![]() ![]() ![]() “It really was while the vocals were going on. “It wasn’t so much during the tracking,” Elson says. Kevin Elson, who produced the album along with Mike Stone, corroborated what Perry told VH1 Behind the Music: that the session was made somewhat of an ordeal by Schon. With the evolution of players came a change of sound, and it wasn’t necessarily one lead guitarist Neal Schon welcomed with open arms (pun intended) on this particular track. He would have a lot to do with the future success of the band, and the beginnings of this song was left over-actually, a John Waite rejection-from The Babys and a display of what Cain and lead singer Steve Perry could do in the writing department. Gregg Rolie had just exited, drummer Steve Smith had joined the previous year and this would be the first Journey project for Jonathan Cain of Babys fame. When the group went into Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, Calif., to record Escape in April of 1981, it was with the band that was going to catapult them to the massive success they were destined to achieve. Journey fans might dispute that “Don’t Stop Believin’” is their most popular, but that song, which has become an anthem of sorts, thanks in part to politics and sports, went only as high as Number 9. VH-1 named it the greatest power ballad of all time, and even though it only went to Number 2 on the Billboard charts in February 1982, “Open Arms” remains Journey’s biggest U.S. ![]()
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