Live In Houston 1981: The Escape Tour

while reading Sarita's review, i could tell she is a true fan, even though some of the items stated are not quite factual. i saw Journey on that tour. it was my second concert with the amazing mr. Steve Perry fronting a great rock band. i was very pleased to know that i had also seen them while recording the live album on May 22, 1980 in Cincy. on the first show, there was the great Greg Rolie who had done a lot of the lead vocals for Journey in the early Pre-Perry album offerings. and Greg was a pretty good vocalist, having sung "Black Magic Woman" with Santana where he got hooked up with Neal. on the Escape tour, we were introduced to Jonathon Cain, formerly of The Babies (who opened for Journey on the Captured recording tour). JC brought a new flair to Journey in that he could also play guitar and got into the writing effort that helped make Journey more hits. (He wrote Faithfully) he's also got a decent voice on him as his solo projects show. I've seen the new Journey and while Steve A. is a very good vocalist that sustains the Journey sound we old timers have become used to, he's not even close to the performer that Steve Perry was in his time as front man. Steve A. looks the same leaving the stage at the end of the show as he did in the first song. SP was covered in sweat 3 songs in. and he never stopped moving while the music played. i recently bought the new cd, Generations. it's good. so was Arrival, Steve A.'s first full length cd with the boys. but if you want to see GREAT Journey, this Houston show is the one to have. I recorded it in 1982 on vhs when it ran on tv one night. i've since lost the tape, but the show was almost as good on tape as it was in Cincy. NOBODY sang with as much energy at a full run as SP could. Nobody holds a note like Steve Perry. It's rumored that Steve A. had also given up on getting into the music business because he was continuously told he sounded too much like Steve Perry and we already had one of those! as they say, close but no cigar. I'll still go see them when they come around, no doubt about it. But if you are a recent fan of Journey, do yourself a favor and see where they come from, the foundation that this kick ass band was built on. Neal is one of the greatest guitar players ever in the history of rock n roll as far as i'm concerned, but Steve Perry made the band great. i can still remember the first time i heard the Infinity album and heard Steve Perry sing "Lights". I was blown away. by the way, "open Arms" reached number 2 and was as close to a #1 hit as they got. The did get a Grammy nomination for "when you love a woman" off of the "trial by fire" cd. what a nice piece of recognition after a 10+ year absence. no matter what problems they had that caused them to part company, Steve Perry was the heart of Journey and there will not be another one like him ever. often imitated, never duplicated. get the DVD, see the real deal. see why they have "Generations" of fans.

A Very Good Live JOURNEY Concert.

Old school Journey. This is the video they will show in music history classes 200 years from now when they cover arena rock. Steve Perry and Neal Schon, Steve Smith, Jonathan Cain snd Ross Valory? At their highest commercial success. High energy anthem rock, love ballad rock and AOR perfection. High fidelity bliss. From the greatest generation of rock music ever produced. Thanks Fred Shapiro for this offering.

Journey's Escape Tour came to the Cleveland Coliseum just a few weeks after my 14th birthday. I had no car, no money and parents who suspected that things went on at rock concerts that they had to protect me from. It seemed like the entire neighborhood was going, and at school it was the only thing anyone talked about for the next week. The girls all had magazine pictures of Steve Perry taped inside their lockers. All I had to sustain me was the "Escape" album in LP vinyl, and my friends and I literally wore it out over the next several years, with all of us coming of age in what seemed like months, all to the soundtrack of Journey and a few other bands. By the time the "Frontiers" tour came to town, I was old enough to go but I had moved on to other bands, and besides we all sensed that "Escape" had been the pinnacle, and that Journey was morphing into a band for girls. So I am grateful beyond words that MTV happened to capture this night in Houston with such high quality video and sound. The band is simply at their technical and spiritual peak, and they are riding a wave of unbelievable power since, as Steve Perry mentions during the concert, the "Escape" album had gone number one just three weeks earlier. Disco had ended, Progressive was still coming, MTV had arrived but hadn't figured out quite what it was yet, and Journey was the biggest thing in America in 1981. This DVD captures that moment, and what's truly amazing for us rock connoisseurs is how sparse and basic their stage show is here. The musicians stand on stage with their gear, they blow our minds out with their playing, Steve Perry runs around and some primitive pyros explode at the beginning and the end, and aside from that, pretty much nothing else happens except that everyone in the audience goes nuts and most of the girls probably wet their pants. It's a basic, fundamental, unbelievably well played and well sung rock concert by a band that was on the rocket ride they had worked towards for years. If you missed this concert too, this DVD will almost make up for it. It certainly stands up to time, and they play and sound better than you would think was humanly possible.

This is a great live concert when Journey was without a doubt in their PRIME. Steve Perry, with those distinctive vocals is incredible as well as all the other members of the band performing their very best. Journey was at their pinnacle during their "ESCAPE" tour and I can even remember they had a video game in most arcades of the time based on the band JOURNEY. That's how popular this band was during the early 1980's. They could easily fill stadiums to sold out concerts, and in fact they did, everywhere they went. They were especially popular over in Asia during this time as well as everywhere else in the world they travelled to. This DVD does not disappoint and if you are a Journey fan, this is a must have for your collection. Even if not a fan of Journey, it's still worth the watch and has some incredible music from the late 1970's through the early 1980's by a band who is still popular to this very day. Almost 50 years, and Journey is still active....INCREDIBLE FEAT IN ITSELF in the world of rock bands.

Yes just got this today, plugged it into my upstairs 7.2 system thx pioneer recievervsx-9130thx , yes 140 watts.plus I have 3 extra sets of speakers hooked up, Total sens-surround big living room, paradigm moniter 7 , 2 pairs, klisph horn, fluance biopolar speakers up high on wall, and the rest paradigm, book shelve, center-cinema back surrounds. Yes lots of speakers engulf this room,! The sound is just like the concert it rocks, also 2 subs, polk 125/, kilsph 110, not as good as the bics that I have but they do the job, yes this is my second unit for my son whose 7 for yoga and his karaoke, and wii. This is a real good dvd, , I love journey sounds unreal on dvd, and the price was good too. Even with a normal system it will sound good, but if you can put it loud then you can hear it like it was performed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! buy it if you love Journey!

Ero scettico solo sul fatto che si trattava di una registrazione live del 1981, mi sono dovuto ricredere. Pur trattandosi di un live di ben 33 anni or sono le immagini e l'audio sono buoni. La band...beh...cosa dire di più? IMMENSI. Neal Schon e Steve Perry su tutti. Servizio Amazon eccellente!!!

スティーブ・ペリーの歌声最高です。 今聞いてもまったく古くないし、楽曲がすばらしいので 子供たちも大好きです。 買ってよかった。

Il y a Journey qui reste un bon groupe avec la voix d'Arnel Pineda , mais pour moi le must c est cette periode dont fait partie ce Live in Huston avec au chant le fabuleux Steve Perry et une presence sans pareil....Ecoutez, regardez, aimez ...Quel groupe !!!!!

Awesome video