Neal Comments About Steve Perry On Facebook

[Jeremey]

Neal posted yesterday he was shutting down his personal FB page due to "hackers and spammers" or something like that, so I think all there is on FB now is his fan page. Could it be related to the swipe at Perry? Hmmm....Perry's pretty beloved right now, but Neal's entitled to his opinion, LOL.

[steveo777]

Neal posted yesterday he was shutting down his personal FB page due to "hackers and spammers" or something like that, so I think all there is on FB now is his fan page. Could it be related to the swipe at Perry? Hmmm....Perry's pretty beloved right now, but Neal's entitled to his opinion, LOL.

The backlash from the world wide association of loons?

[Don]

Neal posted yesterday he was shutting down his personal FB page due to "hackers and spammers" or something like that, so I think all there is on FB now is his fan page. Could it be related to the swipe at Perry? Hmmm....Perry's pretty beloved right now, but Neal's entitled to his opinion, LOL.

The backlash from the world wide association of loons?

When you have 5,000 FRIENDS, it's a little difficult to keep things in house I would think.

If anything, it's helped liven things up here tremendously.

[amaron]

There was a time where I would have come on here and blasted Perry AND Schon, but I just don't give a shit about Journey anymore sadly.

[portland]

Neal posted yesterday he was shutting down his personal FB page due to "hackers and spammers" or something like that, so I think all there is on FB now is his fan page. Could it be related to the swipe at Perry? Hmmm....Perry's pretty beloved right now, but Neal's entitled to his opinion, LOL.

The backlash from the world wide association of loons?

When you have 5,000 FRIENDS, it's a little difficult to keep things in house I would think.

If anything, it's helped liven things up here tremendously.

Yes Neal's comments can always spark a conversation....he has a way with words.

[portland]

It's like a divorce settlement. Both sides usually think they got shafted to listen to the ex-husband and ex-wife talk.

Well then Neal should feel right at home....he knows the drill!

[Saint John]

It's like a divorce settlement. Both sides usually think they got shafted to listen to the ex-husband and ex-wife talk.

Well then Neal should feel right at home....he knows the drill!

I would assume that Neal believes in having kids in wedlock. Albeit a few times.

[portland]

It's like a divorce settlement. Both sides usually think they got shafted to listen to the ex-husband and ex-wife talk.

Well then Neal should feel right at home....he knows the drill!

I would assume that Neal believes in having kids in wedlock. Albeit a few times.

Nice signature quote....you come up with that one?

[Saint John]

It's like a divorce settlement. Both sides usually think they got shafted to listen to the ex-husband and ex-wife talk.

Well then Neal should feel right at home....he knows the drill!

I would assume that Neal believes in having kids in wedlock. Albeit a few times.

Nice signature quote....you come up with that one?

Nope. It was a quote on an Amazon.com review. I just happen to agree with it.

[Don]

Check this comment out from Neal Schon's FB page last week.

>>GIANTS!!!
GIANTS!!! GIANTS!!!! THEY ARE ON FIRE.... IM TRYIN TO GET TO PLAY
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL...FINGERS CROSSED.. GOOD MORNIN..))~~~..

So if Texas would have won one more game, we could potentially have had Steve, Jon and Neal at ATT Park all at the same time.

[portland]

Check this comment out from Neal Schon's FB page last week.

>>GIANTS!!!
GIANTS!!! GIANTS!!!! THEY ARE ON FIRE.... IM TRYIN TO GET TO PLAY
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL...FINGERS CROSSED.. GOOD MORNIN..))~~~..

So if Texas would have won one more game, we could potentially have had Steve, Jon and Neal at ATT Park all at the same time.

Looks like someone was feeling a little left out???

[Author2]

Did anyone REALLY expect Neal or ANYONE in Journey to, pardon the pun, sing Perry's praises as a person? His decisions to put the band on hold, not ONCE, but twice hurt ALL of them, including himself, financially.

Having had numerous converstations with them, not ONCE did any of them dis his talent...his ethics, drive and motivation...sure...

Oh horseshit! Anyone has the right to live their life and say "When" rather than self distruct. The band had no right to make themselves so dependent on him. How dare you question his ethics in comparison to the way the others have lived their lives? Many would say that his drive and motivation has kept the band in the publics eye for many a year now.

I personally didn't question his ethics...however being part of a band is being part of a team...if a person is a lousy team member then the rest of the team has every right to call you out.

True. Has each member been called out yet?

