Jeremey wrote:I never saw Perry live, but he never appeared to be too shy about engaging the audience, which I think is the point Herbie tried making in his interview. To be honest, I am willing to bet that with rare exceptions, Perry never was able to see much past the third or fourth row of the crowd anyway.
Jonathan Cain told me a story about why there was so much lingering animosity for Perry with Herbie. It was basically a business situation, and Perry was very strong willed in his belief that Herbie was overstepping some boundaries. The band sided with Perry, and apparently Herbie still carries some of that anger around. After all, the guy does believe that he was the reason for all of Journey's success and popularity, and that's an awful lot of "$ucce$$" to lose control of...
Jeremey, thanks for that insight from JC. Pretty much what we have all concluded from gathering all the little tidbits that are out there. One particular excerpt from HH's interview had him describing Journey's business meetings as each accompanied by his lawyer ... Herbie sitting at one end of long conference table and SP at the other end ... yelling at each other ... nobody else saying a word sitting on both sides of the table ... swinging their heads toward whoever is talking, like they are watching a tennis match. Very funny visual
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And there are the promo tapes: 1 from ROR and 1 from TBF. Each one has Steve-Neal-Jon talking about having to work out business matters before they could go into the studio. Business invariably meant financial and work conditions. As much as people would like to think that the band couldn’t stand SP, it’s not hard to fathom that they supported Steve 100% in their business dealings with Herbie. Fighting for concessions from management is a universal theme among any working class of people, and I gotta think Steve achieved a lot for the group … in their time together.
