Journey Live Album Featuring Steve Perry Set For Release

[tater1977]

Journey Live Album Featuring Steve Perry Set For Release

by Nick DeRiso January 9, 2015 8:51 AM

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/journey- ... our-album/

It’s not a hoped-for reunion with their platinum-era frontman, but it’s close: A previously unreleased, but long-bootlegged Journey concert featuring Steve Perry is due for release next month.

‘Journey: The Frontiers Tour’ was recorded on July 21, 1983, at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla., for a radio broadcast. Journey continue to play today with Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain and Ross Valory from this era. They were touring then in support of their 1983 album ‘Frontiers,’ which went on to sell six million copies in the U.S. on the strength of hits like ‘Faithfully’ and ‘Send Her My Love.’

Both of those songs appear on ‘Journey: The Frontiers Tour.’ In fact, most of the ‘Frontiers’ album shows up as part of the concert’s set list, along with other, earlier Journey favorites like ‘Wheel in the Sky,’ ‘Lights,’ ‘Stone in Love,’ ‘Open Arms,’ ‘Who’s Crying Now’ and ‘Don’t Stop Believin’.’

The complete track listing for ‘Journey: The Fronters Tour,’ which comes out on Feb. 10, can be found below. The album follows the 2005 release of ‘Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour,’ another souvenir from the Perry years.

Journey was rounded out by drummer Steve Smith in ’83. He and Perry both left after the 1996 reunion album ‘Trial by Fire.’ Deen Castronovo immediately replaced Smith; Arnel Pineda eventually took over mic duties from Perry. The group has just announced a new Vegas residency, from April 29-May 16.

‘Journey: The Frontiers Tour’ Track Listing
‘Chain Reaction’
‘Wheel in the Sky’
‘Line of Fire’
‘Send Her My Love’
‘Still They Ride’
‘Open Arms’
‘No More Lies’
‘Back Talk’
‘Edge of the Blade’
(Jonathan Cain solo)
‘Rubicon’
(Steve Smith solo)
‘Escape’
‘Faithfully’
‘Who’s Crying Now’
‘Don’t Stop Believin”
‘Stone in Love’
‘Keep on Runnin”
‘Lights’

[The_Noble_Cause]

Nice. Maybe ROR live will be next...

[RedWingFan]

Sold!

[Journey/Survivor]

I've had the official radio broadcast of that show for over 25 years now. But there are a few things that will be part of this release that were not on the radio broadcast, so at least that's a good thing. It was a very good show.

[Majestic]

Awesome!

I do hope the live cuts are better than what appeared Greatest hits live, though.

[willspups]

Amazon shows this is being released by "left field media" a company that specializes in bootleg releases of radio shows. So how do they get approval from the band/Sony on this?

[tater1977]

Looks like it's been for sale for a while..on Amazon UK for about 8 months.

2 encore songs aren't even on there..

Any Way You Want It
Separate Ways

[MysteryMountain]

Nice. Maybe ROR live will be next...

Nothing new to see here, move along folks.

[artinis1]

this is not an official release if sony is not involved, there would have been some promotion, if you read the reviews some say the sound is good others very poor, it appears to be just copied from the radio broadcast cds

[Journey/Survivor]

My official radio release of the show has Jonathan's keyboard solo, but does NOT have Smith's drum solo that is now part of this new release. But I want to know why the hell there is not a solo from Neal included on this new release???
It's a great solo by Jonathan. It's drastically different from the strictly PIANO solos that he has been playing with Journey over the last 15 years. Which I like!

[inaweofschon]

I too have had this show for years. Unless there is an accompanying DVD like they did with Live in Houston, I'm not interested.

[annie89509]

This topic got me pulling out my bootleg collection. They're a little off on the date, I think.

