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.