New Journey Rocks

[Von Halen]

ha! I though they went commercial after "Departure" and especially when they brought in that Baby Cain!!!

Money for nothing!

That's true!

 

[paoldtimer]

Enjoy this fraud while you can. This guy will be done after the tour, if not sooner. Good thing those scumbags Schon and Cain conned this dude into re-recording all those old songs, so they can screw Perry when they want to commercialize the music.

This from Rolling Stone Magazine:
"Two minutes before Journey kicked off their world tour in February, with new singer Arnel Pineda, the whole thing nearly fell apart. "I told them I wanted to back out," says the 41-year-old Filipino vocalist, whom the band discovered on YouTube. "[Journey guitarist] Neal Schon told me, 'It's too late now.' He pushed me a little and said, 'Go. Go sing for us.'" Pineda overcame his butterflies and took the stage in front of 20,000 fans in Chile, singing an hour of hits in a soaring voice incredibly similar to former Journey frontman Steve Perry. Since then, Pineda has played more than 63 concerts with Journey, including a current three-month trip through American amphitheaters, which has been averaging 13,000 people a night. The tour is the sixth-highest-grossing of the summer, and the band's performances are as high-energy as they were during Journey's heyday.
Unfortunately, Pineda isn't finding the tour nearly as fulfilling as his bandmates are. He misses his girlfriend and son, and the grueling pace is grinding him down. "It's very, very sad," he says. "There are days I just break down and cry. This is a job I'm doing for my family. That's all the consolation I'm getting." Traveling around America isn't what he expected. "It's all buses, stage, microphone," he says. "I never really get to go around and walk. They wake me up for soundcheck, then I wait until the show at nine. It's a fantastic job, but at the same time it's a curse. . . . I told Neal that the only thing that will make me quit this is if I get sick. I guess that's the same reason Steve Perry bailed out."
Within weeks, Pineda took his first trip to the U.S. and auditioned for the band in San Francisco. A few days later, he was hired. "Mr. Neal Schon picked me up and told me, 'You got the job,' " Pineda says. "For a guy like me, it's surreal — like some sort of miracle." Quickly, the band cut two discs worth of material: one of new songs and another of rerecorded hits. "It was spooky, sitting behind the desk watching Arnel record these songs," says keyboardist Jonathan Cain. "It was like going back in a time machine." Since coming out in June, the album has sold 441,000 copies; it's the band's biggest hit since Perry left the group."

ArticleLink: Rolling Stone News Article - Sad Journey For New Singer

Journey pimpin'

 

[megadeth]

Hey Sam,
I couldn't find anything on the 'net about Perry having throat surgery. Many singers have nodes removed from their vocal cords. You can recover from it. I just read that Perry played some demos he had just made for the members of Journey and his voice was as good as ever. I just don't think he is interested in being in the band.

Steve wanted to tour with them, on a bay area music channel, they interviewed Steve Perry regarding the upcoming tour and he stated when the tour was announced he told them he would be very interested but they weren't willing to wait for him to recover from the hip surgery.
Neil saw the opportunity to 86 him and he took it! It's well known that Neil does not like Steve.
But for the hardcore fan to put a clone in his place while the real deal was willing even rubs me the wrong way even more!

 

[rocketman]

I saw Journey last night and if Arnel is grinding down by the tour he didn't show it! It was a rock'n good time. I loved every song. Heart and Cheap Trick were great too! I have a review on my site Capitol Racing

 

[HEMI6point1]

Steve wanted to tour with them, on a bay area music channel, they interviewed Steve Perry regarding the upcoming tour and he stated when the tour was announced he told them he would be very interested but they weren't willing to wait for him to recover from the hip surgery.
Neil saw the opportunity to 86 him and he took it! It's well known that Neil does not like Steve.
But for the hardcore fan to put a clone in his place while the real deal was willing even rubs me the wrong way even more!

There is no doubt that Steve Perry is a great vocalist. But he's also a control freak (not to mention a d*ck) about selling the songs.

Could it be that the rest of the band felt like he's an anchor weighing them down?

This reminds me of John Fogerty and his former band, Credence Clearwater Revival. John wrote the songs, and when he left the band he decided to do all the CCR songs (after all he wrote them) on his solo tours, and the members of the band tried to stop him!

 

[davey]

Actually Sam, Fogerty refused to play CCR songs for years because he did not own them anymore.

 

[HEMI6point1]

Oops, that's right. Sorry.

 

[BaldyLochs]

I remember living in Michigan in the early 90s. Ted Nugent had a reputation for just showing up in little bars with a guitar for the fun of it.

