Journey: 1998-11-22 Greensboro, NC (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

Today is the 16th anniversary of this concert not long after Journey returned to the stage after being off of it for 11 years.  This is an excellent capture with some excellent songs too.  I got it in a CD-R trade back in 1998 and decided to rip the audio with EAC and share it today.

LINEAGE:
No lineage given in CD-R trade > me > EAC (Secure) > WAV (tested for lossiness) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Journey
Date: November 22, 1998
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
Venue: Greensboro Coliseum
Title: TGreensboro Boogie
Label: None
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (thanks to "tupchurch" for creating the artwork!)
Size: 779 MB
Length: 134:15:40

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. intro music
102. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
103. Only The Young
104. Neal Schon (guitar solo)
105. Stone In Love
106. Deen Castronovo & Steve Augeri introductions
107. Girl Can't Help It
108. Lights
109. Jonathan Cain (keyboard medley)
      -Of A Lifetime
      -Trial By Fire
      -Destiny
110. Who's Crying Now
111. I'll Be Alright Without You
112. Open Arms
113. Love Theme From Spartacus
114. Fillmore Boogie
115. Just The Same Way
116. Anytime

CD 2:
201. Remember Me
202. One More
203. Escape
204. Wheel In The Sky (intro)
205. Wheel In The Sky
206. Be Good To Yourself
207. Any Way You Want It
208. Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
209. Faithfully (intro talk)
210. Faithfully
211. Don't Stop Believin'
212. Edge Of The Blade
213. Ask The Lonely

LINK:
(1) 1998-11-22 Greensboro, NC (AUD)

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Hearing these early shows from after Journey's departure in 1987 and their failed return with Steve Perry in 1996 is great.  The songs were like new to the band again because they hadn't been playing them for a long time.  Instead of a burned out version fans can often get when a band has played a song literally thousands of times and night after night, you get a more energetic version of the song and the new members in the band (as well as the old ones) giving it their best.

Steve Augeri and Deen Castronovo both were new to the band and 1998 was the first year Journey returned to the stage other than the one time, three member Bill Graham tribute appearance in November of 1991.  Journey was playing smaller venues too in 1998 because they hadn't worked their way back up to the arenas yet.  And the 1998 and 1999 setlists had a lot more change up in them from show to show too.

This capture of the return of Journey to the stage is an excellent one.  The taper, probably using a DAT or maybe a mini disc recorder, did a really excellent job and the crowd noise is low.  The crowd is happy and excited but they are not interfering with songs because the taper did a great job of keeping that noise out I believe.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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