This taken from a recent interview at melodicrock.com:
Well, I like the band's music, but I noted that this time around you have two solo writing credits on this album.
I'm going to give you sort of an exclusive, because nobody has spoken about this yet. Seven years has past since I have been working with the band and I don't have to tell you that Neal has always had a love for playing with as many people as he can and have as many projects going on as possible it has always been that way it keeps him musically satisfied and always moving forward.
And so he has done both solo records as well as other projects and Jon Cain is the same.
So after the seventh year and no new record in sight for Journey, I decided I was going to start writing music just the same. Jon Cain suggested I pick up an Apple Powerbook which has this Garage Band program in it, which is ideal for a technical moron such as myself I mean a kid could sit down and write a record on it I was like a kid in a candy store when I got it. I couldn't get away from it it has all the great instrumentation and great drum loops and this and that. So I had all these songs bottled up in me and all these ideas and the moment I got my hands on it I started writing at this feverish pace.
So it was during this time, during last year's tour that Neal took notice that I always had my head buried in the thing. So I laid some songs on him and he looked at me and to put it simply, I guess he was impressed with some of the musical ideas that I was coming up with.
And I think the wheels started turning, cause Neal's always turn, and he got the notion that he thought that at least with a small inkling of what I was doing, that a new Journey album was in the works at least a start or seed of it.
I thought it was pretty darned cool, myself. I wish Apple would do more to push GarageBand...get it out there so more people know about it. It's truly the killer app of their iLife suite.
http://www.melodicrock.com/interviews/journey2005-steveaugeri.html
Well, I like the band's music, but I noted that this time around you have two solo writing credits on this album.
I'm going to give you sort of an exclusive, because nobody has spoken about this yet. Seven years has past since I have been working with the band and I don't have to tell you that Neal has always had a love for playing with as many people as he can and have as many projects going on as possible it has always been that way it keeps him musically satisfied and always moving forward.
And so he has done both solo records as well as other projects and Jon Cain is the same.
So after the seventh year and no new record in sight for Journey, I decided I was going to start writing music just the same. Jon Cain suggested I pick up an Apple Powerbook which has this Garage Band program in it, which is ideal for a technical moron such as myself I mean a kid could sit down and write a record on it I was like a kid in a candy store when I got it. I couldn't get away from it it has all the great instrumentation and great drum loops and this and that. So I had all these songs bottled up in me and all these ideas and the moment I got my hands on it I started writing at this feverish pace.
So it was during this time, during last year's tour that Neal took notice that I always had my head buried in the thing. So I laid some songs on him and he looked at me and to put it simply, I guess he was impressed with some of the musical ideas that I was coming up with.
And I think the wheels started turning, cause Neal's always turn, and he got the notion that he thought that at least with a small inkling of what I was doing, that a new Journey album was in the works at least a start or seed of it.
I thought it was pretty darned cool, myself. I wish Apple would do more to push GarageBand...get it out there so more people know about it. It's truly the killer app of their iLife suite.
http://www.melodicrock.com/interviews/journey2005-steveaugeri.html