[Author2]

I'd take a swipe too if I were Schon. Perry blabs about not cracking the stone and then he only pops up on whatever bandwagon is winning and looks like an ass singing songs he hasn't sung in 30 years....

Steve Perry's favourite baseball team was in the World Series and he was attending a game - that isn't jumping on a bandwagon. I'm not a sports fan really, but if I had the opportunity to be at any World Series game, I would go too - and I would be up and singing along to one of my all-time favourite songs. A lot of teams use DSB as a pep song - it isn't like they have to play it because he is sitting in the crowd. And of course he is going to get up and rally the fans for the Giants - in case you missed it, Steve Perry co-wrote the song and it's still his voice blasting out of the speakers, so he has every right to do so. If they turned the camera on him and he were shown up on the big screen hunched down in his chair not singing along, THAT would look bad.

And when he "celebrated" with the White Sox he was a fan of them too? Bottom line...he said Journey was cracking the stone for continuing on without him, yet they've made 4 albums.......and he only pops up when one of his teamS is winning the world series. I actually have no problem with what he's doing, I have a problem with what he's doing in light of what he said.

Am I missing something here?

Pineda is in the band b/c he can insultingly "ape" Perry, having not created Squat, diving from the drumset to the beat of someone else's music, and traveling around on a karaoke tour copying as many artistS as possible, yet you have issues with Perry, creator/co-creator, choosing baseball "teamS"?

"Bottom line" he helped build the band and he was/is entitled to his feelings. They "made 4 albums", but what do they have to play? Maybe one day the band will write Pineda some hits and he will have his own "30 year" old songs to sing. Then Neal won't have to "swipe" at Perry in fear of his taking the spotlight from them.

[Eric]

I'd take a swipe too if I were Schon. Perry blabs about not cracking the stone and then he only pops up on whatever bandwagon is winning and looks like an ass singing songs he hasn't sung in 30 years....

Steve Perry's favourite baseball team was in the World Series and he was attending a game - that isn't jumping on a bandwagon. I'm not a sports fan really, but if I had the opportunity to be at any World Series game, I would go too - and I would be up and singing along to one of my all-time favourite songs. A lot of teams use DSB as a pep song - it isn't like they have to play it because he is sitting in the crowd. And of course he is going to get up and rally the fans for the Giants - in case you missed it, Steve Perry co-wrote the song and it's still his voice blasting out of the speakers, so he has every right to do so. If they turned the camera on him and he were shown up on the big screen hunched down in his chair not singing along, THAT would look bad.

And when he "celebrated" with the White Sox he was a fan of them too? Bottom line...he said Journey was cracking the stone for continuing on without him, yet they've made 4 albums.......and he only pops up when one of his teamS is winning the world series. I actually have no problem with what he's doing, I have a problem with what he's doing in light of what he said.

Am I missing something here?

Pineda is in the band b/c he can insultingly "ape" Perry, having not created Squat, diving from the drumset to the beat of someone else's music, and traveling around on a karaoke tour copying as many artistS as possible, yet you have issues with Perry, creator/co-creator, choosing baseball "teamS"?

"Bottom line" he helped build the band and he was/is entitled to his feelings. They "made 4 albums", but what do they have to play? Maybe one day the band will write Pineda some hits and he will have his own "30 year" old songs to sing. Then Neal won't have to "swipe" at Perry in fear of his taking the spotlight from them.

Not sure what my posts had to do with Pineda...but whatever. Go WhiteSox..Go Giants...IU'm Sad...I'm Happy.

[Rip Rokken]

Btw, speaking of FB, Neal posted this...

We are comin to Brazil!!!! were doing a full South American tour.


And the album will be released either March or April.

Chile is supposed to be in the mix, and I'm going if they show up there.

[Author2]

I'd take a swipe too if I were Schon. Perry blabs about not cracking the stone and then he only pops up on whatever bandwagon is winning and looks like an ass singing songs he hasn't sung in 30 years....

Steve Perry's favourite baseball team was in the World Series and he was attending a game - that isn't jumping on a bandwagon. I'm not a sports fan really, but if I had the opportunity to be at any World Series game, I would go too - and I would be up and singing along to one of my all-time favourite songs. A lot of teams use DSB as a pep song - it isn't like they have to play it because he is sitting in the crowd. And of course he is going to get up and rally the fans for the Giants - in case you missed it, Steve Perry co-wrote the song and it's still his voice blasting out of the speakers, so he has every right to do so. If they turned the camera on him and he were shown up on the big screen hunched down in his chair not singing along, THAT would look bad.

