Journey Force Newsletter from November 1987 part III - Softball

This week's edition of the Journey Force Newsletter from November 1987 is all about Softball.

The Bay Area Music and Sports notables take time to participate in the second annual SDwight Clark Celebrity Softball Game.

There's a great picture of Jonathan Cain and Gregg Rolie together in here!

Journey Force Newsletter from January 1, 1985 part 2 of 3

To keep the excitement going, this weeks fan club newsletter starts off with picture from a "Night Ranger" party and Steve Smith's Vital Information. Gregg Rolie's next project is also talked about.

The Rockdogs softball team is mentioned in a great article about the winner of "Steve Smith's Vital Information Giveaway".

The usual merchandise pages follow. There is some very interesting items available that I wish I had gotten at the time, like the Satin Jacket. I do have the hat.

The "Questions Answered" section is where we leave off. Some good questions about the "Captured" album, Neal Schon and Steve Smith!

More next week...

Journey Force (Fan Club) Newsletter September 1, 1984, part 1 of 2

At this point the Journey Force Newsletter talked about solo projects more than the band itself, because there really was no band at this time.

Solo projects were taking over. Steve Smith was beginning his third album with Vital Information, Steve Perry riding high on the success of hid first solo album, Street Talk, and Neal Schon is busy playing Guitar in England, working with John Entwistle, the bassist from The Who.

Gregg Rolie is mentioned in this edition for his first solo album and for playing in the Rockdogs Softball Game.

This edition also includes more Task Force instructions. The whole Task Force idea never really worked, but here's some great nostalgia while trying to work it out.

We end this week on the first half of the merchandise page, and remember non of these items can be ordered now.

Journey Force Newsletter dated July 1984

The first part of the July 1984 newsletter includes pages 1-7.

This edition talks about Steve Perry's solo album racing up the charts as well as Steve Smith's Vital Information release.

The Journey Task Force duties are given out, then we turn to  the 2-page merchandise selection...

Journey Force Publicity Photo 1981 continues

In 1981 Journey used 2 different logos.

In early 1981, Journey was still using a logo from the album "Departure" as seen in this photo of Neal and Jay at a Rhinos Softball game...

After "Escape" became huge success and hit #1 the logo changed to the one used on the album "Escape" only tilting it so it is readable as shown in this 8X10 of the band...

Journey Force Newsletter for November 1983

Here's the Newsletter from The Journey Force that was sent out in November, 1983.

This one starts off talking about Steve perry's first solo album!

Next up is Neal Schon's biography and Steve Smith's tour with "Vital Information"

There's also note about Ross Valory's wedding!

Questions answered and again the Christmas ad for The Journey Force Membership...

Journey Force Newsletter from October 1983

This is a huge edition of the Newsletter!

It starts out talking about the record breaking "Frontiers" tour. This tour broke more records than any other to date.

The big feature is Herbie Herbert's biography!

The Journey Rockdogs play more softball and fan questions are answered...

The Newsletter continues with a tentative tour schedule for Steve Smith's solo tour...

Journey Force Newsletter August 1983 and The Journey Rockdogs

Here's the August 1983 Journey Force Newsletter;

This one starts off talking about the Journey "Rockdogs" which was the name of the Softball team Journey were members of.

Some new cities were added to the "Frontiers" tour with special tickets for Journey Force members.

Also the campaign for trying to nominate Journey for a Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star goes on. The newsletters have been talking about a star on Hollywood Blvd. since early 1983 and the star was finally received in July 2005, twenty two years later!

Ross Valory's 1983 biography is featured on a whole page! Ross was around from the beginning, so him and Neal are the only founding members left and a very important member of the band.

The newsletter wraps up with answering some questions. All 6 pages follow...