Frontiers - the Journey Tribute Band May 14, 2010

We first caught Frontiers down at the HOB last September, and my, what a show! Lead singer Jeremy Hunsicker heads up the nation’s only full-time touring tribute to 80’s mega-group Journey.

And it’s not every day when a tribute band’s lead singer is asked to audition for the real deal. But that’s exactly what happened to Hunsicker in 2007 when Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain flew him out to California to record a few demos and write some new material. The end result? Hunsicker’s a contributing songwriter on Revelation, Journey’s latest platinum-selling CD.

As fate would have it the band went in another direction. Founding Journey guitarist Neal Schon best summed it up, “Jeremey Hunsicker…he was very good… but he was a bit scary because he was almost too much like Perry. He was almost like a duplicate, probably the closest of anyone out there.”

But Journey’s lost is our gain, and trust us folks, Frontiers will have you “Believin.’”

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