The "Vocal Gymnastics & Tone" of Steve Perry

[TRAGChick]

Hey all....

Happy Fried-Day \~/

I woke up today to the Angelic Sounds of Steve & Journey: "Wheel In The Sky":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsgwKTHADDM

In retrospect, yes....this is a very clean effortless vocal...with the "gymnastic" "aaah ah aaaah ah ah" at the Guitar instrumental.

But......looking back, I don't know......it's just ALL HIGH - nothing else.
Hindsight being 20/20 and all.....

Compare that to my recent example in another thread: "Listen To Your Heart":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RJ9fW8OmdM

To me, the one word - "Heart" - has more depth, quality, and control than the "aah"s in WITS.
More fuller rounded tones / latter day Music for me, please.

Thoughts?

[tammy]

I'm a non-musician/singer so it's hard for me to say...I appreciate his angelic sounds and his earthy sounds...but, he has heart & soul in them all. Seems that when I hear the earlier songs I have a sense of him being "unreachable" and me wanting to reach him and then the later works, like TBF, FTLOSM he seems more "intimate", the songs more introspective...does that make sense? I can only relate by feelings, not so much auditory. Although, this has bugged me...listening to the FTLOSM CD has always sounded "tinny" (hollow) but I don't know if it is the crappy player I have or my ears (in the last few years I developed tinnitis out of the blue!? hate it.)

[Saint John]

I'll take 1980-1984. Even 1986-1994, with his voice showing obvious damage, I'd still take that over the shit from 1977-1979. Yuck. That 1977-1979 stuff was like TBF ... pretty much worthless to me.

[Frontiers65]

[quote="Saint John"]I'll take 1980-1984. Even 1986-1994, with his voice showing obvious damage, I'd still take that over the shit from 1977-1979. Yuck. That 1977-1979 stuff was like TBF ... pretty much worthless to me.

WTF EVER! Infinty and Evolution were one of the best ever! His voice was prime! My fav albums though are Departure and Frontiers.

[Gideon]

I'll take '77-'80 and then '83-'86. '94 was pretty good, '96+ was meh, and '81 is technically great but unpleasant to listen to, a state of flux as his voice underwent the transition from the Infinity era to Frontiers era.

[tammy]

Thinking about this some more...I first heard SP in '78 when someone was playing the Infinity album and instantly drawn to "this voice", not knowing who it was (it was actually the song, "Lights"...so whatever it was I heard/felt was strong & it was from this particular song...
There is another voice that really draws me in & makes me heady and that's John West...god, such a beautiful voice...he is right up there with SP for me. Listen to this, when he was in Artension: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlIOYm-F ... re=related

[knox]

78 - 80 for me - my favorite album being Departure.

Escape is a fantastic album, and Mother Father is a vocal Grand Slam. But the studio versions of Wheel In The Sky and Good Morning Girl are the epitome Perry vocal tracks in my opinion.

[journey361]

No question, my favorite album, against the wall, perfect tone, pitch, a bit of adam lambert even. Not even close.

[annie89509]

Hey all....

Happy Fried-Day \~/

I woke up today to the Angelic Sounds of Steve & Journey: "Wheel In The Sky":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsgwKTHADDM

In retrospect, yes....this is a very clean effortless vocal...with the "gymnastic" "aaah ah aaaah ah ah" at the Guitar instrumental.

But......looking back, I don't know......it's just ALL HIGH - nothing else.
Hindsight being 20/20 and all.....

Compare that to my recent example in another thread: "Listen To Your Heart":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RJ9fW8OmdM

To me, the one word - "Heart" - has more depth, quality, and control than the "aah"s in WITS.
More fuller rounded tones / latter day Music for me, please.

Thoughts?

Right on, TC .