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About Journey
Journey is an Arena rock band formed in 1973 in
San Francisco, California.
The band has gone through several phases, including
one dominated by former members of Santana. The band's greatest
commercial success came in the early 1980s with a series of power
ballads and soaring classics such as "Don't Stop Believin'",
"Any Way You Want It," "Open Arms", "Separate
Ways", "Wheel in the Sky" and "Faithfully".
Many credit the group's success to Steve Perry's powerful vocals
and Neal Schon's complex guitar work.
Journey Attempts to reform
Compilations and live albums were released while Journey was inactive.
Mariah Carey's version of "Open Arms" gained Journey
some attention in the mid-1990s (both Steve Smith and Randy Jackson
had worked with Carey).
In 1993, Kevin Chalfant of The Storm performed with
members of Journey on a few shows, and a reunited Journey was
in the works with Chalfant, Schon, Cain, Valory, Smith and Rolie.
That line-up did not come to fruition, when Steve Perry announced
he was rejoining Journey in 1995. This produced the reunion album
Trial by Fire in 1996, which included a hit single in "When
You Love a Woman".
Following the success of Trial by Fire, the members
of Journey prepared for the much anticipated tour. Unfortunately,
Steve Perry injured his hip while hiking in Hawaii. The rest of
the band members waited for Perry to make the decision to either
have surgery on the injured hip or decide to go on tour. After
Perry failed to come to a decision, and possibly believing Perry
did not want to tour in any case, Jonathan Cain and Neal Schon
decided to continue the band without him. Drummer Steve Smith,
believing that Journey would not survive without Perry, decided
to leave the band as well, in favor of a jazz project (Vital Information)
he had been working on prior to the reformation of Journey.
These decisions left Journey without a drummer and
a lead vocalist. The drumming position was filled by Deen Castronovo,
Schon and Cain's Bad English bandmate. The lead vocalist position
would later be filled in 1998 by Steve Augeri, former Tyketto
and Tall Stories vocalist. Augeri had dropped out of the music
business and was working at The Gap in New York. He received a
phone call from Schon, who had heard a tape of Augeri's vocals.
Schon invited him to audition for the band, and, despite having
not sung much in recent months, he impressed the rest of the band
members enough to land the gig. At this point Perry was legally
no longer a member of Journey. Ironically, Augeri is sometimes
confused with Perry, as they physically resemble each other, are
both named Steve, and have similar vocal styles.
The band members promptly went to work recording
a track for the soundtrack to the movie Armageddon, called "Remember
Me". Not long after, the band began recording their next
studio album, Arrival. The album was originally first released
in Japan in late 2000, but due to its leakage onto the internet
and fans' reaction to it, the band decided to delay its release
in the US and record two more harder-rocking tunes for the American
version. "All the Way" became a minor adult contemporary
hit from the album.
In 2001, the band participated in an episode of
VH1's Behind the Music, but statements made during the interviews
only exacerbated tensions between Perry and the group.
Recent Journey
Journey's critical reputation did not improve with the passage
of time: The 2004 edition of the Rolling Stone Album Guide mentioned
above calls Journey the perfect karaoke act and gives no studio
album of theirs more than two-and-a-half stars out of five; the
greatest hits albums did fare a little better.
Although written off by many as a cynical pop act,
the band has become a half-ironic, half-reverent touchstone of
sorts among some who would have been too young to see their original
success, with semi-cultish references—at least to their
greatest hits—popping up on Family Guy, among other places.
Journey and Steve Perry gained new attention in
the 2000s due to Randy Jackson, who since his Journey involvement
had become a successful recording industry figure and then an
American Idol judge. Film clips of Jackson with the band on tour
were shown, and various contestants on Idol attempted to measure
up vocally by singing Journey numbers, exposing the songs to a
new generation of listeners. The best remembered of these attempts
was Clay Aiken's take on "Open Arms" in a key semi-final
round of the show, and later in a duet with fellow Idol Kelly
Clarkson on their joint concert tour, but no attempts fully reached
the high bar for singing set by Steve Perry.
On January 21, 2005, Journey received a star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Steve Perry made a surprise appearance
at the ceremony. Relations between him and the rest of the group
improved, but Perry said there was no chance of rejoining his
former band in the foreseeable future. Ten current or former Journey
bandmates appeared that day, including Perry and the current line-up,
plus Steve Smith, Aynsley Dunbar, George Tickner and Robert Fleischman
(Gregg Rolie was unable to attend the induction ceremony due to
prior commitments). Two years before, Journey was inducted into
the San Francisco Music Hall of Fame, with Rolie, Cain, Smith,
Valory, Schon, Dunbar, Castronovo and Augeri appearing at that
ceremony.
