JOURNEY – Live In The Neon Babylon (feat. Jeff Scott Soto on lead vocals)
Many of you have been asking for demos, recordings, etc done by JOURNEY while the mighty Jeff Scott Soto was fronting the band. Soto was part of Journey for only few months, only performing live gigs. This concert captured at the Reno Events Center, in Reno, NV, on 3rd September 2006, has been released on CD and while it’s a soundboard recording the sound quality is pretty good. Of course this is a bootleg, and curiously the photo for the cover artwork features vocalist Arnel Pineda, who entered Journey’s ranks later.
Titled “Live In The Neon Babylon“, this is the only, or at least the best sounding testament of Journey featuring the incomparable Jeff Scott Soto on lead vocals. While JSS may have had a short tenure with the band, his contribution to the group will live on through this red hot live live show, where the singer performs all Journey classics.
When Steve Perry left the band in 1998 after discovering the presence of a medical condition, was replaced by Steve Augeri, who performed with Journey through to 2006 when he was dropped by the group mid-tour.
For nearly a year, Jeff Scott Soto from Talisman (and previously vocalist on Yngwie Malmsteen’s first two albums) filled in with the band for several months, who referred to him as their official lead singer.
By the time the group performed this show at the Reno Events Center on 3rd September 2006, Soto was already in place, and proved to be a stunning new lead singer, as the recording featured on this CD from the aforementioned show attests.
This remains perhaps Journey’s finest live performance from the mid-2000’s, featuring as it does the extraordinary vocal abilities of a man who stayed with Journey little more than a year, yet remains fans’ favourite Journey singer, save for the legend that forever be Steve Perry.
01 – Star Spangled Banner Pt. 1
02 – Star Spangled Banner Pt. 2
03 – Stone In Love
04 – Ask The Lonely
05 – Wheel In The Sky
06 – Keep On Runnin’
07 – Edge Of The Blade
08 – Who’s Crying Now
09 – Chain Reaction
10 – Lights
11 – Open Arms
12 – Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’
13 – Escape
14 – Dead Or Alive
15 – Faithfully
16 – Don’t Stop Believin’
17 – Anyway You Want It
18 – Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
Jeff Scott Soto (lead vocals)
Neal Schon (guitar)
Ross Valory (bass, vocals)
Jonathan Cain (keyboards, vocals)
Deen Castronovo (drums, vocals)
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www.amazon.com/Live-Neon-Babylon-JOURNEY/dp/B081KPTTZG
