Sunday, August 31, 2014

Journey Captured Logo Sticker from 1981

Here's a great Journey sticker from 1981.

This sticker is 5.75 inches in diameter and has a different take on the "Captured" design.

The sticker has never been used and is in excellent condition too...


Saturday, August 30, 2014

New West Presentations advertisement - Journey and Nightmare, inc. congratulations in 1983

In 1983 Journey was as big as they ever got.

Here's a celebratory ad from 1983 congratulating Journey and Nightmare, Inc on their 10 year anniversary.

Nightmare, Inc is the company that Walter "Herbie" Herbert put together to manage and maintain "Journey".

The company started small and grew to huge heights in 1983...


Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Journey Force Newsletter Special Edition January 1984

Here's a great Special Edition of the Journey Force Newsletter.

I received this mid to late January, 1984. It's a 2 page letter explaining the new mailing address rules a the the Fan Club. They gave each department of the fan club a code to mail directly to.

Here are the 2 pages "special edition"...



Sunday, August 24, 2014

Journey's 2014-2015 Tour Begins tonight in Maryland!

Tonight, at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Maryland Journey will begin the 2014-2015 Tour.

Keep an eye on the "Tours" tab at the top of the "Wheel In The Sky" webpage to keep current with dates as they are released.
http://ronsouth.blogspot.com/p/tours.html

Here's a great map of the venue...



Saturday, August 23, 2014

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

1981 Steve Perry 8X10 Publicity Photos

Up through 1982 Steve Perry had the most perfect and iconic voice in rock. No-one else could hit those crystal clear highs with some awesome ooh's, ah's and woo's.

It was during the grueling 1981-1982 "Escape" tour schedule and the huge arena's in 1982 affected his voice. Clearly, it was unmistakably Steve Perry, but on the "Frontiers" album and everything else since the voice has gotten slightly gravelly. Steve's voice was still far superior to anyone else on radio.

Here are two photo's from the 1981-1982 Escape Tour...

Steve Perry in the iconic "Escape Tour" shirt

Steve Perry 1981

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Journey's Blaisdell Blowout concert review September 4, 1983!

Honolulu's "The Sunday Star-Bulletin & Advisor" newspaper reviews Journey's Blaisdell blowout!

Journey played at the Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii September 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th in 1983.

Here's some pictures and the review that appeared in September 4th edition of the newspaper...


Tuesday, August 12, 2014

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...



Saturday, August 9, 2014

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Journey Force Newsletter January 1984

It's 1984 and Journey is still going strong!

This edition of the Newsletter also has the 1984 edition of Steve Perry's biography...









Tuesday, July 29, 2014

"Oh Holy Night" Journey Force Second Place Winner!

Here is the announcement that I won the second prize in a contest in 1984 and I was sent the audio cassette of "Oh Holy Night", an instrumental song that the Journey Force sent out at Christmas 1984.





Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Journey Force Escape Era 8X10 photos

Here are two more 1981 Publicity stills from The Journey Force.

The first one is a familiar band photo...



This one here shows the band going through the piles of fan mail they were receiving at the time...

Friday, July 11, 2014

Journey's Evolution Album Band Photo 1979

Evolution was fifth album by Journey released on April 5th, 1979.

This was the second album with Steve Perry on Lead Vocals.

The first release on Compact Disc was in 1986.

Here is a picture of the back of the remastered 1996 edition of the CD...


It was remastered and released again in 2006.

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

1980 Departure Bumper Sticker

Here's an old sticker from 1980 promoting "Departure".

It was designed by Anton Kelley and Stanley Mouse who designed the best Journey album covers.

The sticker's actually size is 2.8 X 11.6 inches.

Fly on Freebird...


Saturday, July 5, 2014

Journey's Backstage Passes from the Eclipse Tour, 2011

The first Backstage Pass is from The Hollywood Bowl on October 11, 2011...



Here's the basic Backstage Pass used throughout the Eclipse Tour...