Given the name Journey after a competition on local radio in San Francisco, the
former Golden Gate Rhythm Section quintet of Neal Schon, Ross Valory, George
Tickner, Prairie Prince and Greg Rolie were initially an instrumental prog. rock
outfit. As the band was signed to Columbia in 1974, personnel changes were
already beginning to happen. The band's first three albums - Journey, Look Into
The Future and Next - performed consecutively better, but it wasn't until a lead
vocalist was hired in 1977 in the form of Steve Perry that the Journey we know
and love was brought into being. ...