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TIL when Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson was a teen, he dreamt of having a Gibson guitar. He would go to his nearest music store in Toronto, play Gibson guitars for about an hour before he’d get kicked out, and then he would come back to that store every weekend and repeat the whole process again.

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