On February 6, 2005 "Don't Stop Believin'"
was heard in a FedExKinko's commercial starring Burt Reynolds
that aired during Super Bowl XXXIX. Before the 2005 World Series,
the Chicago White Sox made "Don't Stop Believin'" their
"official" World Series anthem. The White Sox would
go on to sweep the Houston Astros in four games and win the World
Series. Steve Perry was invited to the celebration parade in Chicago,
where he sang "Don't Stop Believin'" with members of
the White Sox.
In 2005 the band embarked on their 30th anniversary
tour, giving away free promotional copies of their new studio
album, Generations to numbered ticket holders at most concerts,
eventually releasing it commercially in October 2005. The shows
on this tour each ran an amazing 3 hours in length, broken down
into two sets. The first set included material from the early
years (some of it being played live for the very first time) while
the second set was based on material from Escape and onward.
In December of 2005 Journey's hit from 1981, Don't
Stop Believin', rose to #13 on the "Hot Digital Songs"
chart.
The group's current line-up of Augeri (vocals),
Schon (guitar), Cain (keyboards, guitar), Valory (bass), and Castronovo
(drums) has also managed to be their longest lasting line-up.
Journey
Band members
Current Members
Neal Schon (lead guitar, 1973-present) - also a member of
Santana, Azteca, Bad English, Hardline, Planet Us, Soul
Sirkus, and Abraxas Pool
Ross Valory (bass guitar, 1973-1985 and 1996-present) -
also a member of The Storm
Jonathan Cain (keyboards, 1981-present) - an original member
of The Babys & Bad English)
Deen Castronovo (drums, 1998-present) - also a member of
Wild Dogs, Dr. Mastermind, G//Z/R, Bad English, Hardline,
Planet Us, and Soul Sirkus
Steve Augeri (vocals, 1998-present) - also a member of Tall
Stories and Tyketto
Former members
Chris Weist (drums, 2000)
Prairie Prince (drums, 1973) - also with The Tubes, later
did the cover illustration for Raised on Radio
George Tickner (rhythm guitar, 1973-1976) - became a surgical
technician
Gregg Rolie (keyboards/vocals, 1973-1981) - an original
member of Santana, The Storm, and Abraxas Pool
Aynsley Dunbar (drums, 1975-1978) - dissmissed from Journey
in 1978 to join Jefferson Starship; also played on Whitesnake's
album Whitesnake
Robert Fleischman (vocals, 1977) - replaced by Steve Perry
in 1978; later performed with the Vinnie Vincent Invasion
Steve Perry (vocals, 1978-1998) - played in numerous pre-Journey
bands; most notably Tim Bogart's Alien Project
Steve Smith (drums, 1979-1985; 1996-1997) - a one-time member
of The Storm and formed his own group, Vital Information
Mike Baird (drums, 1986-1987) - touring only
Randy Jackson (bass guitar, 1985-1987) - of American Idol
fame
Bob Glaub (bass guitar, 1985) - studio only - also played
with the BeeGees and Jon Bon Jovi, among others
Larrie Londin (drums, 1985) - studio only - also played
with Elvis Presley, Stevie Wonder, and Neil Young, among
others; Larrie died in 1992
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Journey Albums
These are all studio albums unless stated otherwise:
Journey (1975)
Look into the Future (1976)
Next (1977)
Infinity (1978) - first album featuring Steve Perry
Evolution (1979)
In the Beginning (1980) - features selections from their
first three studio albums
Departure (1980)
Dream After Dream (1980) - Japanese movie soundtrack
Captured (1981) Live recordings of performances on the Departure
tour
Escape (1981)
Tron (1982) - film soundtrack
Frontiers (1983)
Two of a Kind (1983) - film soundtrack
Risky Business (1983) - film soundtrack
Vision Quest (1985) - film soundtrack
Raised on Radio (1986) - featuring only Perry, Schon and
Cain with studio musicians
Greatest Hits (1988)
The Ballade (1991) - compilation of 1977-1986 ballads; Japan
only
Time3 (1992) Box set spanning 1974-1986; includes 11 previously
unreleased tracks
Trial by Fire (1996)
Greatest Hits Live (1998) - recorded during '81–'84
touring
Armageddon (1998) - film soundtrack; first appearances of
Augeri and Castronovo "Remember Me"
Arrival (2001)
The Essential Journey (2001) - 2-disc compilation
The Journey Continues (2001) - Greatest Hits collection;
Japan only
Red 13 (2002) EP
Open Arms~Greatest Hits (2004) - Greatest Hits collection;
Japan only
Generations (29 August 2005)
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From Journey's Official Website:
Band Announcements
March 1, 2006
Tour News 2006
We are pleased to announce that a U.S. Summer Tour featuring Def
Leppard and Journey is in the works. No dates have been confirmed
at this time. When the Co-Headlining Tour is finalized, we will
post the dates here. The dates for Europe are still being finalized
and scheduled for June. Watch for more tour information coming
soon. It's going to be a Rockin' Summer!
- Neal, Jonathan, Ross, Deen and Steve
