Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour

Live In Houston 1981: The Escape Tour
Live album by Journey
Released	November, 2005(CD/DVD set) May, 2006
Recorded	1981
Genre	Rock
Length	79:00
Label	Columbia
Producer	Steve Perry
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Journey chronology
Generations (2005) Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour (2006) Revelation (2008)

Journey's third live album and second concert DVD, Live In Houston 1981: The Escape Tour, was released in November 2005 as a CD/DVD package and in May 2006 as a separate CD and separate DVD on the Columbia Records label.

Recorded and filmed on Journey's "Escape" tour in November of 1981 at the Houston Summit in Houston, Texas, "Live In Houston 1981" captures the band at the height of their commercial success.

The concert was first filmed and recorded as a concert for the then-fledgling MTV network

Hits such as "Lights", "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'", "Wheel in the Sky", and "Any Way You Want It" are in evidence plus tracks from the band's then-current album "Escape" like its title cut, "Open Arms", "Who's Cryin' Now" and "Don't Stop Believin'" .

Closing the CD version of the concert is the track, "Party's Over (Hopelessly in Love)" which was not on the DVD. Instead the DVD has bonus interviews with the band from 1981 and 1982 plus an album advertisement for Escape.

Footage from this DVD is used in the infomercial for the Time-Life Ultimate Rock Ballads CD set.

Track listing

1. "Escape (with unlisted Intro to Escape that the band would start shows with)"
2. "Line Of Fire"
3. "Lights"
4. "Stay Awhile"
5. "Open Arms"
6. "Mother Father"
7. "Jonathan Cain Piano Solo"
8. "Who's Crying Now"
9. "Where Were You"
10. "Steve Smith Drum Solo"
11. "Dead or Alive"
12. "Don't Stop Believin'"
13. "Stone in Love"
14. "Keep on Runnin'"
15. "Neal Schon Guitar Solo"
16. "Wheel In The Sky"
17. "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'"
18. "Any Way You Want It"
19. "The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love)" (CD only)

Personnel

• Neal Schon - lead guitar, background vocals
• Steve Perry - lead vocals, rhythm keyboards on "Stone in Love" and "Who's Crying Now"
• Jonathan Cain - keyboards, background vocals, rhythm guitar on "Intro to Escape", "Stone in Love", "Keep on Runnin'", "Wheel in the Sky", and the solo in "Don't Stop Believin"
• Steve Smith - drums
• Ross Valory - bass guitar, background vocals