Posted on 03/14/2002 7:56:40 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
Rush's 'Vapor Trails' Due In May
Canadian power trio Rush has set a May 14 release date for its upcoming Anthem/Atlantic album, "Vapor Trails." As previously reported, the set was recorded in Toronto, with band members Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart serving as producers and longtime collaborator Paul Northfield engineering. A North American tour in support of "Vapor Trails" is expected to begin in June.
The new album, the follow-up to 1996's "Test for Echo," features 13 tracks. Opener "One Little Victory" is described by the label as "propulsive," while "Sweet Miracle" is said to be "emotive," and "How It Is" has been deemed "kinetic." A first single has not yet been announced.
"Test for Echo" was a No. 5 hit on The Billboard 200, with its title track vaulting to No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and "Half the World" reaching No. 6 on the same tally. "Different Stages," a three-CD live album spanning shows from 1978, 1994, and 1997, bowed at No. 35 on The Billboard 200 in November 1998. Lee released his Atlantic solo debut, "My Favorite Headache," in December 2000.
Drummer Neil Peart has also written a new book called " Ghost Rider", a 400 plus page book on his experiences on the road and off the road during Rush's Test For Echo tour, and the experiences of losing his daughter Selena in 1997 who was killed in a car crash in Ontario. As well as the sudden death of his wife Jacqueline 10 months later from cancer. The book will expose a 5 year black out by Peart on his emotions and recovery of the loss in his life.
Peart remarried in 2000 to photographer Carrie Nutall and reside in Santa Barbara, California where Peart relocated to moving from his Ontario home.
Here is the tracklist for "Vapor Trails":
"One Little Victory"
"Peaceable Kingdom"
"Ghost Rider"
"Ceiling Unlimited"
"The Stars Look Down"
"How It Is"
"Vapor Trail"
"Out of the Cradle"
"Earthshine"
"Sweet Miracle"
"Nocturne"
"Freeze (Part IV of 'Fear')"
"Secret Touch"
-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
I can breath again.
Arguably one the most underrated lyricists in the history of rock. Oh yeah, and he's fairly adequate on the skins too.....
I guess we won't be getting this album. Gee, the latest one we have is "Roll the Bones" and I LOVE that album.
MKM
2112, hoo boy, what a jam.....
Wreathed in smoke in Lebanon
We burn the midnight oil
The fragrance of Afghanistan
Rewards a long day's toil
Pulling into Katmandu
Smoke rings fill the air
Perfumed by a Nepal night
The Express gets you there
WE HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL
randystone
Great to see the boys back in business!....I admire these dudes as incredibly gifted musicians and AWESOME show-men.
Rush is "The thinking man's" rock-n-roll band, to be sure....I'll scoop that one up very soon.
My fave Rush albums:
Permanent Waves
2112
Exit Stage Left
Moving Pictures
Signals
I'm totally convinced that they were seperated at birth!
Thanks for the heads-up,it's been too long.
Good to see Neil's getting on,that's a lot to bear.
What you own is your own kingdom
What you do is your own glory
What you love is your own power
What you live is your own story
In your head is the answer
Let it guide you along
Let your heart be the anchor
And the beat of your own song.
ps, I was spinnin' Roll the Bones when I stumbled upon this thread. Rock On!
FYI-This sample is actually yours truly. No kidding here at all. It was sampled off of a Talkback Live segment I was speaking about on CNN.
All three of them are phenomenal musicians of the highest order.
I remember being in highschool and feeling like Subdivisions off "Signals" was being sung directly to me.
Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown
Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer
Or the misfit so alone
Subdivisions -
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions -
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth
Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night
Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight
Somewhere out of a memory
Of lighted streets on quiet nights...
I might be late in discovering Rush, but hey, I'm also just recently getting into Jethro Tull at the ripe old age of fifty-two.
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