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    Captured is the best one IMO. Steve Smith is a WICKED drummer. Left
    because he couldn't deal with the pop anymore. I liked 'em best in
    the early years of Perry, but eventually he got too much control and
    changed their direction to a weaker, more commercial sound. 
    
    /prc

    
    I'd have to say "Look Into The Future" and "Next" are a toss up to the
    best music they ever recorded.  IMHO anyway.........
    
    
    -Tunes-

    
    	I was never really into these guys, but they do have selected
    	songs that I like alot:
    
    	"Wheel in the Sky"
    	"Any Way You Want It"
    	"Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'"
    
    	and probably others I can't seem to recall right now.
    
    							GTI
    

    
    Dixie Highway!

    I had a few of their albums: Escape, Departure, and the one with Wheel
    in the Sky on it.  I also saw them live for the Departure tour.
    
    Escape was one of my favs, especially the title tune.  I think Neil
    Schon (love the way he plays) and Smith carried that band.
    
    Mike

    I have some Journey at home.  I liked it when they had the other
    keyboardist that sang too.  The contrasting voices had a great sound.
    
    Chris D.

    Well, it looks like I'm going to be the dissonant in here, but I never
    liked Journey.  Their early stuff was better then the pop slop they
    came out with later, but it was still pretty boring to me.  
    
    I respect all of them as talanted musicians, but never could handle
    their music.
    
    gh

    Steve Perry's got a classic Voice, Check out his Solo Album....

    
    	Did Neil Schon do any wailing guitar work on Journey stuff,
    	or was he "held back" by the band's image, ala George Lynch
    	in Dokken?
    
    							GTI
    

    Not to rathole the discussion, but I think that a lot of Lynch's guitar
    work in Dokken is much wilder (and more creative) then on his Lynch Mob
    album.
    
    gh

    
    I love this band.  Funny how different people have different view.  I
    thought that ESC4P3 and Frontiers were by far their best two albums. 
    They have several earlier songs that I love, but nothing like those
    two.  Gotta love them Steve Smith quintuplets in Frontiers, eh Pete?
    

    I like "Only the Young" from Vision Quest.
    
    I can't stand to listen to "Faithfully" cuz it reminds me of this chick
    who dropped me like I was a basketball and she was Michael Jordan
    dunking it.

    
    re: .11
    
    Definitely!
    
    re: Shawn.
    
    Check out Shoen's solo on Captured.

    I really like their first three albums before Steve Perry joined. 
    After that they slowly became more and more commercial and I slowly
    lost interest.  Neil Schon's album Late Night is fantastic.  A lot of
    melodic guitar work.  I highly recommend it.
    
    Byron

    Re: Faithfully
    
    One of my favorite love songs.  I don't have too many bad memories with
    women so I don't look down on such songs.  Instead, they rekindle the
    flames ;-)
    
    Mike

    Da only flame "Faithfully" rekindles is da one I wanted to put under
    her and her new boyfriend.

I have only their "Best of .." CD and I like it. It's very relaxing music and
carefully played.

Sorin

    Sorin, once again you surprise me. I have a few Journey albums and I've
    seen them a couple times. They do bring back old memory of a girl I use
    to know. I think Steve Perry's got a great voice. I tend to like their
    early and middle of the road stuff better than the last albums they put
    out. If they tour I'll probably see them. BTW Journey is the only rock
    concert my wife has ever gone and seen with me. I wonder what Bad
    English is going to do?
    					The KER
    

    Anyone hear the tune "Lot to learn about Love" yet?  It is by The
    Storm, which is made up of a few original members of Journey:  Greg
    Rollie (sp? - was the keyboard player), Ross V? (bass player), and
    Steve "Machine Gun" Smith on drums.
    
    Mike

    Good stuff!!
    But, I still would love to see Journey get back together with the
    origional members--Greg Rollie/keyboards & vocals, Neil Schon/guitars &
    vocals, Ross Valory/bass & vocals, Ansley Dunbar/drums. The first three
    albums were the best of Journey (Journey, Look into the Future & Next).
    I personally like Greg's voice better than Steve Perry's. And of
    course, Neil's guitar work on the earlier stuff was the greatest!! This
    band JAMMED!!! TO THE MAXIMUMMMMM!!!

>    I personally like Greg's voice better than Steve Perry's.
    
    Yeah, I like my voice better then Steve Perry's too...
    
    ...oh...right, you didn't mean me... ;^)
    
    gh

    Oh boy.. i wouldn't know what your voice sounds like. Send me a tape of
    you're latest in the shower.Ha..haa!! Just kiddin'..

    
    
    
    	Speaking of Steve Perry, he is working on (or has just finished)
    	a solo album, with Nuno on Guitar....
    
    
    								-Seth

    the new box set sounds interesting.

