RossValoryRocks wrote:Saint John wrote:RossValoryRocks wrote:You guys are being awfully hard on them...Christ...they didn't get in until 4:00am after doing a show...and then had to sound check and stuff...I was actually pretty stunned they were as good as they were, they had to have been exhausted!
That's all irrelevant, Stu. They're on fucking TV. Short of getting sick or some reasonable unplanned emergency, you can't schedule a NATIONAL TELEVISION APPEARANCE and then expect the viewers to grade you with your tour schedule in mind. They're gonna judge the performance on merit, and nothing else.
From what I heard from people who saw it that aren't Journey nuts like us it was excellent.
What I am saying is you all are judging them too harshly because you aren't being objective.
I called the performances "okay." Brywool, a semi-professional vocalist, said Arnel had "morning" voice on the first few songs. Hey, you schedule that during their SIX WEEK vacation from April to June and the guy probably has the luxury of
waking up at 4am ... rather than
arriving at that time after a gig the night before! While it's speculative, I feel that these show appearances are nothing more than last ditch efforts to try and make up for a colossal fuck up on the part of management and the band regarding the release of Eclipse. If you sat back and said "Let's
really try to fuck up this release and totally make it flop. I mean, let's not do
any promotion, don't check with Walmart and make sure this thing is ready to be launched properly, let's not schedule any television appearances
prior to the release and, just to add some icing on the cake, let's schedule appearances and make our singer perform 5 days in a row!" ...
this is what you'd get. Their management has destroyed this release. They've done as poorly a job as is even comprehensible! Who starts promoting a fucking CD
2 months after its release?!?!
