Canada's Rush Returns With "Vapor Trails"

Billboard/Atlantic Records/Anthem Entertainment/VH-1 News | 3-14-02 | Jonathan Cohen

[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.

[My Favorite Headache]

Welcome back boys...we missed you.This is totally the best news all year.

[My Favorite Headache]

That is them by the way in 1994 recieving "The Order Of Canada" so techinically they are O.C.

[My Favorite Headache]

Rush Ping!

[Bogey78O]

Front Page? You didn't have to do that you know.

Now maybe if it was Ozzy...but Rush?

[My Favorite Headache]

RUSH PING!

[Texas Eagle]

Canada's Rush Returns With "Vapor Trails"

Are we talking about the original band members or their great-grandchildren?

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[My Favorite Headache]

Ton of Rush fans on this board...remember the Rand influence..certainly applies to the Libertarians on here...this thread will show the excitement..watch.

[CygnusTheSwan]

Oh, thank God they're back.
I've knew they were in the studio working, but wasn't hearing too much.

Part IV of 'Fear'!!! Is that cool or what?

Bryan - Major Rush fan...

[My Favorite Headache]

Part IV of Fear is just absolutely one of the best parts of all of this. The fur on the arm went right up when I saw that.If they play Witch Hunt, The Weapon, The Enemy Within, and Freeze live...FUUUUUUUUUUUUGHEDABOUTIT!

[CygnusTheSwan]

Absolutely right!
Only thing better might be oh, I don't know... 2120???

[My Favorite Headache]

We can leave that for our kids,kids to take care of writing. LOL...this album and book is going to floor me. I can feel it.

[CygnusTheSwan]

I just checked Amazon.com and Ghost Rider is available for preorder:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1895900506/qid=1016169655/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-1890476-1599161

Vapor trails isn't yet.

Hope the link works properly... :)

[ConservativeLawyer]

This is great news. Thanks for the post and add me to your Rush ping list.

[My Favorite Headache]

No problem!

[Force12]

Oh man, I cannot wait! HUGE Rush fan here!

[My Favorite Headache]

I already pre-ordered it. Last week when it became available. I haven't checked the sales ranking on it. Let me go check.

[CygnusTheSwan]

Sheesh, and I thought *I* was the Ultimate Rush Fan...

[misterman]

ooh i hope there's a 20 minute drum solo on there

[My Favorite Headache]

You should pick up a new book out last month on the band called Merely Players by Robert Telleria. This book is over 400 pages...indepth as all hell.

[CygnusTheSwan]

I saw that bundled on Amazon with Ghost Rider (Sales Rank: 3,041).

I think I'll hit B&N tomorrow at lunch.
Thanks for the heads up!