Journey 7-4-1977 w/Robert Fleishman - Diamond Head Crater

[GQ Daddy]

Had been talking to Shodan the other day and realized well... we've had some Journey with Steve Perry, Steve Augeri and Jeff Scott Soto... the tri-fecta so to speak but not the original lead singer... Robert Fleishman...
So here goes.....

Journey
Diamond Head Crater Festival
Honolulu, Hawaii (Diamond Head, Oahu)
Diamond Head Crater
Date July 4th, 1977

Robert Fleishman - Vocals
Gregg Rollie - Keyboards
Ross Valory - Bass
Aynsley Dunbar - Drums
Neal Schon - Guitar

Two days in July (3 & 4) the 1977 Festival took place featuring Elvin Bishop, Journey, Styx, Detective, Mackie Feary, Flash Cadillac and others. Diamond Head is actually the remains of a volcanic crater formed millenia ago. The sides of Diamond Head are the rim of the crater and the inside is hollow. During the sixties and seventies this was the home of the free "Crater Festival." (Not free anymore - $150-$175 a ticket now) The Turtles, Linda Rondstat, Carlos Santana among many others played here. To get to the crater, concert goers had to ascend a mile long trail that is unpaved with uneven rock and dirt surfaces with loose and slippery places. It took you up stairs, through an old bunker and usually took about 1 hour up & 45 minutes down to complete. Concert goers were rewarded with a panaramic view of South Oahu from Koko Head to Barbers Point.... and of course, a free show!

Journey needing a voice to help get them on the radio and keep their contracts with CBS alive turned to Robert Fleishman who appears with them at this festival. This was the beginning of Journey moving away from instrumental only songs for the most part to songs with very strong lead vocals.

I extracted this audio using a Soundforge Extractor/Editor (6.0/7.0??) at 192kbps off of my AVI formated copy of this show and used an Audio Splitter to seperate the file into tracks (Recording was an audience hand held cam - with lots of shakes) found a few years ago and has actually been for my own personal listening enjoyment. I'm pretty sure this show is not widely circulated in audio as most pre-perry shows are not as popular for most Perry/Journey fans but I think it important to note that Fleishman was
singing/writing songs like "Anytime" "Wheel in the Sky" "Winds of March" with Journey long before Perry joined the group (yet we associate Perry with these songs) so if Herbie Herbert hadn't cut Fleishman go, who knows what we could have got. Fleishman sounds alot like a young Robert Plant in my opinion. From the audio we are told that this is the second day/show in Diamond Head so this was recorded on July 4th 1977 not on July 3rd which Journey must also have done a similar set... Neal shouts out "alright Milwaukee".. at the beginning of the show. Either he's wasted or is just having some fun since they're in the middle of no-where....

Quality is somewhat low although that's because audio/video recording equipment in 1977 wasn't the best. I'd rate the show a C or C- so if you're a hardcore fan this should be just fine for you. Casual listeners should know there are quite a few 78' shows and demos where audio is superb so stick with those if quality is your preference. Still it can be listened to. Maybe some day I'll throw this down in a FLAC or SHN format but since our forum is more geared for listening and low-bandwidth we'll just keep it in an easy to download format...

Enjoy!
-GQDADDY

Tracklist:
01 - 6:59 - Of A Lifetime
02 - 5:13 - Karma
03 - 4:58 - Fleishman Introduction: Gimme the Key (To Your Heart)
04 - 6:05 - Anytime
05 - 4:19 - All For You
06 - 6:47 - Winds of March

Total Time: 34:25

Link:
http://rapidshare.de/files/29311235/...y_4_-_1977.zip

[osa]

Thank you for sharing!!!

[spmusic49]

Thank you for sharing your boot. I have never heard Robert Fleischman before, so this is something new to me !

[conversationpc]

Actually, Gregg Rolie was the original lead singer for Journey. Fleischman was the first guy they hired when the label started putting pressure on them to find a "real" lead singer.

Thanks for the boot. Cool stuff.

[balloonbuffoon]

Thanks! I also have the video version but its nice to have the audio all nicely split into separate tracks.

BTW, I looked on one of my Journey albums ("Next", their third one) and both Gregg and Neal are credited for lead vocals. So they didn't really have a true lead singer until Fleishman.

--Steve

[GQ Daddy]

Originally Posted by conversationpc

Actually, Gregg Rolie was the original lead singer for Journey. Fleischman was the first guy they hired when the label started putting pressure on them to find a "real" lead singer.

Thanks for the boot. Cool stuff.

Yeah... I worded it wrong (tend to screw up on my verbage and meaning when working on things late at night... see my Def Leppard post where I posted the wrong show.... )

Meant to say that Rolie was lead vocalist/keyboardist (Though not often used due to the more instrumental nature of Journey's first three albums) and due to record company pressure to put a voice on the radio [ummm... you've got the voice of Santana here what the hell are you suits thinking about! ] went with a true front man lead singer Fleishman...

Oh well... thanks for catching my slip up...

[NealFan1]

and wheel in the sky was written by steve perry

[GQ Daddy]

Originally Posted by NealFan1

and wheel in the sky was written by steve perry

Ummm.. no.

That song and several others were co-written and sung on tour by Robert Fleishman before Steve Perry ever joined Journey. (see articles below)

It was given to Perry later when Fleishman was fired by Herbie... Perry made it huge..... but he didn't write it.

Have a read.... (If the image shrinks to fit the opened window click down in the lower right of the image to blow it up.)

Newspaper Article from 77' (Talks about Fleishman singing the new "Wheel in the Sky" and severl others)
http://www.journey-zone.com/images/Documents/RF01.JPG

Journey Digest Article (Talks about the history of the song... true or not who knows??!!): http://www.journeydigest.com/Analysis/Char/may01.html

Another article from 79' talking about Fleishmans writing credits on several Journey songs: http://www.journey-zone.com/images/Documents/RF03.JPG

[GQ Daddy]

Originally Posted by NealFan1

and wheel in the sky was written by steve perry

NealFan1... I re-read my responce above and I'm sounding like an ass to you.... sorry... didn't mean it to come off that way.... was just trying to shed light on a very old issue from 77' which is all in the past anyway....

Time to get back to enjoying some music

[tupchurch]

GQdaddy, I kept passing this one by because it is not Steve Perry. Today I said why not download and I am glad I did. This is a nice piece of Journey history. Thanks!!!!!

[cddanzig]

Agreed. Nice to have the audio to listen to in the car. Thank you.

[ruby101]

Thank you.
Alwasy wondered what they sounded like then.

[NealFan1]

is there any way we can get a repost of this?

[alien156]

Wonderful to find another piece of History. I think I do have the video for this as well, but not a great quality. Thanks!

[DrRich]

A repost would be great!!