And when he "celebrated" with the White Sox he was a fan of them too? Bottom line...he said Journey was cracking the stone for continuing on without him, yet they've made 4 albums.......and he only pops up when one of his teamS is winning the world series. I actually have no problem with what he's doing, I have a problem with what he's doing in light of what he said.

Am I missing something here?

Pineda is in the band b/c he can insultingly "ape" Perry, having not created Squat, diving from the drumset to the beat of someone else's music, and traveling around on a karaoke tour copying as many artistS as possible, yet you have issues with Perry, creator/co-creator, choosing baseball "teamS"?

"Bottom line" he helped build the band and he was/is entitled to his feelings. They "made 4 albums", but what do they have to play? Maybe one day the band will write Pineda some hits and he will have his own "30 year" old songs to sing. Then Neal won't have to "swipe" at Perry in fear of his taking the spotlight from them.

Not sure what my posts had to do with Pineda...but whatever. Go WhiteSox..Go Giants...IU'm Sad...I'm Happy.

Just think, you'll get it..

[journeyrock]

Check this comment out from Neal Schon's FB page last week.

>>GIANTS!!!
GIANTS!!! GIANTS!!!! THEY ARE ON FIRE.... IM TRYIN TO GET TO PLAY
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL...FINGERS CROSSED.. GOOD MORNIN..))~~~..

So if Texas would have won one more game, we could potentially have had Steve, Jon and Neal at ATT Park all at the same time.

Looks like someone was feeling a little left out???

Aw....Poor baby, sometimes karma is hell.

[Saint John]

Check this comment out from Neal Schon's FB page last week.

>>GIANTS!!!
GIANTS!!! GIANTS!!!! THEY ARE ON FIRE.... IM TRYIN TO GET TO PLAY
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL...FINGERS CROSSED.. GOOD MORNIN..))~~~..

So if Texas would have won one more game, we could potentially have had Steve, Jon and Neal at ATT Park all at the same time.

That would have been cool, but only 2 of them would have had the balls to perform live.

[journeyrock]

Check this comment out from Neal Schon's FB page last week.

>>GIANTS!!!
GIANTS!!! GIANTS!!!! THEY ARE ON FIRE.... IM TRYIN TO GET TO PLAY
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL...FINGERS CROSSED.. GOOD MORNIN..))~~~..

So if Texas would have won one more game, we could potentially have had Steve, Jon and Neal at ATT Park all at the same time.

That would have been cool, but only 2 of them would have had the balls to perform live.

Sadly, that is true!

[Arkansas]

Check this comment out from Neal Schon's FB page last week.

>>GIANTS!!!
GIANTS!!! GIANTS!!!! THEY ARE ON FIRE.... IM TRYIN TO GET TO PLAY
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL...FINGERS CROSSED.. GOOD MORNIN..))~~~..

So if Texas would have won one more game, we could potentially have had Steve, Jon and Neal at ATT Park all at the same time.

Looks like someone was feeling a little left out???

Left out, or just wanted to one-up Perry. He posted something like too bad Perry didn't sing, right? Looks like Schon wanted to show Perry how to do it right. Or maybe it was all a ploy to get the crowd chanting Journey, and maybe Schon, Cain, & Perry would get back together some how.

We could psych101 this to death. Who knows.


later~

[Voyager]

schlongs dig for Perry not singing is childish, Perrys not getting near a mic to sing.
Good for him, he has nothing to prove, his body of work stands for itself.

Well said. You're right, Neal is again digging Perry for not singing. I guess it's okay to retire from any other professional career except for singing.

Watch out Mick Jagger... the moment you retire, Keith Richards will be on YouTube searching for your replacement.

[RedWingFan]

Please. The music scene had already changed BIG TIME by 1986. ROR barely sold two million units. Other bands were having difficulty too.

Not the ones that kept the formula that Journey invented.

Invented???? Only if in your world Speedwagon's "Tuna Fish" album doesn't exist!!!

[Saint John]

Please. The music scene had already changed BIG TIME by 1986. ROR barely sold two million units. Other bands were having difficulty too.

Not the ones that kept the formula that Journey invented.

Invented???? Only if in your world Speedwagon's "Tuna Fish" album doesn't exist!!!

That album isn't the benchmark for anything. Escape is. Though I guess you could consider Time For Me To Fly a power ballad. But that album doesn't have the depth, notoriety or balance that Escape has.

