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Journey was formed originally as a vehicle for Neal Schon's guitar pyrotechnics, but after five years the band sought out a lead singer to give them mainstream pop appeal, and Steve Perry did that, helping them to a string of seven consecutive multi-platinum albums before the band broke up in 1987. A 1996 reunion put them back in the winners' circle with Trial by Fire, but Perry then bowed out for health reasons, putting Journey in the sticky position of recruiting a new lead singer. (Drummer Steve Smith has also been replaced by Deen Castronovo formerly of Bad English.) They chose a soundalike, Steve Augeri, which suggests that they are more concerned with recreating their hits in concert than in making new music. A group of Journey's vintage always risks sounding like a copy band of itself, and Arrival, the first full-length album with Augeri, realizes that danger. The singer doesn't quite have Perry's smooth, flowing tenor, but he's close enough so that much of the time, especially in big arrangements, he can fool you, though at unadorned moments on ballads he sounds different. When he's not singing, the music is even more like Journey, with Schon's soaring leads supported by Jonathan Cain's bright keyboards in typical arena rock arrangements. It's hard to argue that the generalized romantic sentiments that make up the lyrics, here contributed by a variety of people including Augeri and Cain's wife, are any worse than Perry's, but Perry sang his words with more feeling than Augeri does. So, the new Journey turns out to be a half-step back to the old (make that the old, old Journey -- pre-Perry, when Schon ruled). Odds are, that will be a more difficult sell at record stores, though Augeri's similarity to Perry means that the concert revenues shouldn't suffer.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Journey, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Associated Performer - Kevin Shirley, Producer, Recording Engineer - Neal Schon, Composer, Guitar, Lyricist - Jonathan Cain, Arranger, Keyboards - Aya Takemura, Engineer - Jack Blades, Composer, Lyricist - Steve Augeri - George Marino, Mastering Engineer - Ross Valory, Bass Guitar - Deen Castronovo, Drums
(P) 2000 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Journey, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Associated Performer - Kevin Shirley, Producer, Recording Engineer - Taylor Rhodes, Composer, Lyricist - Jonathan Cain, Arranger, Composer, Keyboards, Lyricist - Aya Takemura, Engineer - Steve Augeri, Composer, Lyricist - Neal Schon, Composer, Guitar, Lyricist - Kevin "Spank" Shirley, Mixing Engineer - George Marino, Mastering Engineer - Ross Valory, Bass Guitar - Deen Castronovo, Drums
(P) 2000 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Journey, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Associated Performer - Kevin Shirley, Producer - Jonathan Cain, Arranger, Composer, Keyboards, Lyricist - Aya Takemura, Engineer - Elizabeth Cain, Composer, Lyricist - Steve Augeri - Neal Schon, Composer, Guitar, Lyricist - Kevin "Spank" Shirley, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - George Marino, Mastering Engineer - Ross Valory, Bass Guitar - Deen Castronovo, Drums
(P) 2000 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Journey, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Associated Performer - Kevin Shirley, Producer - Neal Schon, Composer, Guitar, Lyricist - Jonathan Cain, Arranger, Composer, Keyboards, Lyricist - Aya Takemura, Engineer - Steve Augeri - Andre Pessis, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin "Spank" Shirley, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - George Marino, Mastering Engineer - Ross Valory, Bass Guitar - Deen Castronovo, Drums
(P) 2000 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Journey, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Associated Performer - Kevin Shirley, Producer - Jonathan Cain, Arranger, Composer, Keyboards, Lyricist - Aya Takemura, Engineer - Kim Tribble, Composer, Lyricist - Steve Augeri - Neal Schon, Guitar - Tammy Hyler, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin "Spank" Shirley, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - George Marino, Mastering Engineer - Ross Valory, Bass Guitar - Deen Castronovo, Drums
(P) 2000 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Journey, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Associated Performer - Kevin Shirley, Producer - Neal Schon, Composer, Guitar, Lyricist - Jonathan Cain, Arranger, Composer, Keyboards, Lyricist - Aya Takemura, Engineer - Matt Schon, Composer, Lyricist - Steve Augeri - Kevin "Spank" Shirley, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - George Marino, Mastering Engineer - Kim Tribble, Composer, Lyricist - Ross Valory, Bass Guitar - Deen Castronovo, Drums
(P) 2000 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Journey, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Associated Performer - Kevin Shirley, Producer, Recording Engineer - Neal Schon, Composer, Guitar, Lyricist - Jonathan Cain, Arranger, Composer, Keyboards, Lyricist - Aya Takemura, Engineer - Steve Augeri - Jack Blades, Composer, Lyricist - Leff Lefferts, Assistant Engineer - Claudius Mittendorfer, Assistant Engineer - George Marino, Mastering Engineer - Ross Valory, Bass Guitar - Deen Castronovo, Drums
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Journey, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Associated Performer - Kevin Shirley, Producer - Neal Schon, Composer, Guitar, Lyricist - Jonathan Cain, Arranger, Composer, Keyboards, Lyricist - Aya Takemura, Engineer - Steve Augeri - Jack Blades, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin "Spank" Shirley, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - George Marino, Mastering Engineer - Ross Valory, Bass Guitar - Deen Castronovo, Drums
