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Journey - Look into the Future Audio CD

A fair review of the Journey "Look into the Future" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Journey reviews here, or go back to the Journey tabs.

Journey Band: Journey
Title: Look into the Future
Rating:
Release Date: 2008-02-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: On a Saturday Night 2: It's All Too Much 3: Anyway 4: She Makes Me (Feel Alright) 5: You're on Your Own 6: Look into the Future 7: Midnight Dreamer 8: I'm Gonna Leave You

One of their best albums!
I absolutely adored Journey thru their 1st 3 albums, it was all downhill after that despite their increased radio airplay and popularity. Just to get this out of the way right up front, you can count me among the Steve Perry haters. They got WAY too commercial for my tastes and I ignored them once they signed up that screaming mimi (Steve Perry).

Having said that, this is a great album and one of the seminal sounds in all of rock. Neal Schon's guitar work is sublime and few do it as well as Greg Rolie on the keyboards. Vocals and instrumentals are top-notch throughout.

Here's a HOT TIP for those of you who wish the original Journey had made another album - they did! But the group was named Abraxas Pool and I believe they only put out 1 album (1997). It features original vocalist Gregg Rolie, drummer Michael Shrieve, guitarist Neal Schon, Michael Carabello on congas, Jose "Chepito" Areas on timbales and Alphonso Johnson on bass.
Trust me, this is the real deal and I guarantee that if you are a fan of the original Journey, you will love Abraxas Pool.


Absolutely Journey's Best
This is the last album before Steve Perry came and listening to Greg Rollie's vocals is an extreme treat, if you have never heard this album you don't know Journey. This album is just fantastic, there are no "filler tracks" that you came to expect with later Journey albums(Before they were Corporate gunslingers they were a real band). .


Are you kiddin' me,
I was completely blown away. This album was first introduced to me by an NPR station in Memphis,TN 1975 when I was in the Navy. Then I found out that Neal Schon was the guitarist. Being a guitar freak I knew him from Santana and loved his playing on the third album.
The title song is worth the price of admission alone. Not then or since, have I heard more soulful and electifying guitar in any one song. Just awe inspiring and beautiful.
Guitar solos are all over this record. If great guitar playing is what you like, then this is the album for you. It is of the hook.


JOURNEY: BACK TO THE FUTURE
JOURNEY fans: (pre-PERRY) checkout [. . ] click on concerts you'll find old concerts from the Winterland/Filmore venues it's really cool to find these gems still out there! O. K. I've been looking for these cd's of JOURNEY's first 3 recordings, finally they released them, my old LP records were wore out! I was fortunate to see JOURNEY in concert pre -Perry about 1977 it was great! haven't forgot it, I saw ELP= emerson lake and palmer a few months later and they did a song from Journey's album Look Into The Future title song, I was shocked that ELP at there height in the 70's would do other bands material but it was a good choice because they did the song justice, I've been following Journey ever since, even though it's become a sugar coated corporate rock machine you know! the elevator/shopping mall background music. again I was fortunate to catch a show at the House of Blues in L. A. mid 90's with GREG ROLIE and NEAL SCOHN and the original members of SANTANA"S band they had called themselves ABRAXAS awesome early SANTANA material. i'm gonna check out the latest incarnation of Journey in Austin TX. maybe they'll reach way back into the archives???.


Look Into The Future - Classic Journey
Greg Rollie's vocals are still very much in the realm of early Santana, very hypnotic while his keyboard playing has grown by leaps and bounds. Journey's second album is a much more rock oriented affair, consisting of mostly powerful rockers with the sophisticated edge of true musicians. Neal Schon's guitar playing has more bite, but his runs are more fulfilling. I can't say enough Aynsley Dunbar's incredible drumming on all three of the early Journey albums, but this one in particular contains some of his most ferocious battery. Ross Vallery holds the fort with his strong, confident bass playing. Songs like "Look Into The Future" and the one-two punch of "Midnight Dreamer" and "I'm Gonna Leave You" take the listener through several phases before relenting, which is something they lost when Steve perry joined. This is progressive rock at its finest and should be heard by a wider audience. .


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