If Steve Perry would share his opinion publicly....

[Carlitto H@kk]

Also, wasn't the GQ reporter the one that was sniffing around here asking questions for his article? No telling what some may have told the guy.

He was in here looking for fan comments on the band.
But I HIGHLY doubt any editor, especially for a rag as popular as GQ,
would let info like this go out when it's only source was a
messageboard filled w/ crazed fans

[Red13JoePa]

NoMoTa, inc was drummed up presumably out of spite for all the legal separation anxiety perry put them through when Neal's band Journey wanted to record and tour without him.

[Memorex]

NoMoTa, inc was drummed up presumably out of spite for all the legal separation anxiety perry put them through when Neal's band Journey wanted to record and tour without him.

It's tired man. Very tired. And if there is that anxiety, then stop asking Perry to come back or whatever.

[Memorex]

NoMoTa, inc was drummed up presumably out of spite for all the legal separation anxiety perry put them through when Neal's band Journey wanted to record and tour without him.

By the way, it was as much Perry's band as Neal's. No doubt about that.

[nolippin]

I agree that no editor of that caliber should let info like that go unchecked, but far more sensitive info has been leaked from seemingly credible sources. I'm just skeptical until I hear it from Perry.

Also, wasn't the GQ reporter the one that was sniffing around here asking questions for his article? No telling what some may have told the guy.

He was in here looking for fan comments on the band.
But I HIGHLY doubt any editor, especially for a rag as popular as GQ,
would let info like this go out when it's only source was a
messageboard filled w/ crazed fans

[Saint John]

By the way, it was as much Perry's band as Neal's. No doubt about that.

Probably more so legally...but in terms of blood, sweat, tears, dedication, the desire to forge ahead, record and tour, Perry was behind him like a pony would be behind Secretariat.

[Memorex]

By the way, it was as much Perry's band as Neal's. No doubt about that.

Probably more so legally...but in terms of blood, sweat, tears, dedication, the desire to forge ahead, record and tour, Perry was behind him like a pony would be behind Secretariat.

Again. A delusional post. Maybe Neal wanted to earn money in 96 and beyond more so than Perry (or had to), but as far as blood sweat and tears put into the band while they were both there, I'd say they are about even.

[Red13JoePa]

NoMoTa, inc was drummed up presumably out of spite for all the legal separation anxiety perry put them through when Neal's band Journey wanted to record and tour without him.

It's tired man. Very tired. And if there is that anxiety, then stop asking Perry to come back or whatever.

Show me where I've asked him to come back, Asylum escapee.

[Memorex]

NoMoTa, inc was drummed up presumably out of spite for all the legal separation anxiety perry put them through when Neal's band Journey wanted to record and tour without him.

It's tired man. Very tired. And if there is that anxiety, then stop asking Perry to come back or whatever.

Show me where I've asked him to come back, Asylum escapee.

I was talking about Neal. If there is all the anxiety, why bother worrying about Perry at all? If it's for the fans, then don't name your company nomota. Name it INeedMoney or something more accurate.

[Marabelle]

How do people know what they know? That is only your opinion. I have my opinions as well. We all obviously have thoughts regarding Arnel, JSS and SA along with Neal and Jon and the other members of the band. If someone in the band is upset with Steve Perry then they have their reasons; be it legitimate or not. They can call whatever they chose to call, NoMoTails or Fruit of the Loon or whatever if they want to cause they had a relationship with the man; good or bad. They are allowed to be upset. They are allowed to be angry cause of their personal relationship with him for all those years. There might be a few here that can say that besides those folks from Fan Asylum. People here are mad just cause they are mad. They speak out cause they have to vent their frustration somewhere.Most aren't ashamed to share it no matter how ridiculous it might sound. There are so many terrible characteristics ascribed to the man I am surprised he is able to sleep at night without fear someone would come into his home and stab him with a wooden cross. He might be a few things but I know he is not as awful as people depict him in the diatribes written each and every day. Do people think the more he hears what others think of him and how awful a person he is that he will suddenly change and become the man you wish him to be and maybe he'll be a few years younger and sing with the voice he had those many years ago? Don't you think he wishes he was able to sing like that still? If you're disappointed think how he might feel! Just maybe he can or just maybe he can't. Keep them guessing! And who would be more disturbed? Sex, drugs and rock n roll! Most if not all men want to maintain that youthfulness and if there is success then they want that too; if they say they don't then they are lying. So, he's a man. He just happened to be probably the best singer there was. And he just happened to be a bit of the man you think you know but he's only to you what you have read and what you have seen and heard on stage. Judgements are easy when you only see a part of the picture. So fire away with the worst possible scenarios depicting the terrible man people think he is and consider that is only a fourth of the person he really is.

