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Topic: Journey - The first 3 albums

I'm on spotify and have just listened to Journey's first 3 albums Journey, Looking Into The Future, and Next. Wish I would've heard these sooner!! These are awesome, and different from what Steve Perry would bring to the band. This is great stuff!! They probably won't play this stuff when I see them in Dallas on sunday night.

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Re: Journey - The first 3 albums

Greg Rollie was great.  Would have been nice if he would have stayed and perhaps shared vocal duties with Steve.  They complimented well like Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell.

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Re: Journey - The first 3 albums

Journey was Gregg's band from the time he and Carlos no longer saw eye to eye. Those first 3 albums were never commercially productive regardless of how good the music was. It was a management move that brought Steve Perry on board and when sales picked up the writing was on the wall as far as Gregg's future in his own band. I dug the early Journey stuff, but lost interest when they went Top 40, just didn't have the same feel.

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Re: Journey - The first 3 albums

I stopped listening to Journey after Gregg’s departure. I've never heard the pre-Steve Perry stuff but I always felt the addition of Jonathan Cain only pussified the music. Same with Def Leppard adding Phil Collen.

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Re: Journey - The first 3 albums

I just heard an interview with Neal Schon, and he said that next year, Journey & Santana are planning on doing some co headline shows together, so that means that Neal would be pulling double duty. Hope that happens!!

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Re: Journey - The first 3 albums

I remember  when The Santana Band break up happened and Journey was born.Those first 3 albums were very progressive rock orientated.They were one of my favorite bands at the time.I saw them when I was in high school at a local ice rink turned into music venue for some rock shows.Got to be right up at the stage.Neil Schon was amazing.
No doubt that when Perry came on board it was a completely different band.I am suprised they even bothered keeping the name the same.Now at the time the Perry Days had huge radio /arena hits that even though not my normal style of music I could not deny the hit machine they became .Given a choice I would take the early Rollie era "anytime at all"

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Re: Journey - The first 3 albums

Great you discovered early Journey, those are some great albums.  In a way it was 2 different bands.
I love it all!  Early Journey and Steve Perry Journey. 

This is one of my favorite all-time bands and was filled with Musician's musicians. Top of the line here.
I do like when Greg and Steve switched off.  They complimented each other.

Neil Schon is just a monster guitar player.  He loves shredding, but when it came to later Journey he knew how to hold back and play melodical for the ballads, but with power. 

The musicianship was out of this world in that band.  Steve Perry one of the great all-time vocalists.
Wow, does he know how to sing a song.  Steve "Machine Gun" Smith, double bass BOOM!  Journey means a lot to the Bay Area.  Damn, best songs.  "Lights"  #1 for a Special Reason.  "Faithfully" one of the most beautiful songs.  "Lovin, Touchin, Squeezin" other end of the spectrum, damn just stomp, tellin it like it is.

Lots of tremendous memories with this band smile

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