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Post by Karen (kazbaz) on Jun 4, 2006 9:05:24 GMT
What can I say................fab weather, fab venue, fab bands and even my hubby had to admit that Journey were awsome!! Following in the footsteps of Steve Perry can't be easy but, Steve Augeri, we salute you!
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Post by shaggy on Jun 4, 2006 15:45:01 GMT
Agreed, Augeri is fantastic. He's humble and polite and grateful and he's been doinga fantastic job of fonting Journey for almost a decade and he makes Perry look very ordinary. I was disappointed they didnt play anything from Arrival, Red 13 or Generations. My beef with this whole Perry thing is that Perry was the reason Journey ended in the first place in the early 80s cos of his over inflated ego and his point blank refusal to tour outside the USA after their last trek in around 1982 or something. Its time Journey dumped alot of the Perry rubbish like Wheel In The Sky and Lights and replaced it with much better stuff like Faith In The Heartland and Higher Place, Walking Away From The Edge from the Augeri fronted albums. Augeri is better than Perry ever was and he is more a team player than that ego maniac Perry as well. Journey existed before Perry and Journey still goes strong after Perry. Perry was the instigator in sacking all the other band members he didnt like. The only 2 people he knew he couldnt push out were Schon and Cain. The band are now better balanced and more together as a unit than they have been in almost 2 decades. They should now look to capitalise on this and come back next year to Europe and play a full tour at some better shows and perform alot more recent material.
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