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If you’ve read any of the posts on the (unofficial) Steve Perry Facebook fan page you’ll notice a strong trend toward the thinking that Steve Perry must be a fabulous, warm, sweet and caring guy who loves everybody and adores his fans as much as they adore him. Now here is what I think about some of the over-the-top female fan stuff. I just hit repeat on the ol’ iPod and head out on the highway looking for my own Jesse. Jesse is movin’ slow through a town that doesn’t know him any more and Perry’s phrasing in that song conveys all the feelings of the restless rebel. The phrase “ridin’ slow-oo-oh” - man oh man. Another deft writer, the woman behind ( turned me onto this youtube video and I will be forever grateful. The song is a short-story masterpiece recorded live at the 1983 Budokan concert in Japan. The aforementioned “Open Arms” - and within “Still They Ride,” I find one of the finest emotional phrases in any Journey tune.
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It’s hard to explain but many of the old Journey songs affect me on a visceral level. If those other vocalists are not singing blah, they are shouting, trying for emotion - it is “look at me, I am singing loud so believe what I say.”
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And let’s not forget the vocal ad libs Perry uses to such great effect in his solo work and classic Journey releases, such as the powerful anthem “Mother, Father.” Each word is the same, with very little inflection. Many other performers just sing the song “flat.” Not out-of-tune flat, but rather with no emotion, no nice vibrato.