Trial By Fire - Revisited

[The_Noble_Cause]

There was maybe something a bit grandiose and ludicrous about Perry's displays of emotion - but his Voice has never sounded affected to me.

Sorry. Perry isn't affected. I mean Deen. He strives to sound like Perry. As he has said "steal from the best!"

- but many post-Perry tracks were a bit shapeless at times, don't you think?

No, not usually. Mostly everything was written with the hopes of radio play and the songs reflected that.

[Matthew]

Sorry. Perry isn't affected. I mean Deen. He strives to sound like Perry. As he has said "steal from the best!"

TNC - I just realized that I misunderstood you - so I edited my reply to ask whether it was possible that we're actually hearing Deen's authentic voice - but that quote suggests that we're not...

No, not usually. Mostly everything was written with the hopes of radio play and the songs reflected that.

Didn't Herbie Herbert make some disparaging remark about how Journey lost their ability to structure their songs properly? Actually...now I come to think of it...he was talking about TBF....

[tammy]

I remember Deen saying in one of his interviews that he begged to sing ABL & SA handed it over. I think that he really puts his heart into it but not in an over the top way...he sounds like an observer who personally understands the story. I don't think he sounds at all like SP on this (unlike his concert singing which is dead on), but the "feel & mood" is strongly SP/Journey TBF.
What I find funny is that there are so many differing opinions on what "SOUNDS JOURNEY" and what doesn't - if we are gonna go that way, then ABL sounds very Journey/TBF era to me.