Frontiers tour, ’83, J. played back-to-back at Lloyd Noble Center, Norman OK on 7/19th & 20th. The 2nd show was on the 20th (not 21st) … broadcast live by the Westwood One radio network as part of their Superstars Concert Series (this info I got from the announcer's introduction recorded on the bootleg - a 2cd set). All the tracks are exactly in the same order as noted in the opening post, except they left out the last 2 songs (encore), which were AWYWI and SW, as previously mentioned by Tater. Perhaps, for the "official" release, they couldn’t fit all the material into 1 cd, so final encore was left out? Also, they could advertise this to the public as an “official release” because it’s a foreign entity? An American company could never get away with it, what with trademark infringement and licensing requirements.

The opening show (7/19) consisted of 17 tracks, and it’s on 1 cd. Seems common, at least thinking about the concert boots I have, when there’s back-to-back in the same city, 1 show will be 2cds and the other is just 1 cd. Always wondered whether J played shorter setlist, or the bootleg just didn’t capture everything.

J/Survivor mentioned a solo from Jon (also Smitty had a solo) but where’s Neal’s? I think Neal playing his song No More Lies served as his solo. Throughout the Frontiers tour, SP would announce to the audience that “Neal has a solo album out and we’re going to play a song from it.” Seems that song is played in all their concerts, and might be in place of a guitar solo.

Some other thoughts: we all realized now (in hindsight) how heavily they toured in those days and the toll it took on SP. Some posters in past discussions pointed to this tour as the beginning of decline in SP’s voice. I can certainly hear the difference compared to the earlier years, when his singing was pristine. I’m mostly referring to the early songs that spanned several tour years (WITS, LTS, AWYWI, LOF), when he set the standard so damn high. We were spoiled, marveled by his acrobatics. But, this tour, singing those songs, he’s changed it some (probably to make it easier to sing), shortened some phrasing of lyrics that he used to knock out the park, and even ducked certain high notes. Oh yeah, as been mentioned before ... songs been sped up. All this, I’m sure, were done to preserve SP’s voice and keep the J train rolling.

Of course, to people that were actually there, in real time back in the day, nobody noticed anything. Journey must have put on the greatest show, as they were the most popular band in America. It’s only us armchair critics of today with 8 years of concert boots at our disposal that we sit and listen, analyze and nickpick.

[scarab]

Why did Journey since the Frontiers tour play WITS so fast? This version is probably worse than I have ever heard. A great tune but I have not heard a good version of the song since the Infinity tour. No SW on a Frontiers tour? No thanks.

Even with his voice subpar (Supbar to Perry meaning great compared to others) Would love to have a ROR Video, with hopefully behind the scenes.

[FamilyMan]

Didn't "Greatest Hits Live" already use most of this show?

[steve7711]

This entire show is taken from the second night in Norman. The first night was never broadcast and is not available on any boots. No matter what the dates say on the boot label it's all from one show. When this was originally broadcast in 1984 it was on a 3 LP radio promo which I bought at an old record show back in 1984. It was re-mastered and rebroadcast in 2000 or so and sent to radio stations on 2 CDs that I also bought at a record show. With the re-mastering some tracks were added that were not broadcast the first few times around (the little jam between Chain Reaction & Wheel In The Sky, Rubicon, Part of Smitty's drum solo, Any Way You Want It, Lights and the cut at the end of Separate Ways was fixed)Westwood One edits all these broadcasts, not the band. They are contracted to record the entire show, though. While some tracks were removed so this would have to be taken from the boot that put both broadcasts together in the correct order unless someone had the master recording which is extremely doubtful. There are still a few things missing from the show that were played (Jonathan and Ross's short duet leading into Who's Crying Now, Neal's long Guitar solo before Stone In Love were definitely played every night while After The Fall with the band jamming into Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' was probably the true final encore) but the 2 CD boot is as close to complete as is available. The only tracks on "Greatest Hits Live" from this concert are Send Her My Love & Still They Ride. All the other Frontiers tour tracks from the official release are from the March 2, 1983 Tokyo show. This is almost definitely not an official release but is a fairly true representation of the band during this period. They sped up a lot of the tracks during live performances for whatever reason.

