Chubby321 wrote:epoy wrote:donnaplease wrote:steveo777 wrote:youkeepmewaiting wrote:madsplash wrote:StoneCold wrote:If J, Hugo or Auggie could blow away Pineda, they'd be frontin', but they're not. Simple facts peeps.
Only singer brought to light that could out-Journey Pineda is Kelty and for whatever reason he threw it away.
Read the history. It was offered to Jeremey first. It had nothing to do with Jeremey not being a better singer. Do the research.
I cant be bothered with more Jeremy debates.. I like him as a singer. But to be fair Journey didnt exactly fight to keep him did they.
His a tribute band entertainer. If Journey wanted him that bad they'd have him. Can you stay stage presence? I like his voice but I don't see front man for an iconic classic rock band there.

This one actually made me LOL. What the heck was Arnel? And stage presence??? Jeremey performs like a frontman should. He doesn't try to be David Lee Roth singing Journey tunes. The two just don't jive.
But I don't wanna get into another Jeremey debate either. It's useless and does nothing but cause hate and discontent. IDK why I even bother...

I dont think its useless...the debates are what makes us visit this site and for that matter, why we joined the forum. Look, we all know this is all subjective and if you add "in my opinion" to your arguments, it would all make sense. But we don't and we tend to forget that we are discussing something based on our preference and biases.
I hang out at AP's site and it gets old really quickly when everyone have pom-poms. I love it here and look forward to the point-counter point battle. Go ahead a protect your turf, it's all good. I don't post much but i lurk everyday and read and laugh. There's nothing wrong with wearing rose colored glasses, as long as you recognize every now and then that you are wearing one.
(Damn, where did that come from...?)
You cannot post anything negative there about a different forum/forum members , even the lamest criticism of MR is subject to post deletion.

True. That's the way Arnel wants it, no bashing of other sites or other past members of Journey.
But it's not all pom-poms. Definitely a positive fansite for Arnel, just as any fansite, like a Perry fansite would be, where gushing abounds. But there have been lively and even extremely passionate, heated discussions over there on differences of opinion on different subjects or re Arnel and things related to him and his career, and critical remarks by fans who have their opinions on things, and was never discouraged or clamped down on. I believe Arnel enjoyed reading all the opinons. (Well, maybe he didn't. You can't please everyone. And we're all armchair critics.

) But all opinions were allowed. Now, I don't know if that will continue on the new site so much b/c it's moderated more and the fans are splintered on two sites.