New Perry interview

[usedtobadnews61]

There is a new Steve Perry interview at www.classicrockrevisited.com



Let the fun begin.....


Oh and in my opinion. It was a pretty softball interview by Jeb, which really doesn't surprise me.....


But, not asking Steve Perry directly if he is recording or has plans to record, was pretty weak. That's the one question that most of Steve Perry's fans would like answered.


But, I do understand not asking about the Journey breakup. Those questions have been done to death.

I for one am glad that Perry is visable again, no matter what the circumstances. He does nothing but make the Journey name more visable, which helps Neal and the boys as well.

[RoyalOakRoadie]

OK, I know I am going to get flamed here, but...

*dons NOMEX suit*

I downloaded the video of Perry singing "Dont Stop Believin" with the Sox...

Uhm...when he said he would need several weeks to get his vocal chops back, well...uhm, he wasnt kidding

[usedtobadnews61]

Actually on this board, I think you would get flamed worse if said he sounded great on the Sox video.

I havent seen it, but based on several people's opinion, it would seem you are right.


I remember Eddie Van Halen said that Roth took quite a while to get his voice back when they worked together in 96. So, I'm guessing that's common for many singers after a long lay off.

If Perry's voice is as rough as people say it was, it would be a good bet that he hasn't been in the studio.

OK, I know I am going to get flamed here, but...

*dons NOMEX suit*

I downloaded the video of Perry singing "Dont Stop Believin" with the Sox...

Uhm...when he said he would need several weeks to get his vocal chops back, well...uhm, he wasnt kidding

[boodles]

It was nice to read but really didn't have anything in there that we didn't already know.

The one thing that caught my attention and I'm sure alot of other people too was that comment about his physical limitations. Steve said his hip was fine.

What do you think he meant? Let the speculation begin!

[The_Noble_Cause]

But, I do understand not asking about the Journey breakup. Those questions have been done to death.

Not exactly. No one has really held Perry's balls to the fire and demanded real answers to hard hitting questions. Such as, "isn't it a little conspicuous and convenient, Mister Perry, that you succumbed to a degenerative hip ailment coinciding right at the time of the tour in support of TBF? Especially in light of the fact that you were reluctant to tour for Frontiers, sing with Journey at the Herbie roast, how you abruptly cancelled the ROR tour, the FTLOSM tour?"

This interview is just the latest in a long line of interviews that give Perry a total pass to propagate his ZERO culpability bullshit. Check this steaming hot load of revisionist nonsense....

SP: "I shook my head many times thinking it was really sad because we really had something really great – until May of ‘98, we were pretty good."

He would honestly have u believe that the band was actively touring up until the day in 1998 Augeri was signed on. What a dishonest bastard.
Someone please do the world a favor and break his other hip please.

I'm stll reading. Will post more thoughts later.

[The_Noble_Cause]

"Steve Augeri, was hired solely because he sounded so much like him."

Solely? I think Neal and Jon would take issue with that. Definately a HUGE factor though.

Other than that, I have no quarrels with the piece.
I think it's one of the more insightful Perry pieces I have ever read.

[perryfaithful]

Someone please do the world a favor and break his other hip please.

Sorry, but this is the type of stuff that should not be allowed here or any other DECENT place....of which I like to think this place IS!

[ohsherrie]

The one thing that caught my attention and I'm sure alot of other people too was that comment about his physical limitations. Steve said his hip was fine.

What do you think he meant? Let the speculation begin!

OK, I will.

I'm no medical person, if Journeynut were to drop by she could go into more detail, but I think when you have a degenerative bone disease it can effect other joints besides the one primarily effected, in his case his hip. The hip is probably fine because it's been replaced, that doesn't mean he may not have stiffness and and aches to varying degrees in some others.

He would honestly have u believe that the band was actively touring up until the day in 1998 Augeri was signed on.

As I understood it he was talking music, not touring. I thought he meant that the band still had that same "something really great" musically.

I thought it was insightful too TNC. I've never heard him go into so much detail about the songwriting. This project clearly effected him deeply. The way he talked about getting involved with Sony again to do it says a lot for how much he truly cared about the quality of the product.

But, not asking Steve Perry directly if he is recording or has plans to record, was pretty weak. That's the one question that most of Steve Perry's fans would like answered.

There may have been a reason. The interview was to promote a Journey project. Maybe the interviewer thought it might be seen by some people as inappropriate to talk about anything Steve might be up to apart from the band. Or maybe Steve didn't want to get into anything like that because he was afraid people would make more than he meant out of anything he said. Dunno, but it seems possible.

