The Journey tribute band known simply as “Journey” is currently rolling through the Northeast. The band even includes original members Neal Schon & Ross Valory, as well as 80s-era keyboardist Jonathan Cain. They stopped in at Jones Beach on Friday, August 10th. Opening up for the Journey tribute band was the actual Loverboy (ugh!) and Pat Benatar. I did not attend. While the idea of seeing the band that defined my childhood seemed like a good idea, Journey ended in 1997 with the departure of Steve Perry. While new singer Arnel Pineda is a great vocalist, Neil Schon appears to be in it for the money. After Perry left Journey in 1997, Neil replaced him with Steve Augeri, who sounded very much like Perry. Jeff Scott Soto then replaced Augeri in 2006, and a year later, Pineda was found.
While Pineda isn’t trying to imitate Perry (to which I commend him), the band could call themselves something other than “Journey.” The bottom line: I’m not into tribute bands. I have no interest in seeing “Fair Warning, Riders on the Storm, Led Blimpie or Almost Queen. Seeing someone else singing Journey’s songs won’t work for me. Every band has an evolution. They change over time, things happen – band members join, leave, die, whatever. Steve Perry wasn’t Journey’s first lead singer, but for me, from childhood to infinity, he will always be the definition of who they are as a band. I can’t escape that.
In related news, the Man with the Golden Voice, is rumored to be working on a new solo album. In an interview, Steve Perry revealed that he has written over 50 new songs and is rumored to be working on his first solo album since 1994’s For the Love of Strange Medicine. Hardly anything has been reported since then. I can’t wait! We all need new frontiers. Indeed.
OK, this one is for the ladies…
After 20 years of marriage, Kenny G has filed for divorce last week. In doing so, he has revealed that his real name is Kenneth Bruce Gorelick. So if you’re a sucker for a sultry soprano saxophonist, Mr. G is single, and on the rebound!
Just think what life with Kenny could be like… Every day could be the lap of luxury – he’s successful, got great hair, and if you hit it off with him, the future Mrs. Gorelick’s home will be filled with music! Sure, it’s elevator music, but hey – you can’t be too picky these days.
He is seeking joint custody of their 14-year old son, so kid-friendly is a must!
Best of luck to y’all!
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7 comments
strangegray says:
Aug 21, 2012
hey stupid, steve perry was not an original member of the band. how can it be a tribute band if the original founding member is still there? and they have their own music after perry. one of which was the album revelation which sold well.
blerd says:
Aug 21, 2012
Well calling someone stupid immediately nullifies any argument you might have. However, I will say that to most fans of Journey: Steve Perry is the most identifiable member of Journey. If he’s not in the band, it’s not the *real* Journey.
MAY says:
Aug 21, 2012
I am well aware that Steve Perry wasn’t their first lead singer. That’s why I mentioned this in the 2nd paragraph.
Calling Journey a “Journey tribute band” was a joke that everyone understood but you. I’ve seen them on the Arrival tour, and I’ve seen plenty of clips of Soto and Pineda. They sound like a Perry-era Journey tribute band. They have more than enough post-1997 material to showcase, but the fact is that the vast majority of their set is from the Perry era.
MAY says:
Aug 21, 2012
…And just for the record, I am a huge fan of the supre-early pre-Prerry stuff. My feeling is if they truly wanted to celebrate the history of the band, they’d whip out “Kohoutek” or “Look Into the Future” or something off the first 3 records. I love those records. Gregg Rolie is also an amazing vocalist and keyboard player. But they don’t play those songs for some reason.
I even have Robert Fleischman’s solo record. If you recall, he was their lead singer for about 20 minutes back in 1978. You should check it out. It’s quite good.
blerd says:
Aug 21, 2012
Dude, that’s way too much Journey for me.
Grez says:
Aug 21, 2012
Actually, I’m with May on this one…Journey is a highly underrated band, and almost nobody has those first three very proggy albums (I do, as I’m a big Greg Rolie fan [have met him as well -- swell guy] from both Journey and his start [and Neil's] in Santana). I think the reason that they get such a bum rap is from their horrifyingly bad videos in the 80s. Yikes. Those visuals just make me shudder. But, if you can burn those images from your eyes and just focus on the music, you find a highly technical band that still manages to have enough pop sensibility to become really successful, and that’s very, very hard to do. I loved ‘em when I was a kid, but then wrote them off for a long time as pure cheese while I was busy being a grunge college dude and young adult. The past few years, however, I’ve sort of rediscovered them and have grown a whole new appreciation for the band, which makes me understand why I liked them so much in the first place: they’re actually very, very good.
Lisa In NZ says:
Aug 21, 2012
I totally agree with May’s first comment.A friend emailed me their song set for one concert somewhere in the USA when they were supposed to be promoting their new cd Eclipse. Out of all the songs they performed live in that concert there was only two new songs performed live from the Eclipse cd by them. All the other songs they performed live were from the Steve Perry era.I know Steve Perry was not their original lead singer but it is a fact that when he joined the band they sold more records and had a bigger fanbase than before and most probably since.