New Journey album + re-recorded GH. Holy Crap!!!

[Kirby]

Having been such a fan of Steve Augeri and Jeff Scott Soto, I was on the fence about Arnel Pineda, until I heard clips from their new album and their re-recorded greatest hits on WalMart's web site. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/prod...08&povid=cat4104-env10169-module160989-lLink2

This guy sounds amazing, he sounds better than Steve Perry in my opinion. They have 30 second clips of both albums and while I'll reserve judgment on Revelations until I can hear the whole thing, the Greatest Hits disc sounds fantastic, and I've burned out on their 'dirty dozen' greatest hits years ago, nice choice putting Stone in Love on the album, that's one of there most underrated songs.

I'm now officially psyched for this release.

 

[auntiehill]

Wow.

I was a HUGE Journey fan for years...but simply re-recording your old songs with a new singer....that's just cheesy. And kinda wrong. Just my two cents.

But, at least Steve Perry will still get a cut of the royalties when they record all the songs he wrote or co-wrote.

 

[Kirby]

I but simply re-recording your old songs with a new singer....that's just cheesy. And kinda wrong. Just my two cents.

I agree, but it was also a legal maneuver by the band. I read an interview with Herbie Herbert a few months ago and he indicated that due to the age of the songs, they are now part of the public domain, and for some reason re-recording them did something to benefit the band. If I had time, I'd go back and look it up, but I'm heading out in like 5 minutes.

 

[Bad Bishop]

I but simply re-recording your old songs with a new singer....that's just cheesy. And kinda wrong. Just my two cents.

I agree, but it was also a legal maneuver by the band. I read an interview with Herbie Herbert a few months ago and he indicated that due to the age of the songs, they are now part of the public domain, and for some reason re-recording them did something to benefit the band.

Public domain? Nope. Not in the lifetime of anyone who was ever in the band Journey.

 

[roliver]

This guy sounds amazing, he sounds better than Steve Perry in my opinion.

Not bad, but the guy isn't even close to being better than Steve Perry.

 

[Star Wolf]

I was just upset that they didn't hook up with Dave Navarro and produce 13 weeks of RockStar/Journey

 

[Swarles Barkley]

They re-recorded the songs with some new guy?

That is just wrong on so many levels. Steve Perry may be a crackpot and an egomaniac, but it's still just...wrong.

 

[DarkHelmet]

Kirby, I'm psyched for this too. I really liked the vids from Arnel's first full concert with them in Chile.

Bring it on! You know they're coming here to Denver this summer, right?

 

[Kirby]

Public domain? Nope. Not in the lifetime of anyone who was ever in the band Journey.

Here is the part of the interview with Herbie Herbert on melodicrock.com, the man who created Journey and managed them until the mid 90s.

[FONT=Helvetica]With the re-recording of the old hits, the sacred ground so to speak?
Yeah, sacred ground, well how sacred is it? Anybody is given leave to do that.
They're public domain now. Kevin Chalfant, anybody can do a Journey Greatest Hits record and see how they fair.

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[Kirby]

Bring it on! You know they're coming here to Denver this summer, right?

I'm fired up for it although my wife will be a 7 1/2 months pregnant by July 9th. I'm a little worried.

 

[Bad Bishop]

Public domain? Nope. Not in the lifetime of anyone who was ever in the band Journey.

Here is the part of the interview with Herbie Herbert on melodicrock.com, the man who created Journey and managed them until the mid 90s.

With the re-recording of the old hits, the sacred ground so to speak?
Yeah, sacred ground, well how sacred is it? Anybody is given leave to do that.
They're public domain now. Kevin Chalfant, anybody can do a Journey Greatest Hits record and see how they fair.

I don't believe it. I would be amazed if there were any records from the rock era (the 1950's to present) that are truly public domain, which means copyrights have expired.

The band Journey or the record companies certainly still own the copyrights to Journey recordings.

Ownership of the songs themselves is a different matter. Anyone can record them, but the copyright holder must receive royalties.

 

[Swarles Barkley]

Public domain? Nope. Not in the lifetime of anyone who was ever in the band Journey.

Here is the part of the interview with Herbie Herbert on melodicrock.com, the man who created Journey and managed them until the mid 90s.

With the re-recording of the old hits, the sacred ground so to speak?
Yeah, sacred ground, well how sacred is it? Anybody is given leave to do that.
They're public domain now. Kevin Chalfant, anybody can do a Journey Greatest Hits record and see how they fair.

I don't believe it. I would be amazed if there were any records from the rock era (the 1950's to present) that are truly public domain, which means copyrights have expired.

The band Journey or the record companies certainly still own the copyrights to Journey recordings.

Ownership of the songs themselves is a different matter. Anyone can record them, but the copyright holder must receive royalties.

It's extremely unlikely that any of Journey's songs are in the public domain at this point. American copyright law under the federal Copyright Act along with the Berne Convention would seem to preclude such a possibility until at least the mid-late 21st century for any of Journey's musical compositions. Herbert must have misspoken.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I've not heard the new guy yet, but I am cautiously optimistic.

Steve Augeri turned out to be pretty good, so we'll see what they come up with.