[perryfaithful]

He does ask about the writing, Perry says he just "sketched" something out the day before.

This makes me think.......

ANDREW? any bites on your request to do an interview? (fingers crossed!)

[Red13JoePa]

Nice piece to get me more amped for the DVD next week. I agree with TNC about the word "Solely" being in the sentance of "because he sounded like Steve Perry."
Huge factor, no doubt. But solely?

PF, I think Andrew would sooner expect to wake up tommorrow with his head sewn to his carpet than (rembember, his peeps told 'Drew he "supports Journey.") to have SP agree to the interview. Sorry for speaking on your behalf, Andrew.


PS: Er, whoa, hold on. I just reread it and notice before I missed the part in the intro about "until the band boot the new singer and sit down and start recording new material in earnest..."

Arrival, Red13 and Generations weren't in earnest? They weren't new material? As I recall that site even gave Generations a very positive review. And what makes him think if they "booted (I'd like to boot HIM, the interviewer who saw fit to insert these little editorials) Augeri, that SP would come back anyway?

[ohsherrie]

I didn't like the editorial comments by the interviewer either. Expressing an opinion would have been one thing, but making instigating, unverified statements like that was very unprofessional. I can't see Andrew doing anything like that.

Steve does interviews with Uncle Joe and other radio personalities that support the band, so why not Andrew?

[Red13JoePa]

Yea, my nitpicking of the guy's agendas disguised as reporting aside I can't wait to see/hear/experience/live this dvd. The part where Perry says, and I'll have to paraphrase b/c it's way too much work to access the thing and keep going back and forth, "I tried to remaster it so that the viewer experiences it as if they're directly in front of the stage with the rest of the Houston Summit behind and around them." Pretty cool...
Also like that he said he did not want people outside the band working on it, he wanted to produce and oversee the whole thing cradle to grave to both preserve and enhance how the band would've wanted it.

[The_Noble_Cause]

As I understood it he was talking music, not touring. I thought he meant that the band still had that same "something really great" musically.

That still does not compute, Sherrie.
Perry's last album with the guys was in '96, not 1998. By saying "until May of ‘98, we were pretty good." gives the false impression that he was actively touring, writing, and singing with the guys. That's bogus. They were no longer even a unit by then. Prior to the TBF reunion, they hand't been a unit for a decade. He makes himself out to be a much more willing participant in Journey then history attests.

I thought it was insightful too TNC. I've never heard him go into so much detail about the songwriting. This project clearly effected him deeply. The way he talked about getting involved with Sony again to do it says a lot for how much he truly cared about the quality of the product.

Yeah, it was an interesting read.

[The_Noble_Cause]

Someone please do the world a favor and break his other hip please.

Sorry, but this is the type of stuff that should not be allowed here or any other DECENT place....of which I like to think this place IS!

What is this? -Nazi Germany?
Besides, as if it wasn't obvious enough, I was being facetious, you prissy dour old crab.

[The_Noble_Cause]

This makes me think.......

ANDREW? any bites on your request to do an interview? (fingers crossed!)

Why should Andrew do you ladies any favors?
One minute you are pleading w/ him to score an interview with Perry and the next, you are mailing him anthrax for saying something remotely critical.
If Drew actually attains an interview w/ the allusive Steve Perry, I'd hope he's smart enough to tell Perry that his fans are pyschotic babbling bitches and then hang the phone straight the fuck up.

[Red13JoePa]

Someone please do the world a favor and break his other hip please.

Sorry, but this is the type of stuff that should not be allowed here or any other DECENT place....of which I like to think this place IS!

What is this? -Nazi Germany?
Besides, as if it wasn't obvious enough, I was being facetious, you prissy dour old crab.

Too much. "Dour old crab." Reading this and looking at the avatar, herbert would be proud.

[ohsherrie]

As I understood it he was talking music, not touring. I thought he meant that the band still had that same "something really great" musically.

That still does not compute, Sherrie.
Perry's last album with the guys was in '96, not 1998. By saying "until May of ‘98, we were pretty good." gives the false impression that he was actively touring, writing, and singing with the guys. That's bogus. They were no longer even a unit by then. Prior to the TBF reunion, they hand't been a unit for a decade. He makes himself out to be a much more willing participant in Journey then history attests.

There may have been something veiled in the comment, but I don't think his intention was to imply that he was active with the band up until that time. I guess we'll all read what we will into it based on our perspectives on the situation.



