Neal Confirms Decision To Go With Steve
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:58 amhttp://www.projo.com/music/content/projo_20050814_journey.3148fb6.html
"Singer Steve Augeri sounds an awful lot like Steve Perry, and while Schon says he considered getting a singer who sounded nothing like Perry and striking out for completely new territory, they'd then have had "the conflict of our catalog.
"We've got a tremendous catalog of lots of hit songs, which I wrote either a half or a third of" with Cain. "So we felt that those songs were ours as well as Steve's, and we had every right to do those songs.
"[And] everything wasn't written around the guitar, like in Van Halen." Switching singers from David Lee Roth to Sammy Hagar, Schon says, "was a much easier move for them, because everything was based around [guitarist Edward Van Halen].
"In Journey, all the hit songs we had were based around Steve Perry's vocals. And so in order to play those songs, someone has to have resemblance."
"Singer Steve Augeri sounds an awful lot like Steve Perry, and while Schon says he considered getting a singer who sounded nothing like Perry and striking out for completely new territory, they'd then have had "the conflict of our catalog.
"We've got a tremendous catalog of lots of hit songs, which I wrote either a half or a third of" with Cain. "So we felt that those songs were ours as well as Steve's, and we had every right to do those songs.
"[And] everything wasn't written around the guitar, like in Van Halen." Switching singers from David Lee Roth to Sammy Hagar, Schon says, "was a much easier move for them, because everything was based around [guitarist Edward Van Halen].
"In Journey, all the hit songs we had were based around Steve Perry's vocals. And so in order to play those songs, someone has to have resemblance."
