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''Vapor Trails'' is the seventeenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, produced by Paul Northfield and released in May 2002. Its release marked the first studio album for the band in six years (since ''Test for Echo'' in 1996) because of personal tragedies that befell drummer Neil Peart in the late 1990s. According to the band, 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.〔Vapor Trails news archive (Power Windows website ). Retrieved 16 March 2006.〕 Despite controversy surrounding its production and sound quality, the album debuted to moderate praise and was supported by the band's first tour in six years, including first-ever concerts in Mexico City and Brazil, where they played to some of the largest crowds of their career. The album was certified gold in Canada in August 2002.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gold & Platinum Certification )〕 The song "Ghost Rider" appeared on the album and was written by Peart as a tribute to his travels around North America after his loss, while "One Little Victory" served as the first single in order to announce the band's return from hiatus. Dissatisfied with the original audio mix of the album, which received criticism for being overly compressed, Rush had the album remixed and re-released as ''Vapor Trails Remixed'' in 2013. It was released separately and as a part of the box set ''The Studio Albums 1989-2007''. ==Production== ''Vapor Trails'' is the first album since ''Caress of Steel'' to not feature any keyboard or synthesizer music. Instead, it uses a more purified guitar tone, vocal, guitar and bass overdubs, and more personal lyrics. Much of the recordings were from one-off jam sessions and many of the original takes from those sessions were used to construct the songs. Rush made extensive use of computers and music editing software to piece the jam session recordings into songs. Neil Peart remarked,〔Vapor Trails Tour Book:(Power Windows Website ). Retrieved 7 June 2008.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vapor Trails」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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