mikemarrs wrote:nearing the age of 70 perry finally decides to front journey one more time.he has a special teleprompter so he can read the lyrics due to his alzeimers and two times a night a roadie brings a wheelchair out so he can sit and sing a few medleys off the aborted 2010 album 'revenue' when his hip acted up again right before a tour.another six years would pass before the journey would start again with perry.
he starts off with patiently from infinity some forty years ago.his fans have certainly been patient after all.he started a solo project in 2012 that he released straight to the net entitled 'don't blame me'.it was well received although the critics thought otherwise.the second song gets bungled when perry starts singing the lyrics to 'don't stop believen' while jon cain is playing faithfully on the keys.they laugh it off and begin playing 'be good to yourself'.intermission
after the intermission is over schon begins a guitar solo that was one of his best in the last thirty five years.ross valory is now sporting a bald look similar to steve smith who is now back on baord with the group.gregg rollie comes out for a short stint on feeling that way/anytime while jon cain shoots daggers of hateful glances his way.they wanted to tour again with rollie but he elected not to giving cain the job by default.
they do 'precious time' and they mean it.next they do 'too late' before they do 'escape' and 'seperate ways' then perry says to the crowd they are about to slow it down and is heard muttering in a low voice that he needs his meds now.perry then goes to the amps and takes his drugs and i don't mean the street ones.he says to the crowd now i know what your thinking but it ain't 1980 anymore.
he then slams into 'any way you want it' and they then 'play the partys over' and it is.there will be no encore tonight because there is a curfew in effect.seems that jon was scolded that if he didn't get back before midnight the nursing home where he was staying would shut the doors.
a list of the tour rider got out and this was some of the things requested by the band.........
20 bars of ivory soap
1 crock pot for soup with ladle
2 tea kettles with spring water
4 kit kat bars
15 white bath towels
4 gallons of cold milk
5 vegetables preferably fresh (at fairs,corn on the cob,if available)
6 fresh bowls of unpeeled fruit
12 small bottles of drinking water (not mineral or carbonated)
5 orders of zesty ore-ida french fries
2 hamburgers
a pack of camel cigarettes
a carton marlboro ultra lights
1 double burner hot plate
a pound of nova scotia salmon
a six pack of iced yoohoo
five bottles of good chardonnay (yellow tail brand prefered)
a 24 hour pharmacy open nearby
with only five members in the band, who gets the extra yoohoo?
I'll be 60! And I sure as hope I'm still posting here! Here meaning Melodic Rock.com. You think I'm going to stop liking rock just because I'm 60? Nevah! Of course, Steve Perry will be, what...68? Oh lordy! 
