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Off the Record with Steve Perry Dec. 14, 2003

Song Feeling That Way plays.
曲−"Feeling That Way/フィーリング・ザット・ウェイ"

SP: Ummmm Hmmmmm Yeah.
ペリー：ああ、そうだね。

SP: Yeah.
ペリー：そうだ。

SP: Songs that I wrote and I was the lead singer of ahh that’s the period that I was in the group 78 through 97 and ahh these DVD performances are old music video’s and some of them are live performances like the Houston Summit Shows but they are really really really some {starts to laugh slightly} great performances by this band even the music videos are kinda fun but yes they are in the time period that I was lead singer of the group.

ペリー：僕が書いた曲だ。僕はそう、78年から97年までグループにいた時はリードシンガーだった。そしてDVDに収められているこれらのパフォーマンスは、古いミュージックビデオで何曲かはヒューストン・サミットショーのライブパフォーマンスだ。だけど、それらは、もう本当に（少し笑い始める）このバンドにとって素晴らしいパフォーマンスだ。どのミュージックビデオも、おもしろみがあるといえる。だけど、そう、それらは、僕がグループのリードシンガーだった時代のものだ。

SP: Well it’s a compilation of music videos that we did way back as far I believe as 78.

With some of the first ones up to some live footage is done at the Houston Summit shows and some other interesting stuff that’s kinda cool. Ummm.

SP: That’s right.
ペリー：その通りだね。

SP: We were starting to get into the media of making videos before people knew what the hell they were.

Like Lights was one of the first ones I remember doing and that one’s on this one.

It’s interesting to watch {laughs} it really is.

I mean it was a time where we knew this thing MTV was startin’ it wasn’t in every city.

Back when the days when you know Sting was there poster child I want my MTV {Steve say’s in a British accent} you know I mean that’s how they launched the whole thing it slowly but surely became ahhh one of America’s you know huge things {Lights begins to play in the background} and we were just in the beginning stages of trying to figure out what that is. We never made video’s before so some of them are fun to watch and for me personally some are a little painful to watch. {Steve Perry and Uncle Joe laugh}

The song Lights plays.
曲−"Lights/ライツ"

SP: Oh yeah you have no idea {Steve laughs slightly} {Uncle Joe laughs} you have no idea. It truly was some; it was exciting it was difficult because you know it’s no secret that I’m no longer in the group and…and the groups touring without me and ahhh you know I was asked to put this together with John Kalodner and I knew that I would be walking through a ahhh plethora of emotions.

SP: You know and ummm I did it and it’s difficult because sometimes you just forget how good the band was when we were all together back in that era with that focus and mission that we had as opposed to what seems to be happening in our lives now.
Ya know.
Cause life changes everybody, ya know, family and kids, things change, but it just brought back focus that we once had as a group and how important it was to each and every one of us to be as best as we could be.
And you can really see it in the live takes because I’m telling you, they are 100% live, there’s nothing fixed on these tapes, I’m telling you, and there’s, there’s some problems on the tape, but that’s because they’re just live, and I didn’t want to go back and fix nothing, accept to bump them up digitally fidelity-wise to ensure a good sound.

Who’s Crying Now Live Version plays.
曲−"Who's Crying Now/クライング・ナウ"　ライブバージョン

SP Yeah.

SP: {Laughs} Those acrobatics? You talk.

SP: Yeah, that’s so true. And ya know Steve Smith was one of my favorite drummers I’ve ever had a chance to work with. 　
ペリー：そうさ、それは事実だ。知ってのとおり、スティーヴ・スミスは，僕が、一緒に仕事をした機会があったお気に入り のドラマーの1人だったよ。
And there were times where, cause I was a drummer, I really would call on him to do certain things for me, and he would do certain things for the song, and…and between the two of us, there were just things that were being hit off of and sang around and played with, and he was kind of the um, I don’t know, he was kinda the conductor of the band, but I was definitely into helping him conduct the band and asking him for certain things to do that so that it would give me an opportunity to hit off some of the things he ’s guiding the band through.
Ya know he was like a conductor.
知ってのとおり、彼はコンダクターのようだった。

SP: It was a magic moment, it really was a magic moment being in that band. And those live DVD performances, I think, show how much fun we were having.

