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I nearly drove off the road when I realized that the horrible song playing on the radio was a dance version of Don't Stop Believing. My ears started bleeding!!!! Who recorded that techno drival? How did they get the rights? If it is Arnel with the band then they have lost any respect I had for them.

cheekymonkey wrote:I nearly drove off the road when I realized that the horrible song playing on the radio was a dance version of Don't Stop Believing. My ears started bleeding!!!! Who recorded that techno drival? How did they get the rights? If it is Arnel with the band then they have lost any respect I had for them.

You're not living up to your sig here Ms. Open Minded.

cheekymonkey wrote:I nearly drove off the road when I realized that the horrible song playing on the radio was a dance version of Don't Stop Believing. My ears started bleeding!!!! Who recorded that techno drival? How did they get the rights? If it is Arnel with the band then they have lost any respect I had for them.

If it wasn't the actual band performing it, Arnel, nor Journey has anything to do with it. You don't need the band's permission to do an audio cover. You just have to mail the publishers/songwriters a check based on how many discs you had pressed for release, along with some paperwork.

If Journey did something like this, Im sure they would have been pimping it at the official site.

Gunbot wrote:

cheekymonkey wrote:I nearly drove off the road when I realized that the horrible song playing on the radio was a dance version of Don't Stop Believing. My ears started bleeding!!!! Who recorded that techno drival? How did they get the rights? If it is Arnel with the band then they have lost any respect I had for them.

If it wasn't the actual band performing it, Arnel, nor Journey has anything to do with it. You don't need the band's permission to do an audio cover. You just have to mail the publishers/songwriters a check based on how many discs you had pressed for release, along with some paperwork.

If Journey did something like this, Im sure they would have been pimping it at the official site.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Rick wrote:

cheekymonkey wrote:I nearly drove off the road when I realized that the horrible song playing on the radio was a dance version of Don't Stop Believing. My ears started bleeding!!!! Who recorded that techno drival? How did they get the rights? If it is Arnel with the band then they have lost any respect I had for them.

You're not living up to your sig here Ms. Open Minded.

I'm not very openminded when my ears are bleeding while I'm driving. There is just some shit I'll never be open to, and this was one of them.

cheekymonkey wrote:I nearly drove off the road when I realized that the horrible song playing on the radio was a dance version of Don't Stop Believing. My ears started bleeding!!!! Who recorded that techno drival? How did they get the rights? If it is Arnel with the band then they have lost any respect I had for them.

Give Friga's recording of "Faithfully" a listen. It's a fucking horror show, and puke-inducing!

Enigma869 wrote:

cheekymonkey wrote:I nearly drove off the road when I realized that the horrible song playing on the radio was a dance version of Don't Stop Believing. My ears started bleeding!!!! Who recorded that techno drival? How did they get the rights? If it is Arnel with the band then they have lost any respect I had for them.

Give Friga's recording of "Faithfully" a listen. It's a fucking horror show, and puke-inducing!

I'm a glutton for punishment, so I went looking for that on YouTube and instead found a clip from the 'Journey Rock Special '83' set to 'Faithfully'. I liked seeing the guys getting set up to do a concert during the Frontiers tour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPyH2rjrlPY

SherriBerry wrote:
I'm a glutton for punishment, so I went looking for that on YouTube and instead found a clip from the 'Journey Rock Special '83' set to 'Faithfully'. I liked seeing the guys getting set up to do a concert during the Frontiers tour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPyH2rjrlPY

Luckily for us, even youtube has enough sense not to put that out there. It's actually on one of Friga's solo CD's but if I were you, I certainly wouldn't pay money to listen to it, because it's painful. I will tell you this though...For anyone who really believes that it's about the band or the song and not the guy singing, this is the best proof you can ever give them. This song would still be unheard today, if "Journey" chose Friga to sing lead on this track!

Hmm I kinda like it.. not all dance is bad.

they do a dance version that makes me want to kill myself on that new show on the fucking CW called GLEE.

Enigma869 wrote:

SherriBerry wrote:
I'm a glutton for punishment, so I went looking for that on YouTube and instead found a clip from the 'Journey Rock Special '83' set to 'Faithfully'. I liked seeing the guys getting set up to do a concert during the Frontiers tour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPyH2rjrlPY

Luckily for us, even youtube has enough sense not to put that out there. It's actually on one of Friga's solo CD's but if I were you, I certainly wouldn't pay money to listen to it, because it's painful. I will tell you this though...For anyone who really believes that it's about the band or the song and not the guy singing, this is the best proof you can ever give them. This song would still be unheard today, if "Journey" chose Friga to sing lead on this track!

I'm definitely not paying money for that - thanks for the warning! It was bad enough that I paid full price for 'Generations' last year.

