Alex Lifeson: discusses tour and new material with mcall.com

Alex Lifeson remembers one overriding feeling that came with the making of "Moving Pictures," the 1981 album that became the band's most popular release — fun.

"It was a very positive experience," Lifeson says in a recent phone interview. "Sometimes records can be quite difficult. [The 1984 album] 'Grace Under Pressure,' for example, was a very hard record to make. It seemed to take forever. Again, we were at Le Studio [in Quebec] and it was very cold. We just really struggled with that one. But 'Moving Pictures' was quite the opposite. We had a lot of fun and we had great direction. We did some writing in the studio. All the sounds came together. There was a great buoyant feeling to the whole experience." full interview