There are also too many people in "disguise" here. They pretend they are pro Journey, when in actuality, they will never be satisfied until Steve Perry returns to Journey, which will never happen. For those people, their disdain for you and the band is based on that and that alone.
Have a good tour!
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- Fred
Journey On!
Well, looks to me that the people who don’t want Jeff are the Augeri heads not the Perry fans. It the Augeri fans who are on the other board and some here that complain about the singing range style and everything they can find. They have post after post supporting Augeri and not even wanting to think Augeri is gone or they were fooled. Where are the nice posts for Jeff or for the band? It’s all about Augeri and I’m sick of it. It’s all about the band for me and I don’t care who is the lead.
The Perry boards seem to like Jeff and the fact that he don’t sound like Perry. So I say you are wrong. What I don’t get is why people complain about these Perry people yet every argument they have about the band always boils down to a Perry attack on the man or his fans-even if Perry ain’t around no more! Let it go. The hatred seems childish. Its like some people just hate everything Perry but want the “Perry sound” and call it the Journey sound. Well the Journey sound became that because Augeri was hired to sound like Perry. People don’t see that- they want their sound alike idol back with his bag of tapes, hot red pants and wiggle. Now they play hypocrite when Jeff comes on the board to talk when they are the same ones saying he was no good!
For those hard core Perry fans there are even harder core Augeri fans sending out prayer wishes and all sorts of nonsense when their God is nowhere to be seen or found and hasn’t said boo since he left. Real class yet they tar Perry for hiding out when he ain’t in the band and owes them nothing. Deens mother comes on the other board and talks to fans, Deen was on the board talking to fans a few days ago, Jeff came on this board. Neil was in a bar talking to fans. So Augeri is so sick he’s now got broken finger and can’t spend two minutes to say thanks for the candles and prayer support. WTF! Where’s the wife, kid anyone who can say thanks. Not one word. They’re all too sick to say, thanks. Don’t that say something? Still he’s worshiped.
Augeri was doing something he shouldn’t have and people still treat him like a God and sweep it under the rug. Now they still don’t want to admit that Augeri was frauding them and still make an excuse when the evidence is on the table. Dude got caught so he can’t talk! Look what he did to the band! He could have not done the tour and get the treatment Perry still gets fram fans stuck in a time warp for the TBF tour, but no, Augeri went along with the game knowing he could not sing, then had to leave when tapes gate come along. What does that say? Dude almost ruined my band and I ain’t gonna forget it. He should have walked away like Perry cause I never saw Neal hold any gun to his head and tell him to sing. He did what he wanted to do playing Mr Nice guy. I don’t know any con artist who tell people he’s a con. They all pretend their nice, that’s how they con!
Augeri fans still want him to come back, tapes and all. They are the ones who don’t want Jeff. The real Perry supporters know Perry ain’t coming back and don’t want a sound alike again. That was the problem. Jeff ain’t no sound alike or no Patsy. He’s his own man with his own popularity. Augeri couldn’t even do that. The press are kind to Jeff but still call Augeri the wanna be, so many years after. They ain’t gonna let tape gate go, what does that say? It says to me that the general public will accept Jeff not Augeri- who the press calls the sound alike. There are people who just don’t like the band anymore without Perry or Augeri because Jeff don’t sound like either of those guys. So get real when you take out your tar and brushes and paint people for what they really are and not what your busy trying to accuse them of being cause you hate Perry yet go on about having ss# and home addresses for the dude. You did this a couple of times in the past and not in just one thread. You hate him so much yet post about having his personal information, sounds like an unhealthy obsession for Perry.
Just cause you don’t like Perry or his fans don’t mean you should blame them for everything. That’s just stupid man cause you have no idea if it’s even true! I don’t see the Perry boards posting list after list about him to come back to Journey. I don’t think they want him with the band. It’s the Augeri supporters who want Augeri back with the band. Maybe the reason Perry fans defend him so much is because of the immature supporters who throw mud at Perry every chance they get and can’t let go of the fact that he’s gone and they still want to live in the past. Those are the trouble makers who don’t even know the guy but believe everything that’s written negative or from other people.
If Perry did what Augeri did, I’d be after him too, but Dude didn’t and you still give him a hard time. What did Augeri do, well let’s see SCAM people, be a sound alike, bring nothing to the band but red pants. And don’t say he caused Journey to keep going cause he didn’t. Neal did! There were much better singers to choose from like Chalfant or Jeremy. Augeri couldn’t even sing the whole catalogue. It’s Deen’s talent that saved him, so he was never first rate if he didn’t have help. Deen was the man with the plan, the real talent. Hell Herbie even said he would have picked some other guy, not Augeri and he said nothing but good things about Deen. Without Neal, Cain and Deen where would Augeri been. Then he had to use tapes. Neal continued the band, not Augeri. Neal would have done it with or without Augeri, the same way he did it with or without Perry. All Augeri did was get up and do what he was hired to do- he should kiss the ground Neal and Friga walked on for giving his sorry ass a chance when he was never the right guy then helping him with tapes..
You just hate Perry and show how bitter you are towards him and I don’t get it. It’s Neal’s band man. The band is still playing they still sound good, what’s the problem? Then again I guess everyone loves you too and those that don’t are the ones we should believe.. Most of us are adults and yet people attack whoever they can find, just cause they don’t like what’s posted when the see someone who likes Perry. It’s sick.
Jeff is a good guy. I have nothing bad to say about him. I give him a warm welcome. I like his sound and I think the guy is cool. I like the chemistry between him and Neal so that’s all I care about and I don’t care what name they use! I like Rollie and Perry cause they kept it real and Jeff is doing that too. As long as he ain’t fooling anyone, I’m cool. Jeff’s the real deal so I think these Augeri supporters should give him a chance and accept that he’s even got the decency to come on these boards and talk to fans, unlike a certain sound alike we know.
“We are definitely not afraid of playing live. It’s not a Pro Tools band. We are ready”. Neal Schon
Nice way to win fans dude.
