Hear Journey’s First New Song This Decade, ‘The Way We Used To Be’

Journey have shared a tunes online video for “The Way We Made use of To Be,” which is their initially new audio given that their 2011 LP Eclipse. It is also the debut of Journey’s new lineup, which now capabilities Narada Michael Walden on drums, Randy Jackson on bass, and Jason Derlatka on keyboards and backing vocals in addition to returning associates Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain, and Arnel Pineda.

“[This song] arrived out of a single of the several loops I’d composed although the extensive downtime continued with the pandemic we all experienced to deal with,” Schon claimed in a statement. “So utilizing my time and attempting to continue to keep enthusiasts in contact I started off putting up many jams and loops I made pretty swiftly most just about every working day. On ‘The Way We Utilized To Be’ I laid down the keyboard loop with more than-dubbed rhythm and a very little blues direct guitar and despatched to Jonathan. He sent it again pretty shortly following with demo vocals and lyrics and I said to myself with a smile, ‘We’ve nevertheless acquired it!’”

“I felt Jonathan nailed the lyrics and melody with haunting refrain ‘got to get back’ – ‘to the way we used to be,’” he proceeds. “So this was the entire new commencing chapter for Journey – many extra comply with the very same sequence with all of us collectively creating and performing alongside one another. We now have above 26 music that we have created and whittling it down to 10 or 12. We are quite excited by all the new musical endeavors we have designed collectively searching forward to obtaining again on the street to you.”

Before this calendar year, Schon spoke to Rolling Stone about the issue of developing a new Journey album whilst the band was unfold all about the world and in lockdown. “Narada and I have been performing nonstop,” he said. “Jonathan [Cain] is also operating from his residences in Florida and Nashville. Arnel is operating from Manila. Randy Jackson is working mostly from L.A. And it is one of individuals Zoom periods and it seems phenomenal. It appears like we’re all enjoying in the room at the very same time.”

There is no release date for the new album, but Schon explained he hoped it would arrive out just before the conclusion of the yr. In the meantime, Journey are taking part in their first article-pandemic clearly show at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom on July 29th. Two days later on, they are headlining Lollapalooza. Their only other dwell date is an physical appearance at the IHeartMusic Pageant in Las Vegas on September 18th.

Given that the past time they performed in general public in late 2019, Journey went via a messy break up with bassist Ross Valory and drummer Steve Smith stemming from a authorized fight about the group’s copyright. They settled the make any difference exterior of courtroom in April. When he spoke to Rolling Stone, Schon reported he was not prepared to rule out participating in with them once more at some future issue.

“Who is familiar with?” he explained. “I’ve recognised these men for a lengthy time. I didn’t concur with the way they went about enterprise. I experienced been in a problem in the band with administration and some of them for a extensive time where I felt like they were seeking to make me go away. I was catching on to a whole lot of issues that I’m obtaining to the base of now, enterprise-sensible.”

Also on the Journey horizon is a biopic about Arnel Pineda. Mad Prosperous Asians director Jon Chu and Joker screenwriter Scott Silver have the two signed on to the job.

“I’ve been implying it to [Scott Silver] that we need to stop everything [at my first Journey concert] in Chile,” Pineda informed Rolling Stone before this year. “And I try to remember when my wife determined to sign up for me on tour in 2011. We had been playing to a 30,000 group that night. I was telling my spouse, ‘Remember Difficult Rock Cafe when there ended up only a few tables? Now it is 30,000 men and women.’ It was just unbelievable. It doesn’t get old to me. It is still so surreal and bizarre.”