Loving You Is Easy - Journey | The Midnight Special 

And Don Kirshner's Rock concert!

Ferk major tv networks. I'd rather watch it on RU-vid.

In this case, it flows effortlessly from the tape that they’re miming to. 😂 That being said, surely in the actual venue they were really playing live. So why does the TV broadcast use a recording, instead of the actual live performance??

Hi Loneman, I'm looking forward to the rest of the songs played that night too! I see they already have their next video private in their Journey playlist...

Is it because you weren't into the heavier bands? Journey was "heavy" music in those days.

@@gregoryduncan3067 No, not that. I liked Queen and Led Zeppelin, among others. Like I said, I liked their hits, I just didn't go out and buy their albums. I don't know your age so I don't know what bands you were into at that time. Are you old enough to have been into Journey, or did you discover them later?

@@StephanieJeanne I'm 47. It's hard for me to think somebody wouldn't like Journey stuff. Even their non-hits were pretty damn good. Their Evolution album was great, I think. I was into them in the 80s.

@@StephanieJeanne The thing is too is that you weren't familiar with their non-hits material. In those days, you had to pay ACTUAL MONEY for music.

@@StephanieJeanne Just like you had to pay ACTUAL MONEY for high quality footage of the Midnight Special.

I came to the comment section to see if anyone else thought the same thing. This is not a live performance.

Huh, that's interesting. I wasn't familiar with this song, but I can see what you mean.

It's just straight off the album and they are lip-synching and playing along with the album version. That happened a lot in those days, and everyone knew and accepted this type of fake performance. It wasn't the same as live concerts that use a backup track and pretend they aren't. I don't know why they didn't do it live like they did in 1978 on the Midnight Special, especially since later in this 1979 show, they did a live Jam Session with Journey with Herbie Hancock and many others, with a song called Roadrunner. That can be found on YT by searching for it. That's one of my very favorite performances ever, especially for Steve Perry's incredible rhythm blues funk style singing and improv, as well as the hand jive people surrounding him in front of the stage. Very 70's, and shows off the real talent of the Journey members outside of there usual style. Just search for Journey Roadrunner Midnight Special 1979. I'm going to go watch that now.

@@callielucas1197 I have not heard the studio version in ages, so maybe I got fooled. Good fakery by Steve Perry since it may he's up well. I notice the drums are being played very gently which is a huge sign of fakery.

@@callielucas1197 one counter point, no copyright claim was made by journey to grab this video's earnings. Perhaps the TV show's audience noise and some effects were enough to claim full rights, or the band was not as strong as David Bowie at the US Festival - who refused to release video song rights to the promoter

I believe it is 1979

May 18, 1979 to be precise.

A wireless mic in ‘79! Amazing!!

During the Evolution tour in 1979. Opening acts were New England (debut album) and AC/DC (Highway to Hell album).

I don't think it was lip synced. I think Journey is just a really tight band.

@@gregoryduncan3067it is lip synced

Even if it was lip-synced, IT WORKED.

@@chaseharlann You're right, it was lip synced.

It's not lip synced.

There are differences from Evolution in Neal's solo.

? ..? .. He sang "Oh Sherrie" about his girlfriend, Sherrie Swafford, of that time and she appears in that video. His major love was a girl named Kelly that passed of cancer.