Only the Young. I grew up knowing and liking Journey during the early 80s due to MTV and all of the K-Tel albums that my parents owned. My friends and I would spend afternoons analyzing the Send Her My Love video, looking for older friends of ours who went to the JFK concert. Didn't think much about them/SP after 1984 (honestly - I didn't even know about ROR until years later). Then a friend of mine made me a copy of his Greatest Hits cassette when it came out in 1988. OTY was the first song on that cassette tape, and I've been hooked ever since. I have since gone through three cassettes and two CDs of GH.


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So interesting... So many posts here reference the singing... SP... "the voice..." And after all these years, pardon the pun, the voice is gone. But you're all still here...


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FamilyMan wrote:

So interesting... So many posts here reference the singing... SP... "the voice..." And after all these years, pardon the pun, the voice is gone. But you're all still here...

Problem?!?


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FamilyMan wrote:

I think only Slash ("November Rain") has done anything like it since.

I LOVE this^^^^^Love Slash!!


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Of A Lifetime
Still They Ride
One More
Signs Of Life


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Michigan Girl wrote:

FamilyMan wrote:

So interesting... So many posts here reference the singing... SP... "the voice..." And after all these years, pardon the pun, the voice is gone. But you're all still here...

Problem?!?

Not a problem, just an observation.


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Art Vandelay wrote:

Only the Young. I grew up knowing and liking Journey during the early 80s due to MTV and all of the K-Tel albums that my parents owned. My friends and I would spend afternoons analyzing the Send Her My Love video, looking for older friends of ours who went to the JFK concert. Didn't think much about them/SP after 1984 (honestly - I didn't even know about ROR until years later). Then a friend of mine made me a copy of his Greatest Hits cassette when it came out in 1988. OTY was the first song on that cassette tape, and I've been hooked ever since. I have since gone through three cassettes and two CDs of GH.

No other vocal tone like it on the planet................ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKvzidCysMM

Yep, still puts a bigass smile on my face right from the first chord!


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Deb wrote:

No other vocal tone like it on the planet................ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKvzidCysMM

Yep, still puts a bigass smile on my face right from the first chord!

Boy, I have to agree. If I could take a screenshot of that time period, I would. Perry in 85 was perfect IMHO. That was their best sound to me anyway.

This one is the closest to me, no question.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUBr2uCDOg4

I don't think any song has ever changed my life, some have had huge heart holds but
emotional attachment isn't change, love them all just the same though.


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FamilyMan wrote:

So interesting... So many posts here reference the singing... SP... "the voice..." And after all these years, pardon the pun, the voice is gone. But you're all still here...

...and the records go on.


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FamilyMan wrote:

Michigan Girl wrote:

FamilyMan wrote:

So interesting... So many posts here reference the singing... SP... "the voice..." And after all these years, pardon the pun, the voice is gone. But you're all still here...

Problem?!?

Not a problem, just an observation.

He is still loved. And that is no slap in the face to Arnel.


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Rockindeano wrote:

Deb wrote:

No other vocal tone like it on the planet................ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKvzidCysMM

Yep, still puts a bigass smile on my face right from the first chord!

Boy, I have to agree. If I could take a screenshot of that time period, I would. Perry in 85 was perfect IMHO. That was their best sound to me anyway.

Technically, OTY was 1983


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FamilyMan wrote:

Michigan Girl wrote:

FamilyMan wrote:

So interesting... So many posts here reference the singing... SP... "the voice..." And after all these years, pardon the pun, the voice is gone. But you're all still here...

Problem?!?

Not a problem, just an observation.

You catch on quick.

Deb wrote:

Art Vandelay wrote:

Only the Young. I grew up knowing and liking Journey during the early 80s due to MTV and all of the K-Tel albums that my parents owned. My friends and I would spend afternoons analyzing the Send Her My Love video, looking for older friends of ours who went to the JFK concert. Didn't think much about them/SP after 1984 (honestly - I didn't even know about ROR until years later). Then a friend of mine made me a copy of his Greatest Hits cassette when it came out in 1988. OTY was the first song on that cassette tape, and I've been hooked ever since. I have since gone through three cassettes and two CDs of GH.

No other vocal tone like it on the planet................ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKvzidCysMM

Yep, still puts a bigass smile on my face right from the first chord!

Absolutely...that first chord stays with me too.


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Art Vandelay wrote:

Deb wrote:

Art Vandelay wrote:

Only the Young. I grew up knowing and liking Journey during the early 80s due to MTV and all of the K-Tel albums that my parents owned. My friends and I would spend afternoons analyzing the Send Her My Love video, looking for older friends of ours who went to the JFK concert. Didn't think much about them/SP after 1984 (honestly - I didn't even know about ROR until years later). Then a friend of mine made me a copy of his Greatest Hits cassette when it came out in 1988. OTY was the first song on that cassette tape, and I've been hooked ever since. I have since gone through three cassettes and two CDs of GH.

