![]() It worked well enough until the check came. So, while they would eventually land somewhere near Foreigner and Boston, they were actually designed much more like Toto, but with the dials turned up. But they were not especially interested in making hits. ![]() On account of their pedigree, they scored a major label record deal early on. ![]() They were Bay Area guys who’d backed Carlos Santana and Steve Miller - players through and through. Neal Schon, Gregg Role, Ross Valory and Aynsley Dunbar were a heavy Blues band with a side interest in Jazz, Prog and pretty much anything else they could get their ears on. But from the very beginning until their very end, they were also a tragedy just waiting to happen.īefore there was Steve Perry’s Journey, there was a different Journey. For a moment they were the perfect yin and yang of the biggest Rock band in the world. Neal Schon was almost the opposite - the extrovert who sought love everywhere. Steve Perry was the sensitive introvert who wore his heart in a locket around his neck. Or maybe alone in his bedroom, along to old Soul records. Maybe just in his own house to the one he loved. But, if he had a choice, he’d choose to sing for smaller crowds. He could sing about as well as anyone who ever sang Rock and Roll. He could sing like Sam Cooke, but with arena-sized reach. In fact, that’s exactly what he wanted from life: to play guitar all ways, with everyone, all the time. One was an honest to goodness guitar prodigy. Two guys, with superhuman gifts, united by fate, but separated by everything else.
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