SherriBerry wrote:

Enigma869 wrote:

SherriBerry wrote:
I'm a glutton for punishment, so I went looking for that on YouTube and instead found a clip from the 'Journey Rock Special '83' set to 'Faithfully'. I liked seeing the guys getting set up to do a concert during the Frontiers tour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPyH2rjrlPY

Luckily for us, even youtube has enough sense not to put that out there. It's actually on one of Friga's solo CD's but if I were you, I certainly wouldn't pay money to listen to it, because it's painful. I will tell you this though...For anyone who really believes that it's about the band or the song and not the guy singing, this is the best proof you can ever give them. This song would still be unheard today, if "Journey" chose Friga to sing lead on this track!

I'm definitely not paying money for that - thanks for the warning! It was bad enough that I paid full price for 'Generations' last year.

Hey, "Gone Crazy" is a keeper.

Rick wrote:

SherriBerry wrote:

Enigma869 wrote:

SherriBerry wrote:
I'm a glutton for punishment, so I went looking for that on YouTube and instead found a clip from the 'Journey Rock Special '83' set to 'Faithfully'. I liked seeing the guys getting set up to do a concert during the Frontiers tour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPyH2rjrlPY

Luckily for us, even youtube has enough sense not to put that out there. It's actually on one of Friga's solo CD's but if I were you, I certainly wouldn't pay money to listen to it, because it's painful. I will tell you this though...For anyone who really believes that it's about the band or the song and not the guy singing, this is the best proof you can ever give them. This song would still be unheard today, if "Journey" chose Friga to sing lead on this track!

I'm definitely not paying money for that - thanks for the warning! It was bad enough that I paid full price for 'Generations' last year.

Hey, "Gone Crazy" is a keeper.

Actually, I really like Deen's 'A Better Life'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjITpw5olvQ

Deb wrote:

Rick wrote:

SherriBerry wrote:

Enigma869 wrote:

SherriBerry wrote:
I'm a glutton for punishment, so I went looking for that on YouTube and instead found a clip from the 'Journey Rock Special '83' set to 'Faithfully'. I liked seeing the guys getting set up to do a concert during the Frontiers tour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPyH2rjrlPY

Luckily for us, even youtube has enough sense not to put that out there. It's actually on one of Friga's solo CD's but if I were you, I certainly wouldn't pay money to listen to it, because it's painful. I will tell you this though...For anyone who really believes that it's about the band or the song and not the guy singing, this is the best proof you can ever give them. This song would still be unheard today, if "Journey" chose Friga to sing lead on this track!

I'm definitely not paying money for that - thanks for the warning! It was bad enough that I paid full price for 'Generations' last year.

Hey, "Gone Crazy" is a keeper.

Actually, I really like Deen's 'A Better Life'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjITpw5olvQ

Gens really is underrated because the shit that is on there is truly SHIT and the production really sucks. But FITH, PIYH, Better Life, Beyond The clouds, Never Too Late, and Out Of Harm's Way are all good to great songs for me.

SherriBerry wrote: It was bad enough that I paid full price for 'Generations' last year.

As did I ! I'm still looking for that cocksucker Schon to refund my $14.00 that turned into a drink coaster!

Ehwmatt wrote:Gens really is underrated

Put the crack pipe down, NOW!

Enigma869 wrote:

Ehwmatt wrote:Gens really is underrated

Put the crack pipe down, NOW!

Good one, way to cherrypick my post fuckhead

Deb wrote:

Rick wrote:

SherriBerry wrote:

Enigma869 wrote:

SherriBerry wrote:
I'm a glutton for punishment, so I went looking for that on YouTube and instead found a clip from the 'Journey Rock Special '83' set to 'Faithfully'. I liked seeing the guys getting set up to do a concert during the Frontiers tour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPyH2rjrlPY

Luckily for us, even youtube has enough sense not to put that out there. It's actually on one of Friga's solo CD's but if I were you, I certainly wouldn't pay money to listen to it, because it's painful. I will tell you this though...For anyone who really believes that it's about the band or the song and not the guy singing, this is the best proof you can ever give them. This song would still be unheard today, if "Journey" chose Friga to sing lead on this track!

I'm definitely not paying money for that - thanks for the warning! It was bad enough that I paid full price for 'Generations' last year.

Hey, "Gone Crazy" is a keeper.

Actually, I really like Deen's 'A Better Life'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjITpw5olvQ

I love Deen's vocals, so I'm hoping that when they put out their next CD package there will be some bonus tracks somewhere with live versions of Deen singing 'After the Fall' and 'Mother, Father'. He deserves the recognition and the pat on the back!

Enigma869 wrote:

SherriBerry wrote: It was bad enough that I paid full price for 'Generations' last year.

As did I ! I'm still looking for that cocksucker Schon to refund my $14.00 that turned into a drink coaster!

Well I'm glad to hear I wasn't the only one - I paid $17.99 off Amazon.ca! I hadn't been on MR long enough to know better If you find Neal handing out refunds, can you get mine too? I think they should offer a deal to fans - send proof that you actually paid for 'Generations' and they'll send a coupon for $5 off the next release.

