After the 'John Mellencamp' '80s concerts, I come back to the live from 1981 of 'Journey', already known to fans but which appeared on spotify in January 2021. The Americans, who in the 70s/80s were one of the flagship melodic rock groups now called AOR, do haven't released many albums after this first period because the last studio recording 'Eclipse' already dates from 2011 but are coming back to the fore with the lineup consisting of 'Arnel Pineda' on vocals, 'Neal Schon' on guitar, 'Jonathan Cain' on keyboards, 'Randy Jackson' on bass, 'Jason Derlatka' on keyboards and 'Narada Michael Walden' on drums (new single 'The Way We Used To Be' released at the end of June 2021). This live recorded during their American tour in 1981 after the release of the album 'Escape' makes us relive these concert atmospheres with, of course, a recording not necessarily at the top for this period and the set list obviously contains several titles from their last opus of the time with a certain 'Don't Stop Believin' (the new line up performed it remotely in 2020 ici) but also the essentials of the band from the end of the 70s with for example 'Any Way You Want It'. In short, hearing a new album from the Americans, this concert is a beautiful journey through time for all fans of 'Journey' and allows you to listen to this group which largely contributed to the rise of American melodic rock in the 70s and 80... | |
