Time 3

[Red13JoePa]

Aw, come on! I'm kidding around a little. Let everybody hear it, Nora....

[TRAGChick]

Aw, come on! I'm kidding around a little. Let everybody hear it, Nora....

Well alrighty-roo....

(Don't mind me....it's almost 100 freaking degrees today! )

Steve is singing things off the top of his head or something....while channeling James Brown

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?a ... 046F55D9ED

[mnmsjrny]

Right, and those 13 tunes would easily fit on one disc.

I never understood box sets like that. Anyone who pays that much money for a box set is going to be a hardcore fan, and likely they already have the albums already, so why repeat those songs? Conversely, it could be a normal fan just looking to get an overview of a band's career, but they're probably going to skip the demos and outtakes. It just feels like a total cash-in to me, making people spend $40+ largely to buy music they already own. I like the idea of box sets, I just want them to have material I don't already own, like the Springsteen or Bon Jovi sets that have come out in the last few years. That's the way to do it.

Well, when I bought it back when it came out the only Journey CD I had was GH. I had everything from Captured forward on vinyl, so when I looked at the track listing I found it covered a lot of stuff I didn't already own and absolutely didn't have on CD. Thus, it was totally worth the price. It wasn't until the remastered CDs were released in '96 around TBF that I picked up the entire Journey catalog (and discovered gems I never knew existed!) My only complaint about Time 3 is disk 2 -- they put all of side 1 of Escape on it, but flipped the order of "Who's Crying Now" and "Keep on Running" and every time I play it I start singing the wrong song! That and the liner notes being written by Joel Selvin. He's the critic for the SF Chronicle and thus has reviewed virtually every concert I've been to -- he only ever gives good reviews to Bay Area bands with occaisional "good jobs" to mega-stars, so he's got very little credibility with me. (We'll leave out the one or two factual errors....)

[Red13JoePa]

True , you kinda hafta put it in the perspective it was in 1992. Journey in complete silence no TBF, GHL, Arrival, Red13 or Gens. 4 years after GH.... and you get an amazing carreer retro w/ 11 unreleased tracks.

[mnmsjrny]

This is the collection that really got me into Journey in the first place. I worked at a record store while in college when this collection came out....I thought at that time I'd never see Journey again! They had been off the radar so long when this came out, and I was under the impression that Perry had throat cancer and all that bullshit. I went to school in NC and my family lived in FL, so for 12 hours at a time, I would drive back and forth from NC-FL over long weekends/Christmas/Spring breaks etc and sing the entire collection start to finish for 12 hours at a time.

Speaking of record stores, I ventured to Old Town Sacramento with my wife and kids the other day and found a record store that specialized in OOP and other rare discs (LPs, 45s, etc.). I could NOT believe the quality of Journey as well as many, many other artists' records that the guy had, all neatly arranged. The store went on forever. Unfortunately, I didn't have the time to do some serious "shopping," but I plan on going back. Now that I have a turntable again, I'm thinking of replenishing my Journey and Steve Perry LPs. There is just something about putting on an actual record, as opposed to a CD that works, not to mention looking at the original album art. Oh, the nostalgia!

Amen to that Fred! Where in Old Tow Sac is this place?? I may venture up there and check it out. (though, considering the effort it takes me to even think about heading up to Amoeba in SF who knows! LOL!) Though, it will definitely need to cool down some -- no sense in driving that far only to have the vinyl melt in the car on the way home!

[mnmsjrny]

True , you kinda hafta put it in the perspective it was in 1992. Journey in complete silence no TBF, GHL, Arrival, Red13 or Gens. 4 years after GH.... and you get an amazing carreer retro w/ 11 unreleased tracks.

Yep... people tend to forget that boxed sets started coming out when CDs dropped to affordable prices and became the dominant format. I got my first CD player in 1989 primarially because I needed to replace the taped copy of Springsteen's Live 75-85 set that I'd worn out. When Time3 came out a few years later, I stood in Tower Records and read down the track listings and, ignoring the 13 unreleased/rare tracks, counted out how much stuff I didn't already own. There was enough to make the purchase worth it. Don't know that I'd go out and buy it TODAY now that I have all the albums, but rare tracks like "Liberty", "La Raza del Sol" definitely would make it worth it.

(As an aside, I really loved reading concert reviews back in 2002 when the guys were performing "Liberty" and the reviewers were calling it "a new song written in the wake of 9/11".)

[A Fire Inside]

Amen to that Fred! Where in Old Tow Sac is this place?? I may venture up there and check it out. (though, considering the effort it takes me to even think about heading up to Amoeba in SF who knows! LOL!) Though, it will definitely need to cool down some -- no sense in driving that far only to have the vinyl melt in the car on the way home!

Probably K Street Records... I make a point to go there every time I'm in Sacramento.

[fred_journeyman]

Amen to that Fred! Where in Old Tow Sac is this place?? I may venture up there and check it out. (though, considering the effort it takes me to even think about heading up to Amoeba in SF who knows! LOL!) Though, it will definitely need to cool down some -- no sense in driving that far only to have the vinyl melt in the car on the way home!

I'd have to double check the name. For the life of me, I can't remember, but I remember WHERE it is. If you get to Old Sac, head toward the back toward the river. It's a long the back street there (on the side of the street that faces the river) and as you walk along the boardwalk, you'll see a sign overhead for a record shop. If you head down the hall (it winds around) and all the way to the back, you'll see it. The store is split into about four rooms - two on each side of the hallway. He sells records and old juke boxes. Really a very cool place!

[fred_journeyman]

Well alrighty-roo....

Hey, thanks for posting the link, Nora! When did he do that one? Where was he, etc.? Sounds very cool. Man, he sounded like he was having a ton of fun.