No other vocal tone like it on the planet................ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKvzidCysMM

Yep, still puts a bigass smile on my face right from the first chord!

Absolutely...that first chord stays with me too.

It's a great song......love the lyrics.

portland wrote:

Art Vandelay wrote:

Deb wrote:

Art Vandelay wrote:

Only the Young. I grew up knowing and liking Journey during the early 80s due to MTV and all of the K-Tel albums that my parents owned. My friends and I would spend afternoons analyzing the Send Her My Love video, looking for older friends of ours who went to the JFK concert. Didn't think much about them/SP after 1984 (honestly - I didn't even know about ROR until years later). Then a friend of mine made me a copy of his Greatest Hits cassette when it came out in 1988. OTY was the first song on that cassette tape, and I've been hooked ever since. I have since gone through three cassettes and two CDs of GH.

No other vocal tone like it on the planet................ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKvzidCysMM

Yep, still puts a bigass smile on my face right from the first chord!

Absolutely...that first chord stays with me too.

Always hated the mix on this song. Sounds like they're in a wind tunnel.



It's a great song......love the lyrics.

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Art Vandelay wrote:

Rockindeano wrote:

Deb wrote:

No other vocal tone like it on the planet................ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKvzidCysMM

Yep, still puts a bigass smile on my face right from the first chord!

Boy, I have to agree. If I could take a screenshot of that time period, I would. Perry in 85 was perfect IMHO. That was their best sound to me anyway.

Technically, OTY was 1983

True, but it really charted in 85 didn't it? Who gives a shit anyway.

Rockindeano wrote:

Art Vandelay wrote:

Rockindeano wrote:

Deb wrote:

No other vocal tone like it on the planet................ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKvzidCysMM

Yep, still puts a bigass smile on my face right from the first chord!

Boy, I have to agree. If I could take a screenshot of that time period, I would. Perry in 85 was perfect IMHO. That was their best sound to me anyway.

Technically, OTY was 1983

True, but it really charted in 85 didn't it? Who gives a shit anyway.

Exactly. 83, 85...still digging it in 2010.


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Lora wrote:

"Patiently" - live on the 1978 Midnight Special TV series. My brother was watching and called me into the room to check out this band called Journey. I'd never heard of them before. I was blown away and went to Tower Records the next day to buy Infinity. I bought Journey, Look Into The Future & Next about a week later not realizing that the singer-guy I saw on TV wasn't on those albums. Still loved them, though.

First Journey concert in 1980. Met my BFF Cyndy because of Journey. Got a chance to work for them in 1983. Quit my job in Sacramento and moved to SF. Fan Asylum was born in 1984 and we've had some pretty interesting adventures in the last 26 years.

So, yeah. I guess Journey did change my life.

Wow!!! .... what a journey !!!


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Separate Ways.

I listened to that song repeatedly for the longest time and it was probably the thing that first got me into Journey.

Secondly was Perrys epic outro on Faithfully. I had never heard a voice like that before and was intrigued.


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Not changed my life, per se, but...

Edge of the Blade. I was a huge metalhead for a long time, and pretty much wrote Journey off as crappy pop rock (They're pop rock... but definitely not crappy. This song is definitely more harder rocking than most of their mainstream stuff, and perhaps I'm weird, but I could picture Bruce Dickinson covering it. Steve has that sort of operatic tone in the middle eight. So... yeah, that song made me respect them a bit more.... and eventually get into the band as a whole.

Now that I'm not a total metalhead, I can pretty much appreciate all the Perry-era-and-older material. Hell, I even like After the Fall now, and I used to not get it at all. (I still can't get into Happy to Give, though. The verses are GREAT, but the chorus SUCKS. UGGGH. )


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Any Way You Want It- still remember driving my mustang way back in 1980, hearing it on the radio- I had to run out and get departure right then.

FamilyMan wrote:

Can you look back and pinpoint the song that definitively made you a Journey fan for life? For me, I remember the steady stream of live music videos in seemingly constant rotation on MTV in late '81. "Don't Stop Believin'" and "Open Arms" were staples, but when "Stone In Love" and "Who's Cryin' Now" came on, I think that's when it went to a whole different level. They were pop songs, but once SP allowed the band - namely Neal - to close those songs as elongated jams, I was hooked. To this day, I never get tired of listening to those leads. I think only Slash ("November Rain") has done anything like it since.

"Remember Me" from the Armageddon soundtrack. I got it when it came out for the Aerosmith song and ended up being blown away by Journey. I've been a fan ever since.

TRAGChick wrote:

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From the 1983 "Frontiers" Tour in Hartford.........buying tickets at the last-minute.....sitting practically on the ceiling.....having a SPOTLIGHT hit our row & me waving and Steve waving....sigh......

This happened to me at the Queen + Paul Rodgers show in Atlanta. I'll never forget it. (Queen has been my favorite band for forever)

I wouldn't say "life changing" but Wheel In The Sky made me a fan.


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