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Feb 21st, 99
Steve Perry Interview February 16, 1999
KZHT 94.9 FM, Salt Lake City, UT
Transcribed by Stacey

SP: Hello
ペリー：こんにちは。

SP: I'm doing pretty good.
ペリー：元気にしていますよ。

SP: No
ペリー：いや、ひいてないです。

SP: I don't know what was going on about...

SP: They always say anything to get it done.

SP: Ah, that's really kind, Thanks.

SP: Right.

SP: There was a lot of things that were hitting me all at once, ya know.

I think some adult stuff started to happen to my life, that I didn't like too much.

Like my relationship with my girlfriend was falling apart and that was 5, 6 years worth of our lives together.

And that was because of my commitment to Journey and the touring schedule was truly intense.

I started to watch my mom get worse and worse and then finally uh, she got real, real sick.

So what happened was I stopped for another reason too, but I was just burnt, I was just toasty, ok.

I hadn't stopped since I joined the band in the early of ‘78.

78年の初めにバンドの加入して以来、私は、ストップすることはなかったんです。

SP: On the solo tour.

SP: I don't know what it is about me but when I get in front of people I become this hyperdrive, uh, you know,..um... I can't explain what happens but it takes me to this altered state.

When I'm off is when I realize how actually sprung I am, when I walk off stage.

I don't realize when I'm out there.

Ya know I'm a pretty high energy guy anyway, but when I'm out there, you're right, I like to go. Ya know, I like to do it

Between songs I don't sit back there and have myself a drink, I walk up to the edge of the stage and have a conversation with the audience.

I love performing.

I really do.

SP: Oh, thanks Frankie. That's kind. I wish I could've met you back there but I guess we didn't get a chance to hook up.

SP: Did you come back stage?

SP: Oh, there's bitterness for sure.

SP: Seniority?

SP: That's called being "kicked to the curb" Frankie. (More laughter...)

SP: No, she finally passed away.
ペリー：母は亡くなったんです．．

SP: And it was right in the middle of the making of the "Raised on Radio" Journey album. I was producing it and singing, uh, I was singing the album and she finally passed away. I was coming home on weekends, and then helicoptering back to San Francisco and helicoptering to her house on the weekends. I did that for the entire album and then finally she passed. That's when, that summer we did the "Raised on Radio" tour with Journey, uh, that she had already gone, yeah.

それは、ジャーニーのアルバム"Raised On Radio/レイズド・オン・レイディオ"を製作中だったです。私は、アルバムをプロデュースしてて、歌ってました．．．そう、私はアルバムで歌っていたんです。そして、母はついに亡くなったんです。私は、週末のたびに、家に帰ってました。その当時は、週末のたびに、ヘリコプターでサンフランシスコと母の家を往復していましたね。私は、アルバム製作に全力を注いでいました。それから、ついに母は亡くなったんです。私たちが、ジャーニーのレイズド・オン・レイディオツアーをやってた夏のことでした．．．そう．．．母は、もうすでに亡くなってたんです。

SP: You know Frankie, it's ok to have absolute fervor and passion for what you love.

And it's ok give it all your commitment and go for it with something you can't even put into words.

But remember when adult things like your parents getting ill and possibly passing, or surprisingly passing because you haven't been around them, happen to you.

When those adult things happen to you, you're gonna wish that you would've spent a little time.And so it's not a bad idea to occasionally, ya know, just stop the merry-go-round for a second.

And that's what happened to me was ya know, I got off that Journey tour and I was toasty.

I said I gotta quit. Ya know, I went back to my hometown and I got my motorcycle out of storage and I cruised around the central San Joaquin Valley, which is nothing but country roads, small towns that I grew up in.

And I just had to reflect on what had happened.

It didn't hit me until I was by myself, on my motorcycle.

I mean, you know, ‘cause you're going, you're going.

SP: Oh, very, very similar. Very similar. High energy.... (couldn't understand the rest of the sentence.)

SP: Actually, there's nine, but technically there was four of them that had appeared in either other countries or somewhere else on a B-side of a single.

So technically I couldn't say they were unreleased, but the truth is, there's nine unreleased things on the Steve Perry Greatest Hits that just came out.

And the nine released, uh, most of them are from an album that was supposed to be the follow up album to "Street Talk", m

Then "Strange Medicine" was supposed to.., but, uh, the middle album between "Street Talk" and "Strange Medicine" didn't happen.

I recorded it, but due to some political confrontation I was having with the label it didn't come out.