(P) 2000 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Journey, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Associated Performer - Kevin Shirley, Producer - Jonathan Cain, Arranger, Composer, Keyboards, Lyricist - Aya Takemura, Engineer - Elizabeth Cain, Composer, Lyricist - Steve Augeri - Neal Schon, Composer, Guitar, Lyricist - Kevin "Spank" Shirley, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - George Marino, Mastering Engineer - Ross Valory, Bass Guitar - Deen Castronovo, Drums
(P) 2000 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Journey, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Associated Performer - Kevin Shirley, Producer - Neal Schon, Composer, Guitar, Lyricist - Jonathan Cain, Arranger, Composer, Keyboards, Lyricist - Aya Takemura, Engineer - Steve Augeri - Kim Tribble, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin "Spank" Shirley, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - George Marino, Mastering Engineer - Ross Valory, Bass Guitar - Deen Castronovo, Drums
(P) 2000 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Journey, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Associated Performer - Kevin Shirley, Producer - Steve Augeri, Composer, Lyricist - Jonathan Cain, Arranger, Composer, Keyboards, Lyricist - Aya Takemura, Engineer - Neal Schon, Composer, Guitar, Lyricist - Kevin "Spank" Shirley, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - George Marino, Mastering Engineer - Ross Valory, Bass Guitar - Deen Castronovo, Drums
(P) 2000 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Journey, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Associated Performer - Kevin Shirley, Producer, Recording Engineer - Neal Schon, Composer, Guitar, Lyricist - Jonathan Cain, Arranger, Composer, Keyboards, Lyricist - Aya Takemura, Engineer - Steve Augeri, Composer, Lyricist - Leff Lefferts, Assistant Engineer - Claudius Mittendorfer, Assistant Engineer - George Marino, Mastering Engineer - Ross Valory, Bass Guitar - Deen Castronovo, Drums
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Journey, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Associated Performer - Kevin Shirley, Producer - Jonathan Cain, Arranger, Composer, Keyboards, Lyricist - Aya Takemura, Engineer - Steve Augeri, Composer, Lyricist - Neal Schon, Guitar - Kim Tribble, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin "Spank" Shirley, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - George Marino, Mastering Engineer - Eric Bazilian, Composer, Lyricist - Ross Valory, Bass Guitar - Deen Castronovo, Drums
(P) 2000 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Journey, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Associated Performer - Kevin Shirley, Producer - Neal Schon, Composer, Guitar, Lyricist - Jonathan Cain, Arranger, Keyboards - Aya Takemura, Engineer - Jack Blades, Composer, Lyricist - Steve Augeri, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin "Spank" Shirley, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - George Marino, Mastering Engineer - Ross Valory, Bass Guitar - Deen Castronovo, Drums
(P) 2000 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Journey, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Associated Performer - Kevin Shirley, Producer - Neal Schon, Composer, Guitar, Lyricist - Jonathan Cain, Arranger, Keyboards - Aya Takemura, Engineer - Steve Augeri, Composer, Lyricist - Kim Tribble, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin "Spank" Shirley, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - George Marino, Mastering Engineer - Ross Valory, Bass Guitar - Deen Castronovo, Drums
(P) 2000 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Album review
Journey was formed originally as a vehicle for Neal Schon's guitar pyrotechnics, but after five years the band sought out a lead singer to give them mainstream pop appeal, and Steve Perry did that, helping them to a string of seven consecutive multi-platinum albums before the band broke up in 1987. A 1996 reunion put them back in the winners' circle with Trial by Fire, but Perry then bowed out for health reasons, putting Journey in the sticky position of recruiting a new lead singer. (Drummer Steve Smith has also been replaced by Deen Castronovo formerly of Bad English.) They chose a soundalike, Steve Augeri, which suggests that they are more concerned with recreating their hits in concert than in making new music. A group of Journey's vintage always risks sounding like a copy band of itself, and Arrival, the first full-length album with Augeri, realizes that danger. The singer doesn't quite have Perry's smooth, flowing tenor, but he's close enough so that much of the time, especially in big arrangements, he can fool you, though at unadorned moments on ballads he sounds different. When he's not singing, the music is even more like Journey, with Schon's soaring leads supported by Jonathan Cain's bright keyboards in typical arena rock arrangements. It's hard to argue that the generalized romantic sentiments that make up the lyrics, here contributed by a variety of people including Augeri and Cain's wife, are any worse than Perry's, but Perry sang his words with more feeling than Augeri does. So, the new Journey turns out to be a half-step back to the old (make that the old, old Journey -- pre-Perry, when Schon ruled). Odds are, that will be a more difficult sell at record stores, though Augeri's similarity to Perry means that the concert revenues shouldn't suffer.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 01:13:47
- Main artists: Journey
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Columbia
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
(P) 2000 Sony Music Entertainment
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