone to either this on the MSG show :|
I guess he wanted a guitar that worked the way he needed it to!!!
Got no guitar from the tech this time - and all he wants to do is dance dance!
temples of syrinx sounds pretty funky with no guitar
So that’s how you dance to 2112!
😂
Good thing he didn't lose sound right before or during his solo....lol
I know why the issue, that's the only guitar he has in Drop D to help Geddy's singing of 2112, so when that guitar messed up, they couldn't toss him a ready one
Not drop-D. D standard tuning. So, tuned D-G-C-F-A-D.
This might be a train wreck for a lot of bands, but I'd watch these guys drink coffee and read the paper!
Dude have you watched that "Dinner With Rush" vid they made? It's here on CZcams and you should check it out if you haven't already! Cheers and Rock On 🤘
czcams.com/video/SadY0mP812A/video.html
How about watching them sell beer!? (LOVE these guys!)
It's the funniest thing I've ever seen. I must of spit out the drink I was enjoying like 5 times. Great band, even greater chemistry
Alex is one of the funniest men I have ever seen in a band. I love his sense of humor.
Did he keep the tech guy on tour after that or does each location have their own?
They had techs who toured with them.
i was at that show up in the nose bleeds. we had to leave after 4 songs! we couldn't hear anything! the sound was so terrible & distorted!
That’s truly a shame. I’ve seen some shows that weren’t up to par, mostly vocals, but never bad enough for me to walk out.
@@BxFletcher the sound was so distorted & awful that you could tell what song was playing
It did sound bad..but Alex was hilarious as always..
orrrr... We could not give Alex his guitar back and leave Geddy out there twisting in the wind.
Guess What!! NO GUITAR!!!!!!!!!!
You had one job......
How come I still hear guitar when Alex has nothing in his hands? And please don't tell me it's bass that I hear. I can hear the guitar chords very faintly.
Psychoacoustic effect of some kind. Very common.
There's definitely no guitar. The bass and drum parts are just heavily implying the guitar. Your brain is filling it in for you.
Alex.... SAME! Tech,,,, shit where did I put the other sunburst!! Alex.....where s it at cmon man!!!! Tech....F me!!! Alex......not impressed bro slow as shit!! Tech....tonight indeed. Com
hehelol it happened a lot to him
fired?
he probably broke a string on the up stroke
only 30 seconds,,,all in stride...
Wrong, they play 2112 a whole step lower. Not in Drop D.
As a drummer I know nothing about guitar gear, but he ALWAYS seems to have issues. I wonder why. I've never seen a guitarist over the course of years live who has the issues he seems to hvae. Is it the roadie? Is his set-up too crazy? ANy thoughts?
I know Geddy ran everything direct in their late period, meaning NO onstage amps, speakers or monitors. This is smart because it minimalizes mishaps and if there ARE problems, at least he knows it won't be a fried speaker or one of a billion cables all over the stage. Maybe Alex still has more of those variables. Here is another theory; have you noticed that Alex is notorious for grinding his pic into the string to make the harmonic shriek at some point in almost every solo? its a wonderfully, scary thing that is also harder on strings. he needs to stick to heavy gauge strings if he is doing alot of that.
Still no Guitar?
do a little dance and you drink a little water...... vhroom
He lost sound in houston in 2112 also.
This is how you know your guitar tech is on mushrooms.
rush seems to have some bad guitar techs
Alex runs a complicated and unconventional setup unfortunately, with lots of potential points for failure. Figuring out which part died out of 30 possibilities can take time. Is it the guitar? wireless pack? one of his 3 amps? his axefx? TC chorus? power conditioner? apple mainstage? midi switcher? wah? speaker simulator? volume pedal? a random cable in the giant signal chain? Alex uses an old school approach and runs a lot of stuff in series, so any one component failing can take out the whole rig. His amps and digital effects have redundancy, but everything else doesn't.
32 of Rush shows, this was the first time I’ve seen anything like it.
@@BxFletcher I saw him have problems in Nashville once. There is a video on CZcams setting up for Montreal show that gets detailed on techs and what they deal with.
Alex I think has most room for problems to arise.
Then again you can break a guitar string easier than a bass string or drum head.