Congratulations Baby

Well its been a long time since i last posted,Christmas has come & gone twice,Steve has had two more Birthdays & still we have nothing new from the man himself. Why not? Well the truth is Steve has had some battles himself to deal with,Kellie his girlfriend passed away from cancer at the tender age of 42. Steve then had a Melanoma scare,which thankfully was caught in time,& then out of the blue after almost 30 years Sherrie decided to speak out. No doubt that was somewhat of a shock to Steve let alone the rest of us! Say what you like about the woman but she sure knows when & how to pop up. She didn't tell us anything of any interest,she teaches yoga & is a beautician,i hope she doesn't apply lipstick while doing yoga,otherwise she could end up with a smiley face on her arse. The most shocking thing she said was about her relationship with Steve,"it was love,thats all". I'm sure we're all under no illusion that yes Steve loved Sherrie with all his heart,but did she really love him? I expect most of you are wondering why,if she did,would she be mad enough to let him go? Hell i would've clung onto him by the threads of his white pants let alone the green ones. But as the old saying goes, "if you love someone set them free". But why? She popped up out of nowhere,well Bakersfield actually to tell us absolutely NOTHING. Most fans knew she was back in Bakersfield,most knew she was a beautician,so tell us what we all want to know,why did you break Steve's heart? Yes i know its no ones business except theirs,but in all honesty we all want to know,even if we say we don't. Myself i find it very strange that she hasn't opened her mouth in all those years,then when Steve says Kellie was "The love of my life", Sherrie shows up. Did she really want to say what she did or was it merely to get fans talking about her,again? I for one wish she had just stayed in the background,don't stir up the past,don't try to rekindle what once was,it would never work out,Steve's happy now,content with his life,living the way he wants to,so Congratulations baby, you've done nothing to make yourself look any better than you did in 1985!

Sexy hair

While staring at my unruly hair this morning i started to dream of having hair like Steve's.Long,thick,straight,shiny glorious hair,why oh why was i not blessed with a head of hair like that? Ok i have naturally straight hair but why does'nt mine frame my face or look good when i'm hot & sweaty? Why does a man have better hair than me? Now Steve's hair has been in many fantasies of mine over the years,as it probably has many of yours,his hair is as famous as his voice.Now my favourite of Steve's many styles has to be the hair from the Evolution era,thick,long,full & boy did'nt he wear it well.Oh how those luscious locks swayed to Lovin',toucin',squeezin.How cute he looked when he fluffed it at the end of 'city of the Angels' on the midnight special,those images have stayed with me all my life,its just a damn shame that at the time i first saw that happen i was 12 years old & all i thought was 'hes got longer hair than me'.I've thought long & hard about who his barber might be,or who it was back in the day,whoever it was should have recieved an oscar.I wonder what shampoo he used? Steve not the barber,did he blow dry it? Did he get someone else to blow dry it? Remember this was before sherrie was on the scene,did he tie it back when he was having well you know what i'm thinking.There was no such thing as hair straighteners back then,most people i know used to iron theirs,i somehow can't imagine Steve doing this though,hell he probably does'nt even know what an iron is for.So how did that hair stay so gorgeous? I put it down to just being a natural blessing & if i'm honest Steve was give a lot of those.So next time i look at my hair & after i've spent hundreds of pounds on products to make it look anywhere half as good as Steve's,i'll have to resign myself to the fact that my genes are never going to give me the hair i crave.So i shall just sit & stare with envy everytime i see a photo or video from the Evolution era & secretly wish i was there at the time with a pair of scissors!!!

Hitting the high notes

... I recieved the new book about Journey this week,before i even picked it up to read i thought i might need to chill out slighly,why? Well Steve never contributed to this book in anyway which gives everyone else who did the oppotunity to say not very nice things about him in general, & also to crow on again about how he can't sing the way he used to.How anyone knows this is strange to say the least considering to my knowledge he has'nt sung in public for years!Anyway where was i? Oh yep getting ready to chill,so armed with a strong black coffee,a packet of choccy biscuits & 'Infinity' on the record player,( i am still lucky enough to own a PROPER hi-fi where you can listen to records they were meant to be heard instead of being ponced around with & digitally inhanced).So i'm two tracks in when i start to think about Steve's voice &how exactly he managed to hit some of those notes.Now we all know the man can sing & when i say sing i mean live with no help from backing tracks or backing singers or tweaking of any kind.But i'm a woman & my mind works in mysterious ways. Could it possibly be his jeans?No not the ones he inherited from his parents but the ones he wore.How the hell he managed to get himself in them in the first place is nothing more than a mere miracle,but to be able to sit down/walk/run around on stage is incomprehensable.Now i'm sure at one point we've all owned a pair of these skin tight jeans back in the early 80's.But we're built slightly differently from guys.I can remember vividly laying on the floor of C&A's changing room trying on a pair of these jeans,doing them up was almost impossible,but when i eventually managed to achieve that it then took 2 shop assistants to help me stand up.Yes i did buy them.Now where was i? Oh yes,Steves skin tight/hug in allthe right places/Sherrie was a very lucky girl jeans.Lets take a look at these jeans & you might see why they have something to do with Steve hitting the high notes.

As you can clearly see if you're a bloke they were the most eyewatering item of clothing ever to be worn by Steve.If like me you're a woman they are extremely pleasing on the eye.Nevertheless were they something to do with the impossible notes Steve sang on such classics as 'Wheel in the sky'& 'Don't stop believin'? I guess its something we will never know unless Steve somehow lets slip in an interview that having his nether regions squashed to the point of being castrated helped him achieve mind blowing singing techniques.Now as 'Infinity' finishes & i've got that off my chest i'm going to embark on my book,depending on the things said depends on how quick i'm back,til then savour steve's sweet voice & think of those wonderful jeans!!

why do we cry over Steve Perry?

A good question i hear you say,why indeed,& lets be honest if you're female & a fan of our Steve then you would've at some point in your life cryed over this man.If on the other hand you're of the male gender then you probably have'nt,& if you have hell would have to freeze over before you admitted it.I cry over Steve almost weekly,am i just a big softy? Do i cry when i say goodbye to the milkman? NO,but theres something about Steve Perry that makes me,well want to cry. Lets look at certain aspects of Steve.The hair,who would'nt want hair like that? I know i did,so much so i grew mine long in the early 80's just cos Steve's looked so damn good,did i cry? You bet your life i did,my hair stuck to the side of my face as if i was growing facial hair,not even a £200 bottle of shampoo would convert my locks into the shiny,thick glorious head of hair Stevie owned.So i decided to have it permed,yep the awful 80's perm that most of us sported at some point,did i cry? The simple answer was yes,but this time it was'nt because of Steve it was because i resembled Neal Schon circa 1978 minus the moustache. So as you see the hair is one reason why we cry over Steve Perry.Next comes Steve's brooding good looks,the magical hazel (yes they are hazel) eyes,the heart shaped lips,the perfect nose,ok some of you may not think his nose is perfect but having been 'given' one like it myself i happen to think its perfect.Why would anyone want to cry over Steve's looks? Well i have,all because NONE of my boyfriends have ever looked like him.So lets move down a bit to Steves body,the chest free of any imperfections except for the beauty spot above his left nipple,how over the years i've wanted to caress that chest.Ok as i move down a little further,i want you all to be honest & say you have cryed over what is incased in those ever so tight jeans,my eyes water just at the thought,this aspect of Steve has probably made many a man cry as well,firstly because of jealousy & secondly because they have tried to squeeze themselves into jeans just as tight! Now i'll move back up to the most important aspect of Steve,The Voice,i have lost count over the times i have cryed when listening to Steve my god he does'nt even have to be singing for me to blubber,just talking does it for me.But when he does sing the tears have flowed & for so many different reasons,relationship break ups,mine & Steve's,think of 'What was' & you'll understand why.Then theres been the crying through sheer frustration, why could he not have written a song about me,although 'Oh Tracey' has'nt quite got the same ring to it,but i changed the song to my name anyway,as a lot of you have if you're honest. Then theres been the crying when you wished Steve really did'nt mean it as an apology to his former bandmates (Anyway),& if he did it was a momentarily lapse into madness.Then theres been the crying for no other reason other than why Steve can make the simplest of songs sound so sad,think of those emotion charged words & notes he sings sometimes & you'll understand what i mean on this one! So there you have it,just some of the reasons why we cry over Steve Perry,of course there are many more reasons as to why Steve would resort you to tears some of which i may embark on next time,but until then you'll have to excuse me i have to go & sniff into a tissue cos yet again i'm crying over Steve Perry.