This Band can Now Make a "Comeback."

[fred_journeyman]

...The casual fan wants to hear the old radio hits, NOTHING more...

I got back and forth a bit, but overall, I tend to agree with that. I think it will be difficult for Journey to reinvent itself. I still wonder..."How do they continue the Journey style?" I'm not trying to take anything away from the guys in the band (including JSS), but I have my doubts.

[The Cimmerian]

I got back and forth a bit, but overall, I tend to agree with that. I think it will be difficult for Journey to reinvent itself. I still wonder..."How do they continue the Journey style?" I'm not trying to take anything away from the guys in the band (including JSS), but I have my doubts.

Fred:
I've got both of JSS's most recent solo albums, and he is already doing melodic rock similar to JOURNEY. I think SOUL SIRKUS's lack of performance (both concert attendance-wise, and sales-wise) will be enough to keep JSS/Schon from treading similar waters with new JOURNEY material. That was a whole other animal... music created without parameters. And the experiment basically failed, since Schon pulled the plug on it. Thank God it's tax-deductible for him!!!

Remember, JSS is a JOURNEY fan... has been for a while... my educated guess is that he will probably not want to do stray and do music that is not faithful to previous JOURNEY music.

As TNC stated, BELIEVE IN ME is a great track... true it is hard, but not any harder than anything on FRONTIERS. I heard the entirety of FRONTIERS earlier this year for the first time, and I was surprised how hard it rocked.... way more than ESCAPE in my opinion. Some of the tracks could have been Ozzy tracks!!! (I'm thinking of CHAIN REACTION.)

So, I don't think we have anything to worry about. I think we'll get a great, well-produced album from JSS and JOURNEY. It will have some great rockers, and some great ballads. The background vox will be impeccable. It will be a melodic rock gem. And since we get so few of these nowadays, it will be a cause for some serious celebration.

[fred_journeyman]

I got back and forth a bit, but overall, I tend to agree with that. I think it will be difficult for Journey to reinvent itself. I still wonder..."How do they continue the Journey style?" I'm not trying to take anything away from the guys in the band (including JSS), but I have my doubts.

Fred:
I've got both of JSS's most recent solo albums, and he is already doing melodic rock similar to JOURNEY. I think SOUL SIRKUS's lack of performance (both concert attendance-wise, and sales-wise) will be enough to keep JSS/Schon from treading similar waters with new JOURNEY material. That was a whole other animal... music created without parameters. And the experiment basically failed, since Schon pulled the plug on it. Thank God it's tax-deductible for him!!!

Remember, JSS is a JOURNEY fan... has been for a while... my educated guess is that he will probably not want to do stray and do music that is not faithful to previous JOURNEY music.

As TNC stated, BELIEVE IN ME is a great track... true it is hard, but not any harder than anything on FRONTIERS. I heard the entirety of FRONTIERS earlier this year for the first time, and I was surprised how hard it rocked.... way more than ESCAPE in my opinion. Some of the tracks could have been Ozzy tracks!!! (I'm thinking of CHAIN REACTION.)

So, I don't think we have anything to worry about. I think we'll get a great, well-produced album from JSS and JOURNEY. It will have some great rockers, and some great ballads. The background vox will be impeccable. It will be a melodic rock gem. And since we get so few of these nowadays, it will be a cause for some serious celebration.

Really, that's encouraging. There was ONE song on the SirkUS CD that sounded remarkably Perry-Journey like. What are the names of his latest CDs that you have? Are they available at Best Buy for instance, or mainly via the 'Net?

[The_Noble_Cause]

And, I've heard enough of JSS to know I don't like the direction Journey will take with him in the band

Elaborate on that. I defy you.
Jeff has more pre-existing Journey-style music to his name than Augeri did when he first started out.

Still waiting for you to elaborate on this, Farmer John.
You have said it in other threads, too.
Maybe when you find a moment from plumbing the anal fissures of Besty the Moo Cow, you can address this, ok?

[Monker]

And, I've heard enough of JSS to know I don't like the direction Journey will take with him in the band

Elaborate on that. I defy you.
Jeff has more pre-existing Journey-style music to his name than Augeri did when he first started out.

Still waiting for you to elaborate on this, Farmer John.
You have said it in other threads, too.
Maybe when you find a moment from plumbing the anal fissures of Besty the Moo Cow, you can address this, ok?

Yeah, great words of motivation there.

[AR]

I think it will be difficult for Journey to reinvent itself

Impossible, unless they become a boy band, a rap band, or shave 20 to 30 years off their ages.

Just enjoy the summer tours and occassional new music and be VERY happy. I am.

[Matthew]

I think it will be difficult for Journey to reinvent itself

Impossible, unless they become a boy band, a rap band, or shave 20 to 30 years off their ages.

I saw Robert Plant in concert a couple of months back...and he managed to reinvent the old material and sound reasonably contemporary with the new stuff too. So did Peter Gabriel back in 2003...

So the old dogs can still surprise us - if the willingness and imagination is there.