[Don]

Keep On loving You is the first great power ballad of the 80s. You could say Journey, Styx and Foriegner all followed the path laid down by REO with Hi Infidelity as Paradise Theater, Foreigner 4 and Escape all changed their formulas to a more pop sound than what had been featured on previous efforts.

Hi Infidelty didn't just hit #1, it dominated the charts in 1981 as far as rock albums go.

[Saint John]

Keep On loving You is the first great power ballad of the 80s. You could say Journey, Styx and Foriegner all followed the path laid down by REO with Hi Infidelity as Paradise Theater, Foreigner 4 and Escape all changed their formulas to a more pop sound than what had been featured on previous efforts.

Hi Infidelty didn't just hit #1, it dominated the charts in 1981 as far as rock albums go.

That album kicks major ass.

[Rick]

This is all pure speculation, but I'm guessing Perry's his own worst critic. I would bet he can still sing pretty well, but maybe not quite to the level he's comfortable with. He's admitted to being a perfectionist, and is obviously an emotion driven person, and I'm thinking it would be really tough for a guy like that to get up and sing with musicians who can still perform as well or better than ever, and have seen him at his best. It's easy as hell to restring your guitar and sound good as new, but it's not that way with the voice.

[Voyager]

This is all pure speculation, but I'm guessing Perry's his own worst critic. I would bet he can still sing pretty well, but maybe not quite to the level he's comfortable with. He's admitted to being a perfectionist, and is obviously an emotion driven person, and I'm thinking it would be really tough for a guy like that to get up and sing with musicians who can still perform as well or better than ever, and have seen him at his best. It's easy as hell to restring your guitar and sound good as new, but it's not that way with the voice.

I'm guessing he was extremely driven for approval after his dad left and rejected him when he was seven years old. He found his gift to sing and discovered that it could be used to gain the approval of others. He then used it to gain the world's approval in a subconscious attempt to fill the void that losing his dad's approval left in his soul. Once he reached superstardom and got the approval of the world and it still didn't fill the void, he got burned out and withdrew back into the private person that he was to begin with.

Just a guess.

[Michigan Girl]

This is all pure speculation, but I'm guessing Perry's his own worst critic. I would bet he can still sing pretty well, but maybe not quite to the level he's comfortable with. He's admitted to being a perfectionist, and is obviously an emotion driven person, and I'm thinking it would be really tough for a guy like that to get up and sing with musicians who can still perform as well or better than ever, and have seen him at his best. It's easy as hell to restring your guitar and sound good as new, but it's not that way with the voice.

I'm guessing he was extremely driven for approval after his dad left and rejected him when he was seven years old. He found his gift to sing and discovered that it could be used to gain the approval of others. He then used it to gain the world's approval in a subconscious attempt to fill the void that losing his dad's approval left in his soul. Once he reached superstardom and got the approval of the world and it still didn't fill the void, he got burned out and withdrew back into the private person that he was to begin with.

Just a guess.

Rick sounded reasonable, and diplomatic, must be the suit ...you're reeeeeeaching!! lol and mao!!!
Unless you're serious and then, wow!!

[Michigan Girl]

schlongs dig for Perry not singing is childish, Perrys not getting near a mic to sing.
Good for him, he has nothing to prove, his body of work stands for itself.

Well said. You're right, Neal is again digging Perry for not singing. I guess it's okay to retire from any other professional career except for singing.

This is the truth!!

[Rick]

This is all pure speculation, but I'm guessing Perry's his own worst critic. I would bet he can still sing pretty well, but maybe not quite to the level he's comfortable with. He's admitted to being a perfectionist, and is obviously an emotion driven person, and I'm thinking it would be really tough for a guy like that to get up and sing with musicians who can still perform as well or better than ever, and have seen him at his best. It's easy as hell to restring your guitar and sound good as new, but it's not that way with the voice.

I'm guessing he was extremely driven for approval after his dad left and rejected him when he was seven years old. He found his gift to sing and discovered that it could be used to gain the approval of others. He then used it to gain the world's approval in a subconscious attempt to fill the void that losing his dad's approval left in his soul. Once he reached superstardom and got the approval of the world and it still didn't fill the void, he got burned out and withdrew back into the private person that he was to begin with.

Just a guess.

Rick sounded reasonable, and diplomatic, must be the suit ...you're reeeeeeaching!! lol and mao!!!
Unless you're serious and then, wow!!

As Arkansas said, we're psych101ing it to death.