Infinity

INFINITY
 
 
Infinity  is Journey’s fourth album, released in January 1978 on Columbia Records.  It was the band’s first album with vocalist Steve Perry and the last to feature drummer Aynsley Dunbar.  Looking for a stronger lead vocalist, Journey briefly enlisted Robert Fleischman, but he was soon replaced by Steve Perry.  The addition of Perry gave the band a more mainstream sound, and helped Journey attain their highest chart success to date.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
An interesting thing about progressive rock bands is that most of them did not hit the ball out of the park with their first album, the way that King Crimson and Boston did.  As I noted in my last post, the first hit songs for Yes came on their third album, The Yes Album.  Journey didn’t make any real noise on the music scene until vocalist Steve Perry joined up for the fourth album, Infinity.  The breakthrough album for StyxThe Grand Illusion was their seventh album.  Leftoverture was the album that put Kansas on the map, their fourth album.  With Trillion though, the band was never given the opportunity to develop an audience or to refine their sound. 
 
(October 2012)
 
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