Steve Perry (Journey) Sings in Public for the First Time in 20 Years

That's strange I had heard many years ago that he couldn't sing anymore because he got those nodes on his vocal cords.

 

Really cool to see. How lucky of an experience for those folks. It should soften the Kevin Love blow.

 

The Barry Sanders of singers.

 

arnel pineda is making people forget steve perry. pretty sure that had something to do with it.

pineda is taking perry's glory. this is pretty sad.

 

challenge. this was less than 10 yrs ago

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It's amazing how many great sound-alikes Journey's been able to scrape together to front the band, but Steve Perry was awesome. I can't believe the guy is 65. Damn!

 

I don't think he ever had any problems like that. He had hip replacement surgery due to a degenerative bone condition.

 

Yeah no. No one can take Perry's glory. Dude is still a great imo.

 

I agree with you, he can't hit the high notes as well as he used to, but being able to hear him sing LIVE after all these years more than makes up for any change in his vocal prowess! Steve Perry is still a stud! It's a shame that father time slowly starts robbing all of us of our gifts! Not trying to be nit-picky but I wish he would of sung the second song better than the first, "Lovin', Touchin', Sqeezin'" is one of my favorite songs!

LOL...really? I don't care who is the front man for Journey now, whenever I hear their songs, it's Steve Perry who comes to mind, NOT the impersonator! Not trying to take anything away from Pineda, BUT all things being equal, Steve Perry would eat Pinedas bkfst/lunch/ and dinner!...
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I thought Journey's lead singer was that Filipino guy.

now that guy is good

 

he's REAL good and he breathed life back into that band.

The sad part is that steve perry didn't seem to give a rat's ass about that band until arnel came along and now perry is ready to be back in journey.

it's arnel's job now.

 

Where has he stated that he wants to rejoin the band? His anger at the band for pressuring him to get the hip replacement so that they could tour is why he left in the first place and last I read, he was still not speaking with them.

 

It's not the first time someone in a band made a blunder like that. It's understandable considering these guys jump from city to city. Yea...it would be nice if he remembered what city they were playing that night but I'm sure the monotony of the road has something to do with it. Most of the time...they don't even get to go out and see what city they are playing in. They just see the bus, venue, dressing room, and stage.

I read a review on the Dallas news website when they played Dallas. It was not kind...basically accusing Journey of being a karaoke parody of their former selves or some bs.

It's shocking to me to see Perry singing Journey songs after 20 years of being MIA. I guess he still has the right to sing those songs? Did he write the lyrics of those songs? I thought those were Journey's songs as Neil Schon basically wrote most of their hits...didn't he? I haven't listened but I will have to listen.

 

I read in last weeks Rolling Stone that Neal Schon will be rejoining Carlos Santana in a reunion of the original (Woodstock) version of the band.

 

I think anyone can sing anything what they want, it's promoting it and recording it for sale where there would be issues. That said, I'm guessing he had something to do with writing them, so who's gonna say he doesn't have a right to sing em.

That replacement kid does a great job, but I'd rather hear Perry sing the hits whether they have to transpose them a bit lower or not. Nothin personal new kid. I don't really remember how poorly they were getting along when they split though.

Whoohoo - Frontiers in 83' at the Summit, who else was there?

 

This brings up an interesting question. If Steve Perry formed his own band and toured playing Journey hits along with his own new material, then given the choice between seeing Steve Perry's band and the current incarnation of Journey to get your hits fix...which would you choose? The draw is really Perry vs. Schon. I guess Arnel can fill in admirably for Perry but another guitarist could fill in just as admirably for Schon. I'd probably spend my money to see Steve Perry's band instead of Journey. I guess if you are a big fan of the music, then you would probably see both acts. Nothing beats the original singer in my book...not even Arnel. While Schon's guitar sound is unique, I think it could be easily duplicated for the hits by most any other professional guitarist. The hard part was creating the music in the first place...which he obviously did when writing the music.

 

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He can't beat a young Steve Perry.... He falls short of being just as good, let alone better...