If you discount the crime and the poverty and the overabundance of goats, Jamaica is a wonderful place. According to our tour guide, this is what life there is like: “You wake up, you ride a donkey to work, you go home to smoke, and you dance with your wife. Easy livin’!” Such logic is hard to argue with. Consequently, the Zen perfectitude of my Jamaican morning makes the afternoon’s question-and-answer session with Journey seem stilted and contrived. The session’s second-best question is directed at drummer Dean Castronovo: “You look so much thinner than I remember—what happened?” (Answer: “I
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