# Rush Fans: Vapor Trails remixed! Finally!

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**Created:** [October 3, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-fans-vapor-trails-remixed-finally/670254 "2013-10-03T04:47:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-fans-vapor-trails-remixed-finally/670254/1 "2013-10-03T04:47:02Z")

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For my fellow Rush fans who have sadly shaken their heads over the sonic mess that was the album “Vapor Trails”: REJOICE! It has finally been remixed!

You can listen to it here:

[http://www1.rollingstone.com/hearitnow/player/rush1.html](http://www1.rollingstone.com/hearitnow/player/rush1.html)

For me, personally, Vapor Trails has been my least-favorite Rush album. I’d grown accustomed to there being a definite separation between the individual instruments, so that, as a bass player, I could easily pick out the the bass part. But the original release of Vapor Trails was just so much mush that I couldn’t even hear what Geddy was doing on bass on many of the songs. Heck, I’m a member of a community that transcribes Rush songs into tablature, and Vapor Trails is the one album that the community has still not completely transcribed. Because nobody could hear/figure out what was going on. Hopefully, this remix will fix that problem.

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-fans-vapor-trails-remixed-finally/670254/2 "2013-10-03T06:03:15Z")

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> [@Mister\_Rik](#):
>
> For my fellow Rush fans who have sadly shaken their heads over the sonic mess that was the album “Vapor Trails”: REJOICE! It has finally been remixed!
> 
> You can listen to it here:
> 
> [http://www1.rollingstone.com/hearitnow/player/rush1.html](http://www1.rollingstone.com/hearitnow/player/rush1.html)
> 
> For me, personally, Vapor Trails has been my least-favorite Rush album. I’d grown accustomed to there being a definite separation between the individual instruments, so that, as a bass player, I could easily pick out the the bass part. But the original release of Vapor Trails was just so much mush that I couldn’t even hear what Geddy was doing on bass on many of the songs. Heck, I’m a member of a community that transcribes Rush songs into tablature, and Vapor Trails is the one album that the community has still not completely transcribed. Because nobody could hear/figure out what was going on. Hopefully, this remix will fix that problem.

Thanks for the heads up, **Mister Rik**.