Neal Confirms Decision To Go With Steve

[jrnyman28]

http://www.projo.com/music/content/projo_20050814_journey.3148fb6.html


"Singer Steve Augeri sounds an awful lot like Steve Perry, and while Schon says he considered getting a singer who sounded nothing like Perry and striking out for completely new territory, they'd then have had "the conflict of our catalog.

"We've got a tremendous catalog of lots of hit songs, which I wrote either a half or a third of" with Cain. "So we felt that those songs were ours as well as Steve's, and we had every right to do those songs.

"[And] everything wasn't written around the guitar, like in Van Halen." Switching singers from David Lee Roth to Sammy Hagar, Schon says, "was a much easier move for them, because everything was based around [guitarist Edward Van Halen].

"In Journey, all the hit songs we had were based around Steve Perry's vocals. And so in order to play those songs, someone has to have resemblance."

[Soledad?]

That's a good excuse, anyway.

[Rockindeano]

That's a good excuse, anyway.

shut up, hole.

[jrnyman28]

That's a good excuse, anyway.

No, it is the REASON!

Some people just don't get it!

[JourneyTroll]

That's a good excuse, anyway.

No, it is the REASON!

Some people just don't get it!

Sounds like an excuse to me too. Steve Perry isn't the only person with a great voice. Heck, if Deen said Steve Augeri looks like Steve Perry with a perm.

Journeytroll

[Paul_UK]

Oh jeez, here we go again.

[mrsp]

Deen never said Augeri looked like Steve Perry with a perm. He was quoting a fan. A fan made that statement.