Journey Lineup Changes: A Complete Guide

For the extra informal fan, Journey could really feel like a band that begins and ends with Steve Perry. But long-term followers already know what this record of lineup modifications confirms: Journey has a deep historical past exterior of that acquainted period.

After all, Perry was solely a part of Journey for roughly a decade over two stints between 1978-98. Current singer Arnel Pineda has lengthy since handed the 10-year mark, persevering with a stint that started with the platinum-selling No. 5 smash Revelation in 2008. Journey additionally issued three early albums with Gregg Rolie as their principal singer, in addition to two extra with Steve Augeri within the ’00s.

Those intervals hardly matched the business heights of Journey’s early ’80s period, nonetheless, when a reworked Perry-fronted lineup with Jonathan Cain propelled 1981’s Escape to 10-times platinum gross sales. Frontiers then bought greater than six million copies within the U.S. Journey had already piled up three consecutive triple-platinum successes on tasks wherein Perry shared vocal duties with Rolie.

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Drummer Aynsley Dunbar was an necessary early contributor on a quartet of ’70s Journey albums into the Perry period earlier than Steve Smith took over. Smith was changed by Deen Castronovo, who in flip succeeded Smith once more. Randy Jackson of American Idol fame had two stints within the band, whereas a number of others solely had transient turns – together with George Tickner, Robert Fleischman and Jeff Scott Soto.

Neal Schon remained a stalwart presence by each completely different model, album and tour. He’s additionally participated in associated offshoot bands like Hardline and Bad English – each of which included Castronovo. Other notable splinter teams have featured authentic bassist Ross Valory, Rolie and Smith, amongst others. We discover all of them within the following complete information to Journey lineup modifications.