[Journey/Survivor]

Yeah. I bought the 3 record set of the Westwood 1 broadcast back in the late 80's. I was not aware that it was ever released on CD. I had my records burned on to CD's. My set does NOT have Smith's drum solo on it.

I listened to my burned copy earlier. Man, I forgot how fast WITS is played on that show. What the hell was up with that?

[tater1977]

UPDATE: Journey Labels ‘The Frontiers Tour’ Album ‘A Bootleg’

by Nick DeRiso January 9, 2015

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/journey- ... our-album/


It’s not a hoped-for reunion with their platinum-era frontman, but it’s close: A previously unreleased, but long-bootlegged Journey concert featuring Steve Perry is due for release next month.

1/12 Update: Sony Music has sent us a statement declaring that this album “is actually a bootleg. It is not sanctioned or approved by members of Journey or Sony Music.”

‘Journey: The Frontiers Tour’ was recorded on July 21, 1983, at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla., for a radio broadcast. Journey continue to play today with Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain and Ross Valory from this era. They were touring then in support of their 1983 album ‘Frontiers,’ which went on to sell six million copies in the U.S. on the strength of hits like ‘Faithfully’ and ‘Send Her My Love.’

Both of those songs appear on ‘Journey: The Frontiers Tour.’ In fact, most of the ‘Frontiers’ album shows up as part of the concert’s set list, along with other, earlier Journey favorites like ‘Wheel in the Sky,’ ‘Lights,’ ‘Stone in Love,’ ‘Open Arms,’ ‘Who’s Crying Now’ and ‘Don’t Stop Believin’.’

The complete track listing for ‘Journey: The Fronters Tour,’ which comes out on Feb. 10, can be found below. The album follows the 2005 release of ‘Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour,’ another souvenir from the Perry years.

Journey was rounded out by drummer Steve Smith in ’83. He and Perry both left after the 1996 reunion album ‘Trial by Fire.’ Deen Castronovo immediately replaced Smith; Arnel Pineda eventually took over mic duties from Perry. The group has just announced a new Vegas residency, from April 29-May 16.

‘Journey: The Frontiers Tour’ Track Listing
‘Chain Reaction’
‘Wheel in the Sky’
‘Line of Fire’
‘Send Her My Love’
‘Still They Ride’
‘Open Arms’
‘No More Lies’
‘Back Talk’
‘Edge of the Blade’
(Jonathan Cain solo)
‘Rubicon’
(Steve Smith solo)
‘Escape’
‘Faithfully’
‘Who’s Crying Now’
‘Don’t Stop Believin”
‘Stone in Love’
‘Keep on Runnin”
‘Lights’

[steve7711]

I stand corrected. After some research Journey actually played three nights in Norman as the third show was added after the first two sold out so this is actually the third night (7/21/83) A friend of mine was at the show (she still lives in Oklahoma) and remembers Perry's dialogue about recording the show. Some of the tour dates got left off the "official" listing on the re-mastered CDs. For example Atlanta (my hometown) only lists one date in 1986 and I know there were two because I was at both shows. The second night (11/19/86) isn't even listed at setlistfm. It was the night following the video shoot and it was strange in the fact that Don't Stop Believin' was actually dropped. I guess they were close to curfew and played an encore of only Be Good To Yourself and Faithfully instead. That definitely would not happen now. They also dropped I'll Be All Right Without You and Lights. Must have been tired.

[artinis1]

so who is going to buy this? is it wrong? the band should officially release:

Chicago 79 or Denver 79
Houston 80
Japan 81
Philly 83 from the Frontiers Video
Any ROR show, Detroit 86 or Philly 86

[The_Noble_Cause]

Shame it's a bootleg. Vegas 2001 sold well, Manilla sold well, Houston sold well....there's money to be had here, so it would be nice if they released some more official live material.

[Gina3008]

the band should officially release:

Chicago 79 or Denver 79
Houston 80
Japan 81
Philly 83 from the Frontiers Video
Any ROR show, Detroit 86 or Philly 86

+1000 on any ROR show, especially.