About Vapor Trails
After a six year absence from the recording studio, Vapor Trails was the band’s first new album of the 21st Century, and the 17th of the band’s career. It was released in May, 2002 and co-Produced by Paul Northfield, who has engineered a number of Rush’s recordings. Vapor Trails redefines their intensely individualistic music, blending their famously complex dynamics with driving melodic hooks and a passionate, personal lyric approach. The entire developmental process for Vapor Trails was extremely taxing and took approximately 14 months to finish, by far the longest the band had ever spent writing and recording a studio album. The band had the album remixed and re-released as Vapor Trails Remixed in 2013.
Credits
Produced by
Rush and Paul Northfield
Recorded by
Paul Northfield, Geddy Lee, and Alex Lifeson
Mixed by
Mastering
Howie Weinberg
Masterdisk
NYC
Additional mastering and sequencing
Roger Lian
Masterdisk
NYC
Management
Ray Danniels
SRO Management Inc.
Toronto
Executive Production
Anthem Entertainment
Liam Birt and Pegi Cecconi
Equipment care and feeding
Lorne (Gump) Wheaton
Art Direction, paintings, and portraits
One Little Victory
Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson
Lyrics: Neil Peart
A certain measure of innocence
Willing to appear naive
A certain degree of imagination
A measure of make-believe
A certain degree of surrender
To the forces of light and heat
A shot of satisfaction
In a willingness to risk defeat
Celebrate the moment
As it turns into one more
Another chance at victory
Another chance to score
The measure of the moment
Is a difference of degree
Just one little victory
A spirit breaking free
One little victory
The greatest act can be
One little victory
A certain measure of righteousness
A certain amount of force
A certain degree of determination
Daring on a different course
A certain amount of resistance
To the forces of the light and love
A certain measure of tolerance
A willingness to rise above