As well as the obvious capitalistic statistics (automatic goodwill from those who either aspire to or are comforted by power and pre-eminence) they had some credibility from the Santana connections, huge AOR fanbase from relentless touring and the distinctive 'scarab' logo as well as wary admiration from some quarters following the fall of the Berlin Wall, however the 'scarab' was tellingly shoved to the margin of the 'Frontiers' cover in favor of an ugly bluish head reminiscent of the 2001 space baby with the word 'Journey' emanating from it in a feeble attempt to a) re-assert their all-seeing universalist omnipotence b) allude to their collective psychedelic progressivist pioneering past, which occasionally was resurrected in totemic form as an ex-post-facto justification from groundlevel fundamentalist backlash
― dave q, Monday, 2 June 2003 13:52 (twenty-one years ago) link