Monker wrote:NealIsGod wrote:Monker wrote:NealIsGod wrote:Wheels Of Fyre wrote:Nothing wrong with emulating your hero - just don't lose your own originality along the way.
Which Soto seems to have down pretty well.
I don't know about that...
The more he puts Perry'isms into his act, the more the Perryheads praise him. Some will say the want the 'originality'...but, I don't quite believe the actions back up those statements.
Well, Perry was influenced by Sam Cooke, and he inserted "Cookeisms" into his style. What's wrong with Soto, majorly influenced by Perry, doing the same?
Nothing.
What is 'wrong' is some people who say they want something 'different', but laying the praises down when it goes back to being the 'same'. They don't want JSS to be himself...they want him to be as much like Perry as possible.
I don't. Here's the thing that some people can't seem to grasp. I don't think
ANYBODY sounds just like Perry. I don't
WANT anybody to sound just like Perry. I like having the Perry sound be unique. Just because people with similar ranges sing the same melodies that Perry sang and add a few Perryisms to the songs does
NOT make them sound like Perry. No two voices are going to sound exactly the same even singing the same notes. That's the difference between a note produced mechanically with an instrument and a note produced by a human voice. Hell, even two identically manufactured instruments don't always sound the same. Adding Perryisms to a live performance of a song doesn't make that performance an impersonation.
Jeff and Jeremey both sound great singing the catalog and put on a hell of a show. Neither of them sounds just like Perry. Jeremey more so than Jeff, but that's because his voice is closer in timbre and he is singing in a tribute band that's trying to give the audience the Journey feeling.
Chalfant's voice sounds good singing the songs, but to me, get that,
TO ME, when I listen to them I get the feeling that he's trying to prove he can sound just like Perry singing them. That doesn't sit well with me on a studio CD. If this was a live performance during which he performed the songs I probably wouldn't be as put off by it. I don't see the point in hearing a studio CD of somebody else trying to sound like Perry when I can listen to a studio CD of Perry sounding like Perry. I don't have a problem with the fact that he did it and if his fans enjoy it, that's fine. But I don't have to like it just because they do.