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Album Review: “Captured” by Journey

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Not Their Best

Live albums can be tricky. If done right, it could capture the magic and energy of the live performances but if done poorly, it could easily be one of the more forgettable LPs that even the most ardent fans wouldn’t bother to listen to a second time. And Journey’s “Captured” falls somewhere in between. Even Steve Perry himself isn’t too fond of the LP.

It would still be a few months away before they will release “Escape” which spawned the classic hits “Open Arms,” “Don’t Stop Believin'”, and “Who’s Cryin’ Now.” “Separate Ways” and “Faithfully” were not yet conceived. Even so, at this point, Journey already had a string of hits. And that’s what they used for “Captured” – a live double-disc which was recorded during their 1980 “Departure” Tour. It’s the last LP that featured keyboard player and founder Gregg Rolie.

It peaked at #9 on the US Billboard 200 and was eventually certified 2x platinum by the RIAA. But both fans and critics can agree – it wasn’t their finest musical moment.

“Captured” is interesting and entertaining enough – it perfectly showed where Journey was at that point in their career. Their biggest hits would come later and as far as live albums go, this isn’t all that bad. But it’s far from being unforgettable either. The delivery and execution of the songs were good, as to be expected with a tight group like Journey. Steve Perry also shined with his vocals.

But there’s something lacking that’s hard to pinpoint. The energy is there but it’s too perfect – almost like you’re listening to a studio recording instead of a live performance. And perhaps it’s that perfectionism that takes away the magic that should be present here. Again, their solid playing is impressive but not exactly something that left us in awe.

Overall, “Captured” is dispensable.

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REVIEW: Journey – Captured (1981)

Captured was a turning point for Journey.  After this, they went from mega to uber-mega.  It was their first live album, and their last with founding keyboardist and singer Gregg Rolie (who actually sang lead in Journey on their first three albums, before they discovered Steve Perry).  When Rolie left and Journey hired on Jonathan Cain, they went in an even more radio-friendly direction.  The live album captured (pun intended) the end of the Rolie era with basically every hit they had.  They were more of a rock and roll band back then, and this album shows it.

The scorching heat of “Where Were You” is the perfect track to prime the rock n’ roll BBQ.  Journey’s brand of rock is driving, but polished to a shimmery gleen.  This is partly due to the impeccable pipes of Steve Perry.  I’m not sure if Steve has even heard of a bum note, let along sung one.  But Perry was only one of two singers in Journey, and Rolie has his first lead on the mid-tempo pleaser “Just the Same Way”.  Although he is not comparable to Perry, he’s no slouch and the different singers gave Journey more dimension.

Blazingly fast, the gleeful “Line of Fire” is the hardest rocker on the album. “So don’t go sayin’ Stevie’s a liar!” he sings, and the crowd goes nuts. But Journey are probably better associated in the public eye with tender ballads. “Lights” live is a definitive version. It merges into another beautiful ballad, “Stay Awhile”. Perry’s singing here is so splendid, so perfect, so soulful and powerful that it’s hard not to just be amazed. Not to be outdone is Neal Schon with one of his most memorable guitar solos on “Lights”. A pretty version of “Too Late” makes it a trilogy.

Rolling right into “Anytime” and “Do You Recall”, the listener is treated to some lesser-recognized Journey classics that are as good or better than their biggest hits. “Do You Recall” in particular boasts the kind of melodies and smooth rock grooves that radio hits are made of. With that out of the way for now, they go into a blues jam with “Walk Like a Lady”. According to Steve Perry, “We got two of the best blues players in the whole world here tonight. Two of the best! We got Mr. Gregg Rolie on the Hammond B-3 and Mr. Neal Schon on the Stratocaster!” After a blazing Schon solo, Journey blast into “La Do Da”, another one of their lesser-known rock blitzes.  Bass solos!  (By Ross Valory!)  Drum solos! (by Steve “Machine Gun” Smith!)  And then the listener is rewarded for their patience with a string of their biggest hits:  “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin'”, “Wheel in the Sky”, and “Any Way You Want It”.

That’s a hell of a double live album right there.  No, Journey’s Captured is not remembered on the same level as Live and Dangerous , Frampton Comes Alive , or Kiss Alive ( I or II ).   Captured is certainly great, but somehow falls ever so shy from achieving the same lofty heights as the aforementioned.  It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly why it’s not quite up there.  Perhaps it’s the perfectionist style of the band, because it’s certainly not Steve Perry.

