Are we going to see a remix or remaster of “Vapor Trails”?
Alex Lifeson: You know, Rich Chycki just remixed a couple of the songs for the retrospective that’s coming out [“Retrospective III”], and he did such a great job that we’re so tempted to just remix that album, because we’ve never been pleased with the mix, and particularly the mastering on it. It’s a dangerous precedent that you set by doing that, because you want to go back and re-do a bunch of things. We were never happy with that one there are a lot of reasons for that. We’re to blame for a lot of that the way we recorded it was very impulsive. We didn’t spend a lot of time on getting sounds, and we used a lot of the stuff that we did in the writing phase, rather than re-recording things. So, to maintain the pure energy of what those ideas were, we gave up a bit on the sonic end. But Rich just has this way of mixing and hearing this band that translates so well into our heads, and he did a great job. He remixed ‘One Little Victory’ and ‘Earthshine’. They sound so big and powerful an
