CUT TO THE CHASE
Keyboards would gradually be
downplayed as Rush entered the ‘90s,
and guitars would come roaring back
into its sound in a big way. Gibson
guitars would re-enter the picture,
along with a fleet of Paul Reed Smith
double cutaways. The solid-state
amps would stick around for the one-
two pop punch of Presto and Roll
the Bones before Marshall amps
were reintroduced in the form of the
gain-happy JCM900 Dual Reverb on
Counterparts and Test For Echo. The
band’s huge sound would be heard on
the drop-D tuned “Stick It Out” and
the furious driving chords of “Time and
Motion.”
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The Working Man: The Evolution of Rush’s Alex Lifeson and How to Achieve His Sound