    >the new box set sounds interesting
    >
    >          -< even I might pick it up for sentimental reasons >-
    
    
    What sentimental reasons ... that your old band, Vessell, was the
    ultimate Journey Rip-off band??  8^)

    Dang Mikey. Buck's trying to pick a fight. 

    Not quite.  Actually a lot of the songs remind me of the times when the
    wife and I were dating.

    
    If Vessel sounds like Journey, I might actually like them!!  :').  What
    Journey era?
    
    

    Vessell are a bunch of poseurs.

    RobPose,
    
    They sound like Journey in the Departure/Escape days.

>    -< Joyful Noyz is a manly grunge band >-
    
    "Grunge"??  I don't *think* so!  Mikey don't play dat!

    
    I love departure/escape!  buck, bring that tape on the 16th!
    

    My new tunes are grungy.  

    Hey Mike,
    
    I'll trade you my grungy toons for your grungy toons...
    
                      The world of GrUnGe.. Paul

    Okay dude, I'll start making a copy today.

    
    Anybody know the lyrics to Separate Ways?
    
    (Song's stuck in my head, an' I wanna know the lyrics!)
    
    

    Here's the lyrics to Separate Ways.... I think
    
    Here we stand.. Worlds apart hearts broken in two
    Sleepless nights.. losing ground I'm reachin for you
    Feelin that its gone can change your mind
    If we can't go on to survive the tide.. Love divides
    
    CHORUS
    Someday love will find you
    Break those chains that bind you
    One night will remind you
    How we touched and went our separate ways
    If he ever hurts you.. True love won't desert you
    You know I still love you
    Though we touched and went our separate ways
    
    Troubled times.. caught between confusion and pain
    Distant eyes.. promises we made were in vain
    If you must go  I wish you love
    You'll never walk alone 
    Take care my love..  Miss you love
    
    CHORUS
    
    I still love you girl
    I really love you girl
    And if he ever hurts you
    True love won't desert you
    No  No
    
                    Stig's Lyricist

    
    Thanks!

    I assume we can't put lyrics in the conference??  legal bullshit?
    
    I'm got 'em if you want 'em chris (if you don't already have 'em)
    
    -a                             

    Anyone have some straight facts about what happened to Steve Perry from
    the Journey break-up to the present?  I've been told that during that time
    his mother passed away, and supposedly he also became a Christian.
    
    I'm getting my information second-hand from a friend at church, but she
    was good enough to let me borrow the CD.  I'm listening to his new album 
    now, "For the Love of Strange Medicine" on Columbia records.  It is
    produced by long-time Christian artist Tim Miner.  Tim also co-wrote 2
    of the 11 songs with Steve.  
    
    The lyrics have some watered-down gospel overtones with a few love 
    songs in there.  If you are a Journey fan, you will like this
    album.
    
    Mike

    Steve pretty much dropped out of sight, but I had heard he was hanging
    around a lot with ailing guitarist Jason Becker, offering moral support.
    
    Had heard he had a new record contract, and then there were rumours of
    the band Journey trying to make a go at it again with the original
    line-up, but nothing concrete.
    
    Mike -- does FTLOSM sound anything like Vessell??

    >    Mike -- does FTLOSM sound anything like Vessell??
    
    I don't know if I can answer that.  The songwriting team in Vessell
    were a couple of Journey/Kansas wannabes.  
    
    FTLOSM has top-notch production, songwriting, and sound quality for one 
    thing.  The guitarist is someone named Lincoln Brewster (I didn't know 
    Punky's brother wailed!).  His sound is very processed, like a lot of the 
    album's sounds/vocals, and uses lots of pinch harmonics and 
    strategically-placed rapid-fire riffs.  He reminds me of a cross between 
    Neil Schon and the dude in Queensryche.  Maybe QR because of all the
    processing.  I can see why Perry has him on the album though.  He's
    definitely a Journeyesque type player.  Probably grew up on the stuff
    like we did.
    
    The single getting current air play is "You Better Wait" and is the opening
    track.
    
    Mike

    It appears Perry lost his mother to cancer within the last year too. 
    Funny how things like this change your perspective.  The reflective 
    lyrics and musical arrangements (i.e., low-key) are also typical of 
    someone who has made a recent decision for Christ.
    
    The single "You Better Wait" (track 1) is my favorite on the album. 
    It's a song about abstinence.  The chorus goes:
    
    "You better Wait
     Stop yourself before you fall
     You better Wait
     Stop before you lose it all
     Somewhere there's love, Oh somewhere, somewhere"
    
    The title track seems to shed some light too:
    
    "Some are believers, 
     Some don't know (some are lost)
     They're lost and alone
     Some are deceivers
     Their souls been sold (for the love)
     For the Love of strange medicine"

    ...re:-1..the only thing that tune would make me abstain from would
    be listening to more new steve perry songs...............;').../k

    I think I want to go out and buy Journey's greatest hits now!

    Get a GRIP man!

    I really liked that Escape album.  The title track was roolin!

