NEWS and INFORMATION
Song Alert News! - Both television programs
Cold Case and
Supernatural featured Journey songs in new episodes
during October. As a result, we've updated our
Films/TV page.
News for our Japanese friends: The re-issues/re-masters of Street Talk; FTLOSM and Greatest Hits plus 5 will be released in
Japan on November 22nd. Go here to read more about it!
If you'd like to hear
some snippets of the additional tracks on Steve's solo albums head over to CD Universe:
Street Talk;
FTLOSM and
GH+5
Oct 3 2006: Re-Masters were released! Here is a list of the re-masters and their bonus tracks:
- Departure - Natural Thing/Little Girl.
- Frontiers - Only The Young/Ask The Lonely/Liberty/Only Solutions
- Raised On Radio - Girl Can't Help It/I'll Be Alright Without You {Live versions}
- Trial By Fire - I Can See It In Your Eyes
- Street Talk - My My My/Harmony/ Makes No Difference/Don't Tell Me Why You're Leaving/If Only For The Moment Girl.
- For The Love Of Strange Medicine - If You Need Me, Call Me/One More Time/Can't Stop/ Friends of Mine/Missing You (Live version).
- Greatest Hits + Five Unreleased - Don't Fight It
All are re-masters and will have new booklets! Go
here and
here to order through Sony. Or hit your local record store, but remember to pace yourself! Thanks to Steve, John Kalodner, Journey and Sony/Columbia!
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
This month we are spotlighting: Tammy!
Name: Tammy
steveperryfans.com message board name (if different): outlawsgal
Hometown: Jenks Okl. from K-6grade, Cleveland ok from 6-till present so that will be about 30 years give or take.
Occupation: Let's see, domestic goddess should cover all of it. From full time mom - 2 boys 12 and 14, and 2 girls 36 and 40,
wife, aunt to 4 boys and 1 girl, grandma to 4 ages from 6yrs to 21, got ya on that one, and great grandma to sweet little girl
who is one on the 26th
Family: Tom, Russ, big Shawn (brother-in-law), little Shawn, Smokey the cat and my margarita-loving-pup Tinkerbell.
Hobbies: Sewing - in the process of making a jacket for Lou's youngest for Christmas. Crocheting, made 4 afghans one year
for Christmas, and quilting, did 5 last year for Christmas.
Cooking: love to cook and bake. I am always asked to make cakes for birthdays or if any one needs or just wants one. Love Emeril
Lagassie. I guess you could call me a "foody" - would love to cook with him one day. Learning how to make homemade beads and jellie
jams for Christmas gifts (that is where big Shawn comes in; he is my lifter and packer), teaching my boys and nephews how to cook.
Reading historial romance. Watching tv shows like CSI, Discovery Health, history programs on the History Channel. I am a mod on a
support site for mood disorders. Currently been working out about 3-5 times a week on stationary bike and in pool.
When did you buy your first computer? When did Windows XP first come out.1999?
Where is your current computer located? The new one in my room, kids are not allowed on this one unless for homework. The boys'
is in the kitchen, we are right now working on getting it web ready
Been a fan how long? Has to be in 1983 when
Frontiers came out.
First time I heard Steve sing I felt: It was
Faithfully that hooked me. I was on a road trip to OKC with my cousin and
this song came on the radio. By the time we had gotten to the City I had heard it a couple of times and both of us were singing along
and I had tears in my eyes. At this time in my life I was not in a relationship with anyone; the one guy that I did see, we just kinda
went different directions, and I was feeling real low about myself, and this song was what I wanted in a relationship. It told a story
about how this man was gone a lot and he was true to the one he loved. I was beginning to think that i was never going to find a
relationship like what this song said. Now I do - it took 2 boyfriends that did not work out and a bad marriage that lasted 6 years and
11 months too long, before I found what this song said. Tom and I have been together for 8 years and I have never looked back.
Favorite CD: The ballads - love how SP does the love songs. They just take you away to some place else.
Have you seen Steve in concert? No I am jealous of the ones who got to see him. I may have to get a loan on the house if Steve
ever tours again because I am going. I plan on saving back some income tax money just in case.
If you could put one song in a time capsule for future generations what
would it be and why?
I dont know. I like
Mother Father because my family is the most important thing to me, so from a mom's point of view that would be one,
but from a woman's, wife, lover it would have to be
Open Arms because it says it all: "Here I lay with nothing to hide". What else would
any woman want? Or
When You Love A Woman when Steve sings "a band of gold", but because I have been on the other side when my ex was
stepping out on me it would have to be
Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' because of the humor, to me when steve sings "na na na ..." he is
laughing at whoever did that to him because she is in the same place she put him in; or
Line Of Fire, (I have too much country in my
blood and there may be a cowboy-butt-kicking. Matter of fact, I was going to take my ex's clothes and junk to his girl-friend's house and tell
her she can have him, but his mom came and got it). Hmm sounds like
Where Were You, but those would be my picks at least for now. I know
you said one but that is too hard.
Personal Comments: Well let's see, I would have loved to see Steve perform with Journey or solo. I admire his love for his family and I
respect that he does not want his family hounded by the press. I also love the fact that when his mother was so ill that he was never too far
away from her and when her time came he had the courage and love to tell her "it's OK Mom", and that is the hardest thing to do for someone you
love: to tell them that is OK to go HOME even though it will rip your guts out, That is unconditional love.
I also have a lot of admiration for the work that he has done with the pain he was in when the hip was bad. Degenerative joint pain is the worst
pain that anyone can have, and for him to be able to go inside of himself (or any one with chronic pain) and do the video of
When You Love A
Woman and plan a tour for
Trial By Fire - for that I have a lot of respect for him. I can also understand why he waited for the surgery;
it is not a easy decision to make: do I continue with other treatment that does not help the pain? Do I live my life on pain killers or do I have
this surgery that will fix the hip (or what ever joint is involved)? You have to stop and realize that you will be out of commission for at least
6 weeks just to have the scar heal, and then there is the time for the hip to really heal in place can be a long time (my back will take a year or
more before the pins and rods are covered with bone and be truly healed) for the hip to cover with bone and be truly healed and stable. Then you have
the physical therapy and rehabilitation that can be anywhere from starting when the tissues heal up to 3 months at the least to a year or so. Then
you have to rewire your brain while healing to remember we have to do things this way not the old way and that is hard. It takes lots of time, pain,
sweat, tears. You get mad, frustrated & depressed because you feel that it is not doing any good
When I had my surgery I took
Street Talk,
Trial By Fire and
For The Love Of Strange Medicine with me and it helped me stay calm
when the surgery was over and the pharmacy could not give me anything for pain because they did not get any orders. It's like OK, Steve has done
this with a bad hip so suck it up and let the music take you some place where there is no pain. Nothing but this voice and the music.
But through all of Steve's success and health issues, from everything that I have read is that he is truly grateful for his fans because he knows
with out us he would still be on that turkey farm. I truly hope that whatever demons that has been haunting him he has gotten rid of and that he
is in a good place mentaly and physcialy.
Hope I did not bore anyone,
Don't Stop Believing and never give up.
And thank you Tammy!
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