The_Noble_Cause wrote:Assorted thoughts....
Arnel came off as a very sincere guy. Charming and suprisingly English fluent, an impression I wasn't left with after the severe hemming and hawing in the Rockline interview.
Not sure how heavy an influence Perry's gang of shysters had regarding this, but his mark seems all over it. Like VH1 BTM, it was produced and written decisively favoring one side of history. There's a mention of the band waiting a year for him to get hip surgery and throwing him out, but absolutely no mention of him holding up the works since ROR.
Ross came off absolutely shameless in his attempts to marry Journey-now to Journey-then.
Practically falling over himself to make the dishonest claim that the band is now "picking up right where it left off" and finally the "magic is back."
Way to sell the past decade of your life down the river, Ross.
Since Arnel came into the fold, the band has given up it's 1998 rationale for moving on in the first place - that the band was larger than the sum of its parts.
Instead, Jon, Ross, and Neal have resigned themselves to the idea that they were nothing more than King Perry's fiddlers three.
It is as self-destructive a PR approach as I have ever witnessed.
Also, the reporter/producer was totally out of bounds in saying the band didn't capture the magic with their last two singers (as two blurry thumbnails of JSS and SA graced the screen). When Arnel's album bombs or fails to meet expectations, will his era be just as unceremoniously relegated to the gutter heap?
If this gloss-over approach to Steve Augeri initiated from management on down (as is likely), it should give fans a clue as to just what unsavory characters we are dealing with here.
well,, so much for my joke... yikes..
Arnel's even more so..I'm not going to pick apart what what said and how and about who and why..not my thing..I think for the general person who doesn't know about any of the bull..the stories did a good job covering the 'stories' ..
