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The authors notes about the bands final studio album (Clockwork Angels) tells about the vaguely steampunk themes and related book and graphic novels that it inspired.

Bowman does a nice job of identifying two great points about Snakes & Arrows: (1) it holds not only one instrumental piece, but three; and, (2) the album’s final song “We Hold On” includes lyrics that suggest that “Rush found quite a lot of vindication” in later years for its decades of eccentric, progressive, and individualistic music.

After Vapor Trails in 2002, there were only two more studio albums produced by the band. Bowman wraps up the last twenty years in about 14 pages by describing the various other milestones that were finally bestowed on Alex, Neil, and Geddy. Rush made the cover of Rolling Stone for the first time in 2012, and in 2013 was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame.

Bowman’s review of Vapor Trails is spot on, from the epic hard rock recovery album and single (One Little Victory), to the over-amped recording and subsequent remastering, to the Lifeson arrest about the same time (read about it)!

Bowman provides a detailed explanation of the cover and cd booklet art that I never really noticed or fully understood! He also eases into the descriptions of the tragedies that led to sabbaticals and a question of whether Rush could continue after 1997-1998.