[Red13JoePa]

NoMoTa, inc was drummed up presumably out of spite for all the legal separation anxiety perry put them through when Neal's band Journey wanted to record and tour without him.

It's tired man. Very tired. And if there is that anxiety, then stop asking Perry to come back or whatever.

Show me where I've asked him to come back, Asylum escapee.

I was talking about Neal. If there is all the anxiety, why bother worrying about Perry at all? If it's for the fans, then don't name your company nomota. Name it INeedMoney or something more accurate.

You were talking to me and I'm not Neal.

Who told you Neal wants him back? Doesn't that alleged pining for perry on Neal's part fly in the face of his NoMoTa thing that sits lodged so squarely in your loon craw?

[nolippin]

Neal should call his company NoMoreTail.

NoMoTa, inc was drummed up presumably out of spite for all the legal separation anxiety perry put them through when Neal's band Journey wanted to record and tour without him.

It's tired man. Very tired. And if there is that anxiety, then stop asking Perry to come back or whatever.

Show me where I've asked him to come back, Asylum escapee.

I was talking about Neal. If there is all the anxiety, why bother worrying about Perry at all? If it's for the fans, then don't name your company nomota. Name it INeedMoney or something more accurate.

[ProgRocker53]

DAMN this thread is making for good reading.

Keep it up fellas.

[squirt1]

Neal's band was forced to get a singer to increase sales. Neal said himself that " Perry brought all the success to the band." He said it in a not so good tone. He remembers what it was like to play a stadium 5 nights in a row. That translates @ today's ticket prices $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Now they have to package themselves to a 3 way split.

[conversationpc]

Again. A delusional post. Maybe Neal wanted to earn money in 96 and beyond more so than Perry (or had to), but as far as blood sweat and tears put into the band while they were both there, I'd say they are about even.

Perry definitely put out while onstage. However, Perry was the main reason the band took extended time off between Escape & Frontiers, between Frontiers & ROR, and then the extended hiatus between ROR and TBF. If they had forged on without Perry dragging his feet, they may have been able to put out four or five more albums in the time that they only released one.

[Rhiannon]

DAMN this thread is making for good reading.

Concurred. This thread is downright riveting.

[ScarabGator]

By the way, it was as much Perry's band as Neal's. No doubt about that.

Probably more so legally...but in terms of blood, sweat, tears, dedication, the desire to forge ahead, record and tour, Perry was behind him like a pony would be behind Secretariat.

Again. A delusional post. Maybe Neal wanted to earn money in 96 and beyond more so than Perry (or had to), but as far as blood sweat and tears put into the band while they were both there, I'd say they are about even.

Damn that Neal Schon for wanting to continue making a living doing what he loves....

[Red13JoePa]

Damn that Neal Schon for wanting to continue making a living doing what he loves....

In his own band that he founded.

[ScarabGator]

Damn that Neal Schon for wanting to continue making a living doing what he loves....

In his own band that he founded.

Absolutely!!!!

[FishinMagician]

And judging from the Ellen clips, Arnel can't quite hit a bunch of them either..

Whatever, bro...Arnel was out of pitch all over those Ellen performances...

he was. if you can't tell you are tone-deaf

[brywool]

I missed the joke... what's "nomata"?

No More Tails - Remember Me and maybe other songs had that as Neal's copyright. Then it turned into Nomata. Total slam. I mean, if someone I created all that history and music with did that, I would vow never to record with him, or even speak to him again. It's over the line.

Bummer. Didn't hear that before.

[DracIsBack]

I'll never buy into any other theory other than the one that thinks that Perry's sole reason for coming back into the fold was to fire Herbie, record TBF, and leave the band in as bad of shape as possible. He was clearly irritated that they were going to try and move on without him. He made sure (in his mind) that that would never happen again. He was wrong.

