STORY_TELLER wrote:I was just thinking about this the other day. Kiss had a VH1 classic special for Kissology 2, narrated by Stanley and Simmons. Kissology 2 covers just about every little thing they had contained in their video vaults. I'd love to buy a similar collection of Journey material (Perry era).
I'd also like to hear all the demos and out takes too. I seem to recall on the Tom Snyder show, Jon Cain mentioned he used to run a tape deck during rehearsals to record spontaneous nuggets they might later use and develop into songs. I'd love to hear that stuff.
If Kiss can do this, why not Journey? Unless Perry is still holding it back.
I was just going to post the same thing. There are 3 distinct eras of Journey and there could be a 3 or 4 volume collection released. A buddy and I were talking about it this weekend and I do know that there was talk a few years back of trying to release a 3 DVD set similar, but what KISS has done is incredible. For Journey, Vol. 1 would obviously be the pre-Perry era through Robert Fleischman. It could include the Crater concert that Robert has a bit of on his site. Behind the scenes footage of recording and touring. Any other live stuff, any TV appearances and commentary by Neal and Ross. Vol. 2 could be from the addition of Perry through Captured and Gregg's 'departure'. Again, include commentary, TV appearances, videos, interviews, behind the scenes stuff and end with a Departure-era concert. Vol. 3 would be Escape through TBF for sure. Behind the scenes recording and touring. Throw an ROR concert in there. Add commentary from Jon with Neal and Ross. Make sure it includes something from the Chalfant, Rollie reunion before Perry came on board. That would be worth the price right there. This would likely be the largest volume with more videos, TV appearances, etc. Vol. 4 would include the Augeri era, getting Journey rolling again. Add commentary from Deen on this one. And they of course could include AP and a concert of his like the Vegas show coming up. If done right, there could be interviews/commentary with all the past members. My buddy was saying on the KISSOLOGY there is even an interview with Peter Criss AFTER he was fired. He was still technically under contract so he could not show his face and he was giving the PR that he 'left' the band. But Gene went on record that he and Paul fired him. Gene says he didn't want it misrepresented! How huge is that??
We know Journey has a vault. We know the stuff could be collected. Hell, they could put a call out to all the old fans who collect EVERYTHING. It could be done!!