Alex Lifeson with his Epiphone Inspired by Gibson Custom 1976 ES-355 Reissue. (Courtesy of Epiphone) While most guitarists likely don’t have the talent of Rush’s Alex Lifeson, they now have a chance to at least sound a little bit like him. The rocker has teamed with Epiphone for a new guitar, part of the Epiphone Inspired by Gibson Custom series. The new Alex Lifeson 1976 ES-355 Reissue is modeled after Lifeson’s well-known 1976 ES-355 guitar. T…
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Four years after selling "Whitey", the guitar that accompanied him during most of his career with Rush, Alex Lifeson symbolically handed it back to the fans. Epiphone just unveiled an official reissue of his legendary white ES-355 of 1976, proposed at a price without common measure with the $384,000 achieved [...]