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Final Frontiers wrote:Amazon and Itunes are both so big that there's all kinds of shenanigans going on there with copyright infringement. Nobody can police it all. Someone's using The Storm's name and Gregg Rolie's info but are selling their music on Google Play and Itunes. IOffer sells all kinds of Journey and other bands bootlegs. The Storm I can understand no one caring about (not Interscope at least someone should tell Gregg Rolie so he can file a compliant)- but someone booting Journey on Itunes is shocking. I wish I could get some of Gregg Rolie's solo work. I'd love to download "Deep Blue Sea". Did he ever tour for his solo work? Or make a solo music video?
Final Frontiers wrote:Amazon and Itunes are both so big that there's all kinds of shenanigans going on there with copyright infringement. Nobody can police it all. Someone's using The Storm's name and Gregg Rolie's info but are selling their music on Google Play and Itunes. IOffer sells all kinds of Journey and other bands bootlegs. The Storm I can understand no one caring about (not Interscope at least someone should tell Gregg Rolie so he can file a compliant)- but someone booting Journey on Itunes is shocking. I wish I could get some of Gregg Rolie's solo work. I'd love to download "Deep Blue Sea". Did he ever tour for his solo work? Or make a solo music video?
annie89509 wrote:Final Frontiers wrote:Amazon and Itunes are both so big that there's all kinds of shenanigans going on there with copyright infringement. Nobody can police it all. Someone's using The Storm's name and Gregg Rolie's info but are selling their music on Google Play and Itunes. IOffer sells all kinds of Journey and other bands bootlegs. The Storm I can understand no one caring about (not Interscope at least someone should tell Gregg Rolie so he can file a compliant)- but someone booting Journey on Itunes is shocking. I wish I could get some of Gregg Rolie's solo work. I'd love to download "Deep Blue Sea". Did he ever tour for his solo work? Or make a solo music video?
Yes, GR did several solo music videos. Remember, videos were big in the '80s ... everybody was doing it ... they get shown on MTV (24-hr play on loop). I got a 2-dvd compilation from a fan trade some years ago that include practically all videos ever made by Journey and Journey members on solo (SP, Neal (w/J Hamner), Gregg solo and w/Storm)... so many I have never seen, didn't know existed. I was never one of those people hooked on MTV (I had a life outside). The Picture quality on these dvds very uneven ... obviously, originally recorded/taped off the TV ... spliced together on vhs ... years later someone transferred to dvd's. From that, copied over and over again, as it gets shared from fan to fan. Wonder if you can find any of these on YT.
Final Frontiers wrote:annie89509 wrote:Final Frontiers wrote:Amazon and Itunes are both so big that there's all kinds of shenanigans going on there with copyright infringement. Nobody can police it all. Someone's using The Storm's name and Gregg Rolie's info but are selling their music on Google Play and Itunes. IOffer sells all kinds of Journey and other bands bootlegs. The Storm I can understand no one caring about (not Interscope at least someone should tell Gregg Rolie so he can file a compliant)- but someone booting Journey on Itunes is shocking. I wish I could get some of Gregg Rolie's solo work. I'd love to download "Deep Blue Sea". Did he ever tour for his solo work? Or make a solo music video?
Yes, GR did several solo music videos. Remember, videos were big in the '80s ... everybody was doing it ... they get shown on MTV (24-hr play on loop). I got a 2-dvd compilation from a fan trade some years ago that include practically all videos ever made by Journey and Journey members on solo (SP, Neal (w/J Hamner), Gregg solo and w/Storm)... so many I have never seen, didn't know existed. I was never one of those people hooked on MTV (I had a life outside). The Picture quality on these dvds very uneven ... obviously, originally recorded/taped off the TV ... spliced together on vhs ... years later someone transferred to dvd's. From that, copied over and over again, as it gets shared from fan to fan. Wonder if you can find any of these on YT.
First of all, I rechecked the suspicious "The Storm" page. Gregg Rolie's info is gone. But someone else is still using the name. Maybe that's why Chalfant has to use "Kevin Chalfant & The Storm". Still doesn't explain why the music's not availabe for download.
My internet fu is strong. But I have never come across any other music videos for Gregg Rolie that weren't Santana, Journey, and that one Storm one. It would help if I knew what the titles of the songs were, but his stuff is usually just performances. Annie- if you knew how to- you could totally post those on You Tube. If you remember, was Gregg just singing in these videos or does he act? I'm dying to know if his videos were considered as bad as Journey's were. Once he got out from behind his wall of sound, he proved he had the moves to be a decent frontman- at least in "She Makes Me Feel Alright". More of that please!
annie89509 wrote:Final Frontiers wrote:Yes, GR did several solo music videos. Remember, videos were big in the '80s ... everybody was doing it ... they get shown on MTV (24-hr play on loop). I got a 2-dvd compilation from a fan trade some years ago that include practically all videos ever made by Journey and Journey members on solo (SP, Neal (w/J Hamner), Gregg solo and w/Storm)... so many I have never seen, didn't know existed. I was never one of those people hooked on MTV (I had a life outside). The Picture quality on these dvds very uneven ... obviously, originally recorded/taped off the TV ... spliced together on vhs ... years later someone transferred to dvd's. From that, copied over and over again, as it gets shared from fan to fan. Wonder if you can find any of these on YT.
