A review of Steve Perry’s first ever live performance with Journey on October 28, 1977 at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco, CA
From Off The Record w/Joe Benson | December 2000
Joe Benson: Steve Perry had already decided to pack in his music career when the call came in from Journey. And it wasn’t till after he did a bit of soul searching and had a heart-to-heart talk with his grandfather who pointed out that Steve was unemployed and could really use a job, that he accepted Journey’s offer. Steve Perry joined the Journey line up in 1977. And actually did some songwriting with Neal Schon and Gregg Rolie before even stepping foot on stage with the band. He finally made his live debut at the last performance of Journey’s three-night stand at San Francisco’s Old Waldorf in late 1977.
Steve Perry: They did have me perform after we had written a couple of things. At a place that was called the Old Waldorf. And I think that was when they were testing the water because they had a certain following as a fusion oriented group at that point. And they were making a conscious musical change but they were testing the waters to see how people would or wouldn’t accept me. So I did one show with them at the Waldorf, that was a frightening show because I was (laughs) thrown out in front of the die-hard fans who didn’t want to see nobody out there ya know. But it went over pretty good and slowly the transition starting making change and we wrote more songs, finished the Infinity album actually.
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