Some great STEVE AUGERI HIGHLIGHTS..enjoy

[kellygirl77]

Found these on Youtube ... love "Higher Place" with Castronovo backround vocals!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxiSXWjACxo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf4xsAv5UE

[journeyinto2001]

The Bakersfield video really highlights just how well Augeri could sound and how well he fit in the band. He had plenty of bad nights, but this night was just incredible. Thanks for posting!

[BobbyinTN]

Awesome singer. Great guy!

[larryfromnextdoor]

i saw this tour and loved it,, but watching this, i feel bored,, the only one "working it" is augeri,, --

bass player to guitar player," lets meet at the drum riser and stare at the kick drum every song with our backs to the audience,, THEN walk back over to where we were standing and dont move or get excited!"

[kellygirl77]

Hey Steve...we're ready...where are you??

[stevew2]

He sounds fucking awesome hear like I remembered. What a fucking crime it was to blow out a voice. It was gone in 2005 at the start of the Generations tour. Happy fucking 30th .What a way to celebrate an anniversiary then to sacrifice your lead singer, make him play air guitar,then drag him through the mud into 2006, then finish the job after 5 gigs and let him die on his own, then bring in another singer, and then give him the shaft after he gave his awe. Sorry to bitch, I got off the subject, thanks for the clips,

[Rick]

I admire Augeri, but you can tell he was struggling with the notes in '01. Poor bastard. When you listen to Tall Stories, he sings in a totally different range. Perry set a standard that even he couldn't live up to forever. They tour these poor singers to death, then discard them like yesterdays news. I think Jeff's release was the best thing that happened to him. They would have used him up too. God bless their next sacrificial lamb.

[ArnelRox]

Those are the highlights? Yikes. Don't show me the lowlights then.

These singers doing morning shows need to listen to what Jeff said about this: Sleep in the day before & stay up all nite. There's no way to warm up the voice in a few hours by getting up early. That HP performance in NY is extremely painful on the ears. Augeri HAD to be aware how bad he sounded there. I can imagine that pissed Neal off to the nth degree.

The poor guy was SERIOUSLY struggling on some notes in that Bakersfield show too & he's way off pitch at times. What's interesting is he sounds strong in some places, then his voice just falls apart in others.

He sounded a lot better in the 1998 shows on YouTube. How much did they tour from 98-2001? Anyone know?

[Red13JoePa]

All summer and a lot of the fall in '98, same in '99 nothing but a few fall/winter dates in 00 (inc DVD shoot), all summer and a lot of fall in 01 02 03 04 05.

They were road WARRIORS until Augeri's voice threw a rod.

[ArnelRox]

So it was comparable to the Perry era tour schedule then. I guess they forgot that Augeri was older when he started.

All summer and a lot of the fall in '98, same in '99 nothing but a few fall/winter dates in 00 (inc DVD shoot), all summer and a lot of fall in 01 02 03 04 05.

They were road WARRIORS until Augeri's voice threw a rod.

[Red13JoePa]

So it was comparable to the Perry era tour schedule then. I guess they forgot that Augeri was older when he started.

All summer and a lot of the fall in '98, same in '99 nothing but a few fall/winter dates in 00 (inc DVD shoot), all summer and a lot of fall in 01 02 03 04 05.

They were road WARRIORS until Augeri's voice threw a rod.

Pretty comparable. Depends on EXACTLY how many shows the band played on each tour with both guys. Close to the same number of full-blown tours but I'd like to see a tour-by-tour side-by-side of the dates.

Someone pull that for us.

[stevew2]

They didnt care. I think they would be embarresed to to have a young lead singer{which is want they needed to play as much as they did}.They just wanted a workhorse that would do what they said,till he got lame, they they put him out to pasture

[ArnelRox]

I'd like to see a tour-by-tour side-by-side of the dates.

Someone pull that for us.

I have the Perry dates. Surely some Augeri fan has the dates he did?

[ArnelRox]

They didnt care. I think they would be embarresed to to have a young lead singer{which is want they needed to play as much as they did}.They just wanted a workhorse that would do what they said,till he got lame, they they put him out to pasture

Maybe Jeff looked too young for them & they knew he wasn't going to pasture easily

[stevew2]

Plus he was to tall,made Neal look like Tom Thumb

[ArnelRox]

Plus he was to tall,made Neal look like Tom Thumb

All of them looked like midgets beside Jeff. I remember my husband commenting on that in Nov. He said Jeff looked like a giant. I said he sounded like one too

[cscott]

I think that this video demonstrates that Augeri really did deserve the gig. (the bakersfield footage)Definately a great performance. Not perfect, but truly live vocals never are. I can guarantee you that anyone in the audience that night didn't even pick up on the minor flaws, and would have been impressed by his delivery style and stage presence. If anybody has more good Augeri stuff, please post it !!
The Today Show footage, on the other hand, was much less impressive.

