the pair got together with fellow journeymen

[Vladv1]

"Wisefield – later of Wishbone Ash – forming the short-lived group Sugar. When that didn’t work out, the pair got together with fellow journeymen, singer Mick Stubbs and drummer Mick Cook, and formed Home. As Williams later recalled, ‘We had a few albums out in England, did a little bit of stuff. Never got too [far]".

"The answer came in the form of a journeyman English bassist named Cliff Williams. Born in Romford, on the outskirts of London, on 14 December 1949, Williams had spent his formative musical years as a teenager in Liverpool, where the family had moved when he was 11. ‘Which was tremendous . . . that whole Merseybeat scene. Everyone and their dog was trying to be in a band – for the chicks."
Mick Wall, "Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be".

What does the bolded mean in the passages?

 

[5jj]

If you refer to someone as a journeyman, you mean that they have the basic skill which their job requires, but are not very talented or original.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/journeyman

 

[jutfrank]

Here I'd take it simply to mean that they were not very experienced. It's not really saying they lacked talent or originality, I don't think.

 

[Skrej]

Webster defines it as someone who's experienced and reliable, as opposed to someone's who's flashy or particularly brilliant. Talented, perhaps, but essentially background figures whose playing carry the show while the headliner wows the crowd.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/journeyman

 

[probus]

In the traditional trades or blue-collar occupations (for example plumbers and electricians) there are three levels of experience-acquired skill: apprentice, journeyman, and master.