Journey Celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Being the First Artist to Tour with a “Jumbotron”
March 28, 2023 2:29PM CDT
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Music history was made on this date 40 years ago.
You can thank Journey for bringing the giant screen to the concert experience. Forty years ago tonight, they opened their “Frontiers” tour in Seattle.
Journey was the first artist to include multi-cameras and a giant screen.
The doc on YouTube and basically takes you on the road with the band at the height of their fame. And yes, that’s the NFL Films narrator, John Facenda! Somehow NFL Films produced the Journey doc.
Giant screens had been featured at previous concerts, but not an entire tour. Here’s an article from the same year, talking about the video screen.