Joe, those were my favorite parts of the interview. It sounds like he really put a lot into it both for the sake of the Journey legacy and the fans' enjoyment.

[Monker]

SP: "I shook my head many times thinking it was really sad because we really had something really great – until May of ‘98, we were pretty good."

What I think he meant by this comment was simply, "Journey was pretty good - while I was in the band."

It goes back to the same old, "don't crack the stone" thought. He's still feeling bitter that he forced the band to move on without him.

And, the 'get a life' comment?

Steve Perry - you're the one who would rather live through your memories of 1981 then build new memories for the future. You and everybody else who does the same need to get a life.

[Monker]

It was nice to read but really didn't have anything in there that we didn't already know.

The one thing that caught my attention and I'm sure alot of other people too was that comment about his physical limitations. Steve said his hip was fine.

What do you think he meant? Let the speculation begin!

Again, this is very simple...He's not thirty-something any longer. He can't tour like that - because he is older and his body can't handle it, including his voice, his hip, and all of his other joints. So, why should he put his health at risk? It didn't seem to me that he was talking about JUST his voice, or JUST his hip or other bones.

[usedtobadnews61]

I think you've already made up your mind and nothing Perry could say would change it.

That's fine if so.

I don't have as much invested emotionally in the band as some of you more die hards do. So, I guess I take him more at face value.

But, I do understand not asking about the Journey breakup. Those questions have been done to death.

Not exactly. No one has really held Perry's balls to the fire and demanded real answers to hard hitting questions. Such as, "isn't it a little conspicuous and convenient, Mister Perry, that you succumbed to a degenerative hip ailment coinciding right at the time of the tour in support of TBF? Especially in light of the fact that you were reluctant to tour for Frontiers, sing with Journey at the Herbie roast, how you abruptly cancelled the ROR tour, the FTLOSM tour?"

This interview is just the latest in a long line of interviews that give Perry a total pass to propagate his ZERO culpability bullshit. Check this steaming hot load of revisionist nonsense....

SP: "I shook my head many times thinking it was really sad because we really had something really great – until May of ‘98, we were pretty good."

He would honestly have u believe that the band was actively touring up until the day in 1998 Augeri was signed on. What a dishonest bastard.
Someone please do the world a favor and break his other hip please.

I'm stll reading. Will post more thoughts later.

[sngrchk04]

Jeb: Did you find that when you started rehearsing the songs that this was special or were you just doing your job?

Steve: You’re just doing what you believe in and hoping that people will like it as much as you do. Unfortunately, that is the fearful driving force of my heart. Whatever I believe in, I just hope they believe in it as much. You wait for that moment, live, when they let you know if that is, or isn’t, the case. You get your validation from that. Whatever center you were believing in or feeling about the music, you find out quickly from the audience whether they believe it too.

Boy, do I know how THAT feels And that's exactly right how he put it.

Jeb: In the back of your mind, did you think you would have emotional moments doing this project?

Steve: I knew that it was going to be a walk through a plethora of emotions because it was a long time ago. I knew it was going to be difficult for me but I had no idea that it would be such an amazing amount of different emotions; I really didn’t...I had to see this footage 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week because you have to listen to it and you work really hard on this stuff. You have to catch all the nuances in the music and you have to make sure all the nuances in the music correlate with the visual. It is like mixing a film; it took time.

Along with taking time, it was dragging me around. It dragged me all through it again and I really did relive it.

Who knows - maybe this whole thing was like "therapy" for him....to relive, reflect, and "own up" to what did & didn't happen. There's a saying that goes, "The only way OUT is THROUGH"......hopefully, that's what's happening.

Steve: – "Too Late" was a great song but it wasn’t a hit single. They weren’t hits but that doesn’t mean that I am still not fighting for these songs. To answer your question, what really makes me want to do something like this is me fighting for the songs to have their moment in the light one more time.

Jeb: That is very eloquent. A lot of people would not be that involved with Sony putting out an old concert video.

Steve: What is the other option? I crossed these bridges within myself. The other option is to turn it over to someone else and let them do it.

They don’t know what the original intention was or what the original heart was when we were in those studios when we recorded the original songs. They don’t know what it was like standing on that stage and they don’t know what the emotion was.

Why shouldn’t I do it? I wasn’t going to allow somebody to take it over and send me a tape and say, "What do you think?" I didn’t want to do that.

Amen, brother...

