Today, we move to the times when, alongside the Placebo guys, we saw on stage a strong personality of a musician who then continued to successfully develop his music career.
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| Photo credit at the end of the post |
In the 80's and 90's, he played in the bands The Blue Airplanes and Strangelove.
In the late 1990s, he was a live player in the band SUEDE, so in early 2000 he replaced keyboardist Neil Codling and became a full member of Suede. He remained there until their break-up in 2003.
⭐ In January 2006, Lee was recruited for Placebo's live line-up and played with them on their Meds world tour which finished in September 2007. He played guitar and keyboards on the album Live At La Cigale.⭐
Furthermore, his artistic career is very extensive, I would mention mainly original music for ground-breaking documentary series Alone in the Wild in September 2009 and also original music to Hawking, a film about the life of scientist Stephen Hawking directed by Stephen Finnigan released in September 2013.
๐๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ญ๐๐๐ค ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ, ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฑ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐๐๐ณ๐ณ๐๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐๐. ๐๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ:
⭐ "WHAT A GAS IT WAS TO SEE OUR OLD FRIEND & TOURING GUITARIST : ALEX LEE : PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE MIGHTY : @massiveattackofficial : AND WHAT A SHOW IT WAS!!! THANKS TO ALL WHO WORKED HARD TO GIVE US SO MUCH PLEASURE. PEACE & LOVE."⭐
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| Photo credit unknown |
๐ธ⭐๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฑ ๐๐๐ – ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ, ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐⭐๐ธ
Alex Lee has been lucky enough to have enjoyed 17 years of playing guitar for a living. The many band’s he’s played for include Strange Love, Suede and now Placebo. I caught up with him on tour with Placebo at London’s Wembley Arena.
๐โ๐ฆ ๐๐๐’๐ก ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ ๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐คโ๐๐ก ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐?
"Well, my name’s Alex Lee and I’ve been playing guitar full time now for about 17 years. I left school and started playing in bands straight away and I’m still doing it now! I played in bands at school, was about 15 when I did my first gig and then within six months of leaving school I was asked to join a Bristol band called Blue Airoplanes. They needed a new guitar player to go on tour supporting a band called The Darling Birds who had a top 40 hit at the time so it was great! That went really well and they asked me to stay and pretty soon after we ended up signing a major deal. It snowballed from there really and things started happening really quickly for the band. There was just a big transition at that point from being on a indie label to being on a major and having enough money to go on tour properly and pay everyone a modest wage."
๐ด๐๐ ๐คโ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐๐?
"After that I played with a band called Strange Love who were all friends of mine from Bristol. We put that band together after I left the Airoplanes. Strange Love then went on to support Suede and that’s when they needed someone new to play guitar. They knew me already as I’d spent quite a long time touring with them whilst playing with Strange Love. So really it’s all about meeting people and realising you’re on a similar wavelength as people."..../.../
๐ป๐๐ค ๐ค๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐?
"Well, i’m replacing the keyboard player who was playing on the last tour so it was a Keyboard player that they were originally looking for. The fact that I could play guitar was obviously appealing to them as there are a lot of songs on the new album that are guitar based. It also frees Brian and Stef up to do other things if they want. Brian can now put the guitar down for certain songs live and go off and not have to worry about that which can make for more of a visual thing. Then I can free Stef up sometimes so he can give me the meat and potato parts and he can go and do some of the more interesting parts."
๐โ๐๐ก’๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ก๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐? ๐ป๐๐ค ๐๐ข๐โ ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ข๐ ๐ ๐ข๐โ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ ?
"With this tour we did quite a lot of rehearsing, we managed to rehearse for a month which was a rare luxury. With the Suede thing I didn’t get any rehearsal at all, they just sent me a cassette and had a listen on the way the airport and scribbled a few notes down when I got there!! But with Placebo we had a months rehearsal which involved a lot of programming as it was all new equipment we were using. Learning the songs was the easy part!" .../.../
๐ท๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐ค๐๐๐ก ๐ก๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ ๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐ โ๐๐ค ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐?
"This tour is slightly different for me (the Placebo tour), because I’m using laptops on stage which is a first for me, so I’m completely in the digital domain now. I’m using a system called ‘Guitar Rig’ for the guitars, so every sound is programmed before hand, then saved and you can tweak and save at each show if you need to. So I go from the guitar, to a sound card, to the laptop and then out into a Marshall power amp and speaker. I wanted there to be some form of a valve and speaker in there somewhere! The reason we’ve done this is because both Brian and Stef have very classic rock setups; Brian plays through a Fender twin, Stef through a Marshall. So we thought it would give the sound a different texture. You have to get used to the new technology quite quickly, although I did have to put in the hours when everyone else was in the pub, I was sitting down shouting at computers!! Its still an education to me but we’re a year into this tour and its still working fine so touch wood it’ll work tonight!!!"
(๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.๐๐.๐๐)
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| Placebo at 100 Rock Festival (Bangkok, Thailand). Photo credit unknown |
๐ธ๐ถ Placebo - Post Blue [M6 Private Concert 2006]
https://bit.ly/3wOZlXc
๐ธ๐ถ Placebo "Every you every me" live at Oxegen Festival 2006
https://bit.ly/3qLSWLo
๐ธ๐ถ Placebo "Taste in Men" live Hurricane festival 2007
https://bit.ly/3osaz04
๐ธ๐ถ Placebo - One Of A Kind [Rock Am Ring 2006]
https://bit.ly/2YUdo1e
๐ธ๐ถ Placebo "Meds" live at Vieilles Charrues 2006
https://bit.ly/3Fl8YzT
Photo credit pic 1: bottom photo taken from Alex Lee's official website, rest unknown, edit by Marti
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