HERBIE HERBERT COMMENTS ON NEW JOURNEY FRONTMAN, ARNEL PINEDA

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*Re-upload* HERBIE HERBERT: ONE MAN'S JOURNEY http://www.melodicrock.com/interviews/herbieherbert.html Sy Klopps Blues Band - Walter Ego Song: My Name is Sy Klopps Lead Vocal: Herbie Herbert aka Sy Klopps Neal Schon Kee Marcello Prairie Prince Ross Valory Norton Buffalo Gregg Rolie Excerpts from interview. Click link I guess Jon Cain and Neal Schon really have become the partnership that has held the band together over all these years. Well I guess so. I really don't know about the inner workings and the chemistry of it. To me it's always been a situation where I felt that from way back that they should just move on from Steve Perry. I'm talkin' I wanted them to move on in '84. I heard you wanted that. That would have been an interesting twist. For them to allow him [Perry] to hold the band hostage, and the money in '84 and '85 and every year thereafter because that '86 money could have been just a real Journey tour with just a replacement singer and this kid they have now [Arnel Pineda] can sing that material right now in the original keys in a very credible way and there's no way Steve Perry could touch that. You once, I've gotta quote you on this, you once said that you had a better chance of your dick growing another foot than Journey had of having another hit single. I admit it. That's what I said. I've got a better chance of my dick growing a foot. Sure I'd love it to happen but it's not very likely, and actually upon further review I'm not sure I'd love it to happen. But anyway, it's just the likelihood. I think I'd stand by that quote and I think the Eagles have just done what I've said. They've just walked on water. For the 60 year old set to come out and you know Journey can make a great new record. Especially with someone who can still go somewhere with their voice in that tenor range. The songs have to live. The whole idea with Journey was songs that started someplace, took you somewhere, and resolved that and brought you back. Which is a very difficult thing, most guitarists, if they know how to launch a solo and keep it interesting for more than twelve bars, they don't know how to resolve it. That's another thing that Neal's a master at. And you know at that point I have every right to say God dammit, I wanted to do that with Journey and they were just chicken and the left a lot of chips on the table for what I call in reality 15 years. From '83, because in '84 they should have moved, and so you go from '83 to '98 that's 15 years. How are they ever gonna make up for that lost time? I mean shit, I got tired of waiting and then when I'd waited all that time and they were ready to go forward they wanted to go with Steve Perry and I told them from the get go that we were gonna have to write a letter and say that we were doing this and offer it to Steve Perry. But in the event that he accepts I'm going to have to decline because at that point it's been about nine years of utter bliss not having to see him or talk to him or deal with his craziness. Man hey, once bitten twice shy. I'm not going back. I have a profound philosophy that our president, Bush, is incapable of articulating but it's very simple. Fuck me once shame on you, fuck me twice shame on me. But they have gone with Arnel Pineda. I've listened to the record that he has made and the songs that they've chosen on this 11 song thing and the performances are very credible. Have you heard it? Oh no, I'm eagerly anticipating it though. Have you heard it already? Yeah I've got a copy of that and it's in my truck. I listened to it and I thought he did a very good job. I gotta tell ya. With the re-recording of the old hits, the sacred ground so to speak? Yeah, sacred ground, well how sacred is it? Anybody is given leave to do that. They're public domain now. Kevin Chalfant, anybody can do a Journey Greatest Hits record and see how they fair. You know and provided this is, I just think he does pretty good, pretty damned good. Well here you're talking about a singer competing with the world's greatest melodic vocalist at his prime in Steve Perry, so to come close is probably doing extraordinarily well. Yes that's right. I think I agree with that completely. To come close and he comes better than close.