First of all, I rechecked the suspicious "The Storm" page. Gregg Rolie's info is gone. But someone else is still using the name. Maybe that's why Chalfant has to use "Kevin Chalfant & The Storm". Still doesn't explain why the music's not availabe for download.
My internet fu is strong. But I have never come across any other music videos for Gregg Rolie that weren't Santana, Journey, and that one Storm one. It would help if I knew what the titles of the songs were, but his stuff is usually just performances. Annie- if you knew how to- you could totally post those on You Tube. If you remember, was Gregg just singing in these videos or does he act? I'm dying to know if his videos were considered as bad as Journey's were. Once he got out from behind his wall of sound, he proved he had the moves to be a decent frontman- at least in "She Makes Me Feel Alright". More of that please!
Gregg - 2 solo - Young Love (from his 1st (self-titled) album) and The Hands of Time (from his 2nd? album Gringo) ... yes, he was acting in full video vignette ... Also, 2 w/The Storm - Show Me the Way (KC doing his best SP personna and the whole band standing in a dark forest in windStorm ...lol) and Wasting Time.
For all the talk about SP out for commercial glory with his solo effort, and Neal was just playing for fun with his solo stuff, Neal sure wanted to do videos to promote his albums. 2 w/JHammer - I'm Talking to You and No More Lies. 1 solo - I'll Cover You (Randy Jackson playing bass). Take Me Down w/Hardline. There were 2 songs with HSAS in concert footage that made it on MTV - Missing You and Whiter Shade of Pale (SammyH outstanding vocalist/performer... I can see why he is so revered on VanHalen, etc.). I know there were also Bad English videos done at the time, but I didn't come across any in my collection of boots.
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The Schon-Hammer videos are on You Tube. The Gregg Rolie ones are not. You shocked me when you said that they were on MTV2 from the '90s. They must've gone wayyyyy back into the archives to find those. Like someone who worked there ACTUALLY knew something about music and references. I thought for sure they had been recorded back in the '80s when they were released.
That Neal... he sure is a hair chameleon. Every video of him from the '70s to today he has a different hairstyle. It's like he's in the witness protection program. The '70s fro with the mustache, the geri curl, the ringlets, whatever he's got going on now. Someone should ask him what products he uses.
Gregg Rolie playing the Dad in "Young Love" sheesh. No wonder it didn't hit. Pat Benatar played a teenage runaway in "Love's A Battlefield" and she was 30 at the time. I've heard the song- so I know he couldn't really play the kid. But as the star- the video should've been about HIM. Not a bunch of little punk kids.
As for "The Hands Of Time", he should've been in the video with the girl. Don't be a spectator Gregg participate!!!! This advice is 30 years too late.
The Storm video cracks me up. Seriously, nobody in the band gets a close upCompare it to ANY Journey video where the camera gets an extreme close up of Steve Perry's face. It's not like everybody in The Storm's a hideous troll that shouldn't be allowed above ground. But there's literally a forest of trees between the camera and Kevin Chalfant. For a video that being bought and paid for to promote them that tells me that the director couldn't find a way to make ANY of them look attractive. I don't know why Ross and Gregg got plenty of close ups in Journey.
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The Schon-Hammer videos are on You Tube. The Gregg Rolie ones are not. You shocked me when you said that they were on MTV2 from the '90s. They must've gone wayyyyy back into the archives to find those. Like someone who worked there ACTUALLY knew something about music and references. I thought for sure they had been recorded back in the '80s when they were released.
That Neal... he sure is a hair chameleon. Every video of him from the '70s to today he has a different hairstyle. It's like he's in the witness protection program. The '70s fro with the mustache, the geri curl, the ringlets, whatever he's got going on now. Someone should ask him what products he uses.
Gregg Rolie playing the Dad in "Young Love" sheesh. No wonder it didn't hit. Pat Benatar played a teenage runaway in "Love's A Battlefield" and she was 30 at the time. I've heard the song- so I know he couldn't really play the kid. But as the star- the video should've been about HIM. Not a bunch of little punk kids.
As for "The Hands Of Time", he should've been in the video with the girl. Don't be a spectator Gregg participate!!!! This advice is 30 years too late.
The Storm video cracks me up. Seriously, nobody in the band gets a close upCompare it to ANY Journey video where the camera gets an extreme close up of Steve Perry's face. It's not like everybody in The Storm's a hideous troll that shouldn't be allowed above ground. But there's literally a forest of trees between the camera and Kevin Chalfant. For a video that being bought and paid for to promote them that tells me that the director couldn't find a way to make ANY of them look attractive. I don't know why Ross and Gregg got plenty of close ups in Journey.
Haha..you're funny, FF... I just think they were going for the double ententre thing ... the Storm performing in a storm. Yeah, those guys stuck in a dark forest...wind/sleek blowing ...they're supposed to be playing through all this mayhem? Some of these videos in the 80s are so cheesy. Just ask the Journey guys. They hated doing videos ... came right out and said "no videos" during ROR.
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See now, this is where I'm confused. Why would the band say that they don't like making videos and quit completely for ROR. Yet, Neal made a whole bunch with Jan Hammer and Steve made a trilogy for "Street Talk" and more for "Strange Medicine"? Maybe Ross and Smitty didn't like making videos.
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