Jeremey wrote:Thanks to all of you for taking a listen....Very encouraging! We've got about 4 songs floating around in some form or another right now, so the idea is to get about 15 together, with 10 for a CD and 5 more for publishing or some other thing. With my schedule I'm not sure how long it will take to meet that goal, but I'm working every day on this, so who knows. The funny thing is my collaborator actually asked me, "should we keep this Journey sound or work up a different arrangement?" I said, "Dude, this doesn't sound like Journey, this is what I'm trying for here." So then he tells me, "well, why don't you let some people listen to it for a few days and then come back to it?" And of course, everyone says it sounds like Journey, so shows how much I know....
Anyway, thanks again for taking a listen. Send me a friend request if you're on myspace....I'll keep you all posted....
Thanks,
Jeremey
key point to remember here....as long as you sing as a smooth tenor voice, people are going to say it sounds like Perry. As long as you sing in that voice in a melodic rock/pop song, they are going to say it sounds like Journey. Doesn't matter about vocal inflections/style or anything else--people hear the tenor voice, and that's ALL they hear. Personally, I don't think you sound like Perry--especially on the original material...but I understand where everyone else is coming from.
Asking people on a JOURNEY forum, where you are known to sing Journey, is only going to skew/bias the results. They are listening for Journey, and will pick up the slightest hint in a millisecond. To a regular audience (non-Journey based), it may not be as noticeable.
The only way you are going to get away from it though is to drastically change the music style (see Kevin Chalfant's Running with the Wind cd)...or lower your voice an octave or so and sing a bit lower. Otherwise, you'll have to live with people saying it sounds like Journey or "Steve Perry singing....__insert music style here__....".
Call it a blessing or a curse, but unless you do something radical, you are stuck with it.
Good luck.