Posted in: Musicouching by lovinglyoursjuny on January 28th, 2012 | 19 Comments
JOURNEY named by USA Today as the fifth best American band in the history, honored “Legend of Live” 2011 by Billboard Touring Awards.
Journey is an American rock band from San Francisco by former members of Santana. The band started in 1973 and become one of the most well-loved/most hated rock/pop band of 70’s until the 90’s. The Journey released series of hit songs resulted with two gold albums, eight platinum albums and one diamond album in between 1978 to 1987. Their worldwide sales reached 80 million albums making them the fifth best American band in the history.
The Billboard Touring Awards honored the band “Legend of Live” for contributing and created some of the best-known songs in modern music and their continue touring and recording songs in the 21st century. Since 1973, the 2011 “Eclipse Tour” has been one of the most successful tours ever. The Billboard Touring Awards says that, Journey personifies a “Legend of Live” from bad days, piqued criticism to success.
In 1998, the band replaced Steve Perry (lead vocalist) with Steve Augeri after Steve Perry’s hip accident while hiking in Hawaii. In 2005, the band was inducted into the “Hollywood Walk Of Fame”.
In 2006, Steve Augeri dropped from the band due to chronic throat infection and the band was to replace Steve Augeri and hired Jeff Scott Soto who then left the band the following year. December 2007, finally, the Journey found the real deal with a Filipino singer Arnel Pineda whom Ross Valory says “we’re return to where we’re left off- we got the magic back”
Their album “Revelation” in 2008 spent over 23 weeks in the Billboard and on December reached certified platinum by RIAA.
Neal Schon
Jonathan Cain
Ross Valory
Deen Castronovo
Arnel Pineda
Past members:
Gregg Rolie
George Tickner
Aynsley Dunbar
Steve Perry
Steve Smith
Randy Jackson
Steve Augeri
Journey official website
http://www.journeymusic.com/pages/theband
CBS NEWS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjZuNBdE5yg&feature=related
OPRAH WINFREY SHOW
marcus January 28th, 2012 at 9:05 am
Go for Arnel Pineda! Proudly PINOY -thumbs up *_*
thegreatsebede January 28th, 2012 at 9:06 am
Faithfully! ;p
Trinidad Castro January 28th, 2012 at 9:09 am
Steve Perry and Arnel Pineda amazingly has same quality of voice that makes the old fans feel Steve Perry is back!
Roma January 28th, 2012 at 9:28 am
My favorite song “Faithfully”-go go Journey
MJRapp January 28th, 2012 at 11:03 am
Love Journey! Neil Schon is a great guitar player. I think he’s very under-appreciated.
All these artcles about awesome bands lately! You rock, Juny!
Nidhi Rai January 28th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Good one.
V rank January 28th, 2012 at 8:25 pm
And Arnel Pineda is there…. Nice…!
ittech January 28th, 2012 at 10:14 pm
Good to learn about it.
lovinglyoursjuny January 29th, 2012 at 2:58 am
thank you guys
iva75cpb January 29th, 2012 at 7:36 am
I will check out their music, since I havent’ heard about Journey. Thanks.
Aroosa Gloomy January 29th, 2012 at 7:54 am
Thankx
JOSEPH January 29th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
THANKS FOR BRINGING THE OLD GLORY TO THE NEW GENERATION OF MUSIC FANS WORLDWIDE….KEEP IT UP AND MORE POWER…
lovinglyoursjuny January 29th, 2012 at 5:46 pm
@ MJ,
I love music a lot…thanks
Tulan January 29th, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Talented musicians.
marilyn11 January 30th, 2012 at 11:51 am
Great Band :p
lovinglyoursjuny February 1st, 2012 at 5:46 am
thanks again guys
lovinglyoursjuny February 2nd, 2012 at 12:42 pm
@ tulan,
Thanks
lovinglyoursjuny February 4th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
@ iva,
One of the best band recorded greatest songs
serenade February 6th, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Proud Pinoy- Bravo for Arnel -thumbs up