Stone In Love - Live Version
曲−"Stone In Love/お前に夢中"-ライブバージョン

SP: I’m Steve Perry and welcome back to Off the Record with Uncle Joe Benson.
ペリー：スティーヴ・ペリーだよ。アンクル・ジョー・ベンソンとOff The Recordに戻ってきたよ。

SP: Yeah

SP: Oh Yeah, well that was how I used to come on stage when I first joined the band, you know, Oh yeah, the first time I joined the group, they had their own set of music that they would play, for about I would say, a half-hour. And it was based on the music that was prior to me coming in the group, so we had lost our sound mixer, because he wanted to become a recording engineer so he left the tour, and we didn’t have anybody right away, so I went out there and got the mix up, with the P {Steve Laughs} with the PA guy, I got the mix up, I got ya know everything set up during sound check, so all I had to do was walk out there with my levis on and my tee shirt with my long hair and unmute my mike then run around and chang

And then Greg Rolie would be starting, "Opened my eyes to a new kind of way" {Steve sings this line} and I just stand in the wings and I’d would grab my mike and I’d walk on.

で、グレッグ・ローリーが"Opened my eyes to a new kind of way"（スティーヴが、このラインを歌う）って歌い始めてたんだ。

SP: Yeah that happened quite a bit, quite a bit, I’d say for that first tour.

SP: Yeah. That’s how they brought me into the group on the stage with a song that we shared vocals on.

Patiently plays.
曲−"Patiently/ペイシェントリー"

SP: Well, John Kalodner originally called me and wanted me to produce this thing, and I said well, I don’t know about producing it, but I’ll, ya know, I’d love to be totally involved in it because it would be something I could really sink my teeth into, the cover, and all these tracks being re-synched and re-mastered, and so I did the work on it, and he’s the one who said, I really think Steve, that you ought to take production credit cause you’ve done everything on this, you’ve been working hard on it, and I said, Only if the guys are ok with that,. And he phoned them, and they said they were fine with that.

He assured me that their input was always being brought up to date with what I whatever I was telling him I was doing.
Ok?
Including the songs I thought originally should be on there, then John and I would go back and forth with, maybe we should have kept this one on there and well no, maybe not that one, so I just took it as sorta an understanding that he was in contact with them because he told me he would be.
So through John, the contact was always there.

SP: Ya know, I think Faithfully for me was the most emotionally difficult.

And although they all had a special place that they hit me you know, but Faithfully was the most difficult I think because when I was touring with the band, that was the time that that video came out, and my mom was uh, just lovin’ that song to death, and it’s such a great video of showing us on tour in the buses, and…and uh going from city to city, and she really loved

And, it just reminded me of the whole period in time that we were all together and things were a lot different then.

Faithfully Plays
曲−"Faithfully/時への誓い"

SP: Yeah well, it’s tough, it’s just tough, because I, you know I, I go through a complete set of feelings that I try not to feel most of the time to be honest with you. I, I have to tell you that, you know this whole arc of, of change that’s gone on in the last 5 years or so, ah, since we originally got back together and ah, decided to do the Trial By Fire record to where we are now, you know, and then I lost another relative, I, and I’m not here to tell you that I’m the only person that goes through these emotional changes, I’m not saying that, but what I am saying is that I process it in my own way, you know, I don’t process it as easily as some people, I just don’t, and I have to walk through things differently and ummm, kind of on the time frame of when that gets processed or not if that makes sense, and so it’s been difficult emotionally to continue to, to walk through all this stuff, and when I, when I did this project, it resurrected all those feelings, and more, especially the ones of ‘My God, we were sure great!’, you know, and you don’t think that when you’re in it, ‘cause you, you know you think you.

SP: Yeah, I mean you’re too caught up, least I was too caught up in ‘Oh my God, I held that high note too long last night, I’m gonna have to watch out because I need it tomorrow too you know, so I’ll hold it back a little bit tonight’ and I would really worry about stuff like that so I could have it tomorrow 3 days or 4 days in a row, I mean those are some of my focuses at the same time I’d have a good time and not blow it out for tomorrow, you know, so you’re in a different place, you know, than people think sometimes.

Send Her My Love plays
曲−"Send Her My Love/マイ・ラブ"

SP: {laughing} I have so many thoughts I can’t get into it! I mean it is just a cluster F word of thoughts. Ummmm ….

