Listen to Journey’s New Solitary ‘The Way We Utilized to Be’

Journey have introduced their initial new song in a decade. You can listen to “The Way We Used to Be” beneath.

The track’s animated video characteristics a young pair pressured to are living aside as a outcome of the COVID-19 lockdown. The to start with issue they do at the time the pandemic is more than is show up at a Journey concert.

Guitarist Neal Schon said “The Way We Used to Be” “arrived out of a person of the several loops I’d published though the extensive downtime continued with the pandemic we all experienced to offer with. … I laid down the keyboard loop with overdubbed rhythm and a minor blues direct guitar and sent to [keyboardist] Jonathan [Cain]. He sent it again pretty shortly soon after with demo vocals and lyrics, and I claimed to myself with a smile, We have even now got it!”

The band’s most current album is 2011’s Eclipse. “The Way We Applied to Be” is also Journey’s 1st new music due to the fact the departures of bassist Ross Valory and drummer Steve Smith, both of those of whom had been fired from the group past year.

Schon said there’s even more to arrive, which includes a new album. He noted that the track marks a “comprehensive new starting chapter for Journey … with all of us collectively composing and functioning jointly. We now have over 26 tunes that we have composed and whittling it down to 10 or 12. We are pretty enthusiastic by all the new musical endeavors we have established together.”

Journey are also slotted to execute at many festivals later this yr, including Chicago’s Lollapalooza in July and the iHeartRadio Music Pageant in Las Vegas in September.

“I can assure you that with the new blood in the band, when we get with each other for two months of rehearsal before that demonstrate, we will be the new substitute,” Schon mentioned of Lollapalooza in an job interview with radio host Eddie Trunk last thirty day period. “We are gonna include a large amount to the demonstrate. We’re gonna deliver some new dynamics and open factors up a little bit and exhibit people today what the musicianship is seriously like in this band.”