    Mike,
    
    If you really want the greatest hits CD, lemme know - I managed to 
    own two copies, and i don't listen to either...
    :-)

    The title track, Escape, _is_ a roolin tune ... otherwise we would
    not be playing it in Metropolis

    hey Coop, how much you want for it?

    seeing this Journey note brings back some great memories of
    when i saw these guys in concert back in 1981, one of the best
    concerts I've ever seen.

    Journey was the first band I ever saw in concert, back in '78.  They
    opened for Rick Derringer.  They put on a great show but Derringer blew
    them off the stage.
    I still like listening to Journey tunes every once in a great while,
    like once a year or so...
    
    Alan

    Accordin to People_Magazine The Original_Members of Journey are
    Re_Groupin and Will be Workin on A_New Album.
    
    
      Crazy_Escape_Al

    Don't stop believing there Al :)
    
    Shane, who gets a kick out of watching old Journey videos

	They must be broke...there oughta be a law!!!!

	/Cap'n_give_me_a_break_Quad

Will Steve "love me as much as I love myself" Perry be with them?

Tim

    
    	They wouldn't be Journey without him......
    
    	IMO
    

    
    
      Journey... SuX !!!  

    Re: Steve Perry
    
    >	They wouldn't be Journey without him......
    
    But at one time, they WERE Journey without him.....

    The Band_members will be...
    Steve Perry
    Neal Schon
    Jonathan Cain
    Ross Valory
    Steve Smith

    ...and the crowd goes wild!

    
    
    	Journey was the biggest band when I was in HS.  And 
    	"Open Arms" holds special meaning as it was played
    	at the funerals of two classmates of mine that were killed
    	in a car accident my junior year.
    
    	Everyone I went to school with *loved* Journey.
    
    	I still like 'em.
    

    
    ...and the funniest thing is...they were virtually unknown in the rest
    of the world!
    
    
    					ian

    
    	They sold 10 million albums, all bought by JJ and her friends.
    
    	8^)
    

    JJ and her friends support the careers of many of rocks best failing
    musicians....jon bomb included!  8^)                          

    
    	I wonder if she ever got Shaun Cassidy to show up at a school
    	dance.
    

    Or Had Him Over fer Dinner...   :_)

    
    
    	bhahahahahahahaaaa!  ahem.
    
    	Nope.  I was only 10 at the time I was into Shaun Cassidy.
    	Way too shy.  =)
    

    I *know* for a fack(tm) that JJ must have been into TEEN BEAT magazine
    and at one time must have yanked a centerfold of the Bay City Rollers
    out of one to hang on the back of her bedroom door!
    
    c/mon Judy, fess up!!  ;')

    
    hey!  Who's picking on the Bay City Rollers....I still have at least
    two of their 45's some place...
    
    /jen
    

    
    I have the album! :)
    
    ANd I had a poster too! Nice TIGHT pants.... hehehe
    
    SueJ

    
>    Accordin to People_Magazine The Original_Members of Journey are
>    Re_Groupin and Will be Workin on A_New Album.
    
    I guess People was wrong, because....
    
>    The Band_members will be...
>    Steve Perry
>    Neal Schon
>    Jonathan Cain
>    Ross Valory
>    Steve Smith
    
    are far from the original members.  As well as very far from the best
    lineup, with all due respect to DECWIN::JUDY.
    
    The *original* members include only two of the above:  Neal and Ross.
    
    The other members of the original lineup were Gregg Rolie (keyboards - B3
    player extraoridinaire), Aynsley Dunbar (drums), and George Tickner
    (rhythym guitar).
    
    Gregg sang back then, too, and that, IMHO, made this band a whole lot
    better.  He split vocals on ???? (can't remeember the name), the LP
    that lauched Journey into stardom (and into pop schlock), and Gregg 
    quit after he saw the writing on the wall.
    
    Get the first CD - "Journey"!!!  This CD is a major problem for me.  It
    is one of my favorite CD's of all time, but as soon as I say it's
    "Journey," I get "the looks."  This album is incredible, doesn't even 
    remotely sound like latter Journey (i.e. it's good) and believe it or
    not, is about half-instrumental.  I play it for Journey fans, and they 
    look at me in disbelief (well so do Journey haters, but that look is
    one of newfound respect).
    
    - Sean
     

    
    	Where'd Greg Rolie go from there?  Sounds familiar, that's for
    	sure.
    
    	And Aynsley Dunbar also played for Whitesnake.
    

    
    Gregg never reached much prominence after he left.  In
    musician circles, I think he was still respected and probably
    played enough to pay the bills, but as for fame....
    
    He did rejoin his original group, Santana, for at least
    a tour.  Gregg and Neal both ditched Santana (remember
    "Soul Sacrifice" at Woodstock?  Neal and Gregg backing
    Carlos) to form the original Journey, and imo, Santana 
    lost a lot when they lost Gregg's B3, too.