SP: Yes, there’s been so many incarnations of this group, as there is right now another one and maybe as there always will be, you know, more. I don’t really know except that I just can’t see how ah, all the members shouldn’t be at some level admired for their contribution, but ummm, the big question is whether I would show up or not and, you know, I gotta tell you, the honest, honest feeling is that ummm, I just don’t know if I want to do that, it’s not that I don’t think I’ll show up at the star someday and take a picture with ah, standing on it, and ah, look at it and have a moment of reflection to myself, for how hard it was to possibly see that happen in my lifetime, but whether or not we stand together anywhere again is gonna to be difficult for me to say.

Seperate Ways Plays
曲-"Separate Ways/セパレイト・ウェイズ"

（ここでコマーシャルが入ったと思われます。）

SP: Journey gets approached all the time to bring some of these masters in film, and, ah, it’s a group decision, you know, either all agree or we don’t agree, that’s kind

SP: A request came in for a new film, written by Patty Jenkins, and directed by Patty Jenkins.
ペリー：リクエストは、Patty Jenkinsによって書かれ、Patty Jenkinsによって監督された新しい映画の為に舞込んできたんだ。
She and Charlize Theron wrote me a letter and ummm, requesting that I at least consider this one scene in the film called Monster that they’re finishing.
They use the song Don’t Stop Believin’ and it always was what they wanted for it, it’s what they edited the ah, film to,

SP: And umm, she had this scene in mind with that music when she wrote it and the whole thing in her mind just couldn’t be anything but Don’t Stop Believin’, and ah, the letter sort of explained all that, just like that but even more emotional from Charlize personally to me so, I was moved by the letter and I returned the phone call, talked to Charlize for a while, and ah, then Patty came on and we talked for a long time, and they said could we just send you a piece of the film so you can see what we’re talking about.

So they sent me a piece of the film, and once I saw it, it was just, you know, it was as if, you know, when Jon Cain and I sat down to write the lyrics to Don’t Stop Believin’, I mean, it really was always about streetlight people living just to find emotion, hiding somewhere in the night.

It really is about that.

And that fits such a huge cross section of all people and all sorts of desires and all sorts of emotional hungers, and it struck me because it was all about that.

It was the first time Ialmost a literal translation.

So I called back and said could I come ’d seen down and, you know, meet you, and talk to you guys about it.

Meanwhile I’ll, through channels, try to contact the guys, and you know, after they got the message that I thought it was really great and I think on my recommendation alone they were willing to allow it to be in the film, and so I went down and sat while we dubbed it into the film, got to be involved in one more little emotional equalization of tweaking, add a little high, a little bottom, ‘cause you’re dealing with the sub-woofers that you can help, and enhance it a bit more, so I got into that process with the mixer, and so, it really is an amazing scene.

It’s…it happens about the first twenty minutes of the film.

Don’t Stop Believin plays
曲-"Don't Stop Believin/ドント・ストップ・ビリーヴィン"

SP: (laughing) With you!
ペリー：（笑）君とね！

SP: They’re looking at you, they don’t look at me!

Steve Perry and Uncle Joe laugh together.
スティーヴ・ペリーとアンクル・ジョー共に笑う。

SP: (laughing) Yeah!
ペリー：（笑）そうさ！

SP: I don’t need that Joe.
ペリー：僕にはそれは必要ないさ。ジョー。

SP: I don’t need that, I really don’t, and I think that’s one of the things that people are wondering why isn’t he out there running around. Well you know, it took me a long time to ah, detox from really needing that. You know when I first got going I had to have all of it, and then you know I re-entered the earth’s atmosphere of my life, {Steve laughs slightly}

Uncle Joe laughs
アンクル・ジョー（笑）

SP: …you know, and now I don’t need it like that.
I really enjoy being around people who are doing it.
I was literally walking with umm, Patty’s ah, grandmother, I was escorting her grandmother through the premiere, as Patty was walking in front ahh, getting all the photos, I’m just so fine with that.
That’s fine with me.
I just respect their time and, you know, the focus, and it’s everybody’s time when it’s their time, you know it’s there’s now.

Wheel in the Sky plays.
曲−"Wheel In The Sky/ホイール・イン・ザ・スカイ"

Special thanks to Pat for Transcribing this for Perryville!!

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