Neal schon steve perry songs written together
With this song, even after hearing it a thousands times, as a listener, you always think the song has peaked but it keeps climbing higher and higher, when Steve dives into the final throughs of the aforementioned end chorus and screams “Street Light People oh whoaaaaa for the last time, the band collectively puts the final nail in the coffin of maybe, the last great american rock epic.Īs I said earlier, Neal Schon and Steve Perry have come up in many of the conversations I’ve had with legendary artists and contemporary bands, here are a few examples:
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One of the reasons the song is perfectly timeless and works so well is because of how Neal’s guitar and Steve’s voice sews it all together.įrom the midnight train going anywhere, choo choo train guitar starter, to the sweltering, ferocious and show stopping solo that delivers our ears, hearts and soul to the passionate Steve Perry sung chorus, (which again, only first appears in the last 40 seconds of the composition. Many have pointed out the rare song structure of Don’t Stop Believing, because for a hit song you don’t even hear the chorus until the last 40 seconds. Neal not only founded the band, he also co-wrote the biggest selling rock song of all time, the aforementioned “Don’t Stop Believin’” a song that is now on the same trajectory as Hey Jude and Stairway to Heaven. They are a cornerstone of rock’s last forty years. Not to overuse sports analogies here, but it would be like if Hank Aaron had to wait 20 years to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. It’s an embarrassment of epic proportions that they weren’t inducted the first year they were eligible, which was 1998. I’m just going to say what everyone’s been thinking for the last decade. one of the widest grins in rock and roll You just don’t see that as much anymore, that pure love of music.Īs you know, Journey was recently inducted into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame. When he plays live, there is a joy that few guitarists emanate. As several singers who have worked with him have relayed to me, he could play for two days straight and you would never hear the same progression of notes twice. On the other hand, Neal Schon is the undisputed king of melodic rock guitar. He’s almost like the half-way point between Sam Cooke and Roger Daltrey. He is a flawless rock singer, the only two singers on his level are Robert Plant and Freddie Mercury. That’s because many legends and up and coming artists have a deep respect and gratitude for the body of work that they created together. In my interviews with many artists over the last few years, Neal and Steve have come up a lot. It was an epic merger of guitar and voice that hadn’t been accomplished quite like that since Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.
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Music history was made again, when Neal combined his magical, perfectly melodic and joyful guitar vibrato with the pure sincerity and heavenly angst of Steve Perry’s vocals. Like Lebron James, Schon went straight from high school to the pros. I guess you could say he was the number one draft pick of the 70’s. Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana both asked him to join their band.
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At an age where most kids are just discovering Rock ‘n’ Roll, Neal Schon was a prodigy being recruited by two Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famers at the same time. I’ve always maintained that there are two kinds of people in this world: Those who love, Journey, and those who are lying! They are America’s Band.
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That was my introduction to Neal Schon and Journey. The part I remember most was that gigantic guitar sound that to my tiny ears felt exactly like the Incredible Hulk picked me up by my windbreaker and threw me a thousand feet. It was an anthemic rock song that to my underdeveloped mind was about a train, street light people, (whoever they are), and to never stop believing. My story is no different than millions of other 80’s kids who heard the same song. When I was six years old, I heard a song on FM radio while my mom drove me to school that shook the very foundation of my small soul. Story provided by Adam Reader, Professor of Rock as a special to Good4Utah.