I mentioned to a patient I had been to Puerto Rico. One of the Medics heard me and asked why I went. Told him it was a Steve Perry concert.
He says, "How is Steve sounding these days?" I told him that he was doing some back up singing, lower register now, maybe working on some new stuff and we talked about Journey "back in the day".
Then he said, "Have you heard the new guy? He is phenomenal!" So I filled him in on Arnel, how he was noticed, that Revelation was supposed to be really good (still waiting for my copy in the mail) and that Journey would be doing local venues at the end of September but had sold out almost immediately.
This guy actually knew Journey music pre-Perry but had sort of drifted away after TBF.
Pretty cool conversation! So Arnel is getting noticed by the general public and not just us die-hards and I was proud of myself that I didn't talk smack about Journey or anything negative.
I did happen to mention he should be on the lookout for a singer named Jeff Scott Soto, though!

Now where the hell is my copy of Revelation? I could have driven to WalMart and had it in 30 minutes.
