YoungJRNY wrote:SP Fan in Oregon wrote:Unfortunately, Perry is a singer who is known for his incredible range and high notes. People would expect this from him, and who knows if he could still deliver. In every sense of the word, I hope your right. I believe that he's done and it's a longshot for him. When people think Steve Perry, people think 1980 Steve Perry. That's where it needs to be realized that he is an old man now, although reportedly in good shape.. every shaving of a year older, it'll just get worse and harder for his comeback.
Wow, you must have missed the airport picture. If that's an "old man" in that picture, you need glasses bad YOUNGJRNY.
60 is a number, and has NOTHING to do with physical age or attitude. Some people have found the fountain of youth and I get the feeling SP is one of those people.
IMO, He's going to blow you all away with his beautiful voice, albeit, not the 1980's voice!
LOL, I love your attitude. I really do. But, it is what it is. A silhouetted Steve Perry sitting on a stole doesn't prove anything of what physical condition he is in, or if he can still hit the notes in DSB. Just because he still has black hair, and wearing coattails doesn't clear the fact and reality that the man is 60 years old! There is no indication that he can't do it.. and there CERTAINLY isn't any indication that he can. It's all speculation.
I want him to prove me wrong.. but what other explanation is there that this guy hasn't done squat for over a decade? That right there PROVES that something isn't right with the man's ability to live up to expectations. In today's day in age, lucky for him, he could side step any obscurity he has in his voice with the studio production, but as far as a tour would go, I don't think he would be able to do many. 5 at an absolute MAX if it ever came to be.
Well, I don't claim to KNOW the answers to your questions, but my speculation is that he hasn't produced a new CD during that "over a decade" because he had NOTHING to say, and he was probably recovering emotionally from all of the trauma that visited his life and was probably enjoying doing some other things that interest him. Big guess, but not putting out another CD doesn't "PROVE" anything about his singing ability or not, I'm just saying there can be other very legitimate reasons why that have NOTHING to do with his singing ability. I love his voice more from his solo albums also, and I hope this new CD has more of THAT!!!
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