Steve Perry comments on his replacements + new songs
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 3:54 pm
http://www.melodicrock.com/interviews/s ... -2011.html
"It certainly is a wonderful gig for all three singers that were there after I was gone. It was a wonderful gig, you know?
By the way, of all three singers – now I've not heard the other two, but I know in his own right, with his own music, with his own songwriting ability, Jeff Scott Soto's a very talented guy! And of all three maybe they should have stuck with him and continued to write music, but that might have required that they let him in emotionally a little more? And so I think that possibly, he was the one that I think would have been a growth because he brought a lot of his own self in to it.
He's a very talented singer-songwriter and could have been an incredible addition to the band. I don't know what happened, because then they've moved on and now they have their third singer. So I don't know the workings and I've listened to really none of them to be honest. I just know his reputation is really great, I have friends who talk about him."
Where are you at and when are we going to see you back on the stage?
"Well where I'm at is I've been sketching everything in my laptop in just a demo sketch form. And the good news is I've got some really fun moments in there, great things going. The bad news is that they're demos right now and they're just sketches. And I like 'em. And I've converted an area of my house into a studio big enough to track some drums if I need to, so that should be done I would say in the next month or so. So my plan is to get in there and start recording some of these with musicians and start trying to get some tracks actually built on some of these songs. But that being the case, the only thing that would stop you from hearing it would be me because I'm my own worst enemy. I have always been. I'll play things for friends and they just think they're really great. And they'll tell me the truth if they're not.
I'll say, “Gee, my voice is a little out of tune here. I've got to sing this again. This bugs me, that bugs me.” And they'll say, “I'm sorry, I don't' hear that.” But I do. And so, you know, that's the problem. So the only problem I have is that I'm the only problem I have, you know? "
"It certainly is a wonderful gig for all three singers that were there after I was gone. It was a wonderful gig, you know?
By the way, of all three singers – now I've not heard the other two, but I know in his own right, with his own music, with his own songwriting ability, Jeff Scott Soto's a very talented guy! And of all three maybe they should have stuck with him and continued to write music, but that might have required that they let him in emotionally a little more? And so I think that possibly, he was the one that I think would have been a growth because he brought a lot of his own self in to it.
He's a very talented singer-songwriter and could have been an incredible addition to the band. I don't know what happened, because then they've moved on and now they have their third singer. So I don't know the workings and I've listened to really none of them to be honest. I just know his reputation is really great, I have friends who talk about him."
Where are you at and when are we going to see you back on the stage?
"Well where I'm at is I've been sketching everything in my laptop in just a demo sketch form. And the good news is I've got some really fun moments in there, great things going. The bad news is that they're demos right now and they're just sketches. And I like 'em. And I've converted an area of my house into a studio big enough to track some drums if I need to, so that should be done I would say in the next month or so. So my plan is to get in there and start recording some of these with musicians and start trying to get some tracks actually built on some of these songs. But that being the case, the only thing that would stop you from hearing it would be me because I'm my own worst enemy. I have always been. I'll play things for friends and they just think they're really great. And they'll tell me the truth if they're not.
I'll say, “Gee, my voice is a little out of tune here. I've got to sing this again. This bugs me, that bugs me.” And they'll say, “I'm sorry, I don't' hear that.” But I do. And so, you know, that's the problem. So the only problem I have is that I'm the only problem I have, you know? "
He would still blow away 99% of singers out there today! It would great to see him return to music...