Journey - Winterland 1973 (1973 SBD) [FLAC]

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Journey - Winterland 1973 (1973 SBD) [FLAC]
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Technical Information
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Artist...............: Journey
Album................: Winterland 1973
Year.................: 1973 (only just)
Genre................: Progressive Rock/Hard Rock
Type.................: Soundboard Bootleg
Duration.............: 39:30
Number of Songs......: 8
Artwork..............: Included (selfmade)

Audio Format.........: Lossless
Ripper...............: EAC
Encoder..............: FLAC 1.1.1 (20042001) (53% compression)
Hz...................: 44,100
Channels.............: Stereo
Reader...............: ?
Source...............: Soundboard
Lineage..............: sdb>?>cassette>?>cdr>eac>flac


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General Information
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The Journey lineup featured at this San Francisco, California show was very different from the
pop-friendly version of the band that ruled arena rock in the ’80s.

Keyboardist Jonathan Cain (who joined in 1980) and singer Steve Perry (1977) were Nowhere to
be found. Instead, attendees witnessed a progressive rock-leaning semi-supergroup led by former
Santana members Neal Schon and Gregg Rolie. The lineup also featured Ross Valory and George Tickner
from "Frumious Bandersnatch", as well as drummer Prairie Prince.

Rolie sang lead vocals, but the primary focus was on the group’s instrumental prowess, which
they displayed during a nine-song set at their hometown’s Winterland Arena. Highlights included
a cover of the Beatles‘ ‘It’s All Too Much’ and several tracks (‘Mystery Mountain,’ ‘Topaz’) that
would wind up on their 1975 self-titled debut album.

*NOTES*

Recorded on New Year's Eve of 1973 at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, this is supposedly
Journey's very first 'official' gig, as openers for Santana, no less (Herbie Hancock and Malo were
the other bands who played that night, with Journey opening just before Santana).

Very good sounding SBD with a band that showed a lot of promise in the Progressive Rock sub-genre,
but fate -in the form of Steve Perry- would decide otherwise. I strongly urge folk who only know
the Steve Perry era Journey, to listen to the band's first three outings (1975's "Journey", 1976's "Look Into The Future" and especially "Next" from 1977)

Downloaded from TapeCity in March 2008, provided by ChrisGoes(Rock); I thanked him then and I thank
him again. Files uploaded as I found them, except for once more having filled-out the tags
properly. No EAC log was provided, but I included the original md5 log.

Couldn't find decent artwork, so I made some myself and included the lot.


Enjoy!

JJ

Band:

Neal Schon: Lead Guitar, Vocals
Gregg Rolie: Keyboards, Vocals
Prairie Prince: Drums
George Tickner: Rhythm Guitar
Ross Valory: Bass Guitar, Vocals


Tracklist:


01 - Topaz 7:03
02 - It's All Too Much 4:06
03 - In My Lonely Feeling 4:54
04 - Mystery Mountain 4:19
05 - Sing A Song For You 2:26
06 - Kahoutek 6:07
07 - State Of Confusion 5:20
08 - In The Morning Day 5:12

Time: 39:30