Alex Lifeson was interviewed in the April 2007 issue of Metal Edge magazine. Reader Jeff H scanned the article and I've made it available here. Alex talks mostly about the album and echoes a lot of what's already been said in several other interviews. But he did have this interesting thing to say about Vapor Trails:

... Vapor Trails was so difficult. ... For me it's really a sonic issue: it was mastered much too hot; it's too loud and it eats away at us and we want to address that -- and maybe for no other reason than it would just make us sleep peacefully at night. ...

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