<insert dialobolical super-villain laugh>

[ProgRocker53]

I'll never buy into any other theory other than the one that thinks that Perry's sole reason for coming back into the fold was to fire Herbie, record TBF, and leave the band in as bad of shape as possible. He was clearly irritated that they were going to try and move on without him. He made sure (in his mind) that that would never happen again. He was wrong.

Yes, because Steve Perry is a diabolical madman who actually mapped out this plan of sabotage and executed exactly how he planned.

Perhaps the guy just got inspired and wanted to share some music with his fans?

Ah how I've longed to finally have the right to say this to another poster on MR....

....St. John, PUT DOWN THE BONG.

[Saint John]

How do people know what they know? That is only your opinion. I have my opinions as well. We all obviously have thoughts regarding Arnel, JSS and SA along with Neal and Jon and the other members of the band. If someone in the band is upset with Steve Perry then they have their reasons; be it legitimate or not. They can call whatever they chose to call, NoMoTails or Fruit of the Loon or whatever if they want to cause they had a relationship with the man; good or bad. They are allowed to be upset. They are allowed to be angry cause of their personal relationship with him for all those years. There might be a few here that can say that besides those folks from Fan Asylum. People here are mad just cause they are mad. They speak out cause they have to vent their frustration somewhere.Most aren't ashamed to share it no matter how ridiculous it might sound. There are so many terrible characteristics ascribed to the man I am surprised he is able to sleep at night without fear someone would come into his home and stab him with a wooden cross. He might be a few things but I know he is not as awful as people depict him in the diatribes written each and every day. Do people think the more he hears what others think of him and how awful a person he is that he will suddenly change and become the man you wish him to be and maybe he'll be a few years younger and sing with the voice he had those many years ago? Don't you think he wishes he was able to sing like that still? If you're disappointed think how he might feel! Just maybe he can or just maybe he can't. Keep them guessing! And who would be more disturbed? Sex, drugs and rock n roll! Most if not all men want to maintain that youthfulness and if there is success then they want that too; if they say they don't then they are lying. So, he's a man. He just happened to be probably the best singer there was. And he just happened to be a bit of the man you think you know but he's only to you what you have read and what you have seen and heard on stage. Judgements are easy when you only see a part of the picture. So fire away with the worst possible scenarios depicting the terrible man people think he is and consider that is only a fourth of the person he really is.

Shut up.

[finalfight]

How do people know what they know? That is only your opinion. I have my opinions as well. We all obviously have thoughts regarding Arnel, JSS and SA along with Neal and Jon and the other members of the band. If someone in the band is upset with Steve Perry then they have their reasons; be it legitimate or not. They can call whatever they chose to call, NoMoTails or Fruit of the Loon or whatever if they want to cause they had a relationship with the man; good or bad. They are allowed to be upset. They are allowed to be angry cause of their personal relationship with him for all those years. There might be a few here that can say that besides those folks from Fan Asylum. People here are mad just cause they are mad. They speak out cause they have to vent their frustration somewhere.Most aren't ashamed to share it no matter how ridiculous it might sound. There are so many terrible characteristics ascribed to the man I am surprised he is able to sleep at night without fear someone would come into his home and stab him with a wooden cross. He might be a few things but I know he is not as awful as people depict him in the diatribes written each and every day. Do people think the more he hears what others think of him and how awful a person he is that he will suddenly change and become the man you wish him to be and maybe he'll be a few years younger and sing with the voice he had those many years ago? Don't you think he wishes he was able to sing like that still? If you're disappointed think how he might feel! Just maybe he can or just maybe he can't. Keep them guessing! And who would be more disturbed? Sex, drugs and rock n roll! Most if not all men want to maintain that youthfulness and if there is success then they want that too; if they say they don't then they are lying. So, he's a man. He just happened to be probably the best singer there was. And he just happened to be a bit of the man you think you know but he's only to you what you have read and what you have seen and heard on stage. Judgements are easy when you only see a part of the picture. So fire away with the worst possible scenarios depicting the terrible man people think he is and consider that is only a fourth of the person he really is.

Shut up.

Or at least use paragraphs. That was a tough read.

