{"id":29631,"date":"2024-05-31T12:02:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T12:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/will-rushs-alex-lifeson-write-his-memoir-im-too-lazy-for-that\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T12:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T12:02:24","slug":"will-rushs-alex-lifeson-write-his-memoir-im-too-lazy-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/will-rushs-alex-lifeson-write-his-memoir-im-too-lazy-for-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Rush\u2019s Alex Lifeson write his memoir?: \u201cI\u2019m too lazy for that\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-30\/Getty_AlexLifeson_053024.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Comedy Central<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Rush<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Alex Lifeson<\/strong> helped his bandmate <strong>Geddy Lee<\/strong> promote his memoir,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">My Effin Life,<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> last year, popping up at\u00a0some book tour stops where he and Geddy got to share stories from their days in Rush.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lifeson, of course, plays a big role in Geddy\u2019s story,\u00a0so he appears in the book often. So, how did he feel reading about himself and their times together?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c(Geddy)\u00a0sent me a copy of the first edited version,\u201d he tells ABC Audio. \u201cI cried, I laughed out loud, I was mesmerized by it.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhen I read it, it really struck me that we have this amazing friendship that&#8217;s lasted for half a century,\u201d he adds. \u201cAnd it started out as just two kids in junior high school who were buddies and then started a basement band that became a garage band, that became a high school band and on and on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lifeson\u00a0notes that what happened to them was a \u201cdream come true for so many young musicians and so many certainly male teenagers. It&#8217;s a remarkable story.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Now that Geddy\u2019s written his memoir, does Lifeson feel the need to tell his side of things with his own?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI&#8217;m way too lazy for that,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I keep getting asked that and my wife says I should do it just because there&#8217;s stories I tell, road stories, she said are so hilarious, if you put them in a nice little book, it could be a real fun thing.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He adds, \u201cSo who knows, maybe if I can get some motivation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Comedy Central Rush\u2019s Alex Lifeson helped his bandmate Geddy Lee promote his memoir,\u00a0My Effin Life, last year, popping up at\u00a0some book tour stops where he and Geddy got to share stories from their days in Rush.\u00a0 Lifeson, of course, plays a big role in Geddy\u2019s story,\u00a0so<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/will-rushs-alex-lifeson-write-his-memoir-im-too-lazy-for-that\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}