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Legendary rockers JOURNEY have launched a brand new single, “You Bought The Finest Of Me”. The music is taken from the band’s upcoming album, “Freedom”, which can arrive on July 8.
This previous February, founding JOURNEY guitarist Neal Schon shared the “Freedom” observe itemizing in an Instagram submit. It’s as follows:
01. Collectively We Run (4:49)
02. Do not Give Up On Us (5:23)
03. Nonetheless Imagine In Love
04. You Bought The Finest Of Me (5:33)
05. Dwell To Love Once more (5:30)
06. The Method We Used To Be (3:35)
07. Come Away With Me (4:02)
08. After Glow (5:22)
09. Let It Rain (4:40)
10. Holdin On (3:14)
11. All Day All Evening (3:38)
12. Do not Go (4:58)
13. United We Stand (5:05)
14. Life Rolls On (4:57)
15. Lovely As You Are (7:10)
JOURNEY‘s present touring lineup options bassist Todd Jensen, a veteran musician who has performed for varied artists, together with the bands SEQUEL, HARDLINE and HARLOW, in addition to David Lee Roth, Ozzy Osbourne, Steve Perry, Alice Cooper and Paul Rodgers. Additionally a part of JOURNEY‘s present incarnation is returning drummer Deen Castronovo, who shared the drum duties within the band final yr with Narada Michael Walden. Walden, bassist Randy Jackson and keyboardist/backing singer Jason Derlatka all joined JOURNEY in 2020 following the band’s acrimonious break up with drummer Steve Smith and bassist Ross Valory. Jackson — who beforehand performed with JOURNEY throughout the mid-Nineteen Eighties — was compelled to overlook all of the current gigs as a result of he’s reportedly recovering from again surgical procedure. Previous to JOURNEY‘s current Las Vegas residency, Jackson had been changed on the band’s 2021 exhibits by Marco Mendoza, who had performed a number of exhibits in 2019 with Castronovo and JOURNEY guitarist Neal Schon below the “Neal Schon’s Journey By means of Time” banner.
“Freedom” will embody the one “The Method We Used To Be”, which got here out final June. The music was the multi-platinum band’s first new music since 2011’s album “Eclipse”, and the primary observe launched by the band’s revamped lineup. “The Method We Used To Be” marked Walden and Derlatka‘s first studio recordings with the band, and Jackson‘s first since 1986’s “Raised On Radio”. The music was produced by Walden at his Tarpan Studios, with co-production by Schon and keyboardist Jonathan Cain.
For the reason that group’s formation in 1973, JOURNEY has earned 19 high 40 singles, 25 gold and platinum albums, and has offered practically 100 million albums globally. Their “Best Hits” album is licensed 15 times-platinum, making JOURNEY one of many few bands to ever have been diamond-certified, and their music “Do not Cease Believin'” has been streamed over one billion instances alone.
JOURNEY was inducted into the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame in 2017, and 2018’s co-headlining tour with DEF LEPPARD was the band’s most profitable tour so far, touchdown them within the Prime 10 year-end touring chart with greater than 1 million tickets offered, and incomes them the celebrated Billboard “Legends Of Dwell” touring award. March 2019 noticed the discharge of “Escape & Frontiers Dwell In Japan”, a reside DVD/CD set from their live performance on the Budokan in Tokyo that includes the band’s first-ever performances of the albums “Escape” and “Frontiers” of their entirety. JOURNEY has additionally obtained a star on the Hollywood Stroll Of Fame and have been inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Corridor Of Fame. Moreover, the band is the topic of the award-winning documentary “Do not Cease Believin’: Everyman’s Journey” concerning the band’s resurgence upon including Arnel Pineda as lead singer after founding member Neal Schon found the Philippines native on YouTube.
Final August, Schon gave a university radio simulcast interview to WMSC and WNUW the place he mentioned the progress of the songwriting and recording classes for the band’s upcoming studio album. He mentioned: “I realized how one can play keyboards higher than ever throughout the pandemic, which I would by no means actually accomplished earlier than. And that is the place our first single [‘The Way We Used To Be’] got here from. [I sent it to] Jonathan [Cain, keyboards], and he did the lyrics on it and put a tough vocal on it. After which we had Arnel sing it, and we lower it and re-cut it within the studio, and it was simply launched. And lots of people went, ‘Wow, man. I adore it.’ 90 % of individuals adore it; the opposite 10 % went, ‘I do not assume it feels like JOURNEY.’ I’m going, ‘I by no means wrote it to be a JOURNEY music.'”
Based on Schon, he and his bandmates had written over 30 new songs for the upcoming JOURNEY report. “A few of ’em are unmistakably JOURNEY with out sounding like one other music that we’ve got; it simply feels like a brand new model of the band,” he mentioned. “It is ballistic, man. And there is no lack of guitar on this report. So I am enthusiastic about it getting on the market. I believe any guitar participant out there’s gonna love this report, as a result of I am simply type of unleashing on this report — like I do lots reside, however typically maintain again within the studio. I do not assume it is O.D.ing on the guitar in any respect and going overboard, however I like to take a look at the instances and the place I see music going. I often have a fairly good intestine intuition about it, and I really feel just like the late ’60s, the time and period of early Jeff Beck with Rod Stewart and [LED] ZEPPELIN after they first got here out, Jimi Hendrix, the CREAM with [Eric] Clapton and Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, that entire period, there’s loads of youthful children on the market, youthful technology, that by no means obtained to expertise that period. So I am feeling like that’s the period that I grew up in and that is what I really love doing and the kind of music I like taking part in, so I am going extra there and I am writing for that, to have the ability to try this on stage. And I believe it is actually gonna journey some individuals out, once we lastly do get this album on the market and may mix it with all of the hits that we do have.”
He continued: “There’s sure songs which are being combined by Bob Clearmountain, that combined our ‘Raised On Radio’ report, and he is made it sound actually superb, actually pulled it collectively. You have got mixers on the market typically which have this unimaginable skill to take work that you’ve got accomplished all through a yr, though they have been recorded at separate instances, and totally different sounds right here and there, they usually pull all of it collectively they usually make it sound prefer it’s a good album that has a spotlight sound-wise.”
Neal added: “The entire album, there’s not a filler on the report; that is what I can inform you. I have a look at it, and I am listening to it now, and plenty of others which have identified our music for a very long time which have superb ears have mentioned, ‘Look, that is the modern-day-and-age ‘Escape’. I believe this may very well be the following ‘Escape’ for you guys.’ And I believe that is a daring assertion, however sincere to God, I really feel prefer it’s that good.”
