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Journey - Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour Audio CD

A fair review of the Journey "Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Journey reviews here, or go back to the Journey tabs.

Journey Band: Journey
Title: Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour
Rating:
Release Date: 2006-05-16
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Escape 2: Line Of Fire 3: Lights 4: Stay Awhile 5: Open Arms 6: Mother, Father 7: Jonathan Cain Solo 8: Who's Crying Now 9: Where Were You 10: Steve Smith Solo 11: Dead Or Alive 12: Don't Stop Believin' 13: Stone In Love 14: Keep On Runnin' 15: Neal Schon Solo 16: Wheel In The Sky 17: Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' 18: Any Way You Want It 19: The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love)

Sweetened?

I could tell in the 2nd song that Steve Perry went back and added some backing vocals. It sounds great and well mixed. His voice is distintive and there is no mistaking it.
Cain, Valory and Schon are capable backing vocalists, so why was this necessary?.


"I wanna hear your big voices Houston..."
The only difference between this and Captured other than the songs is that it doesn't fade out, it just goes straight into the next song like listening to the concert live. Live in Houston has the same exact live feeling as Captured. Once again like Captured, it has Steve Perry making the audience sing along and clap to certain songs but one song in particular, "Lights", He says "I wanna hear your big voices Houston" and I just, for some strange reason, lose it and just start cracking up, I don't know why. I guess it's just funny to me. The album has all the pre-Escape Journey classics and good amount of the new Escape material. One song in particular didn't make the cut which kind of made me sad and that was "Still they Ride". I wonder why they didn't put it on or even if they performed it live at that show, I guess I'll have to research it more. Live in Houston is a great live album like Captured. I feel that it rivals Captured in many ways but at the same time I feel that the two are even. I always wondered why this concert was such a big deal, but I guess it was the only concert they recorded from that era. .


Journey 1981 - a good deal
Powerful, talented, passionate musicians and singers. This is the way that concerts were meant to be performed. Folks in todays entertainment world should watch this and emulate it. .


DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'!

Their best concert ever!
Steve Perry is AMAZING!
A must for any Journey Fan. I have this cd/dvd set and it is AWESOME!
This is Journey at the height of their fame.
DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'!
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Retrospect Journey
Aside from Wheel in the Sky and a couple other songs, this 1981 live disc doesn't do much for me, though Christian metal music is my favorite kind of music now that I'm born again.


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