| | |  | POP MUSIC | Home » » JOURNEY - Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour | | | | | | | Description: | | Filmed by a four month-old MTV and just days into the band's first #1 album, Escape, Journey is at their peak. The recent addition of FM-friendly keyboardist/co-songwriter Jonathan Cain (fresh from the Babys) proved to be the final addition that the constantly changing concept band would need to crash both radio and retail charts. The concert DVD shows rows of fans in the same red-sleeved concert jerseys getting their fill of the hits 'Don't Stop Believin', 'Stone in Love', 'Who's Crying Now', 'Open Arms', 'Anyway You Want It', 'Wheel In The Sky' and 'Lights'. | | | Features: | |
• Track Listing: 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 I
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| Journey | | Format:
| AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Extra tracks, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Sony | | Run Time:
| 75 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| May 16, 2006 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 33 reviews |
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11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Journey at the top of their gameJul 09, 2008
By Stratcat58
"walt"
If you were a Jouney fan back when, then you're gonna squeal over this. I saw this show in the Summit back in '81. The Summit is now a church! This is Steve on all cylinders. He was THE man at that time and Journey was on top. It's not hard to see why. They did a really good job with the dvd as far as video and sound quality. It will exceed your expectations. No brainer. Buy it!!
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Journey ,Well what can I say.Jun 13, 2007
By S. J. Caldwell
"country girl"
Definitely a must for Journey fans.Great sound,great interviews and great being able to put faces to the great music on this dvd.A good mixture of both rock and softer tracks for you music lovers.Crank it up and enjoy.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Journey at their very best!Jan 08, 2009
By K. Toone
"StevePerrylyzed"
I am reliving my Journey addiction all over again. I grew up listening to them at their peak and now can relive those wonderful 80's days all over again. If you're not a Journey fan, you may very well be after you watch and listen to this. Steve Perry's soaring highs and unbelievable voice along with Schon's guitar and the band's magic together are captured very well here. I watch this often and turn it up! It's a wonder my house hasn't blown off the foundation - especially during an electric performance of "Don't Stop Believin'". Steve Perry put this together after all the years and it's just great!!!!
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Excellent Concert!Dec 03, 2009
By Lori Attardi
Excellent concert. Lots of my ole faves of Journey's from back when STeve Perry was part of the band.
Sure do miss Steve Perry as part of Journey. I don't feel it's Journey anymore without him.
I really like rocking out to this concert!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
So tight and right, with excellent sound and non-MTV camera work...by MTV!Aug 07, 2011
By K. Swanson
If you have ever enjoyed even one tune by Journey, do your ears a flavor and check out this live show from probably the best month of their entire career.
Recorded in Houston on the Escape tour in 1981, three weeks after that classic album hit number one, this show is just flat out smokin' from moment one (a killer version of Escape) all the way to the final Perry wail. They are all obviously super-duper-psyched to achieve every rock band's wettest dream: touring behind the number one record on the planet. And man, are these guys happening on this night. Of course, it's all about That Voice.
Steve Perry! The dude was a vocal GOD. As a teenager at the time I liked a lot of their tunes, but Journey was lumped in with Foreigner, .38 Special, REO and other "corporate rock" bands as just too commercial to be cool. Zeppelin, Sabbath, Beatles, Stones, Who: that was still the stuff that ruled the high school parking lots. Only chicks listened to Journey...which the smart guys took note of, hanging out at the shows and meeting endless girls, while the guys at the Rush and Sabbath shows banged their heads while occasionally noticing the absence of said babes.
The girls knew what guys like me passed by way too fast: Journey had the best lead singer, musically, since the mighty Zep itself. Plus Perry knew how to write ultimate chick ballads (Open Arms is STILL the top AOR song), could rock hard when he wanted to, was always musical and really understood how to use his crazy huge voice.
Watching this 30 years later, having sung and played guitar for a living for most of the '90s, I can only marvel at Perry's staggering abilities. Not only his range and power, but his incredibly reliable ear. This guy ain't NEVER pitchy, dawg! How do you go for that many soaring notes way up there and never dump one even a quarter tone? Only this guy and Dio seem to know, and Steve uses so little vibrato that he blows even Ronnie James away for sheer technical perfection and tonal intensity.
Watch him here for a master class in rock singing; seriously, there's a ton to be learned from this show for any singer. First thing I noticed was how straight his back always is, and how he really opens his throat up at almost all times....hence that seemingly easy power and accuracy. He works the entire stage, almost DLR-style, and hits every dang note dead on even while running. He also anticipates the lyric and puts himself in the right place in the right time, by the drums, keys, etc. The man paid serious attention.
Steve is a true vocal artist, and even if you don't dig his music watch how he hits those notes with his whole body; he's as operatic in the best ways as no other rocker except maybe Freddie Mercury. And the aggressive, intense apporach to every note, plus the soaring swoops and runs, make me think of a truly great lead guitarist as much as a singer. Perry's best vocals sound at times to me like a classic David Gilmour solo, tone and all, and that's a supreme musical compliment.
Steve was a straight-up professional, and I also love how un-wasted he and the boys are here. Ain't it nice when a band gives you more than your money's worth?
Anyhow, enough marveling at Perry. Everyone else in the band is in fine form, especially drummer Steve Smith, whose propulsive groove and tight pocket really make things pop. Schon plays his recorded solos mostly note for note, for better or worse, and while to me he's a little too predictable and generic at times (and nowhere near Perry's level), he still delivers the intensity.
Even though Neal was a founding member of Journey, by 1981 this was clearly Perry's band, and he sings so insanely well on this show, with so much passion and precision, that to have it in this quality with nice slow camera work and near-perfect remastered sound is as close to heaven as any hardcore Journey fan could ask for. And even I, a mere Journey enjoyer, must admit that any band would kill to have been in that magic place, on top of the rock world when it still rocked, and to have played a show for posterity that's as tight and crisp as this.
Maybe the best thing about this dvd is that the picture and sound are A-1, with almost no quick cuts from one shot to the next to the next, every second. We get a shot of Perry or Schon or whomever for ten or even thirty seconds. Yes!! I want to watch a musician working his ax for a while; I don't want to see how many cuts an editor can make with his. This very early MTV production displays all the right things they would stop doing a few years later, helping kill the art of live rock video in the process. Now it's all nausea-inducing one second cuts.
But this near-perfect filming is just the music, with a few nice cheesy screen effects, and that's all we need, and want.
If every band had a dvd this perfect, the world would be at peace and we would all be living in perfect harmony.
Ok, maybe not, but Steve Perry is still the best lead guitarist to never pick up a guitar.
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