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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. Includes the title song & more rare unreleased masterpieces.

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.