It’s not over though:  Journey included a new song, and their first ever without Gregg Rolie on keys.  Studio cat Stevie “Keys” Roseman filled in, on the ironically piano-based “Hopelessly in Love”.   This unsung classic is one of the strongest Journey songs in the canon.  It’s too bad that it rarely gets pulled out for compilations, instead residing at the end of a near-forgotten live album.

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Ha! I got this and you are correct after Rolie left Cain showed up with a bucket of ballads and Journey became real radio fodder….. This album I have and is good as its Journey rockin……your right though for a double live album it never took off like Kiss/Frampton even Cheap Trick passed em by on the live album conversation….. I don’t think Journey was to bothered by it once Escape came out ….. Nice write up ….

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Thanks Deke! Cain really changed the band and I think that was intentional from the band. And obviously he is one of the main three guys now, with Schon and Valory being the other two.

Escape of course was huge…I have a live DVD from that tour, reviewed that a while back! Still missing a couple Journey albums, the early stuff particularly.

Ha wait till my post on Friday Mikey….

If it’s Nickelback, I’ll be upset with you.

haha..nope…

The Party’s over is playing as I type – it’s strange when strong tunes get lost in the discography like that.

It happened to Kiss — 5 pretty good rock tunes stuck at the end of Alive II. Makes you wonder: What could have been different in Kisstory if that was an EP?

I honestly don’t know much about Journey. I always considered them to be a bit too radio friendly.

The stuff you hear on the radio, for sure. But dig into the album tracks, especially the early stuff. The first three are progressive rock basically. On the fourth they got Steve Perry and shifted towards radio rock, but they still have plenty of album tracks that were blazing and daring. There was one B-side called La Raza Del Sol that was very Santana. Originally, Journey formed as an offshot of Santana, and that’s where Schon and Rolie came from.

I’d love to hear this. You got me into Journey, and you make this live set sound like an awesome artifact of their efforts in a live setting!

There’s another live album just called Greatest Hits Live that I think I might like better. But it doesn’t have the studio track, which I love.

Just out of curiosity, are the track lists the same otherwise (or pretty much)?

Very different actually! Greatest Hits Live was a few years down the road, more hits and fewer of the old album songs. Still a great setlist, and still a fiery performance.

That’s a relief, actually. Shows how many songs they have that can be played and carry well live!

“The combined sheer lung power on that stage that night could not be measured by science.” HAHAHAHAHA!

This is a great live album and even though the Greatest Hits Live has possibly the better set list picked from the better albums (in my opinion), I like this live album better.

It sounds more focussed as a set and there’s been a lot more love and thought put into the packaging, especially on the vinyl release at the time, making it a nicer souvenir of the band’s live work up to that time (I love the photos of the banner competition winners on the inner sleeves). It’s also a great chapter-closer ready for Journey to go interstellar in the 1980s with Escape, especially with the closing number on there.

Compared to other live albums, someone REALLY cared and wanted to make this album a special one and I think they succeeded. It’s a corker.

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Why Steve Perry Didn’t Like Journey’s ‘Captured’ Album

Steve Perry always felt inspired to sing with Journey because the band’s live audiences wanted him to – except when they recorded their first live album, Captured .

The 1980 LP sold more than 2 million copies and reached No. 9 on the chart, but Perry never felt comfortable with the whole concept, as he told Uncle Joe Benson on the Ultimate Classic Rock Nights radio show.

“Honestly, I didn’t like recording music live, and I didn’t like filming the show live,” he explained. “I was young, and it used to put a sort of requirement on me vocally – a concern, let’s call it that. Everything had to be perfect. And when I did that, I wouldn’t have almost as much fun as I could have if there was nobody watching except the audience.”

He said he "was there for the audience, and I sang because they wanted me to. Without them, I can’t sing that way. It’s just that simple. I sing in my car, in the shower, but I don’t sing like I am when I’m in front of people. And no, all those people, you can’t join me in the car, you can’t join me in the shower! The point is, they bring that out of you.”

Asked if he’d been “on edge” during the recording, Perry replied that he "wasn’t on edge as much as I was concerned that it be perfect.”

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Wow, thanks a lot!

Thank you so much for sharing. I have the vinyl version, not yet the CD, so this post is very welcome 🙂

I’ve been searching for so long for this this album, thank you so much!

Great album, thanks for sharing it!

Excellent live production album.

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