Ehwmatt wrote:

Deb wrote:

Rick wrote:

SherriBerry wrote:

Enigma869 wrote:

SherriBerry wrote:
I'm a glutton for punishment, so I went looking for that on YouTube and instead found a clip from the 'Journey Rock Special '83' set to 'Faithfully'. I liked seeing the guys getting set up to do a concert during the Frontiers tour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPyH2rjrlPY

Luckily for us, even youtube has enough sense not to put that out there. It's actually on one of Friga's solo CD's but if I were you, I certainly wouldn't pay money to listen to it, because it's painful. I will tell you this though...For anyone who really believes that it's about the band or the song and not the guy singing, this is the best proof you can ever give them. This song would still be unheard today, if "Journey" chose Friga to sing lead on this track!

I'm definitely not paying money for that - thanks for the warning! It was bad enough that I paid full price for 'Generations' last year.

Hey, "Gone Crazy" is a keeper.

Actually, I really like Deen's 'A Better Life'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjITpw5olvQ

Gens really is underrated because the shit that is on there is truly SHIT and the production really sucks. But FITH, PIYH, Better Life, Beyond The clouds, Never Too Late, and Out Of Harm's Way are all good to great songs for me.

I wonder if they'll rework some of those songs the way they did for 'FITH' and put them out as bonus tracks. If they are doing another 3-disc release, I think they could do an entire disc of just bonus tracks! It was nice to hear Neal singing lead - I was really disappointed that he didn't have a chance to put out a new solo CD before the band started touring.

SherriBerry wrote: It was nice to hear Neal singing lead.

No it wasn't! It's one of many reasons that "Generations" was a fucking abortion! Schon is a great guitarist, not a vocalist. He shouldn't be destroying anything with the name "Journey" on it with his voice!

Enigma869 wrote:

SherriBerry wrote: It was nice to hear Neal singing lead.

No it wasn't! It's one of many reasons that "Generations" was a fucking abortion! Schon is a great guitarist, not a vocalist. He shouldn't be destroying anything with the name "Journey" on it with his voice!

I still love Late Nite and Schon and Hammer. I thoroughly enjoy Schon's vocals on many of the tunes.

RocknRoll wrote:
I still love Late Nite and Schon and Hammer. I thoroughly enjoy Schon's vocals on many of the tunes.

Good for you. Let your ears bleed while listening. In my opinion, Schon doesn't need to be singing lead on ANY "Journey" track. The brand name that pays Schon's bills wasn't built on his shitty voice, so he should have a little more respect for it!

Enigma869 wrote:

RocknRoll wrote:
I still love Late Nite and Schon and Hammer. I thoroughly enjoy Schon's vocals on many of the tunes.

Good for you. Let your ears bleed while listening. In my opinion, Schon doesn't need to be singing lead on ANY "Journey" track. The brand name that pays Schon's bills wasn't built on his shitty voice, so he should have a little more respect for it!

Guaranteed my ears don't bleed. Schon has a good voice and does well. Since Journey's music is built around vocals probably not the best spot for it, but as a one-off I have no problem with it. And yes, I do like Self-Defense. OK, go ahead........

RocknRoll wrote:

Enigma869 wrote:

RocknRoll wrote:
I still love Late Nite and Schon and Hammer. I thoroughly enjoy Schon's vocals on many of the tunes.

Good for you. Let your ears bleed while listening. In my opinion, Schon doesn't need to be singing lead on ANY "Journey" track. The brand name that pays Schon's bills wasn't built on his shitty voice, so he should have a little more respect for it!

Guaranteed my ears don't bleed. Schon has a good voice and does well. Since Journey's music is built around vocals probably not the best spot for it, but as a one-off I have no problem with it. And yes, I do like Self-Defense. OK, go ahead........

He sounds good on People and Places and the Schon Hammer stuff. He shouldn't be singin all the time, but there are far worse "lead" singers out there that sing every song.

Ehwmatt wrote:

RocknRoll wrote:

Enigma869 wrote:

RocknRoll wrote:
I still love Late Nite and Schon and Hammer. I thoroughly enjoy Schon's vocals on many of the tunes.

Good for you. Let your ears bleed while listening. In my opinion, Schon doesn't need to be singing lead on ANY "Journey" track. The brand name that pays Schon's bills wasn't built on his shitty voice, so he should have a little more respect for it!

Guaranteed my ears don't bleed. Schon has a good voice and does well. Since Journey's music is built around vocals probably not the best spot for it, but as a one-off I have no problem with it. And yes, I do like Self-Defense. OK, go ahead........

He sounds good on People and Places and the Schon Hammer stuff. He shouldn't be singin all the time, but there are far worse "lead" singers out there that sing every song.

+1
I wasn't nominating Neal to take over as Journey's lead singer, but he was great on 'People and Places' and I like his solo work too. No bleeding ears here either! But having all of the guys singing lead on various songs was just a bad idea from start to finish. I think Rick's mention of 'Gone Crazy' applies in more ways than one.