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Journey's Departure Album released March 23, 1980 - 35 years ago



Tracklist
1. Any Way You Want It (3:21)
2. Walks Like A Lady (3:16)
3. Someday Soon (3:32)
4. People And Places (5:04)
5. Precious Time (4:48)
6. Where Were You (2:59)
7. I'm Cryin' (3:42)
8. Line Of Fire (3:04)
9. Departure (0:39)
10. Good Morning Girl (1:43)
11. Stay Awhile (2:48)
12. Homemade Love (2:53)

Total Time 37:49

Line-up/Musicians
- Steve Perry / vocals
- Neal Schon / guitar, vocals
- Steve Smith / percussion, drums
- Gregg Rolie / guitar, harmonica, keyboards, vocals
- Ross Valory / bass, vocals, bass pedals

Columbia

Reissued in 2006 with the following bonus tracks:

13. Natural Thing (3:43)
14. Little Girl (5:47)

Good Album, They rocked a little more.
A couple silly songs, WLAL and Homemade Love.
Amazed WLAL was released as a single and actually charted (I have never heard it on the radio)
(as with Stay Awhile)
Would love to hear them do People and Places w Arnel

Probably my favorite Perry era album - the run of Someday Soon, People & Places, Precious Time, Where Were You takes a backseat to no album. Only missing piece is never playing SS live (that I'm aware), and I've done some leg work on that. Solid album front to back, could live without AWYWI - maybe because it was so overplayed & still is. Jelly Roll Love!

*People & Places would require Neal to take the vocals for a spell, I never envision a place or time where that will play that song again, or Neal will flex the pipes. One I thought they should play is Opened The Door with Arnel - short vocal part, mostly guitar shredding - seems like an easy one to slip into the evening of overplayed hits.

How great would it be if they performed this whole album one night?!

FamilyMan wrote:How great would it be if they performed this whole album one night?!

If Neal really wants a "cash grab" without Perry, they need to do two night shows in every city. First night can be Infinity, Evolution and Departure, with night two being Escape, Frontiers, ROR, and rarities.

So many great ideas & options for this band, yet Neal will never get out of his comfy PJ's in the event he might lose a few fans or dollars by not playing the 13 GH - what a shame.

MysteryMountain wrote:So many great ideas & options for this band, yet Neal will never get out of his comfy PJ's in the event he might lose a few fans or dollars by not playing the 13 GH - what a shame.

I tend to think that it's Cain that thinks that way more so than Neal? But seeing as it's Neal's band, he needs to insist that they cut down on the DD live, and start throwing in more of the non-hits into their sets.