[ProgRocker53]

How do people know what they know? That is only your opinion. I have my opinions as well. We all obviously have thoughts regarding Arnel, JSS and SA along with Neal and Jon and the other members of the band. If someone in the band is upset with Steve Perry then they have their reasons; be it legitimate or not. They can call whatever they chose to call, NoMoTails or Fruit of the Loon or whatever if they want to cause they had a relationship with the man; good or bad. They are allowed to be upset. They are allowed to be angry cause of their personal relationship with him for all those years. There might be a few here that can say that besides those folks from Fan Asylum. People here are mad just cause they are mad. They speak out cause they have to vent their frustration somewhere.Most aren't ashamed to share it no matter how ridiculous it might sound. There are so many terrible characteristics ascribed to the man I am surprised he is able to sleep at night without fear someone would come into his home and stab him with a wooden cross. He might be a few things but I know he is not as awful as people depict him in the diatribes written each and every day. Do people think the more he hears what others think of him and how awful a person he is that he will suddenly change and become the man you wish him to be and maybe he'll be a few years younger and sing with the voice he had those many years ago? Don't you think he wishes he was able to sing like that still? If you're disappointed think how he might feel! Just maybe he can or just maybe he can't. Keep them guessing! And who would be more disturbed? Sex, drugs and rock n roll! Most if not all men want to maintain that youthfulness and if there is success then they want that too; if they say they don't then they are lying. So, he's a man. He just happened to be probably the best singer there was. And he just happened to be a bit of the man you think you know but he's only to you what you have read and what you have seen and heard on stage. Judgements are easy when you only see a part of the picture. So fire away with the worst possible scenarios depicting the terrible man people think he is and consider that is only a fourth of the person he really is.

Shut up.

Or at least use paragraphs. That was a tough read.

But a good read with some decent points if you take the time to pick it apart.

Thanks Marabelle.

[cyndy!]

Damn that Neal Schon for wanting to continue making a living doing what he loves....

In his own band that he founded.

Absolutely!!!!

so we've worked it all out & everyone's happy now, right?

[finalfight]

How do people know what they know? That is only your opinion. I have my opinions as well. We all obviously have thoughts regarding Arnel, JSS and SA along with Neal and Jon and the other members of the band. If someone in the band is upset with Steve Perry then they have their reasons; be it legitimate or not. They can call whatever they chose to call, NoMoTails or Fruit of the Loon or whatever if they want to cause they had a relationship with the man; good or bad. They are allowed to be upset. They are allowed to be angry cause of their personal relationship with him for all those years. There might be a few here that can say that besides those folks from Fan Asylum. People here are mad just cause they are mad. They speak out cause they have to vent their frustration somewhere.Most aren't ashamed to share it no matter how ridiculous it might sound. There are so many terrible characteristics ascribed to the man I am surprised he is able to sleep at night without fear someone would come into his home and stab him with a wooden cross. He might be a few things but I know he is not as awful as people depict him in the diatribes written each and every day. Do people think the more he hears what others think of him and how awful a person he is that he will suddenly change and become the man you wish him to be and maybe he'll be a few years younger and sing with the voice he had those many years ago? Don't you think he wishes he was able to sing like that still? If you're disappointed think how he might feel! Just maybe he can or just maybe he can't. Keep them guessing! And who would be more disturbed? Sex, drugs and rock n roll! Most if not all men want to maintain that youthfulness and if there is success then they want that too; if they say they don't then they are lying. So, he's a man. He just happened to be probably the best singer there was. And he just happened to be a bit of the man you think you know but he's only to you what you have read and what you have seen and heard on stage. Judgements are easy when you only see a part of the picture. So fire away with the worst possible scenarios depicting the terrible man people think he is and consider that is only a fourth of the person he really is.

Shut up.

Or at least use paragraphs. That was a tough read.

But a good read with some decent points if you take the time to pick it apart.

Thanks Marabelle.

Absolutely but so is a dictionary. Not easy on the eyes. I suspect it maybe my age as I have a similar aversion to txt spk.

[Red13JoePa]

Damn that Neal Schon for wanting to continue making a living doing what he loves....

In his own band that he founded.

Absolutely!!!!

so we've worked it all out & everyone's happy now, right?

I'm never UNhappy, never had a bad day.

[SteveForever]

[quote="Red13JoePa I'm never UNhappy, never had a bad day.[/quote]

Most morons don't.