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Was just driving home and with it being three Live Thursday on 100.3, heard 3 Journey songs. DSB from Houston, Just The Same Way from Captured and of all things, Lights from the Bill Graham Tribute. Has anyone else ever heard that last one on the radio? I didn't even know stations had access to the Tribute audio for broadcast. It was cleaned up nicely but still, what a surprising choice.

Don wrote:Was just driving home and with it being three Live Thursday on 100.3, heard 3 Journey songs. DSB from Houston, Just The Same Way from Captured and of all things, Lights from the Bill Graham Tribute. Has anyone else ever heard that last one on the radio? I didn't even know stations had access to the Tribute audio for broadcast. It was cleaned up nicely but still, what a surprising choice.

They might be preparing people for the lame demos Perry has in the can.

The power of the beak.

Saint John wrote:

Don wrote:Was just driving home and with it being three Live Thursday on 100.3, heard 3 Journey songs. DSB from Houston, Just The Same Way from Captured and of all things, Lights from the Bill Graham Tribute. Has anyone else ever heard that last one on the radio? I didn't even know stations had access to the Tribute audio for broadcast. It was cleaned up nicely but still, what a surprising choice.

They might be preparing people for the lame demos Perry has in the can.

Saint John wrote:They might be preparing people for the lame demos Perry has in the can.

Perry played them for you did he? I'm amazed at how tight you are with him. It's like you're there to witness everything he does and thinks ...

DracIsBack wrote:

Saint John wrote:They might be preparing people for the lame demos Perry has in the can.

Perry played them for you did he? I'm amazed at how tight you are with him. It's like you're there to witness everything he does and thinks ...

I'm gonna take an educated guess and say they suck. Against The Wall was so bad that the label refused to even release the album and FTLOSM was a project that took 2 years and was absolutely terrible. So, yeah, I'm gonna stick with my assertion that these demos will be lame.

Saint John wrote:

DracIsBack wrote:

Saint John wrote:They might be preparing people for the lame demos Perry has in the can.

Perry played them for you did he? I'm amazed at how tight you are with him. It's like you're there to witness everything he does and thinks ...

I'm gonna take an educated guess and say they suck. Against The Wall was so bad that the label refused to even release the album and FTLOSM was a project that took 2 years and was absolutely terrible. So, yeah, I'm gonna stick with my assertion that these demos will be lame.

Nothing wrong with FTLOSM, other than it being a slow, more mature album. I think it had some great songs on it homo! Go listen to Manillow and leave us loons alone.

G.I.Jim wrote:

Saint John wrote:

DracIsBack wrote:

Saint John wrote:They might be preparing people for the lame demos Perry has in the can.

Perry played them for you did he? I'm amazed at how tight you are with him. It's like you're there to witness everything he does and thinks ...

I'm gonna take an educated guess and say they suck. Against The Wall was so bad that the label refused to even release the album and FTLOSM was a project that took 2 years and was absolutely terrible. So, yeah, I'm gonna stick with my assertion that these demos will be lame.

Nothing wrong with FTLOSM, other than it being a slow, more mature album. I think it had some great songs on it homo! Go listen to Manillow and leave us loons alone.

Jim, you never have a bad thing to say about any album! And, besides, I have learned over the years that "mature" is nothing more than code for BORING! TBF and FTLOSM were not "mature" ... they were shitty and boring!!!

JUST THE SAME WAY ROCKS!

R

The Against the Wall songs that came out WERE terrible songs.

brywool wrote:The Against the Wall songs that came out WERE terrible songs.

Melody & What Was were as good as any Journey penned ballads, back in the day.

EightyRock wrote:

brywool wrote:The Against the Wall songs that came out WERE terrible songs.

Melody & What Was were as good as any Journey penned ballads, back in the day.

You've gotta be fist-fucking me, man?!? You think those songs are on par with Faithfully, After The Fall, Who's Crying Now and Still They Ride?!? Melody has no hook(s), no chorus and goes absolutely nowhere! It's a snooze fest, musically. Some decent vocals and nothing else. What Was is almost the same, in the sense that it's directionless and has no hook, chorus or crescendo. You've gotta be sniffing paint or huffing aerosol cans if you think those 2 very mediocre songs can stand up against the songs I mentioned! Those wouldn't have even made it on a Journey album. Hell, I bet there are ballads that didn't make Journey albums that would mop those 2 shitballs.

PS Is The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love) a ballad? If so, I wanna include that one, too, just to run up the score!!!

That Bill Graham Tribute is available @ Wolfgang's Vault, The BGP archive recording outlet.

EightyRock wrote:

brywool wrote:The Against the Wall songs that came out WERE terrible songs.

Melody & What Was were as good as any Journey penned ballads, back in the day.

Never heard any of this aborted release. Wasn't Nuno Bettencourt (sp?) of extreme the guitar player on this. Just curious, was any of his playing good/impressive on this? Or was he kind of held back a bit (ie. playing for the song) ?

SF-Dano wrote:

EightyRock wrote:

brywool wrote:The Against the Wall songs that came out WERE terrible songs.

Melody & What Was were as good as any Journey penned ballads, back in the day.

Never heard any of this aborted release. Wasn't Nuno Bettencourt (sp?) of extreme the guitar player on this. Just curious, was any of his playing good/impressive on this? Or was he kind of held back a bit (ie. playing for the song) ?

I think these finally came out on Perry's Greatest Two Hits and Some Unreleased Shit Sony Said Sucked Too Bad To Put Our Label On It
I don't believe Nuno had anything to do with anything that was ever released, even as a writer....their collaboration was probably just more of Perry's playing around in the studio for his own amusement rather than any serious recording with the intention of actually releasing anything.

Yea the Bettancourt threats amounted to nothing more than name-dropping....he did this with Nikki Sixx too a while back like 10 years or more.

Red13JoePa wrote:Yea the Bettancourt threats amounted to nothing more than name-dropping

I bet the Extreme guys and their whole saga seemed normal after working with the Portuguese Jew.