Re: Journey

["Stephen P. Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>]

"John McIntyre" <mcintyre@pa.msu.edu> put forth:
> "Stephen P. Goodman" wrote:
>
> > > > Or you going
> > > > to simply play your own arrangements of the
> > > > Carlos score (and the two Journey songs?) or are
> > > > you doing something of your creation?
> > >
> > > I have not forgiven Neil Schon since he let Steve Perry join the
band...
> >
> > Was that somewhere round 76-77 by any chance?  I went to see Journey
with
> > Starcastle opening up for them at the old Palladium in NYC in 77 - 
>going
> > mainly for Starcastle actually (great light show, by the way) - and
walked
> > out after 20 minutes of Journey's set.  It was a roar that changed
pitch,
> > and not much else.  I remember thinking of their set as not much more
than
> > sonic masturbation.  I liked Mouse/Griffin's covers though.
>
> The tour with Starcastle was the original Journey before Steve Perry.  I
quite
> enjoyed both bands.  Err, Starcastle and Journey; not both versions of
> Journey.
> Although I did enjoy (albeit not as much) the Perry-less version of
Journey
> that I saw last month.

Starcastle was really promising for a bit - Yes was on a kind of hiatus I
think, between "Relayer" and "Going for the One", with some folks talking
about them breaking up or reforming or something, and the NY press at the
time implied that Starcastle was the "next Yes".  Their show was indeed
impressive, but of course they didn't have that great Roger Dean stage
setup... and I suspect the members of Strawbs, Gentle Giant and so forth
probably had a good laugh at the idea.