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Steve Smith & Vital Information: “Open Arms” from the NEW PERSPECTIVE album (2025)
Originally, I played drums on “Open Arms” for the Journey ESCAPE album in 1981. It’s a song I always enjoyed playing live with Journey. I loved the slow tempo, wide dynamic range and Steve Perry always delivered an inspired vocal.
Once Vital Information keyboardist Manuel Valera came up with a jazz-rock version of “Don’t Stop Believin,’” the next Journey song we thought about playing was “Open Arms.”
The song makes a fantastic piano trio song and it’s a wonderful feature for our virtuosic bassist Janek Gwizdala.
We recorded, and filmed, this rendition June 29, 2023 at Studio Mozart in Little Falls, NJ for our New Perspective album (streaming everywhere and CD available on the above website).
- Steve Smith
- Recorded: June 29, 2023
- Location: Studio Mozart, Little Falls, NJ
- Album: New Perspective
- Stream/CD: https://vitalinformation.com/store/vi.htm