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Working the other night, pulled a copy of Blender magazine off the shelf and started reading.....

Lo and behold, "World's Greatest Songs" has Don't Stop Believin.'

A 2 page write up about a band who was progressive rock turned stadium headliner, and DSB was the catalyst in them arriving there. Talks about a weirdly written ballad, with two bridges and a chopped up tempo, soaring vocals and great musicianship. I was shocked to see a good write up on Journey. The article has two old pics: The one with the band in the boat moving across the Bay, and another with Neal playing whiffing at the plate in a slo pitch softball game. Classic.

Maybe some of you more articulate posters can dig up the link and post it here.

Rockindeano wrote:Working the other night, pulled a copy of Blender magazine off the shelf and started reading.....

Lo and behold, "World's Greatest Songs" has Don't Stop Believin.'

A 2 page write up about a band who was progressive rock turned stadium headliner, and DSB was the catalyst in them arriving there. Talks about a weirdly written ballad, with two bridges and a chopped up tempo, soaring vocals and great musicianship. I was shocked to see a good write up on Journey. The article has two old pics: The one with the band in the boat moving across the Bay, and another with Neal playing whiffing at the plate in a slo pitch softball game. Classic.

Maybe some of you more articulate posters can dig up the link and post it here.

Cool shit. Thanks Dean.

Rockindeano wrote:Working the other night, pulled a copy of Blender magazine off the shelf and started reading.....

Lo and behold, "World's Greatest Songs" has Don't Stop Believin.'

A 2 page write up about a band who was progressive rock turned stadium headliner, and DSB was the catalyst in them arriving there. Talks about a weirdly written ballad, with two bridges and a chopped up tempo, soaring vocals and great musicianship. I was shocked to see a good write up on Journey. The article has two old pics: The one with the band in the boat moving across the Bay, and another with Neal playing whiffing at the plate in a slo pitch softball game. Classic.

Maybe some of you more articulate posters can dig up the link and post it here.

Hi Dean,

Great to "read" from you!! I hope that you guys are well!!

Here is a link to the website that mentions the article but you can't click the article. Maybe once it is in the archives?!

http://www.blender.com/in_print/index.aspx

~Wendy

Dean, gotta disagree with you (or perhaps the article stated this) that DSB is a ballad. Wouldn't you say it's much more of a mid-tempo than a ballad? Just some food for thought.

Saint John wrote:Dean, gotta disagree with you (or perhaps the article stated this) that DSB is a ballad. Wouldn't you say it's much more of a mid-tempo than a ballad? Just some food for thought.

I bet the magazine said it was a ballad. I've seen repeated references of Don't Stop Believin' as a ballad. I would say it qualifies as a mid-tempo number for sure.

I have posted a link and a pic from Blender back in September.Is it the same issue of the mag,Dean?

http://forums.melodicrock.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=28965

The key to determining 'ballad' status is whether or not you could easily slow dance to it. DSB is too uptempo to slow dance to. There'd be entirely too much 'bounce' going on. JMHO.

Playitloudforme wrote:The key to determining 'ballad' status is whether or not you could easily slow dance to it. DSB is too uptempo to slow dance to. There'd be entirely too much 'bounce' going on. JMHO.

Great point.

Did Kamala's name get mentioned in the article?

Saint John wrote:Dean, gotta disagree with you (or perhaps the article stated this) that DSB is a ballad. Wouldn't you say it's much more of a mid-tempo than a ballad? Just some food for thought.

Yeah, it's a mid-tempo rock song. Definitely not a ballad.

Kamala is more of a soulful singer. He has some ballads too though. He used to have mp3's on his website. Cain and Schon probably had him pull them since they will most likely be included on the next Journey album.

AR wrote:Kamala is more of a soulful singer. He has some ballads too though. He used to have mp3's on his website. Cain and Schon probably had him pull them since they will most likely be included on the next Journey album.

I heard he did a cannibalized version of "Eat It" by Weird Al.

Laura, the issue I am referring to is this month. There is a hot chick on the cover, and the top 40 worst lyrics of all time. BA was 38th with Summer of 69(which upset me), and Sting was number one for his Tantric like drug induced words. Anyway, the writer does refer to DSB as an up tempo ballad, with a "locomotive guitar to start it up, two bridges, and the chorus hits you in the face at he end"

I was just shocked that Journey had a positive write up. There is a Foo Fighters piece in there when they called the Mag for 5 days while in the UK...very interesting as they always play a Journey tune to close their shows.

Rockindeano wrote:Laura, the issue I am referring to is this month. There is a hot chick on the cover, and the top 40 worst lyrics of all time. BA was 38th with Summer of 69(which upset me), and Sting was number one for his Tantric like drug induced words. Anyway, the writer does refer to DSB as an up tempo ballad, with a "locomotive guitar to start it up, two bridges, and the chorus hits you in the face at he end"

I was just shocked that Journey had a positive write up. There is a Foo Fighters piece in there when they called the Mag for 5 days while in the UK...very interesting as they always play a Journey tune to close their shows.

What song was #1 for worst lyrics????

Rockindeano wrote:Laura, the issue I am referring to is this month. There is a hot chick on the cover, and the top 40 worst lyrics of all time. BA was 38th with Summer of 69(which upset me), and Sting was number one for his Tantric like drug induced words. Anyway, the writer does refer to DSB as an up tempo ballad, with a "locomotive guitar to start it up, two bridges, and the chorus hits you in the face at he end"

I was just shocked that Journey had a positive write up. There is a Foo Fighters piece in there when they called the Mag for 5 days while in the UK...very interesting as they always play a Journey tune to close their shows.

Ok,then this must be the issue you're talking about.

http://www.blender.com/in_print/


I guess the article is under this title:
THE GREATEST SONGS EVER: DON’T STOP BELIEVIN’
How two young lovers helped Journey fill stadiums.

Dean, I'm curious re: your comment about the Foo Fighters calling the magazine several times and that they end their shows with a Journey song... What are you thinking? I made an incredible leap from them calling the magazine to touring with Journey next year--possible? If possible, can you imagine?!? (HUGE, HUGE fan (rhetorically)!!) What a show that would be--if Journey would just play all their rockers and minimal ballads... Holy smokes, I would pay top dollar to see that!