So it sat in the vault.

And I'm so proud of that record and I'm proud of those songs and it's on this greatest hits CD.

Plus I'll tell ya, the demo that got me the gig in Journey, that they listened to, is the last song called "If You Need Me, Call Me."

SP: That was the demo that got me the gig in ‘77.

SP: Yeah, I wanted to give everybody, and I wrote it in the liner notes, I talk about what happened.

ペリー：はい、私は、ファンのみんなに与えたかったのです。ライナーノーツにもそれを書きました。どんなことがあったかといったことを話しています。

SP: Ya know, I don't know yet.

I'm four months almost on the other side of surgery and I'm doing really great.

I'm walkin' around now without a cane.

So I'm getting stronger everyday.

So now I'm just sort of focusing on continuing that process.

Then I think I'd love to go back to work. I sure miss performing.

SP: Well, ya know, I love Salt Lake City.

ペリー：そう、ご存知のとおり、私は、ソルトレイクシティーが好きなんです。

I recently, I do road trips with my girlfriend.

We just sort of fly to an area and we rent a truck, a 4x4, and we cruised the whole area.

‘Cause I toured forever, but never got to see these areas.

So recently we flew into Salt Lake City and went right up to Wyoming, to Yellowstone and came back around through Utah, went all through, and then we went to Sundance.

We just did all kinds of things in the Utah area.

It was beautiful.

SP: We were in town... ah, no, we went to Sundance, ya know the ski resort. I was about ah, about 4 months ago.

SP: Well, no, ah no.

SP: There was a rumor that I hurt my hip snowboarding, so ya know. (laughter)

SP: Well, I'm a big hiker and I love hiking.
ペリー：はい、僕はハイカーなんです。ハイキングをするのが好きなんです。

So it was during a hike that it just sort of wore through.

I didn't realize that something had worn through in there and it had to be repaired. It's kinda complicated, but it's been repaired.

SP: What's that? No, you're hearing rumors I don't know about.

SP: No, a ya know, those guys, ya know January ‘98 I had a conversation with Jon Cain and Neal Schon and they basically wanted to know when we were going to tour.

ペリー：98年1月に、僕は、ジョン・ケインとニール・ショーンと話し合いの場を持ちました。彼らは基本的には、私達がツアーに出るのはいつなのかを知りたがっていたのです。

I said look "I'm in the hands of my surgeon at this point and when he says he's ready to fix me, he'll fix me."

They were wanting to get going, so they replaced me with somebody and I waited for the words with my surgeon.

So the following October, actually the first of November,

I went into surgery.

So they went their way and I went mine.

それで、彼らは、彼らの道を歩んで行き、僕は、僕の道を歩むことになったんです。

That's kind of where it is.

SP: Yeah, separate ways, yes it is sir.

But I want to tell you something though and I mean this in all honesty.

I don't regret one day of being in the band and working with Neal and Jonathan.

僕は、ニールとジョナサンと一緒にバンドとして活動し、仕事をしてきたときのことを悔やんでいません。

I don't regret it.

僕は、悔やんでいないのです。

You know, bands can be the most exhilarating, the most wonderful thing, and they can also be the most difficult thing.

Not one person is a day at the beach in a band, ok. So, I mean, that's just the nature of bands I think.

I'll just tell you I'm very proud of all the music and all the tracks that we recorded together and the albums.

There's nothing that I don't hold anything but praise for our accomplishments.

And all we wanted to be by the way something that was timeless.

That's what we wanted to be.

SP: Then I probably owe you money, then more than anything.

SP: That was "Oh Sherrie".

それは、"Oh Sherrie/Oh、シェリー"でした。

She was a real person, Sherrie.

彼女、シェリーは実在の人だったのです。

She was my girlfriend for about six years.

6年くらい、僕のガールフレンドだったんですよ。

That song was written in the Los Angeles area.

その曲は、ロサンゼルスで書かれたものでした。

It sort of had a mixed feeling about things that break us up but the things that hold us together.

When the song was done I gave her the song writing royalties because it was about her and ya know, she was a real person.

その曲ができたとき、僕は、彼女に曲の印税を与えたんですよ。なぜなら、彼女についての曲だし、ご存知のとおり、彼女は実在の人ですから。

Yeah, we did break up though but which you know that happens

.

SP: I would love to do this live.

If we could sit there and take some phone calls that would be great.

SP: That would be fun.

SP: Thanks Frankie.
ペリー：ありがとうございます、フランキー

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