Could Journey pull off a collection like Kissology?

[jrnyman28]

The one problem with a ROR show: the reminder of just how fast they played all those songs.

[Don]

The one problem with a ROR show: the reminder of just how fast they played all those songs.

Yeah, that's why it would be better to pick and choose clips through the whole tour. Granted, it would still be sped up but chances are good he nailed each song at least once during all those shows.

[marco17]

I thought that some point during the last couple years in an interview either Cain or Schon talked about likely doing something like a retrospective box set that covers all eras of Journey at some point. Whether I am remembering correctly or not, I don't know.

[yandtguy]

I would love to have Frontiers & Beyond and the Raised on Radio doc on blu-ray. Seems like a no brainer to release the Greatest hits video on blu-ray and those two docs as extras.

just as fyi, releasing it in bluray will do NOTHING for the quality. It's not like they were filmed with real movie film (ie 70mm or similar) where you would get an improvement if you did a transfer. Hollywood movies, even the old ones, were filmed with a resolution that even bluray can't support without downgrading the picture to be able to fit on a disc. At best, the Journey stuff was filmed in Beta, and dvd can easily handle that resolution.

In other words, unless you could do a better job retransferring and improving the master, putting it on bluray will not improve the picture one iota....and any retransferring will not look any better on bluray than it will on dvd. You are still within the size limits of what a dvd can handle (which is really the only difference between a dvd and a bluray---a bluray can hold more data, and therefore, more data being thrown at the screen).

It would be nice to get both of them released (I'm not aware of the ROR doc ever being officially released on dvd), but there really isn't any benefit to releasing any of this stuff on bluray except for maybe space reasons without further compression to the image.

/end technical rant...

I mentioned blu-ray because you can put more material on one disc, making it more feasible than separate releases or a box set. In other words, it would be a re-package of a popular title. The ROR doc has never been released on home video, and the F&B DVD was little more than an official bootleg sold on the Journey site.

[Monker]

I thought that some point during the last couple years in an interview either Cain or Schon talked about likely doing something like a retrospective box set that covers all eras of Journey at some point. Whether I am remembering correctly or not, I don't know.

They talked about having a video box set way back around the time Arrival was released.

[Monker]

Most of the people that would be interested in this type of project would be hardcore fans of Journey. Over the years Journey's hardcore fan base has decreased quite a bit, especially after Steve Perry's departure. I just wonder if there would be enough hardcore and serious Journey fans that would want to buy a Kissology type project. I will have to say that most fans are interested in the classic original Journey over anything else, which would be a positive for something like that.

I agree....five years ago, I'd without question would have bought it the day it was available. Now? Eh, just don't care. No point in watching a video from 20yrs ago, which I probably have seen the boot of anyway? It's just not worth the money for me now. I would think a lot of people have moved on like that.

[Monker]

I get the impression Neal (and Jon) is not concerned about the "legacy" material.

They seem to be content to/take for granted that perry will continue to do a great job in being legacy custodian.

Based on what Lora said above about the shows and stuff at one time being all catalogued in a huge closet, it is getting on time for perry to now beging pulling a Jagger/Richards and REALLY start combing through the vaults for more releasable material.

...and Perry's point is that it is Sony's job to start the project and get it released, not his.