Journey - 1973 Unreleased

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JOURNEY - CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE Unreleased 1973 Studio Recordings (Tracks 14,15,16) - Recorded live in Diamond Head, Hawaii 1/1/73 The unfinished album by the original pre - Steve Perry Journey. 13 tracks from the fusion tinged rockers plus 3 live tracks from a pre-Journey Schon fusion band known as Birthday. Journey: Neal Schon - Guitar Ross Valory - Bass Gregg Rolie - Vocals, Keyboards George Tickner - Guitar Prairie Prince - Drums 00:00 - Mystery Mountain 4:17 [Studio Mix - Unfinished] 04:17 - In the Morning Day 4:00 [Studio Mix - No vocals] 08:17 - Charge of the Light Brigade?, 6:15 [Fusion w-Killer Neal Solos] 14:32 - unknown instrumental,4:26 a nice ballad, kind of in a Jeff Beck/Santana style 18:58 - To Make Some Music 3:42 [Studio Mix - no vocals] 22:40 - In My Lonely Feeling/Conversations 4:53 [Studio Mix - no vocals] 27:33 - unknown instrumental 3:00 30:33 - Can You Hear Me? 2:47 33:20 - Kohoutek 5:24 [Studio Mix - Differs from Released Version] 38:44 - Unknown 6:23 Agressive Fusion Track [Schon lights it up] 45:07 - To Make Some Music 3:00 [no vocals, Alt Version to track #5] 48:07 - Unknown 1:48 Fusion Track 49:55 - Charge of the Light Brigade? 5:27 [Alt Version -Faster Tempo] 0:55:22 - Concert Cut 8:22 Your Little Girl (Neal Schon/Gregg Rollie - Birthday) 1:03:44 - Concert Cut 6:14 Voodoo Chile (Neal Schon/Gregg Rollie - Birthday) 1:09:58 - Concert Cut 7:26 Tonight (Neal Schon/Gregg Rollie - Birthday) The last three tracks are apparently from a Neal Schon group between Santana and Journey, which the cover says is called Birthday and is from Diamond Head,11/73 (not the whole album, as the poster states in the info listing here. The cover just says these three tracks are from that date). In the liner notes to the 3rd Santana album from 1971, Rolie says when he and Neal quit the band (after the 4th album), he opened up a restaurant for a year before hooking up with Schon to form Journey. The 1st Journey album's songs are copyrighted 1974 and the album was released in '75, so it's logical Neal was doing something musically during the year or so between the two bands. All three of these tracks are instrumentals and it sounds like a decent audience recording in a small club. The first thirteen tracks are all studio recordings and other than some hiss and slight distortion in louder places, are probably an 8.5-9 on a sound quality scale of 1 to 10.