Journey's Charge of the Light Brigade from 1973, requested, limited time only

 

Total surprise for me, and quite unexpected--obviously. Thanks to the requester from long ago. Information here, for this unreleased album.

This came before their ST from 1975, see their discography here. I'm just going to copy paste the info inside:

The unfinished album by the original pre - Steve Perry Journey. 13 tracks from the fusion tinged rockers plus 3 live tracks from a pre-Journey Schon fusion band known as Birthday.

Includes the title song & more rare unreleased masterpieces.

Journey:

Neal Schon - Guitar

Ross Valory - Bass

Gregg Rolie - Vocals, Keyboards

George Tickner - Guitar

Prairie Prince - Drums

The last three tracks are apparently from a Neal Schon group between Santana
and Journey, which the cover says is called Birthday and is from Diamond Head,
11/73 (not the whole album, as the poster states in the info listing here.
The cover just says these three tracks are from that date). In the liner notes
to the 3rd Santana album from 1971, Rolie says when he and Neal quit the band
(after the 4th album), he opened up a restaurant for a year before hooking up
with Schon to form Journey. The 1st Journey album's songs are copyrighted 1974
and the album was released in '75, so it's logical Neal was doing something
musically during the year or so between the two bands. All three of these
tracks are instrumentals and it sounds like a decent audience recording in
a small club. The first thirteen tracks are all studio recordings and other
than some hiss and slight distortion in louder places, are probably an 8.5-9
on a sound quality scale of 1 to 10.

The rough and raw Kohoutek track is a bit different from the studio version that came out subsequently on the ST Journey from 1975:

An untitled Fusion track is quite impressive we must admit: