Journey- Keep on Runnin' ("Frontiers and Beyond")

Short, but oh-so sweet...

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Music

Tags:

• journey
• frontiers
• beyond
• keep
• runnin
• steve
• perry
• live

[jrizle86]

perry said in a street talk interview that he was tierd of singing high and wanted to beef up his voice for himself. he would record most of his street talk solo songs in the morning when his voice is maturest ....... i beleve perry didnt loose his voice., he wanted to try new things

[mandypandy56]

I am a huge fan of steve's he will always be the ultimate in song!!!!

[perrymad8]

@Gregsynth I love his voice too! What amazes me is how a singer can end up with a much lower,raspy vocal range with a totally different tone to it-Alien Project stuff or Infinity album slowly changing through the years to how he ended up sounding on his FTLOSM album........but still sounding totally like Steve Perry!!! How can you sound different but instantly recognizable? Takes real talent to reinvent yourself everytime your vocal range changes,and Perry's got it in heaps!!!!

[Gregsynth]

Thank you! I love Steve Perry's voice!

[perrymad8]

@Gregsynth You,ve got a very wise head on young shoulders! All your comments are so true.Its a testament to how good Steve Perry's voice was that after Journey had worn him out he managed to have any voice left at all.Most singers would be totally mute by just 1 year of extreme touring let alone year after year!

[jacewayland8]

@andropoulis

um no it does not!!!! his voice is freakin amazing! do u know how hard it is to sing the way he does live!!! its very hard!!! and from my perspective he was on key

[andropoulis]

his voice sux really bad here, as well as in a lot of other places that i have heard

[paultheactor1]

I knew steve back in the day and for example when he did the song Only Solutions for Tron he told me he deliberately made his voice sound different because he thought the movie would be a flop, and didn't want to be associated with the movie! And yes when u do the amount of concerts they did back in the day,1- your going to blow your voice out. Or 2- you will tone it down a bit so u can make it through the tour! He could hit the notes in the studio when he needed to!

[Gregsynth]

Got ya!

Makes total sense.

[Gregsynth]

So the "late start" was a slight disadvantage? I always wondered if Steve started singing in Journey at 20 instead of 28, would his voice be any different?

[Gregsynth]

Yeah it is sad: Most singers are in their prime for at least 8-10 years, Steve lost his original countertenor only after 5 years!

Least it was only clarity and range that went--his live pitch was always consistent!

[Gregsynth]

It does make sense:

His voice deepened slightly in 1983 (age), and he sang material that was suited for his voice (Frontiers). But then in concert, he had to sing songs that had a HIGHER range to them (Keep on Running, Lay It Down, etc), and with the deeper voice, he had to really "go for it." That's probably what started the raspiness/nodules!