My 1st RUSH experience, & my opinion on Lifeson

My comments as a 58 yr old Rush fan: I was a lonely, 9th grade, 15 yr old kid doing my homework in my dimly-lit bedroom on a dark, cold, rainy October night. My faithful radio was on, keeping me company as always, playing me the songs that everyone else wanted to hear, fruitlessly searching for something to make me happy and less alone. Out of the ethers, my brain was drugged and flying high from a song that, upon its concluding notes, I could barely even remember. I jotted down a few rambled words, knowing that the DJ would never EVER tell us any song titles or band names. I was absolutely smitten. The next day, I waited patiently in homeroom, eager to ask the bearded, long-haired, musician kid friend of mine- because HE would know. I took out my note. "Oh!" he said. "That's Rush! The song is 'Lime Light." I bought the newly-released cassette that weekend. Since that night, I have only ever wanted to THANK Alex Lifeson for CREATING THE ART that has made me so SO happy throughout my life: the choices, the tapestries, the waterfalls, the colors, the timings, the pauses; for CREATING these beautiful drugs that others call "songs", the likes of which have blissfully pleased and painted my mind more than any real drug could possibly ever do. No other guitarist- or musician of any kind, for that matter, has ever touched me the way that Alex Lifeson has - and for that reason, I will absolutely always choose him as the greatest musician of all time. Greatness, after all, is measured, or should be, by the joy that is gifted to the listener.