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What can I say about Steve Perry, he’s the man whose voice saved my life. I can’t thank him enough for being there for me in my darkest moments in life, every time I talk about Steve I will have tears in my eyes, for his voice and his music were the only thing that kept me going during my most difficult times when I was a teenager. When I got on the net in 1996, the first website that I created was Journey Fans Network, it was my main goal after I got online. I still remember it was a very simple site and very amateur looking lol!! I didn’t know anything about making website, everything I know now is self taught and by trial and error, very frustrating at times I tell you but I’m a pro now ha! ha! I learn alot while running Journey Fans Network and made a lot of friends from all over the world, something I would never have imagined. Sadly though Journey decided to break up again and I must say I was really disappointed because to me Journey is not the same without Steve so after much thought I decided to close Journey Fans Network and create a small site dedicated to just Steve. Another reason is also because Steve has kinda retired so there’s not much for me to do and it won’t take much of my time :-)
If there’s one regret in my life, it would be not seeing Journey live in concert or meeting Steve. I’m still waiting for the day I will get to meet Steve because I want to thank him personally for saving my life. I did receive a photo of Journey personally signed by the band and a separate handwritten letter from former singer Steve Augeri. I also received an autographed photo of former member Steve Smith (drummer) so you see I have something from every member except Steve Perry… sad isn’t it? :-( but I’m still hoping and I won’t stop believin’ :-)
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THANK GOD FOR STEVE PERRY AND OURS MUSICS
THANK GOD FOR STEVE PERRY IS OURS MUSIC’S !
Eu quero conhecer Steve! I Don’t Stop Believing!!
I Want to meet Steve! Eu não paro de Acreditar!!
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Respecting a True artist….
Quite familiar with Journey’s new frontman and his sob story, for they sure have peddled it enough (real turnoff at this point). Also read at another site that the he was a successful artist for 25 years. Heard of the documentary, and do not care to see it. Don’t Stop Believin if you spend your life learning how to copy other artists’ hardwork who knows what might happen. Steve Perry was working on a turkey farm when he entered the band sending them to platinum selling artist.
Bought the Revelation album unaware they had rerecorded the Greatest Hits with the new singer insultingly mocking Steve Perry note for note. I read an interview back in 80s where Perry was asked what the most difficult thing getting in the business and his reply was to the effect of everyone wanting to hear cover songs, and he did not like doing covers. Strangely enough, the new singer specializes in cover songs.
Anyway, Jack Hemingway, glad you “look forward to seeing the “new” Journey,” but maybe refrain from instructing others (“Journey fans everywhere”) to follow your lead to move on to someone who seems to be an insult to Steve Perry. The band has not moved on, for it has been “living off past glories” with soundalikes every since Perry left. Any person who respects a true artist and has musical integrity and appreciation would have stopped “Believin” long time ago, perhaps as Walmart did.
I came to know Steve Perry by chance in 2008, hearing Faithfully and Open Arms on the radio not realizing that’s the same voice I had been hearing on “OH Sherrie.” Then I went looking for Perry, and found Arnel with the band, and thought at the time it was great for him.
I have seen the “new” Journey (weird). So in your words I will “let new things permeate and breathe through me and my life today, with hopes of enjoying what is out there as I continue on my own Journey” but it won’t be karaoke Steve Perry. Guess I just respect Steve Perry as a true artist (writer/co-writer/creator) too much for that. Somehow, just cannot vision Steve Perry mimicking his idol, Sam Cooke, in that manner. Take something and learn from your idol, but do not specialize in mimicking him and many others.
Sorry if sounding abrupt, but you really laid out your feelings (pull everyone away from Perry), so maybe you can understand how a true Steve Perry fan feels. Guess there are two sides to every “Cinderella” story. Plus, if you cannot sell new music, try selling sob stories “on and on.”
Enjoy life Steve Perry….and thanks for having a sense of musical pride and appreciation!
J L Ballard
Journeying On
Anyone who grew up in the 1980′s is familiar with the rock band Journey, perhaps one of my favorites of all time. Steve Perry’s high pitched voice was the perfect fit for the band. Oh, how I wanted to sing like him!
It was crushing for so many fans to learn in the late 80′s that they were indeed going their, Seperate Ways. Whatever the ultimate reasons were and who blamed who, it seemed that nothing gold could stay.
Now I was relegated to listening to my old Journey CD’s and remembering the good old days.
In the 90′s an attempt at a reuinion proved unsuccessful and the band had to continue on without Steve. A string of Steve Perry sound-a-likes peppered the years as they went by, but it wasn’t the same.
Then, in 2007, Neil Schon, Journey’s amazingly, incredibly talented guitarist and Jonathan Cain, keyboardist extraordinaire, found this singer in the Phillipines, Arnel Pineda, on YouTube. I wasn’t impressed.
But wow, this kid can sing! And although hints of his accent come through when he performs Journey’s music, my, my, I do hear a somewhat eerie resemblance to Steve.
Still, I didn’t think I wanted to even give this new guy a chance. To me, he was just mimicking the songs as he learned them in English, and I basically brushed him, and the whole idea of a new lead singer for Journey, off.
Last year the new Journey came to town and for a moment I entertained the idea of going, I had the opportunity to go, but chose not to. My still lingering loyalty to Steve Perry proved too tough to break through to give this latest lead singer a chance.
And now, this past Friday a documentary called Everyman’s Journey was released in theaters. It mainly covers this new singer, Arnel Pineda’s poor beginnings in Manila, Phillipines and how he began to sing Journey songs just to get by and make something of a living. Rising from the streets and clubs of Manila and being plucked out of obscurity to join one of the most famous rock and roll bands ever, is indeed something of a Cinderella story.
I began to think that perhaps my complete refusal to accept a new lead singer for Journey was a tad bit misplaced. Oh, I still find myself longing for those days when Steve Perry and Journey blasted across the radio and to see him on stage again, but it was time to put down my nostalgic pride and embrace the new. Maybe somewhere deep inside of me I still felt the exuberance and playfulness of my youth hearing Steve Perry, but just as Journey moved on, so now, must I, and Journey fans everywhere.
It is change, and change can often disturb us – we get so set in our ways and our likes and dislikes we hardly give something new or different in our lives a chance. I’m finding that out in other areas of my life as well, not just in music.
So, while I will always listen to my old Journey CD’s and sit back and smile a smile that only I know why. Perhaps fond memories of my youth and happier times when the world seemed so much different than what it has become, I will also let new things permeate and breathe through me and my life today, with hopes of enjoying what is out there as I continue on my own Journey.
I still miss hearing Steve Perry with the band, but now I actually look forward to seeing the new Journey the next time they come back to town.
In your life, as with music or writing or whatever moves you… Don’t Stop Believing!
Rock on Journey…rock on!
Jack Hemingway.
I hate autocorrect….
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