Journey Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Journey: We're sort of superstitious now. The albums that had the beetle on it did better than the ones that didn't. It's with us. It's part of our allure.”

Journey: We're sort of superstitious now. The albums that had the beetle on it did better than the ones that didn't. It's with us. It's part of our allure.”

Journey: The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music. Quote by Jonathan Cain

Journey: It's still fun. We've got a great built-in audience, regardless of whether we're getting played on TV or the radio Quote by Neal schon

Journey: It just means that no matter what, it just keeps moving. We've had a lot of personnel changes, and we're still here.”

Journey: There's always a price for what you want Quote by Steve Perry

Trivia

Deen Castronovo was born on August 17, 1965 in Westminster, California

Neal Schon was born Feb 27 1954 at Trinker Air Force base near Oklahoma City.

Jouney's Smith, Valory and Rolie joined the Storm 1991.

Dunbar joined Jefferson Straship..

Journey song “Anyway You Want It” received solid airtime and reached the top 25 singles in 1980.

Band member Dunbar was fired from Journey in 1979 to be replaced with Steve Smith.

Some changes were made within Journey regarding their vocals and what seemed would never come, came, the sound the band was looking for.

Journey continued on with Rolie taking the vocals over temporarily for the departed George Tickner.

Journey signed with Columbia Records and released their first album in 1975.

Journey flew to Hawaii the next day and Prince didn’t mind helping the band out but was already tied to his own group. Herbie recruited a drummer named Aynsley Dunbar. He tried out with the band and was welcomed. The band was set and began recording.

The Radio station KSAN-FM held a contest to name Journey that is how the band came up with the name “Journey”.

Journey was lacking something so they also recruited Gregg Rolie to join them in their endeavor.

Neal Schon became friends with producer Walter Herbie Herbert who decided to hook Schon up with some new band members to form a new group.Journey

The band members of Journey are Steve Perry, Jonathan Cain and Steve Smith.

Journey greatest success was in the early 80’s with such songs as “Wheel in the Sky” and Open Arms”.