Oh crap man....He's a legend in the midwest. He swung from corner to corner on a boat rope with a hand-tied knot from one of the I-beams in the rafters at Joe Louis Arena during the Bon Jovi "slippery" tour - wearing nothing but a loin cloth. I know because I was at the show... and it was completley unplanned. They talked about it the next day on the radio. Jon Bon & Tom Kiefer from Cinderella got him drunk and talked him into it backstage, while Tico Torres was doing his drum solo. They cut up a T-shirt and made a makeshift lion cloth. Richie Sambora had no idea about it and nearly crapped his pants when Teddy swung by.
A roadie climbed up there while Bon Jovi was finishing thier set, and literally had-tied the rope... no safety net, no nothing. Then for the finale, it was all the guys in BJ & Cinderella onstage playing some classic Zepplin, while Teddy was swinging like a flippin monkey. Man that was wild. Even more wild after you heard the story behind it.

 

[Von Halen]

Oh crap man....He's a legend in the midwest. He swung from corner to corner on a boat rope with a hand-tied knot from one of the I-beams in the rafters at Joe Louis Arena during the Bon Jovi "slippery" tour - wearing nothing but a loin cloth. I know because I was at the show... and it was completley unplanned. They talked about it the next day on the radio. Jon Bon & Tom Kiefer from Cinderella got him drunk and talked him into it backstage, while Tico Torres was doing his drum solo. They cut up a T-shirt and made a makeshift lion cloth. Richie Sambora had no idea about it and nearly crapped his pants when Teddy swung by.
A roadie climbed up there while Bon Jovi was finishing thier set, and literally had-tied the rope... no safety net, no nothing. Then for the finale, it was all the guys in BJ & Cinderella onstage playing some classic Zepplin, while Teddy was swinging like a flippin monkey. Man that was wild. Even more wild after you heard the story behind it.

Ted Nugent doesn't get drunk, and never has.

 

[davey]

Ted Nugent doesn't get drunk, and never has.

That is correct. Ted has never drank or done drugs. He also has done the rope swing trick with the loincloth since the 70s. I've seen it. Sounds like somebody on the radio was liquored up and spewing some BS.

 

[willy]

But he's also a control freak (not to mention a d*ck) about selling the songs.

Could it be that the rest of the band felt like he's an anchor weighing them down?

Paul McCartney told Micheal Jackson that owning the publishing rights to music was a good investment..so he goes and buys a 4000 song catalog which contained the Beatles works (except 4 very early songs). Next thing you know..'Good Day Sunshine" was being used in some friggin spreadable commercial. Paul had a chat and requested Micheal didn't do that..quiet for years. Now Hampton Inn is using 'With a Little Help From My Friends'.

Many artists don't care either way. Personally, I get offended hearing what I grew up with and loved being pimped for commercial purposes. Maybe Steve doesn't want to see 'Don't Stop Believing' being used for Viagra.

 

[Toejam]

My attitude with Older bands is; If it's the Original Lead singer and Guitarist I'll watch it! The way they Ape the public with these cover versions of Old bands really sucks! I was going to go see the Guess Who some years ago, that was until I found out they did not have one original member! Same with Molly Hatchet, without the original Lead singer it's NOT the same!

 

[NHRAMike]

About 20 years ago I went to a double bill of The Guess Who and BTO. Of both bands The Guess Who had only Jim Kale as their original bass player, and BTO had Tim Bachman playing guitar and sharing vocal duties. Then about 15 yrs ago I saw Iron Butterfly with Lee Dorman and Ron Bushy on bass and drums (it was cool to see him still able to play the drum solo from "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida). However, to me it just wasn't the same seeing any of these bands without Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman or Doug Ingle singing all the songs I've loved over the years.

 

[BaldyLochs]

Wow, I forgot about Nugent not being a drinker. You guys are absolutely right. How weird. I think I even have that radio interview on cassette somewhere. The Cinderella guys & Jon Bon were who said it. It was like 7am on WLLZ with JJ & Dick The Bruiser.

Anyway - back to subject. Do you guys own the old Journey Houston DVD? That's really a great performance. Another great video they put out was called "Frontiers & Beyond", which was produced by NFL Films on the Frontiers Tour.... awesome behind-the-scenes stuff. You can't get it on DVD, unless you maybe run across a pirated/burned version on Ebay (and if you do, let me know!).

Journey is an amazing story, with some incredible people.

 

[Von Halen]

Anyway - back to subject. Do you guys own the old Journey Houston DVD? That's really a great performance.

I have the Houston DVD and I love it.