[*Laura]

Surely some Augeri fan has the dates he did?

Maybe only if they kept track personally.Not sure there's a tour schedule publicly posted somewhere...

However,they toured pretty heavily with Augeri too.That might be the main reason why he fried his voice,plus the age factor setting in,just as in SP's case.
A shame,really....

[ArnelRox]

Not perfect, but truly live vocals never are.

Unless it's Perry.

[conversationpc]

So it was comparable to the Perry era tour schedule then. I guess they forgot that Augeri was older when he started.

All summer and a lot of the fall in '98, same in '99 nothing but a few fall/winter dates in 00 (inc DVD shoot), all summer and a lot of fall in 01 02 03 04 05.

They were road WARRIORS until Augeri's voice threw a rod.

Pretty comparable. Depends on EXACTLY how many shows the band played on each tour with both guys. Close to the same number of full-blown tours but I'd like to see a tour-by-tour side-by-side of the dates.

Someone pull that for us.

Here you go...I'm not going to bother including links where I found all this stuff because there were lots. One where I found most of the dates for the Pre-Perry and Pera eras was from this page... http://www.journey-tribute.com/journey/ ... _past.html . For the others, it was just bits and pieces from various sites, so I'm sure I'm missing a bunch.

JOURNEY - 25 shows from December 1973 through December 1975
LOOK INTO THE FUTURE - 20 shows from February 1976 through December 1976
NEXT - 42 shows from January 1977 through December 1977
INFINITY - 122 shows from January 1978 through December 1978
EVOLUTION - 97 shows from April 1979 through September 1979
DEPARTURE - 96 shows from March 1980 through October 1980
DREAM AFTER DREAM - 3 shows June 1981
ESCAPE - 122 shows from July 1981 through July 1982
FRONTIERS - 108 shows from February 1983 through September 1983
RAISED ON RADIO - 68 shows from August 1986 through February 1987
BILL GRAHAM TRIBUTE - 1 show in November 1991
VACATION'S OVER TOUR '98 & 99 - 124 shows from June 1998 through November 1999
ARRIVAL PRE-TOUR & TOUR - 77 shows from September 2000 through October 2001
2002 UNDER THE RADAR TOUR - 56 shows from April 2002 through November 2002
2003 CLASSIC ROCK'S MAIN EVENT TOUR - 59 shows from April 2003 through October 2003
2004 - ???
2005 30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR - 68 shows from June 2005 through January 2006
2006 JOURNEY/DEF LEPPARD TOUR - 62 shows June 2006 through October 2006
2007 TOUR - 8 shows from March 2007

[Red13JoePa]

INFINITY - 122
EVOLUTION - 97
DEPARTURE - 96

ESCAPE - 122 shows
FRONTIERS - 108 shows


LOL!!!!!!!! Holy SHIT!

[ArnelRox]

Thanks Dave. I was kinda looking for how many nites a week they did vs. how many nites off but this is a start.

INFINITY - 122 shows from January 1978 through December 1978
EVOLUTION - 97 shows from April 1979 through September 1979
DEPARTURE - 96 shows from March 1980 through October 1980
DREAM AFTER DREAM - 3 shows June 1981
ESCAPE - 122 shows from July 1981 through July 1982
FRONTIERS - 108 shows from February 1983 through September 1983

So an average of about 96 shows a year. What's amazing is that there was one leg that was 30 or 31 days straight. How any vocalist can do that is beyond me!

VACATION'S OVER TOUR '98 - 59 shows from June 1998 through December 1998
VACATION'S OVER TOUR '99 - 60 shows from June 1999 through September 1999
2000-01 TOUR - 14 shows from February 2000 through February 2001
ARRIVAL TOUR - 55 shows from June 2001 through August 2001
2003 CLASSIC ROCK'S MAIN EVENT TOUR - 43 shows from May 2003 through August 2003
2005 30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR - 68 shows from June 2005 through January 2006

So just looking at those years, it's about an average of 63 shows. About 2/3 of the Perry era. I'd be interested to see how close they were together tho (how many nites a week)

[mistiejourney]

He sounds fucking awesome hear like I remembered. What a fucking crime it was to blow out a voice. It was gone in 2005 at the start of the Generations tour. Happy fucking 30th .What a way to celebrate an anniversiary then to sacrifice your lead singer, make him play air guitar,then drag him through the mud into 2006, then finish the job after 5 gigs and let him die on his own, then bring in another singer, and then give him the shaft after he gave his awe. Sorry to bitch, I got off the subject, thanks for the clips,

I was two rows back for our Generations concert. I remember thinking that the acoustics were terrible, that the music was overpowering Steve and even that close I was straining to hear him sing. I never had any inkling there was "tapegate" or anything else going on but I knew something wasn't right. Little did I know....

[conversationpc]

So an average of about 96 shows a year. What's amazing is that there was one leg that was 30 or 31 days straight. How any vocalist can do that is beyond me!

Looking at that one site with the Perry era info, on the Inifinity tour, they only took three days off in both March and May. There were a couple other months on that tour that were pretty full, as well as several months also for the Escape tour, and to a lesser degree for Frontiers & Departure.

[ArnelRox]

Looking at that one site with the Perry era info, on the Inifinity tour, they only took three days off in both March and May.

That's completely INSANE. I don't know how he did it & sounded awesome nite after nite. The band wondered why he was antisocial. Shit. He would have been in BIG trouble if someone sneezed on him.

[stevew2]

He sounds fucking awesome hear like I remembered. What a fucking crime it was to blow out a voice. It was gone in 2005 at the start of the Generations tour. Happy fucking 30th .What a way to celebrate an anniversiary then to sacrifice your lead singer, make him play air guitar,then drag him through the mud into 2006, then finish the job after 5 gigs and let him die on his own, then bring in another singer, and then give him the shaft after he gave his awe. Sorry to bitch, I got off the subject, thanks for the clips,

I was two rows back for our Generations concert. I remember thinking that the acoustics were terrible, that the music was overpowering Steve and even that close I was straining to hear him sing. I never had any inkling there was "tapegate" or anything else going on but I knew something wasn't right. Little did I know....

I am not sure when it started . I went to 5 that year. the first one on July19 it was the full lenth concert, I thought it was live,then again in August some songs sounded perfect, the other three I went to the last one in November that year they cut the concert to about 2 hours and 10 minutes and the vocals were outstanding then I mean perfect.The concert I went to on Sept 7 th{Wolf Trap} I remember something strange during Faithfully,even my daughter noticed it.The second half sounded a little different almost like the 2001 DVD, but we dissmissed it {may be denial] Rumors were coming out by then. I figured it must of started when they cut the setlist down,and flew in "the vocal coach" .What shame. I was looking though my ticket stubs. I feel bummed about the whole thing them fuckers

[brywool]

He sounds fucking awesome hear like I remembered. What a fucking crime it was to blow out a voice. It was gone in 2005 at the start of the Generations tour. Happy fucking 30th .What a way to celebrate an anniversiary then to sacrifice your lead singer, make him play air guitar,then drag him through the mud into 2006, then finish the job after 5 gigs and let him die on his own, then bring in another singer, and then give him the shaft after he gave his awe. Sorry to bitch, I got off the subject, thanks for the clips,

Great post...

[MCC620]

http://www.angelfire.com/music/collections/index2.htm

This site lists all the tours and dates from 1974 to 2003

[stevew2]

He sounds fucking awesome hear like I remembered. What a fucking crime it was to blow out a voice. It was gone in 2005 at the start of the Generations tour. Happy fucking 30th .What a way to celebrate an anniversiary then to sacrifice your lead singer, make him play air guitar,then drag him through the mud into 2006, then finish the job after 5 gigs and let him die on his own, then bring in another singer, and then give him the shaft after he gave his awe. Sorry to bitch, I got off the subject, thanks for the clips,

Great post...

Thanks, I had to vent,I miss going to see Journey,Ive done so every year since 2001

[tj]

Thanks Dave. I was kinda looking for how many nites a week they did vs. how many nites off but this is a start.

INFINITY - 122 shows from January 1978 through December 1978
EVOLUTION - 97 shows from April 1979 through September 1979
DEPARTURE - 96 shows from March 1980 through October 1980
DREAM AFTER DREAM - 3 shows June 1981
ESCAPE - 122 shows from July 1981 through July 1982
FRONTIERS - 108 shows from February 1983 through September 1983

So an average of about 96 shows a year. What's amazing is that there was one leg that was 30 or 31 days straight. How any vocalist can do that is beyond me!

VACATION'S OVER TOUR '98 - 59 shows from June 1998 through December 1998
VACATION'S OVER TOUR '99 - 60 shows from June 1999 through September 1999
2000-01 TOUR - 14 shows from February 2000 through February 2001
ARRIVAL TOUR - 55 shows from June 2001 through August 2001
2003 CLASSIC ROCK'S MAIN EVENT TOUR - 43 shows from May 2003 through August 2003
2005 30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR - 68 shows from June 2005 through January 2006

So just looking at those years, it's about an average of 63 shows. About 2/3 of the Perry era. I'd be interested to see how close they were together tho (how many nites a week)

Also, how long were the shows, how much was instrumental? Certainly by Escape and Frontier Journey was the main act and would have had a strong catalog of vocal songs to play. Earlier on (Infinity, etc.) they may have had more instrumentals from the first 3 albums and with Van Halen, etc. on tour with them a shorter set.

Regardless, doing it for this many weeks, on the road in a different town each night had to be tough on Perry and Augeri. You can be tired and still play guitar, bass, keyboard pretty well. Drummers and singers suffer the most from fatigue.