Journey : Live in Manila

[Rick]

Eclipse would easily be at least twice the album with Jeff Scott Soto singing on it.

No it wouldn't. You are high on drugs.

Eclipse is a rocking album. Soto would have torn it the hell up. Arnel did great on it, but there are songs on that album where it sounds like he's reading the lyrics off of a sheet. I like Eclipse, as it is, don't get me wrong. I LOVE the heaviness of it and how it rocks, but man, I would have loved to have heard it with Soto at the mic.

[steveo777]

Eclipse would easily be at least twice the album with Jeff Scott Soto singing on it.

No it wouldn't. You are high on drugs.

Eclipse is a rocking album. Soto would have torn it the hell up. Arnel did great on it, but there are songs on that album where it sounds like he's reading the lyrics off of a sheet. I like Eclipse, as it is, don't get me wrong. I LOVE the heaviness of it and how it rocks, but man, I would have loved to have heard it with Soto at the mic.

Fuck you Rick!

I don't know what Soto would have sounded like. I think Arnel would have sucked on Arrival, so there.

[The_Noble_Cause]

If Soto had collaborated on Eclipse, the songs would've been better. No doubt about it. Cain/Schon can only do so much.

[slucero]

I think Jeff would have tried to steer Neal in a more commercial direction... which, at that time if I recall Neal was pretty much dead set against.


I've always said Eclipse was sonically good.. just scattered from a songwriting standpoint. It really wasn't made to appeal to the lay Journey fan.

The mistake on Neal's part was expecting it would.