Listen to Off The Record Here....

[TRAGChick]

It's up on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=noz4rrzwsBk

Thank you....for making me feel like I'm in High School again, listening to this.
In the 80s, I remember Radio Specials like this on the "Westwood One Radio Network"...they would air on WHCN here in CT - Sunday nights.

Listening to this brings me right back to that time.

[STORY_TELLER]

Having heard/read multiple recent interviews with Perry now, two things stand out:

1. Perry and Neal make awesome music together, but as people they're oil and water. There will be no reunion of any kind. Perry's done with him.

2. Perry is very much in love with his girlfriend. He's beaming and I think that has him in a great place.


This guy is extremely passionate about everything. Things we might consider no big deal affect him deeper than we can imagine and deliver tremendous emotional impact on him. It's because he is that way that he's able to do what he does with his voice. He uses everything in him to convey that through his voice and that's what makes him unique. Unfortunately, with Neal being so rough around the edges, it probably also affected his relationship with him. Again, oil and water.

I hope Perry releases something. Would be great to hear a new approach from him on original material. I don't think anything he works on now will be remotely similar to the Journey sound. I think he's kind of outgrown it. Just my 2 cents.

[Lora]

Having heard/read multiple recent interviews with Perry now, two things stand out:

1. Perry and Neal make awesome music together, but as people they're oil and water. There will be no reunion of any kind. Perry's done with him.

2. Perry is very much in love with his girlfriend. He's beaming and I think that has him in a great place.


This guy is extremely passionate about everything. Things we might consider no big deal affect him deeper than we can imagine and deliver tremendous emotional impact on him. It's because he is that way that he's able to do what he does with his voice. He uses everything in him to convey that through his voice and that's what makes him unique. Unfortunately, with Neal being so rough around the edges, it probably also affected his relationship with him. Again, oil and water.

I hope Perry releases something. Would be great to hear a new approach from him on original material. I don't think anything he works on now will be remotely similar to the Journey sound. I think he's kind of outgrown it. Just my 2 cents.

Wow! What a truly insightful post. Worth much more than just 2 cents.

[RedWingFan]

Man, Journey WAS great!!! Miss Steve!

My 2 favorite vocals of his are "Sweet and Simple" and "Easy to Fall". Great singer no matter what his age is.

[Ftloperry]

Having heard/read multiple recent interviews with Perry now, two things stand out:

1. Perry and Neal make awesome music together, but as people they're oil and water. There will be no reunion of any kind. Perry's done with him.

2. Perry is very much in love with his girlfriend. He's beaming and I think that has him in a great place.


This guy is extremely passionate about everything. Things we might consider no big deal affect him deeper than we can imagine and deliver tremendous emotional impact on him. It's because he is that way that he's able to do what he does with his voice. He uses everything in him to convey that through his voice and that's what makes him unique. Unfortunately, with Neal being so rough around the edges, it probably also affected his relationship with him. Again, oil and water.

I hope Perry releases something. Would be great to hear a new approach from him on original material. I don't think anything he works on now will be remotely similar to the Journey sound. I think he's kind of outgrown it. Just my 2 cents.

Wow! What a truly insightful post. Worth much more than just 2 cents.

I so agree Lora. Great post story_teller!

[Michael Leigh]

Man, Journey WAS great!!! Miss Steve!

My 2 favorite vocals of his are "Sweet and Simple" and "Easy to Fall". Great singer no matter what his age is.

Yep, couldn't agree more. That vocal run he does at the end of Sweet and Simple (after Neal's solo and just after the bridge),TO THIS DAY, gives me chills.
I STILL just shake my head and wonder how in the hell he did that.
Also Steve's delivery on the "Live", Mother, Father is just TOTALLY mind blowing.
I so understand what he was talking about in the Stuck In The 80's interview,
how he said " he had to go get it (the emotional delivery),because the fans wanted to hear it."
I thought it was so cool, how Steve wanted us fans to know how "50/50" our relationship with him was.
You really don't hear that from artists (especially living legends and ICONS,like himself).
He is TRULY cut from a different cloth, then these idiot pop stars now days.