Hmmmm.....very almost "outspoken" interview, IMO....

[ohsherrie]

Steve Perry - you're the one who would rather live through your memories of 1981 then build new memories for the future. You and everybody else who does the same need to get a life.

Oh, so you've scrapped all of your memories of good times past? It's possible to enjoy the old memories while making new ones of a different kind. Like, for instance being invited to the World Series, or working on a movie soundtrack, or even remastering your old work.

I think you could be right about to a certain extent about the "up until May '98" comment. I don't think he was saying he doesn't think the band now is any good, if that was going to be the next step in your thought process. I think if he really meant anything it was probably just, like he's said before, Journey ended for him in May '98.

[Greg]

Steve Perry - you're the one who would rather live through your memories of 1981 then build new memories for the future. You and everybody else who does the same need to get a life.

With all due respect Monker, living through memories of something that is near and dear to the heart is not considered grounds of needing to get a life. If Perry was trying to cash in on the new material that Journey is putting out, then I would agree with you 100%. However, he isn't. He's giving us an opportunity to own a piece of art that he was personally involved in. It is obviously something that means alot to him, and what is wrong with him making money off of it? It is as much his as it is the bands.


I see where Perry was coming from with the comment of "those people need to get a life." Really, what is it to us what went on behind closed doors of the band? None of us were there, so none of us will really know 100% of the "behind the music" stuff that went on. Everybody puts their own spin on things. It's really only for gossip sake. Most of us are still going to buy records this band puts out, or listen to our favorite existing records.

[The_Noble_Cause]

I think you've already made up your mind and nothing Perry could say would change it.

That's fine if so.

Even if that were true, it has nothing to do with what you initially stated. The fact remains that Perry truly hasn't been asked point blank on what really went down with the whole shady TBF/hip thing.

[jrnyman28]

I really liked this interview for what it was: promotion for the DVD. I thought Perry's insight into how he felt about the songs they were writing was great and I love his "reasoning" for putting himself into this project the way he did. I also agree that Perry stating May of 1998 was simply a reference to where the Journey ended for him. This interview was much better than his Q&A in February and it makes me a little more hopeful for this upcoming Q&A.

Thank you Perry, for pouring your heart into the DVD.

[ohsherrie]

Even if that were true, it has nothing to do with what you initially stated. The fact remains that Perry truly hasn't been asked point blank on what really went down with the whole shady TBF/hip thing.

I think he probably has been asked that, we just don't know about it. I also think he's said all he's going to say on the subject. An interviewer would have nothing to gain by pressing him on it, unless his only aim in the first place was to create more controversy, but he could lose the interview all together.

Why is it so important anyway? Sure I'd be interested in knowing, but that doesn't make it my business and it wouldn't change how I feel about anything.

[Greg]

I think he probably has been asked that, we just don't know about it. I also think he's said all he's going to say on the subject. An interviewer would have nothing to gain by pressing him on it, unless his only aim in the first place was to create more controversy, but he could lose the interview all together.

Why is it so important anyway? Sure I'd be interested in knowing, but that doesn't make it my business and it wouldn't change how I feel about anything.

That's just it. What do people actually expect Perry would say? "Oh, well since you're asking me what happened during TBF, I faked the whole hip thing." Seriously, that's just plain foolish. OhSherrie, you're absolutely right, Perry has already stated what he is going to say about the subject of TBF and his hip. What relevance does it even present to us today?

[jrnyjetster]

I wish for once, Mr. Perry would talk about or be straight with the fans about what happened post 1987, when he walked away and essentially held this band hostage for 9 years....

[PROPERRY]

The interview was great!

I'm very glad Perry chose to produce this DVD package & not just let anyone do it. With it being produced by Perry, an actual person that was there, that makes the DVD package MUCH MORE meaningful, than just letting anyone do the job.

As for others here that keep wanting & expecting Perry to explain himself to them, LET IT GO & MOVE ON. It is none of the fans business what happened between Perry & the band members. That is THEIR ISSUE, NOT OURS!

It should be about the MUSIC!!! It was the MUSIC that made me a fan of Journey years ago & NOT all this stuff that went on between them.

I can't wait to get my DVD!

Lori

[The_Noble_Cause]

Why is it so important anyway?

I never said it was. You're obviously not paying attention.
I wasn't on here bemoaning the fact that Jeb didn't press the hip issue.
All I did is respond to usedtobadnews61's assertion that...

But, I do understand not asking about the Journey breakup. Those questions have been done to death.