jrnyman28 wrote:Would you ever consider releasing the Against The Wall tracks collectively?
SP: Sony is a strange machine. In England, the record labels always re-evaluate their past and do re-release singles from older CD's. Here? Never
So he was supposed to say Sony's won't do it and alienate Sony when he's trying to get some of the old video footage remastered and released?
What do you think about all the websites devoted to you in cyberspace? Do you have any plans to launch your own website?
SP: I own steveperry.com but I've yet to fly it. For now Fan Asylum has been so gracious in letting me use their site for my official statements. If you ever talk to me in a chat room or hear anything on any other sites just know this, I DO NOT go in chat rooms so it's not me, and for now, Fan Asylum has the only REAL Steve Perry statements to believe in!!!!!!!!
So he's supposed to mention a few but not all and risk alienating some devoted fans? Or he's supposed to say he doesn't like any of them and alienate a lot of devoted fans? Of course I can't read his mind, but maybe he felt that by ignoring that part of the question he would get the message across that he doesn't really care about those websites without having to offend anyone. He chose to answer the second part of the question and evade the first part. Seems like a Politically Correct decision to me.
Have you ever thought of creating a purely blues based CD? (I'm speaking of the really old time Blues). Your voice would be magic in that type of genre.
SP: Sam Cooke, Robert Plant, Marvin Gaye, Janis Joplin, Diana Washington, Kitty Lester and so many great singers I love, were all about the blues.
I love it.
He obviously doesn't have any plans to do so or he'd have said so. If he'd said he had thought about it, or would think about it, he would have fueled more of the same crap that's been tossed around about the "I think about it but try not to think about it" phrase from the BTM. He didn't have a definite answer, so he didn't give one. He just acknowledged that it was great music. Maybe those kinds of unfair analyses on the boards are the reason he felt he had to avoid any hint of criticism of the websites. Most of the prominent ones have message boards attached.
Do you have any desire to do some small venues again? Your concert in San Francisco on the Strange Medicine tour was a blast!
SP: Thanks......the Warfield Theater was a lot of fun. I do like smaller venues because it's so intimate. My solo band was a great group of players and good guys. We had fun on that tour.
Same thing as above. What could he say without any definite plans that wouldn't get him bashed by those who overanalyze every statement and hold him to promises he never made?
Thank you so much for attending the WOF ceremony on Jan 21st. You look good, Steve. Very healthy.... and as attractive as ever! I was in tears as I saw you embrace Neal then Ross. Now that you have felt the energy of the fans, do you feel you might make more public appearances...and hopefully perform somewhere? If not for yourself, how about for a charity.
SP: Regarding charity shows.....I do my own personal charity work by donation. I'd rather do it that way.
Again, what else could he have said? The comment about his "embrace" of Neal and Ross was obviously meant to get a response from him about his relationship with those guys. It's pretty obvious that they don't have a good relationship, so any answer he gave may have been unpopular with a large segment of the fan base.
If he was even thinking about the possibility of making appearances and said so, he'd again risk having some people hold him to a promise he didn't make. If he'd said he had none and then did so it would have had a similar result.
He stuck to the charities.
Steve Augeri has stated several times that you were his inspiration. In fact, he dedicated Journey's EP Red13 to you. What are your thoughts on Steve Augeri? Have you two spoken? And lastly, have you seen him perform with Journey lately and what were your thoughts about the band's performance?
SP: I only met him once and that was at the Hollywood WOF presentation. I've never seen the New Journey perform. With all due respect, my memories of Journey and its music are locked in our time together. I think I'll stay with that.
So he was supposed to say "I don't want him with the band and don't care what he says about me"? That might have been what some people would have liked for him to say so they could bash him around some more, but it wouldn't have made a lot of PR sense to do so. If he'd said he likes him and his work, then he'd have obviously been lying, not to mention swallowing his personal integrity, and bashed for that.
If he'd just ignored those questions that he couldn't give a direct answer to, he'd have been taken apart for that.
To be honest, the internet is the only place where Perry vs the band is heavily discussed in a public access forum. We're the reason he has to be so careful what he says, then he gets berated for doing so. He can't win. Some of the avid fans of the band tear him apart over any little thing they can find, and some of the avid Perry fans turn every little thing they can into some fantasy where he's some saintly being without fault(meaning he would have a hell of a long way to fall). He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. I'm surprised he didn't stay in his shell indefinitely, but I'm glad he didn't.
). There are no saints in the music business(especially rock music)and they all do and say things for a reason. The smart ones know 