I think it's great that he's letting us fans into his personal life (his health issues, his relationship,etc.),more so then he EVER has before.
I think Steve is TRULY misunderstood, by a lot of people. What some may constitute as "arrogance", is really just him striving for perfection, and going for what he believes is best for the performance and the song.

Like everyone else on this forum, I HOPE AND PRAY, that Steve releases the music that he's been working on.
I'm glad he realizes, that "it's ok for him to suck". Steve Perry releasing music that sucks, is better then anyone in the rock or pop spotlight today, on their BEST DAY!!

Man, that guy, as a musical influence, MORE THAN ANYONE, has had such a HUGE impact on MY LIFE!!!
Meeting Steve, and getting a picture with him, is LITERALLY on my bucket list, even if it's for 5 minutes!!
I wish more than ANYTHING, for the chance to just shake his hand and PERSONALLY tell him, how he changed my life.

I REALLY need to give some HUGE KUDOS, to Uncle Joe Benson, Andrew, and Steve Spears at Stuck In The 80's, for 3 of THE BEST interviews EVER DONE, with Steve. More than ANYTHING, EVERYONE needs to applaud Lora Beard, for getting the interviews set up ( at least for Drew and Steve Spears).

THANK YOU SO MUCH, our dear Lora, for getting Steve Spears and Andrew set up with the interviews. I have listened to, and re-read the interviews over a dozen times already!!

[STORY_TELLER]

Having heard/read multiple recent interviews with Perry now, two things stand out:

1. Perry and Neal make awesome music together, but as people they're oil and water. There will be no reunion of any kind. Perry's done with him.

2. Perry is very much in love with his girlfriend. He's beaming and I think that has him in a great place.


This guy is extremely passionate about everything. Things we might consider no big deal affect him deeper than we can imagine and deliver tremendous emotional impact on him. It's because he is that way that he's able to do what he does with his voice. He uses everything in him to convey that through his voice and that's what makes him unique. Unfortunately, with Neal being so rough around the edges, it probably also affected his relationship with him. Again, oil and water.

I hope Perry releases something. Would be great to hear a new approach from him on original material. I don't think anything he works on now will be remotely similar to the Journey sound. I think he's kind of outgrown it. Just my 2 cents.

Wow! What a truly insightful post. Worth much more than just 2 cents.

I so agree Lora. Great post story_teller!

Thank you Lora/Ftloperry. Most kind.

By the way, Andrew, I didn't post it before, but great effing (Perry) interview man. Yours is the boilerplate for how it should be done. Great job sir.

[Lora]

I REALLY need to give some HUGE KUDOS, to Uncle Joe Benson, Andrew, and Steve Spears at Stuck In The 80's, for 3 of THE BEST interviews EVER DONE, with Steve. More than ANYTHING, EVERYONE needs to applaud Lora Beard, for getting the interviews set up ( at least for Drew and Steve Spears).

THANK YOU SO MUCH, our dear Lora, for getting Steve Spears and Andrew set up with the interviews. I have listened to, and re-read the interviews over a dozen times already!!

Thank you kind sir, but I was basically just air traffic control in setting all the interviews up. Steve is the one who put himself out there and opened up. I'm glad everyone is enjoying the interviews - it's nice reading all the positive feedback.

[tammy]

Yes, applauding LB, CP, FA...and all the interviewers...for great interviews! Glad Steve has opened up more to us and trusting us with revealing more of what's in his heart and what's on his mind.
And, it makes perfect sense that you can love someone and not really be able to go back to them...as is the case with SP & NS...it seems the distance and time has brought that ability to appreciate it all in a much greater way and now to just "let it be".

[mmberry301]

Really liked the interview....I love the fact that slowly Steve is opening up about his personal life (a little) and singing these days.

To me he was telling us what all of us had been thinking. He's gotten older and along with health issues just can't hit those notes that only dogs can hear. (ala 1978)

Hey, don't get me wrong there is NO shame in that. No one sounds the same 25 years later...save a VERY few.

Heck if he could sing TBF style that would suit me to a tee.....

I picked up GH on vinyl for a Christmas present for my boy.

Can't wait to hear that Beatles cover....wonder which one he'll pick.

The story about his GF was very cool.

[annie89509]

Always great to hear from SP. Thanks for the yt links.

[perryfaithful]

WOW.....what a great honest open FUN interview

Damn......