If you get a chance to watch the new Journey lead singer...

[g8terh8ter_eric]

DO IT!!! He sounds exactly like Steve Perry. I have the Live in Manilla concert and it's freaking awesome. You would think it's a young Steve Perry on the stage.

 

[wounded mullet]

The new singer for Alice In Chains sounds alot like Layne Staley but looks like Lenny Kravitz.

sorry i had nothing cool to add to this.

 

[g8terh8ter_eric]

The new singer for Alice In Chains sounds alot like Layne Staley but looks like Lenny Kravitz.

sorry i had nothing cool to add to this.

It's OK wounded. Seriously though, if you like Journey give him a listen. He's from the Philippines as well, kind weird, but when he starts singing you forget all about that.

 

[wounded mullet]

Do they mainly play their classic stuff or did they release a new album as well?
What happened to Steve Perry? I remember seeing his son on the show Intervention not too long ago.

 

[g8terh8ter_eric]

Do they mainly play their classic stuff or did they release a new album as well?
What happened to Steve Perry? I remember seeing his son on the show Intervention not too long ago.

The Manilla concert I have has all the old stuff and some of their new stuff. The new stuff is pretty good (Revelation is the album name), but he freaking rocks out the old stuff. He freaking nails Faithfully.

 

[DrRosenRosen]

Yeah, when I first saw them on TV with the new guy I was ready to laugh a bit. Then, he started singing. Sounds just like Perry.

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Journey's classic 1981-85 lineup reunited in 1996 to record Trial by Fire. The album was a huge success, entering the Billboard charts at #3 and going Platinum before year's end, but its triumph was short-lived. Before the Trial By Fire tour could begin, Perry suffered a hip injury while hiking in Hawaii and was unable to perform. Perry was diagnosed with a degenerative bone condition and a hip replacement would be required. Reluctant to rush into surgery, Perry wished to postpone the tour. Due to the long wait between the album's release and the tour's postponed kick-off date, as well as the absence of Journey's iconic frontman, Journey fans were losing hope for the band's future.
Meanwhile, long-time Journey drummer Steve Smith resigned, reportedly because Journey without Steve Perry didn't interest him. (Smith had rejoined, along with original Journey member Ross Valory, to complete what Perry has referred to as the band's quintessential line-up.)[3]

The remaining members of Journey waited until 1998, nearly 17 months after Perry's injury, before making a decision on its future. Growing impatient and realizing the window of opportunity was closing to follow up the success of the Platinum-selling Trial By Fire LP with a world tour, Journey members Jonathan Cain and Neal Schon met with Perry and presented an ultimatum that he either undergo hip replacement surgery so the tour could proceed upon his recovery or a replacement singer would be hired[3]. Perry, still hesitant to undergo surgery and now apparently upset at his bandmates' intractability and their meddling in personal health decisions, decided to part ways with Journey. Without a lineup for any Trial by Fire tour, the band knew they had to replace Perry with a dynamic high tenor which they were able to do when they found their new vocalist, Steve Augeri of Tall Stories, and nearly two years after the album's initial release, Journey began its long-postponed tour.

While being interviewed during Journey's Revelation tour of 2008, Schon and Cain praised Perry's mighty presence in Journey, adding that Perry had "raised the bar" for Journey. Bassist Valory suggested Journey lead singers who sound like him do so in honor of Perry's legacy with Journey.

 

[utvol0427]

DO IT!!! He sounds exactly like Steve Perry. I have the Live in Manilla concert and it's freaking awesome. You would think it's a young Steve Perry on the stage.

Watched them in concert on TV a while back. It is amazing how much he sounds like Perry. It still strikes me as odd hearing that voice coming out of that guy.