Saw Journey in concert the other night

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dark_arts

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They played in Beaumont with Night Ranger. I'm not a huge Journey fan, but that was the best live band I've ever seen. They were polished and sounded just as good live as they do recorded. And their new lead singer sounds EXACTLY like Steve Perry, and he was all over the stage during the show. Definitely got my money's worth. Oh, and Night Ranger was entertaining too. The lead singer looks like Richard Simmons.
 
one of my fav scenes from boogie nights...cheesy drug buyer air guitaring to night ranger...da da..na na na..da da na na na...Motoring!!!
 
Steve Perry is NOT an original member of Journey, so saying that no Steve Perry=no Journey is ridiculous.

No Neil Schon=no Journey.
 
Gregg Rolie stood in for a song yesterday for whatever that's worth.

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I feel that Perry is one of the better vocalists in rock history, but I also appreciate the pre-Perry period with Rolle on lead vocals before they went commercial - particularly the album "Look into the Future".

Saw them multiple times at the Armadillo during that era. Of course that was a couple of lifetimes ago.
 
I saw them last night at the Erwin Center. Their lead singer has Perry's voice and presence. He did a great job. The story of how Journey found him in the Philippines is pretty cool.

My one complaint: No "Oh, Sherrie." How can you have a Journey concert and NOT sign that song? Did Perry retain rights to the song?

UPDATE: Never mind. I found the answer. Perry released Oh, Sherrie as a solo while he was still with Journey. So, I'm sure he does have the rights. Too bad.
 
Only saw Journey once, 1978 or so, at Will Rogers Auditorium. I was maybe 16 or 17. Perry had just joined the band and they were still relatively unknown, at least in comparison to the success they had later on, so they were still playing the small theatres. I myself had never heard of them and I only went because a girl I liked wanted me to take her. Playing warm up that night was another band who had just released their first album, somebody else that almost nobody had ever heard of before.....Van Halen.

Needless to say, it became one of my best concert memories.
 
Damn, I saw the same 1978 tour -- Van Halen (then unknown) opened for Journey at the Music Hall in Houston, about a 3,000 seat venue and we were on the floor level, great seats. "You Really Got Me" had just been released as a single but it hadn't taken the country by storm yet. Being a guitar player myself, when I saw Eddie VH come out and skullfuck that Strat I knew something in rock guitar was changing in a big way.

But, back to Journey.

They were huge when I was in high school, and I saw them three or four times I think. Loved them. But 30 years later, while I seem to feel a certain nostalgia about some of these bands, I realize it's more pathos than anything else. The original members are not all there, so it's really not the same band. Plus, it's just over. It belongs in the past, for me anyway. I don't want to see some warmed-over facsimile of my youth. I'd rather just remember it fondly and leave it at that.
 
I was at the Beaumont show as well Sunday night. The lead singer DID sound like Steve Perry. And like the original poster stated, he was all over the stage and very entertaining. As a group, they sounded great. It was one of the better live performances I have seen as well. Don't know where else they're playing, but they are worth checking out, even with the new guy. His voice is an exact replica.
 
I cant remember how many times I have seem them in concert, it was alway great. The answer to the question is no, without Steve Perry there is no Journey. Before Perry Journey had no direction, when Perry joined he and Caine clicked as song writers, allmost all of the big hits Perry had a hand in.
 
Journey Finds a New Lead Singer, and He’s Filipino ... and He’s Good

YouTube - Arnel Pineda and Journey - Don't stop believing live in Chile

YouTube - Arnel Pineda and Journey - Faithfully

Rock hits from the 1980's... wow, I'm getting old. Never saw Journey, but remember seeing concerts with Foreigner, Kansas, Styx, and REO Speedwagon. Would liked to have seen Def Leppard, Springsteen, Bob Seger, and a few others. Saw the Eagles (back on tour) 3 or 4 years ago in D.C., taking a hiatus from rock for country music artists/concerts in the late 1980's - mid 1990's.
 
They were really good in the Erwin center the other night. The only complaint is that they left off a couple of their huge hits (The one from the Vision Quest Soundtrack, and Ask the Lonely) and played a couple I had never heard of. Other than that, they were great.
 
Almost the same scenario played out with Fleetwood Mac. More often than not you have to ask yourself who do the fans of the band most identify with. Neal was oviously the talent, along with Jonathan Cain who I considered to be a better keyboard player. But it was Steve Perry who was the face of the band and who most people went to see. And just like Stevie Nicks, their only on stage talent, so to speak, were their personas and voices. And they are who all eyes were watching during a their concerts. And I belive that Lindsay Buckingham, a brilliant yet very underated guitar player, never came close to getting the credit he deserved because he spent all his onstage time in Stevie's shadow. I am not saying it is right, but Steve Perry WAS Journey.
 
Believe me, I understand the argument about Schon. I can't say I totally disagree either.

But I look at it like this: Rush is touring without Neil Peart. Would you go? I mean, they put out an album before he joined. Alex and Geddy help write the songs. Hell, they even found a dude that can play EXACTLY like Neil. You can't tell a difference. Would you go? If you hate Rush, sure you wouldnt go. But as a Rush fan, I sure wouldn't buy a ticket.

Schon and Rollie and all those dudes created this band and were the driving force behind it. Perry DEFINED the band when he joined, IMO. Again, If he wasn't a focal point, why did they find a singer that sounds exactly like Perry?

But that's just, like, my opnion man.
 
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