Journey Live In Houston 1981 The Escape Tour Music Cd

Journey - Journey Live In Houston 1981 The Escape Tour

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Journey - Live in Houston 1981, The Escape Tour      List Price : $21.98 USD        Your Price : $13.97 USD      ProductGroup: DVD      Actor(s): Journey Movie      Release Date : 2005-11-15      Studio : Sony      Label : Sony      Avg. Customer Rating : (90 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Journey Live In Houston 1981 The Escape Tour      this dvd is a disappointment      Rating:      I was anticipating the energy and charisma of a Live Journey concert. I couldn't find it anywhere on the DVD. Every song on the DVD was performed at what seems 1 1/2 speed. It seems the band was trying to quickly get through the hits that the fans came to see. There is little to enjoy as the band seems to not be having a good time performing their songs together. Play Stone In Love or Who's Crying Now and see for yourself how quickly they go from the intro to the end. This DVD is disappointing. Although Steve Perry produced this DVD, in no way is this a 5 star DVD.     Customer Reviews for Journey Live In Houston 1981 The Escape Tour Cd      Next best thing to being there!      Rating:      I bought this DVD because it was the first concert I ever attended. It primed my addiction to live music. I remembered it as one of the best concerts I'd ever attended. The DVD didn't let me down. The quality -- both video and sound -- are great, especially considering that this concert took place 27 years ago. Journey was fired up that night and solidly in their prime. Unlike other bands in those years, these guys weren't stoned/wasted during the concert (either that or they managed to perform well even when stoned). Steve Perry's voice was clear and strong. Like most live music, the live versions of these songs are a bit different, but every bit as good as the studio versions. The sound in The Summit (the venue in Houston where they played) was full and balanced and the DVD sound delivers that quality, too. Until someone invents time travel, watching the DVD is the next best thing to being there...less the post-concert ringing in your ears. If you were a Journey fan in those years (whether you'd admit it today or not!), you'll enjoy this DVD. Editorial Reviews for Journey Live In Houston 1981 The Escape Tour Audio Cd      Amazon.com      Filmed by a four month-old MTV and just days into the band's first number one 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." Stage-wise, there is very little in terms of visual style with the exception of a few rows of gel lights to move with the music and a pair of spotlights that move with unlikely idols Steve Perry and Neal Schon. In this day and age of MTV Video Music Awards and TRL it is difficult to understand how a band of thirty-somethings in hiked-up blue jeans easily delivered the ballads to break young girls' hearts and the glass-pack rock to fuel young boys' Firebirds. The second DVD consists of upbeat interviews from the same period, a cheap trinket slideshow, and an Escape promo reel from back when those sorts of things were commonplace on networks. The interviews capture an optimistic band in the most favorable light they'd ever been in or ever would be in again. If you're looking for the dirty laundry drama on the fantastic ups and downs in the story of Journey you'll have to look elsewhere. This one is a collector's item of simpler times--a moment when the world of Journey was magic and everything was all right for those who thought music television was an odd concept. --Peter Hilgendorf