Comiskey Park '78 or '79 (I never knew for sure) bootleg...

[froy]

Yes, thank you Rick. Patiently done here is just awesome but for me what is really cool is the fact that People and Places is here and my friggen album has this huge skip in it. After 20+ (too many more) years of hearing it this way, the skip is almost part of the song! I am so glad to hear the song without the skip

Thanks for sharing.

My pleasure Cari.

There are also outtakes out there from this show
When Your Alone It Ain't Easy and Dayream
I have em

[annie89509]

Thanks for posting! Without a doubt, my favorite era of the band (Infinity-Departure).

Hands down, me too. I think we're the exception around here though.

If you could drag '78 over from Plokkerville, he'd agree with you also.
Now, on the other hand, St. John.....

Of course, we all know their best and biggest hits are from Escape-on and JC's addition to the band pushed them over to superstardom status. Like SJ, I prefer SP's more mature singing voice, and those 80's-90's tunes were (structurally and lyrically) more appealing.

With that said, speaking from strictly a "live experience" of listening to the Evolution-Departure concert boots, one must say the J-Boys in that era were at their pinnacle in musical expression. The songs on the records are pretty average, but when they played it live in concert -- man, it sounds "symphonic" -- OTD being the perfect example. SP was in top form vocally (GR sharing with some singing duties probably helped), and the rest of the guys were musically on fire.

Some posters over the years have said Jon “pussified” the band, and I’m starting to understand what they meant. Just bring out their catalog of concert boots and compare the sound you hear from the GR-era to the JC-era – a lot of difference.

I was one of the latter-day fans that preferred the JC-era …just for listening to (what I believed) to be better songs. But I really appreciate what the old-timers (those that actually went to the early concerts) have said about Journey being the best during that period of time. Thank God for old concert boots!

[annie89509]

Another thought I'd like to express :

We SP-fans (loons and non-loons) get a lot of crap about "being stuck in the past"... "not giving the new lineup a chance"... no different now than during the SA-era. The fact of the matter is whether one was a fan from the very beginning or jumped onboard later, vocally and musically, it's like and day and night when SP was fronting the band. The proof is in the boots; he set the bar so damn high that every lead singer who has come later pales in comparison.

May not be a fair comparison ... Journey were young men then ... not the old geezers that they are now ... but hearts and minds are a b*tch to change.