heardonthestreet wrote:...The proof in in the eating of the pudding and few are eating the pudding so the proof is that the new Journey material is not at all up to the standards that a Journey fan should expect from this band that at one time ruled. Schon is sucking the life out of what's left of Journey.
I look at it like this...people go through changes (I mean fans). When I was younger, I could not get enough Vanilla ice cream. I hated chocolate. Now, I prefer chocolate. Did vanilla change? Did chocolate? No, although my tastes have changed.
I truly believe that even if Perry was still in Journey, they would not have the following that they did in the 80s. Nothing lasts forever. TV shows come and go, get renewed, get cancelled. Fads come and they go. Why? Because people's tastes change.
When I went to the recent Journey concert with my wife, it was a packed house and I was impressed to see a ton of kids in attendance with their parents. But I think for most of us as adults, it's difficult to fully enjoy something to the same degree that we enjoyed it when we were younger.
- Fred